“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…
T H E A R M Y A I R F O R C E S
Watton, 650 .
Wau, 408, 477-78
Wavell, Gen. Sir Archibald, 143, 2 3 1 ,
Weather: Alaska, 168-69, 465-66; India,
509, 5 1 2 ; Java, 3 9 , 400; North At-
lantic, 344-48, 644-45; South Pacific,
417; stations, 126, 1 5 5 , 157, 167, 344-48;
UK, 625, 639, 656-57, 661
Webster, Lt. J.J., 199
Weeks, Sec. of War J.W., 27
Welch, Lt. G.S., 199
Wemyss, Gen. Sir Colville, 2 5 3
West Coast: defense, 154, 167, 169-70,
190, 278, 280-81, zgo-92, 294-96, 298-
99; exposed position, 271-73, 277, 280;
staging bases, 336
Western Air Lines, 358
Western Defense Comd., 190, 264, 279,
284, 643; Alaska, reinforcement, 167-
70, 303-9; defense measures, 293-99;
designated as theater of operations, 277,
294, 3 0 3 ; established, 154
64-65
243, 367-713 391, 396-977 4079 5 0 2
West Palm Beach, 337
Westover, Maj. Gen. Oscar, 31-32, 50,
Westover Field, 523, 5 3 1 , 641
W e s t Virginia, 197
Wheeler, Brig. Gen. Raymond, 495
Wheeler Field, 170-71, 198-99
Wheless, Lt., 2 1 9
Whipple, 398
White, Lt., 467
Whitehorse, 357
Whiteman, Pilot G.A., 199
WIDEWING, 645
Wiecks, Lt. Max R., 393
Wiggins, G / C C.S., 420
Wilbur, Sec. of Navy Curtis, 20
Wilhelmshaven, 600
Williams, Pfc G.B., 2 1 2
Williamstown, 424
Willis, Maj. H.B., 3 3 1
Willltie, Wendell, 2 8 5
Wilmington, 523, 613
Wilson, Pres. Woodrow, 9, 23, 75
I N W O R L D W A R 1 1
Windward Is., 193
Wings:
1st Bomb. Wing, 646
2d Bomb. Wing, 646
13th Composite Wing, 161-62
14th Pursuit Wing, 170
18th Bomb. Wing, 170
18th Composite Wing, 171
19th Wing, 160
23d Ferrying Wing (ATC), 363
27th Ferrying Wing (ATC), 363
50th Transport Wing, 360
World W a r I, operations, I 1-16
Wright Field, 55
Wurtsmith, Lt. Col. P.B., 412, 476
Wyndham, 408
x
X, Task Force, 560, 613 n
Y
Yakutat, 169, 464
Yamamoto, Adm., 446, 451, 456, 459,
Yamato, 456, 461
Yamishiro, z 16
Yankee Doodle, 662
YB-40 and -41, destroyer escort planes,
Yokohama, 442
Yokosuka, 442
York, Capt. E.J., 439, 4 4 2
York area, 582
Yorkshire, 630
Yorktown, 417, 447-49, 456
Yunnanyi, 498
Yushan, 440, 444
469-70
604
2
Zero, characteristics, 79
Zuiho, 469
Zuikaku, 448-49, 451
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