“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 2 0 3 - 5
3 0 . 1st ind., Brereton to Paul; Eubank
and Brady interviews; talk by Colonel
Fisher, as cited in n. 25; Ind, Butaan, pp.
89-94; ltr., Lt. Don Mitchell to Bayrd
Still, 3 0 Nov. 1941. It is interesting to
note that the Japanese apparently ex-
pected an early attack on Formosa by
the B-17’s. In an interrogation of 28
November 1945 (USSBS 601) Comdr.
Ryosuke Nomura recalled that because
of the delay in launching the Japanese
attack it was greatly feared that Amer-
ican aircraft would initiate the first at-
tack. That fear, he declared, had been
greatly increased at 0800 when an inter-
cepted American broadcast indicated
that such an attack was being considered
and that the B-17’s would arrive over
Formosa at 1010.
3 1 . Memo for Col. W.J. Paul from Lt.
Gen. Lewis H. Brereton, 6 Aug. 1947, in
reply to memo for Brereton from Paul,
22 July 1947. While General Brereton
was consulting with General Sutherland,
a meeting of the air force staff was held
at Headquarters, Far East Air Force. On
6 April 1944, Maj. John C. Ankeny, Fifth
Air Force historian, put the followirig
questions to Col. Harold Eads, who had
attended that meeting on the morning
of 8 December 1941:
“ I . W h o held the following points of
view (8 December 1941): (a) Strike at
the Japs in Formosa with everything we
had without delay? (b) Wait for an
overt act before hitting? (c) Send out a
reconnaissance to Formosa and hit targets
of opportunity? (d) Send out one or
two planes (B-17’s) for reconnaissance
“2. What took place in the meeting
with Colonel Brady before General
Brereton arrived on the morning of 8
December q41?
“ 3 . What took place after General
Brereton arrived?”
Colonel Eads answered these ques-
tions as follows: “Everyone attending
the meeting on the morning of 8 Decern-
ber held the view propounded in para-
graph ‘a.’ W e were getting ready to
proceed on that basis. No one held views
‘b,’ ‘c,) and ‘d.’. ..As I recall it, when
General Brereton arrived at the meeting,
he said we could not carry out the plan
only?
687
with Brig. Gen. Francis M. Brady by
author, 7 Dec. 1944; talk by Col. W.P.
Fisher, 20 Mar. 1942, in AAG 385, War-
fare; 1st ind., Brereton to Paul, as cited
in n. 20; Allison Ind, Bataan, the ludg-
ment Seat (New York, 1944), pp. 89-94.
See also n. 3 1 below.
26. Ind, Bataan, pp. 9 2 9 3 . Colonel
Ind, in December 1941 a captain and an
intelligence officer with the Far East Air
Force, states that the objective folders
were complete enough to make the mis-
sion “a very far cry from the blind stab
it would have had to be otherwise.” The
American policy had been to avoid any
“overt act,” and thus, while regular re-
connaissance missions had on occasion
taken our flyers to within three miles of
the Formosan coast, no photographic
mission over Formosa itself had been
flown. (Interview with Col. W.P. Fisher
by author, 17 June 1947; History, 19th
Bomb. Gp., App. A.)
2 7 . Brady interview.
28. Zbid.; 1st ind., Brereton to Paul;
but see entry from Summary of Activi-
ties, Hq. Far East Air Force, quoted on
p. 207.
29. A request of 27 May 1944 from
the Fifth Air Force, initiated by the
historian of that organization, to General
Headquarters, Southwest Pacific Area
for information from personnel holding
key positions under General MacArthur
at the outbreak of war undertook to
supplement the record available in AAF
files. Among other things, information
was sought regarding prewar plans for
the employment of the Far East Air
Force, the possible effect of the political
status of the Philippines on decisions not
to assume the initiative against the Jap-
anese after official confirmation of the
Pearl Harbor attack had been received,
and an indication of such orders as may
have been issued to the air force on the
morning of 8 December relating to the
use of bombers based on Clark Field.
The request was returned, however, with
indorsement of 7 June 1944 as follows:
“There is no official information in this
headquarters bearing upon the questions
propounded in basic communication.”
(See Doc. 20 in History, Fifth Air Force,
Pt. I, App. XI.)