“Nevers”44 pages
- p. 43 …cavalry mounted on gas driven flying horses” never arrived to
“sweep the Germans from the sky…
- p. 46 …Mitchell never received an American air force commensurate with
the ambitious idens of air power which…
- p. 49 …This project, like so many others, had lagged, and the Air Service was
never equipped during…
- p. 50 …the Army or the Air Corps?” but never, “Are
you in the Army or the Corps…
- p. 55 …any Air Service officers, and I have never heard
anybody yet-any Air Service officer-against…
- p. 69 …But one axiom,
with its corollaries, never varied. T o him the airplane was first and…
- p. 75 …Powerful air attacks resolutely pressed home could never be
completely stopped, but their effects could best…
- p. 94 …rate for the time being, the decision never-
theless left an open question as to how…
- p. 121 …large-scale warfare; production of combat types never exceeded 300
aircraft a month. The pattern of…
- p. 122 …the German Air Force, the
Regia Aeronautica never exhibited sufficient power to be decisive in
the…
- p. 133 …Except for a few raids against French
factories, the force had never been employed in a…
- p. 140 …into
a complete war economy production was never equal to the demands
of our own forces…
- p. 150 …Long-term needs
of the Air Corps and the sudden availability of funds in quantities
never…
- p. 181 …Actually, the Air Staff had
never approved of the method followed in RAINBOW No. 5 . l…
- p. 217 …Members of the Hawaiian Air Force, who had never flown
heavy bombers, began to receive intensive…
- p. 219 …were not then satisfactory for permanent garrisons. Never-
theless, the commander of the Hawaiian Department, Lt…
- p. 227 …T h e planes never reached their destination. Other
bombardment units were being prepared for transfer…
- p. 241 …responsible officers, a few crucial points
have never been satisfactorily explained.
T h e general pattern…
- p. 277 …motors, sole-
noids, and gun mounts-were never found. After many hours of fruit-
less search…
- p. 288 …planners and
from which AAF Headquarters was never to deviate.
The translation of the accepted grand…
- p. 303 …the principal features of the plan
were never challenged, it was subsequently revised in a draft…
- p. 309 …W a r Plans Division was
never incorporated into GHQ and remained a potential rival to…
- p. 336 …the shooting and wrote that they were never
able to make out an airplane.g6It is…
- p. 412 …As it happened, the B-24's never
returned to India, but, instead, remained in the…
- p. 457 …Meanwhile the Edsall with the remaining
pilots had headed for Java, never to be heard from…
- p. 492 …Squadron was assigned, but which it would never reach, going from
Australia to Tongatabu; ( 3 ) Christmas…
- p. 500 …deck of a carrier presented a problem never
before challenged by Army planes. Hence an accelerated…
- p. 502 …the bows and wetting the flight deck. Never before had this been
accomplished, yet now it…
- p. 509 …Island, in the
Louisiade Archipelago.” They were never needed, for on 7-8 May
the two…
- p. 513 …exist, it was at a point which never reached the
aircrews, for on the operational level…
- p. 524 …handicaps under which
AAF planes had operated. Never were more than fourteen B- I 7’s…
- p. 527 …AAF planners clung firmly to their belief that
proper observance of economy of force would never…
- p. 531 …Crews which had
previously never loaded torpedoes now for the first time fitted these
weapons into…
- p. 544 …But the Japanese never at
any time based their bombers in appreciable numbers a t either…
- p. 548 …26's in torpedo-dropping, but they never would be put into
All told, the record…
- p. 556 …until it had been thoroughly trained and never to com-
mit it piecemeal. General Magruder had…
- p. 560 …pressed into service against the Germans," and never reached the
CBI." Colonel Haynes had reached India…
- p. 606 …reason that the Antilles Air Task Force
never evolved, as did I Bomber Command, into an…
- p. 614 …that reason deserving a high
priority, could never dispose of the U-boat menace but must…
- p. 635 …In Washington the Munitions Assign-
ments Board t had never considered this schedule as more than…
- p. 670 …they bombed from 39,200 feet, and never
below 30,000. By AAF standards they had…
- p. 672 …Goering had never put enough bombers over England,
nor had he concentrated his forces on the…
- p. 690 …of co-operation and combined action probably never
before equaled by the military forces of two…
- p. 729 …shoot at aerial targets, and several
had never operated a turret in the air. This deficiency…
I N D E X
Hatteras, Cape, 547
Havana, 1 2 1
Havana, Act of, 1 2 2
Hawaiian Air Depot, 198, 455
Hawaiian Air Force, 170-71, 173-75, 178,
Hawaiian Dept., 171-72, 175, 177, 18-81,
Hawaiian Interceptor Conid., 197
Hawaiian Is.: attack on, 126, 194-201, 380;
defense facilities, 124-25, 170-75, 193,
241, 454-55, 643; plans for defense, 66,
134, 147, 236; on South Pacific ferry
route, 180, 416, 431, 436-37; threat to,
19%. 2 7 2 7 4 5 3 4
185, 193, 197-98, 2 0 0 , 452
4343.454
Hawkms, hta). J.R., 657
Haynes, Col. C.V., 317-18, 3 2 6 , 493, 499,
Health of troops in SWPA, 4056, 477,
Hebrides, 3 4 4
Heinkel company, 85
Helfrich, Vice Adm. C.E.L., 371
Henderson Field, 471
Hengyang, 490
Henry, Bill, 286
Hewitt, Air Comdr. J.C., 420
Hickam Field, 170, 172, 178, 182, 189,
197-98, 200-201, 359, 643
High-altitude bombing: in CBr, 497; in
ETO, 593, 656, 661, 663; at Midway,
459; in SWPA, 450, 481. See also
Bombardment.
