“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 A R M B E T W E E N T W O W A R S
tion-saw also the development of facilities and policies upon which
the Air Corps’ experimental program would depend. McCook Field
at Dayton, Ohio, had been selected as an experimental center for the
Air Service in 1917.During the war the Engineering Division estab-
lished there had devoted its attention chiefly to modification of Euro-
pean models for American manufacture. Essentially that was a
production rather than a research job, but, with the coming of peace,
the emphasis shifted toward the latter field.Is4As in the great industrial
laboratories of America, however, the research efforts of the Air
Service naturally tended to fall under the general classification of
applied science. Experiments were conducted with a view primarily
to practical military need, and necessarily the testing of newly devel-
oped equipment went hand in hand with the search for improved
designs, better fuels, and more adaptable materials. In June 1926 the
Engineering Division and the Fairfield Air Depot, also located in the
Dayton area, were joined under a newly created Ailateriel Division
which became responsible to the Supply Division of the Office of the
Chief of the Air Corps. After a transfer in the following year of the
Materiel Division from McCook to better quarters at near-by Wright
Field, that installation became the chief center of Air Corps research,
engineering, and testing acti~ities.”~Its experimental facilities repre-
sented an investment valued in 1939 at about ten million dollars. In
keeping with long-established policy, 1,759 of a total personnel of
1,984were at that time ~ivi1ians.l~~
Fortunately, the Air Corps did not have to depend wholly upon its
own resources. T h e NACA, established in 1915 with a congressional
mandate to undertake “scientific research on the fundamental prob-
lems of flight,” conducted experiments in its Langley Memorial Aero-
nautical Laboratory a t Langley Field, Virginia, upon which the Air
Corps in common with other agencies of the government drew re-
peatedly. Similarly, the Air Corps became indebted to the Civil Aero-
nautics Authority and its predecessors in the Department of Commerce
which were charged with responsibility for the safety of civil aviation.
Especially helpful was the Bureau of Standards, which on request
undertook projects in the development of such essentials as fuels, lubri-
cants, and a110ys.l~~For the development of radio and radar equipment
it was necessary to look to the Signal Corps, for until October 1944
that organization would retain control of experimental work in the
important field of c o r n m u n i c a t i o n ~ . ~ ~ ~
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