“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…
N O T E S
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NOTES TO CHAPTER 1
I . Howard E. Coffin, quoted in New
2 . A.W. Sweetser, T h e Americun Air
3. Zbid., pp. 230-31.
4. Zbid., chap. 5 .
5. N e w York Times, 10 June 1917.
6. Dr. C.D. Walcott of NACA, quoted
in Sweetser, op. cit., p. 45.
7. E.S. Gorrell, T h e Measure o f Amer-
ica’s World W a r Aeronautical Effort
(Northfield, Vt., 19401, p. 2 .
York Times, 14 June 1917.
Service (New York, 1 9 1 9 ) ~pp. 66-68.
8. Sweetser, op. cit., p. 16.
9. G.W. Mixter and H.H. Emmons,
U.S. A r m y Aircraft Production Facts
(Washington, 1919), p. 5 .
10. J.J. Pershing, My Experiences in
the World W a r (New York, 19311, I,
27.
1 1 . Sweetser, op. cit., p. 46.
1 2 . Zbid., p. 54; Mixter and Emmons,
op. cit., p. 5 .
13. J.M. Spaight, T h e Beginnings of
Organized Air Power: A Historical
Study (London, 1 9 2 7 ) ~p. 239.
14. Sweetser, op. cit., p. 93, n. I , quot-
ing the legislation.
15. Spaight, op. cit., pp. 238-45, based
largely on Sweetser.
16. Sweetser, op. cit., pp. 190ff.
17. Zbid., chaps. vi and vii.
18. Ibid., pp. 210-17.
19. Zbid., pp. 218-19, 238; Spaight, op.
20. Sweetser, op. cit., pp. 220ff.
2 I . Zbid., pp. 240, 247-48. Spaight , ( o p .
Cit., pp. 279-88) summarizes statistics
from various sources.
22. Sweetser, op. cit., pp. 232-33.
23. Pershing, op. cit., I, 161-62.
cit., pp. 2 4 6 5 1 .
24. M.M. Patrick, T h e United States
in the Air (New York, 1928), p. 1 5 .
2 5 . H.A. Toulmin, Jr., Air Service,
A.E.F., rp18 (New York, 1927), pp. 74-
78. 26. Patrick, op. cit., p. 16.
2 7 . Gorrell, op. cit., p. 29 (table);
Pershing, op. cit., 11, 61.
28. Patrick, op. cit., pp. 1-16; Toul-
min, op. cit., chap. vi.
29. Patrick, op. cit., p. 17. Here he
gives the previous goal as 354 squadrons.
30. Gorrell, op. cit., p. 29.
3 1 . Final Report of Chief of Air Serv-
ice, A.E.F. (Washington, 1921).
3 2 . Details in this section are taken
from the best of the Mitchell biographies:
Isaac Don Levine, Mitchell, Pioneer of
Air Power (New York, 1943).
3 3 . For quotations see ibid., 92-94.
35. Zbid., pp. 97-100,
36. Zbid., p. 108.
3 7 , Final Report.. ., A.E.F., passim.
Another summary of the participation of
American air units in the war will be
found in [Clayton L. Bisselll Brief His-
tory of the Air Corps and Its Late De-
velopment (Air Corps Tactical School,
Langley Field, Va., [19271), pp. 33-65.
38. William Mitchell, “The Air Serv-
ice at St. Mihiel,” World’s W o r k ,
XXXVIII (Aug., 1919), 360-70; Final Re-
port ..., A.E.F.
39. Quotations and general concept of
the battle taken from William Mitchell,
“The Air Service a t the Argonne-Meuse,”
World‘s W o r k , XXXVIII (Sept. 1919),
5 5 2 - 6 0 ; Final Report.. . , A.E.F.
40. Quoted in Special AAF Historical
Study, Review of Aerial Warfare for the
Scientific Advisory Board (Jan. 1945),
p. 3.
34. ]bid., pp. 95-97.
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