High Ercall, 643
High Wycombe, 620, 624-25, 640
Himalayas, 329
Hindustan Aircraft, Ltd., 506, 509
Hinoue, Adm., 448
Hiryu, 458
Hitakappu Bay, 195
Hite, Lt. R.L., 442
Hider, 86-89, 96-97
Hobson, Lt. Col. K.B., 374, 380, 413
Hokyard, S/Sgt. J.E., 2 1 7
Holbrook, 227, 232
Holstensborg district, 157
Hong Kong, 236
Honington, 650
Honolulu, 178-79, 361
Hood, Lt. Col. R.C., Jr., 497, 509
Hoover, Lt. Travis, 441
Hopkins, H.L., 256, 563, 5 7 2 , 634
Hornet, 414-41, 456, 458-59
Horn I., 416
Hoskyn, Lt. W.J., 397
Houlton, 344
5027 SOS? 507
481-82
Houston, 391-92
Howard Field, 163434
Howell, Clark, 30
Howell commission, 30-3 I
Hoyt, Col. R.G., 420
Hudson. See A-29.
Hughes, Lt. C.W., 393
Hughes, Lt. J.W., 374, 380
Hull, Sec. of State Cordell, 194. See also
Hull, Lt. H.B., 624
‘‘Hump” service, 354, 508
Hunter, Brig. Gen. F.O’D., 349, 641, 646
Huntingdon, 584
Huntingdonshire, 630-3 I , 637-38, 650
Huon Gulf, 408, 417, 471, 483
Hutchinson, Maj. D.R., 412
Hynes, Lt. G.W., 397
State Dept.
I
Iba Field, 183, 186, 203, 2 1 2
Iceland: in ferrying and air transport,
342-48, 361, 641; in W. Hemisphere
defense, 120-24, 140, 155, 158-60, 193,
239-403 2437 3759 4307 577-78
Iceland Base Comd., 158
Identification friend or foe, 288-89
Imperial Airways, 3 20
India, d n , 226, 2 2 8 , 312-13, 328-31,
561, 569. See also CBI; Air Forces,
Tenth AF.
336407 3537 356, 3803 395-96, q857 496
India-China Ferry, organization, 508
Indian Ocean, 33-31, 484, 502-4
Indo-China, 2 0 1 , 235
Infantry Divisions: 1st (19181, 1 1 ; 32d,
Infantry Regiment, zd, 2 2 5
Information, Co-ordinator of, 256
Inland Sea of Japan, 201
htelligence, 53, 1 2 0 , 189, 393, 417, 425,
600, 623-24, 651; school at Harrisburg,
624; AC/AS for, 527, 589
Inter-Allied Independent Air Force, 15,
37
Interceptor. See Pursuit aviation.
Interceptor commands: in air defense,
290; origin and functions, 155. See also
Pursuit aviation.
International Co. of China, 488
Iran, 312, 325, 511
472; 3 7 t h 434; 4 I S t , 472; 71% 2 2 5
4527 4741 5247 5277 5 3 1 7 5 S 2 * 5703 5%
Iraq, 338
Ireland. See Eire; Northern Ireland.
7 7 5