“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 1 1 - 1 3
history.) It should be noted that both
Colonel Fry’s and Major Heald’s state-
ments were made more than two years
after the events being described. A pos-
sible explanation for the differences in
time stated is that Tash’s B-17 was sent
to Clark Field merely to have certain
repairs made on his plane as is stated in
the 19th Group Operations Record, and
that the order received from Clark Field
was not related in any way to the out-
break of hostilities.
49. History, 24th Pursuit Gp.; G O X I ,
Hq. Fifth Air Force, 30 Sept. 1942;
Statement of Personal Experience, made
by Lt. Col. W.A. Sheppard and Maj.
E.B. Gilmore at the request of historical
personnel, I Feb. 1945; Ind, Bataan, pp.
103-4. See also n. 45 above.
50. GO 17, Hq. FEAF, 2 3 Feb. 1942;
G O 2, Hq. Southwest Pacific Command,
Lembang, 1 5 Feb. 1942; G O 48, Hq.
USAFFE, 21 Dec. 1941; GO 5 2 , Hq.
Fifth Air Force, 18 Dec. 1942; Fisher
report; Brady interview, as in n. 25;
interview with Col. Cecil E. Combs by
author, 19 Jan. 1945; History, 19th Bomb.
Gp., App. A; Lt. Col. William J. Ken-
nard, Report on Philippine and Aus-
tralian Activities, 14 Nov. 1942; interview
with Lt. Gen. Richard K. Sutherland by
W.D. Edmonds, 4 June 1945.
5 1 . Fisher report; History, 24th Pur-
suit Gp.; msg. # 1 1 3 3 , Manila to WD,
8 Dec. 1941; msg. # 1 1 3 y , Manila to WD,
recd. 9 Dec. 1941; memo for S/W by
Spaatz, C/AS, 8 Dec. 1941; Robb, Shep-
pard and Gilmore, and Obert statements
(see n. 2 1 and n. 49); Ind, Bataan, pp.
102-6.
52. Available records of the two
squadrons, the 28th and 30th, which were
a t Clark on 8 December, state that the
B-17’s were “dispersed” at the time of
the attack. Col. W.P. Fisher, commander
of the 28th Squadron in December 1941,
has stated that it was standard opera-
tional procedure for his aircraft to go
to their assigned positions as soon as they
landed, and that they were dispersed on
this occasion. On the other hand, dis-
persal facilities had not been completed,
and it was impossible to provide com-
plete security from air attack. (History,
689
fifty-four “land attack planes” and thirty-
four fighters participated in the attack
on Clark, while an equal number of
bombers and fifty fighters struck at Iba.
(See Operations of the Japanese Navy
in the Invasion of the Philippines.)
46. History, 24th Pursuit Gp.; His-
tory, Fifth Air Force, Pt. I, p. 12; GO 48,
Hq. USAFFE, 2 1 Dec. 1941; statement,
as in n. 2 1 , of Maj. Stewart W. Robb,
formerly of 34th Sq. T h e flight leader
of the 34th Squadron states that its
eighteen P-35’~took to the air and pro-
ceeded to Clark Field without orders.
(Maj. Ben S. Brown statement, 2 5 Oct.
1944, in V Fighter Command docs.)
47. History, 19th Bomb. Gp., App. B
(19th Gp. Operations Record). It will
be recalled that the B-17’s for several
days had been flying regular reconnais-
sance missions which had on occasion
taken them to within three miles of the
coast of Formosa. On this morning
Carpenter was patrolling the waters east
of Luzon. (Fisher interview, 17 June
1947; History, 19th Bomb. Gp., App. A.)
48. 19th Gp. Operations Record; G O
16, Hq. FEAF, Bandoeng, 1 2 Feb. 1942.
On 18 April 1944, Col. R.L. Fry, who
was executive officer of the 5th Air Base
Group at Del Monte in December 1941,
made the following statement: “In re-
sponse to orders from Clark Field at 0400
hours 8th December, one B-17 under
Lieutenant Tash took off from Del
Monte at 0945 for Clark Field to have a
camera installed so that a photographic
mission could be flown over Formosa.”
(Doc. 8, in History, Fifth Air Force, Pt.
I, App. II.) This indicates that the order
from Clark Field was sent to Del Monte
immediately after word was received
that Pearl Harbor had been attacked.
But it should be pointed out that Maj.
E.H. Heald, who in December 1941 had
helped to set up communications for the
5th Air Base Group, stated in May 1944
that “at the time of the attack upon the
Philippines” he received the “first mes-
sage radioed to Del Monte from General
Headquarters” at approximately 0630,
and that five minutes later another ar-
rived from Colonel Eubank. The first
message read: “Hostilities have begun.
All Airdromes alert.” (Doc. 17, same