“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 7 - 2 4
Capt. Kawakita bhihara, n.d.; 94, Comdr.
Yutaka Isawa, 1 2 Oct. 1945; 331, Capt.
Mitsugo Ihara, 10 Nov. 1945; 387, Capt.
Kameo Sonokawa, 14 Nov. 1945; 424,
Capt. Bunzo Shibata, 18 Nov. 1945.
68. Ltr., Eubank to CG FEAF, as in
n. 65.
6.T M 1-10.
70. History, Fifth Air Force, Pt. I , p.
17; 19th Gp. Operations Record; Summary
of Activities, 10 Dec. 1941, 1430 which
records “Discussion of situation by Staff:
In view of the fact that Paratroops have
been landed in many places in the islands,
General Brereton is of the opinion that
it is highly dangerous to allow Bombard-
ment to remain in this vicinity after
dark.” Under 11 Dec. 1941, 0030, appears
“Telephonic orders to move all B-17’s
southward prior to daybreak and execute
dawn attack on targets in Linguayan
Port.” (See also 1 1 Dec. 1941, 1009.)
71. History, 24th Pursuit Gp.; Obert
statement; Sheppard and Gilmore state-
ment; combat reports of Capt. William
M. Rowe, in A-2 Library. Operations of
the Japanese Navy in the Invasion of the
Philippines indicates that thirty-four
fighters and twenty-seven bombers were
sent against Nielson, Nichols, and Camp
Murphy, twenty-seven bombers against
Cavite and the same number against
shipping at Manila, and eighteen fighters
against Del Carmen. Japanese pilots
claimed fifty planes shot down and
fifty-three heavily damaged or burned.
71. Memo for CIS by Acting AC/S,
G-2, 10 Dec. 1942.
73. It should be added that prior to
the attack on Cavite, American pursuits
had intercepted another formation of
Jap planes over central Luzon and shot
two down, and that later on Filipino
pilots flew their obsolete P-26’s against
an enemy formation. (Sheppard and
Gilmore statement; GO 48 and 27, Hq.
USAFFE, 21 Dec. 1941 and 16 Feb.
74. History, 24th Pursuit Gp.; msg.,
Manda to AGWAR, 1 2 Dec. 1941.
75. Msg., Manila to WD, 11 Dec.
1941;msg., Manila to AGWAR, 1 2 Dec.
1941; Hart, Narrative of Events; GO 48
and 27, Hq. USAFFE, 21 Dec. 1941, and
1942.)
16 Feb. 1942; msg., Arnold to C G
USAFFE, 24 Dec. 1941.
76. 19th Gp. Operations Record; msg.
$1712, Manila to TAG, 1 5 Dec. 1941;
GO 16, Hq. FEAF, Bandoeng, I Feb.
1942; GO 2 , Hq. Southwest Pacific Com-
mand, Lembang, 1 5 Feb. 1942; G O 12,
Hq. Allied Air Forces, 2s May 1942.
77. History, 24th Pursuit Gp.; GO 52,
Hq. USAFFE, 24 Dec. 1941.
78. History, Fifth Air Force, Pt. I , p.
20, and statement of Col. Ray Elsmore,
Doc. 30a, App. FI. A few days after the
war began, one P-40 was dispatched to
Mindanao to serve as a personal recon-
naissance plane for General Sharp, in com-
mand on that island. On 4 January, nine
P-40’s left Bataan for Del Monte. Five
of these planes arrived; and about a week
later two P-35’s arrived. (Obert state-
ment; History, 24th Pursuit Gp.)
79. 19th Gp. Operations Record; Els-
more statement.
80. History, 27th Bomb. Gp.
81. Msgs., MacArthur to Marshall, 10
Dec. 1941; Manila to WD, 1 3 Dec. 1941;
#40, Manila to T A G , 2 2 Dec. 1941.
82. Memo for MacArthur from Brere-
ton, 14 Dec. 1941.
83. Msg. #787, T A G to C G USAFFE,
1 5 Dec. 1941; ltr. to CG AFCC, incl. to
R&R, OPD to Air Service Command, 15
Dec. 1941; ltr., T A G to CG M C C , 23
Dec. 1941; msg. #750, Adams to Mac-
Arthur, 23 Dec. 1941.
84. Msgs., Manila to W D and TAG,
19 Dec. 1941; $13, 20 Dec.; #30 and #544,
2 1 Dec.; #3 and $34, 2 2 Dec.; Brief
Chronology of the Philippine Campaign,
Col. Ray Elsmore’s personal papers, Doc.
8 2 , in History, Fifth Air Force, Pt. I ,
App. 11; Sutherland interview, as cited in
n. 50.
85. 19th Gp. Operations Record; msg.
#41, Manila to TAG, 23 Dec. 1941; GO
16, Hq. FEAF, Bandoeng, 1 2 Feb. 1942;
GO z, Hq. SWP Command, Lembang,
15 Feb. 1942.
86. G O 2, Hq. SWP Command, Lem-
bang, 15 Feb. 1942; GO 10, Hq. Fifth
Air Force, 2 2 Sept. 1942; GO 16, Hq.
FEAF, Bandoeng, 1 2 Feb. 1942; GO 38,
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