“Mission Control”60+ pages
- p. 40 …On recommendation of an American
mission sent to Europe in June under newly commissioned Col.
Raynal…
- p. 50 …a r I1 and its self-
conceived mission can be appreciated only in light of a…
- p. 52 …In the lower grades, where promotion was controlled inexorably
by seniority, Air Service pilots found themselves…
- p. 56 …complete control of the Army and form
an integral part thereof.” Yet the Crowell mission, appointed…
- p. 60 …The Lampert Committee went far beyond
its designated mission, bringing under review the whole province of…
- p. 63 …to it a more or less independent mission. Experi-
ence in World War I seemed to…
- p. 65 …Command respon-
sibility for that mission within the Air Corps devolved upon the Com-
manding General…
- p. 66 …Navy in further-
awe of their respective missions. The Air Corps Tactical School
claimed for air…
- p. 69 …which fights for and gains control of the air,’’ and to calculate
a well-balanced air…
- p. 71 …Mitchell could still believe that “it was an established fact that
the principal mission of an…
- p. 80 …based on the fundamental doctrine that their mission is to aid
the ground forces to gain…
- p. 81 …The mission of the Army was defense of the United States and
its outlying territories, but…
- p. 129 …assigned to the air force an
independent mission of strategic bombing. Accordingly, in March
1918 the…
- p. 155 …By taking
control of French or English colonial possessions, victorious Axis
powers might lodge themselves at…
- p. 175 …T h e planners were concerned only with the mission of the
US. Army and Navy…
- p. 235 …Long-standing
differences between the Army and Navy over jurisdictional control of
offshore patrol had brought…
- p. 241 …And because the chain of command in both Pacific areas
and in Washington vested ultimate control…
- p. 270 …Other combat activity by pursuit piiots was
incidental to scheduled reconnaissance missions, as when on I…
- p. 273 …Atlantic and India,” would come under his control at Bangal~re.’~
It soon became evident, however…
- p. 295 …American forces in Burma, and
later in India, had as a primary mission the promotion of…
- p. 306 …The mission of the MAB
was to keep current estimates of U.S.-British munitions resources…
- p. 308 …of a “nucleus of GHQ.” Its original mission was to direct the
training of the tactical…
- p. 314 …The field forces remained under
the control of the General Staff, and the War Plans Division…
- p. 316 …General Arnold’s control of the US. Air Force is as com-
plete, virtually, as is…
- p. 317 …it also made possible a certain indirect
control from Washington through letters written more often in…
- p. 343 …To permit effective control of fighter planes at
night or during bad weather would have required…
- p. 368 …constituted as of 29 May.’l The mission of the new
command was, first, “to move…
- p. 379 …A North
African military mission under Brig. Gen. Russell H. Maxwell had
been established at Cairo…
- p. 397 …In helping to prepare HALPRO for overseas movement by air and
in controlling the flight along…
- p. 412 …to perform a series of remarkable special
missions. Shuttling between Australia, the Philippines, the Nether-
lands…
- p. 426 …formation
of task forces to undertake specific missions, and for their command
he was to designate…
- p. 441 …But of these, four missions
involving a total of seventeen bombers were abortive because of un…
- p. 458 …During
January and February the bomber command dispatched approxi-
mately sixty heavy bomber missions, for a…
- p. 464 …attempting a take-off for yet another mission of relief.’
If the Americans on Bataan and…
- p. 472 …naval control, during which time
six of the planes flew the first American bomber mission against…
- p. 475 …Such missions, however, could be flown only with the greatest
expenditure of time and effort. Until…
- p. 500 …remain in the Far East under the control of General S t i l ~ e l…
- p. 503 …But circumstances beyond the control of the
aircrews were against the flight.
Although a fortuitous and…
- p. 525 …of Midway, nor had it
retained operational control of the few planes actually sent up to…
- p. 527 …If the vulnerable PBY's were shot down while executing their
search mission, this was a…
- p. 549 …those who had flown their first combat mission
in April had to fight a feeling of…
- p. 571 …largest mission to date comprised a total of six bombers-
would remain under theater control but…
- p. 589 …This, the Army felt, might lead ultimately to Navy control of all air
forces. As late…
- p. 620 …At the same time, it initiated projects peculiar to
its own mission and by the end…
- p. 621 …It would
work in conjunction with naval forces and under their operational
control “wherever this may…
- p. 646 …the British
Joint Staff Mission a t Washington, the American Military Mission
at London.” The American…
- p. 647 …General Chaney opened his headquarters in the American Embassy
building on 19 May 1941.'' His mission…
- p. 648 …Air forces would have two missions: to pro-
vide, in certain areas, an “air defense, integrated…
- p. 649 …Because AAF bombers would have the special mission, in co-operation
with the RAF, of attacking…
- p. 651 …Military Mission in
London-under direct control of the commanding general of U S .
