“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 B A T T L E L I N E I N T H E P A C I F I C
five P-38’s were due in at Elmendorf Field at Anchorage; and a P-39
fighter squadron was en route to Alaska, destined for Kodiak. Seven
new B - I ~ E ’ swere coming in for the 36th Bombardment Squadron
(H), and upon their arrival the squadron strength would number
eleven bombers, including one at Ladd Field, Fairbanks. However,
four of these (three radar-equipped) were assigned to the Air Search
Group with the PBY-5A’s of Panving 4. One-half squadron of B-26’s
(six planes) was ordered out to dismal Umnak, and one-half to Cold
Bay.”” Already, on 2 3 May, ten P-40’s of the I Ith Fighter Squadron
had landed on the spongy runway on Umnak, and, when reinforce-
ments followed, on this westernmost field there were by 3 June twelve
P-~o’s,six B-26’s of the 77th Squadron, six PBY’s, and two B-18’s, with
half the 77th and I Ith squadrons back a t Cold Bay (Fort Randall).”’
Here, too, came the six B-I~E’sand one LB-30 of the 36th Squadron,
ordered out from Kodiak to Cold Bay on 2 June, where they arrived
on 4 June.121These were the dispositions and the Jap did not know
them-he was completely unaware of the field on Umnak.
Out along the Aleutians the weather had turned bad; beginning on
29 May and for a week thereafter it was practically prohibitive for
flying. Ceilings ranged from zero to 500 feet with visibility seldom
exceeding five miles, and there was almost continual rain and fog. T o
reach this area, a B-17E of the 36th Bombardment Squadron was
ordered to Umnak to conduct a daily reconnaissance of the Aleutian
chain. T h e pilot, Capt. Russell A. Cone, reported that the mat laid on
the porous volcanic soil gave the effect of landing on an inner-spring
mattress. Heavy planes took off with difficulty from the springy strip,
but on 28 May the B-17 ran its first search mission, covering the area
between Umnak and Tanaga, the first island west of Adak. T h e crew
sighted nothing, although the plane covered every inlet and bay along
the island chain.’ 2 2 At Umnak, conditions were extremely primitive.
Bomber revetments and hardstands had been built, but they had not
been floored and in wet weather the heavy plane would have mired
in; the B-17 stood in the only available parking space, leaving the
fighters ranged along the shoulders of the runway.lZ3
Combat crews set up their own tents and until 5 June cooked their
own meals. Their bivouac area was a sea of mud; water covered the
ground inside many of their tents and all crews were on alert from
dawn to dark, which at that time of the year extended from 0400 to
2300.’24 They went with little or no sleep for @-hour periods, and
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