“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 8 0 - 8 5
7 1 . Los Angeles Times, 24 Feb. 1942.
The submarine was the 1-17, which was
sunk south of New Caledonia on 19 Au-
gust 1943. Interrogation of surviving
crewmen at that time placed the sub-
marine off San Diego on 10 February
1942 and indicated that it fired twenty-
four or twenty-five shells onto the coast
near Santa Barbara on 2 3 February. After
further operations off the California
coast, it returned to Japan in March.
(USAFISPA G-2 Periodic Report No. 39
[Z-9 OCt. 19431.)
7 2 . For details see A-2 Daily Sum.,
2 3 and 24 Feb. 1942; and History, 4th
A h Command, Jan. 19qz-July 1945, pp.
I 13-14.
73. Fourth Air Force Historical Study
111-2, Defense Plans and Operations
74. A-2 Daily Sum., 24 Feb. 1942.
75. Los Angeles Times, z j Feb. 1942.
76. History, 4th AA Command, Jan.
194t-July 1945, p. 116.
77. Fourth Air Force Historical Study
111-2, p. 31.
78. History, 4th AA Command, pp.
116-18; A-2 Daily Sum., 24 and 2 5 Feb.
1942. See also Los Angeles Times, 2 5
Feb. 1942.
79. Contemporary observations are
summarized in History, 4th A h Com-
mand, pp. I I ~ - 2 0 .
80. Report from WDC, 2 5 Feb. 1942,
in A-2 Daily Sum.
81. Los Angeles Times, 2 5 and 26
Feb. 1942.
8 2 . New York Times, 26 Feb. 1942,
reporting conference of previous day.
83. W D C report received in Wash-
ington at 1 3 1 5 hours, 2 5 Feb. 1942, quoted
in A-2 Daily Sum., 2 5 Feb. 1942.
84. History, 4th AA Command, pp.
119-20.
85. Report from WDC, 26 Feb. 1942,
quoted in A-2 Daily Sum.
86. Los Angeles Times, 2 7 Feb. 1942.
87. Ibid.
88. Ibid.
89. Quoted in Los Angeles Times, 28
(1942-45), p. 30.
Feb. 1942.
lar from Maj. Gen. J.E. Fickel, CG
Fourth Air Force), in Fourth Air Force
Historical Study 1-1, chap. ix; and Study
1-2 (1942-45), chap. ii.
54. Fourth Air Force Historical Study
111-1, chap. vii (especially pp. 2 3 2 ff.).
55. Ibid.
56. Fourth Air Force Historical Study
1-1, p. 270.
57, Along the West Coast in Feb-
ruary 1942 there was “little probability
that the air force units as now consti-
tuted could defend the vital targets
against a determined carrier based at-
tack.” (Memo for C/AAF from AWPD
[Col. George], 2 Feb. 1942.)
58. New York Times, 1 2 Feb. 1942;
Notes on US-British Chiefs of Staff
Conference, 24 Dec. 1941, in AFSHO
files.
59. New York Times, 1 2 Feb. 1942.
60. “The relief of Aruba and Curacao,
subject to Dutch concurrence, is to be
completed before the end of January.”
(BC-4/6.)
61. New York Times, 1 2 Feb. 1942;
History, Caribbean Air Force, May 1941
-Mar. 1942, p. 512. The exact date of
the arrival of air units is not known, as
the latter source gives dates of 14 and 17
January (compare p. 5 7 2 with p. 5 1 2 , in
this regard).
62. A-2 Daily Sum., 3 1 Jan. 1942.
63. New York Times, 1 2 Feb. 1942.
64. Ibid., 17 and 18 Feb. 1942; History,
Caribbean Air Force, Vol. TI1 (A-3 Pe-
riodic Report, 16-28 Feb. 1942). See also
History, Sixth Air Force, Mar. 1942-
May 1943, pp. 119--~2.
65. New York Times, 2 0 Feb. 1942.
There is a possibility that the damage to
shore installations on 19 February was
caused by star shells fired by the USS
Window. (See A-3 Periodic Report, as
cited in n. 64.)
66. A-2 Daily Sum., 2 Mar. 1942.
67. New York Times, 2 0 Apr. 1942.
68. Ibid., 18 Feb. 1942.
69. Ibid., 20 Feb. 1942.
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