Field Forces…
- p. 654 …They consider that function their primary mission here and are not
willing to surrender it.1le…
- p. 659 …bombardment missions,
either by direct coverage or by synchronized fighter sweeps. Strategic
control of AAF operations…
- p. 669 …o n ~ . ~ ’ ~Such operations under the RAF control system required
numerous modifications for the plane-about…
- p. 683 …not
be adequate to carry out the mission intended for it under GYM-
NAST. H e…
- p. 684 …T o adapt the Eighth Air Force to its new mission required a con-
siderable reshuffling…
- p. 717 …develop-
ment of adequate machinery for the control of combat operations by
establishing the Provisional I…
- p. 728 …2 , 27 AUGUST 2942
HE Eighth Air Force flew its first mission in an atmosphere
charged…
- p. 730 …in preparation for initial operations under RAF control.
Each of the three squadrons was attached for…
- p. 731 …Policy concerning the pro-
vision and control of fighter escort had not yet been determined,
but…
- p. 735 …Shortly before 1900 hours, watchers on the control tower
spotted a cluster of specks to the…
T H E A R M Y A I R F O R C E S I N W O R L D W A R I 1
ground forces for defense of Mindanao, but the natural advantages of
a soil that lent itself to rapid development of all-weather strips pro-
vided an argument which prevailed over the preference of general
headquarters for a more northern and presumably more secure loca-
tion. Accordingly, authority was granted to establish a temporary base
at Del Monte, where one runway suitable for heavy bombers had
existed for some months, pending a “definite location of the Bomber
Command” in the Visayan islands.99In another hurried decision the
5th Air Base Group, which had arrived in Luzon on 2 0 November,
was selected to develop the new base under the direction of Maj. Ray
T. Elsmore. Within one week, boats were procured, equipment and
supplies were loaded, and the 5oo-mile voyage from Manila was com-
pleted by the air base group. Native labor and local commercial com-
panies assisted in rushing completion of minimum facilities, but no
more than the bare minimum had been provided when the first B - 1 7 ’ ~
moved down from Clark on 5 December. Only one radio capable of
communication between Mindanao and Luzon had been set up, and
maintenance facilities were practically nonexistent.lo0
The incompleteness of these preparations at Del Monte governed
the decision on movement of the heavy bombers from Clark Field. On
4 December, General Brereton directed that immediate steps be taken
to move two squadrons with their sixteen B - I ~ ’ s ,plus a limited number
of B - 1 8 ’ ~for use as air transport, to Del Monte under a plan to have
the bombers stage through Clark Field for operations in the event of
hostilities. Though he shared the common concern over the vulner-
ability of the bombers at Clark Field, this initial movement was limited
to two squadrons because of the anticipated early arrival of the 7th
Bombardment Group ( H ) and a plan to base that entire group on
Del Monte.” Its ground echelon was already en route between Hawaii
* According to published accounts (see Frazier Hunt, MacArthur and the W a r
Against Japan [New York, 19441, pp. 30-31; Herbert Asbury and Frank Gervasi,
“MacArthur-The Story of a Great American Soldier,” Colliers, t I July 1945, and
its condensation in the Reader’s Digest for January 1946) since confirmed by General
MacArthur (see statement of 27 September 1946, N e w York Times, 2 8 September
1946), General Brereton was ordered prior to 8 December 1941 to move all B-17’s to
Del Monte. In response to a question on this point by the AAF Historical Office,
General Brereton indicated that the initiative for the transfer came from his own staff
and stated that “approval for the movement of the 16 Flying Fortresses to Del Monte
was obtained from General Sutherland only with the understanding that they would
be returned to airfields to be constructed on Cebu and Luzon as soon as the necessary
operating facilities could be prepared.” (See 1st ind., Brereton to Paul [Itr., Chief,
AAF Historical Office to CG, Third Air Force, sub.: Air Defense of the Philippine
Islands in December 1941, 3 0 Jan. 19461.) General Brereton’s recollection fits so
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