“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 T O P A G E S 1 4 6 - 5 8
in AWPD/I, Misc.; R&R, C/AS to 9. History, First Air Force, Project I,
OCAC, Further Expansion of AAF, 6
Oct* ‘9419 in III-B-I-81 m; inter-
Views With COl. R.D. Hughes, 1 5 Sept.
19439 and Brig. Gen*Has. Hansel1, 5 Oct*
‘9439 both at London, B*C*
Hughes added these to those
listed in the text as collaborators on
A w D / I : Cole O d l e Anderson, CaPt.
Ball, Capt. Moss, and himself. The im-
portance of Hansell’s contribution is
indicated by a memo, An Air Estimate
of the Situations for the Employment of
the Air Striking Force in Europe ( A B C
I ) , forwarded through General Chaney
of SPOBS.
Vol. I, Organizational Development.
10. Ibid.; History, Air Defense Corn-
mand; History, Third Air Force, 1941-
1944, pp. 6-10; History, 111 Fighter
Command, 29 Apr.-6 Dec. 1941, pp. I-
31; History, IV Fighter Command, 18
Dee. 1940-31 Dee. 1 ~ 4 4 ,pp. I-Io; His-
tory, I Interceptor Command, z June
1941-25 M~~ 1942,vol.1.
I I . Fourth Air Force Historical Study
111-1, Defense Plans 2nd Operations in
the Fourth Air Force through the Year
’94’, vO1* I*
12. History, Army Airways Commu-
nications System, 1938-45, pp. I 15-28.
13. History, I Interceptor Command.
14. History, First Air Force, 111, Pt.
10, 4-7.
15. Ltr., Newfoundland Base Com-
mand to TAG. 28 AUP. IOAI: 1st ind.
139. AWPD/I.
140. Tab 2.
141. Tabs 7-9.
142. Tab 2, par. 5.
143. Tab 2 , par. 6 .
144. Tab 3.
145. Tab 4.
1 ~ 6 .Tab ID.
147. Tabs 11-12.
148. Tab 1 3 .
149. USSBS, Summary Report (Euro-
pean War),3 0 Sept. 1945.
150. See articles on “New Moves to-
ward an AEF,” Chicago Daily Tribune,
19 Aug. 1941; and “More Steps toward
an AEF,” ibid., 27 Nov. 1941.
NOTES TO CHAPTER 5
I . AC Field Manual 1-5, Employment
of Aviation of the Army, 1 5 Apr. 1940.
2. Biennial Report of C/S to Sec. of
War, I July 1941-30 June 1943.
3 . AC Field Manual 1-5.
4. History, Air Defense Command, 2 6
5 . Edgar McInnis, T h e War: Second
6. History, Air Defense Command.
7. As cited in AAF Historical Study
No. 19, Civilian Volunteer Activities in
the AAF, pp. 8-10.
8. History, Air Defense Command.
Feb. 1940-2 June 1941.
Year (New York, 19411,pp. 6ff.
682
Y I .
(ltr., GHQ to’ TAG, 28 Aug. 1 9 4 1 ) ~
16. History, First Air Force, 111, Pt.
10, 7-11.
17. Memo for DC/S for Air from
AC/S, WPD, 26 June 1941; ltr., Maj.
Gen. G.C. Brant to Arnold, 3 0 Oct. 1941;
ltr., AC Weather Det., Newfoundland
Air Base to C/AC, 7 Oct. 1941.
18. Ltr., Adm. Harold R. Stark to
C/S US. Army, 8 Nov. 1941.
19. Ltr., Arnold to Maj. Gen. G.C.
Brant, 27 Nov. 1941.
20. Report of the South Greenland
Expedition, 17 Mar+ June 1941;memo
for Spaatz from Capt. Paul C. Oscanyan,
6 Sept. 1941.
2 1 . Memo for C/S from Sec. of Air
Staff, 25 July 1941.
2 2 . Extract, tel. conversation, Mr.
Lovett and Gen. Brett, 14 Apr. 1941;
memo for C/NO from C/S, z May 1941.
23. Ltr., T A G to C/S GHQ, 1 5 July
1941.; A G 320.2 (11-5-41) MC-C-M,
Activation of Greenland Base Command,
24. Approved Garrisons, Overseas
Bases, 9 Oct. 1941.
2 5 . History, Army Airways Commu-
nications System, 1938-45, p. 128; His-
T A G to C/S GHQ, 1 3 NOV.1941.
26 NOV.1941.