“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 9 2 - 3 0 3
131. Memo for Arnold from Saville,
3 1 Jan. rgqt.
132. 1st ind. (ltr., C/AAF to CSigO,
8 Feb. 1942)~OCSigO to C/AAF, 1 1
Feb. 1942.
1 3 3 . Memo for C/AAF from AWPD
(Col. George), z Feb. 1942.
134. Ltr., CG I Interceptor Command
to CG First Air Force, 18 Feb. 1942.
1 3 5 . Memo for Arnold from Eisen-
hower ( W D OPD), 1 5 Apr. 1942.
136. For a detailed account of estab-
lishment of a V H F net, see Fourth Air
Force Historical Study 111-2, pp. 234-50.
137. “Longhairs and Short Waves,”
Fortune, Nov. 1945.
138. Ibid.
139. A G 371 (12-19-41) MSC-E-M,
Creation of Eastern Theater of Opera-
tions, 20 Dec. 1941.See also GO I , East-
ern Theater of Operations, 21 Dec. 1941,
Doc. 10, in History, First Air Force,
Vol. I.
140. A G 320.2 (12-30-41) MSC-C-M,
Allocation of AAF Units and Associated
Services, and the Assignment of Air
Bases and Observation Airdromes may
be found as Doc. I, in Fourth Air Force
Historical Study 1-2, or as Doc. 1 1 , in
History, First Air Force, Vol. I.
141. See Fourth Air Force Historical
Study 1-2, pp. 208 ff.
142. A G 381 (3-11-42) MC-E-M,
Defense of Continental US., 18 Mar.
1942.
143. For the initial organization of
AAF, see AAF Reg. 2 0 - 1 , 3 1 Mar. 1942.
144. H i s t o r y , F i g h t e r C o m m a n d
School, Mar.-Nov. 1942, pp. 24ff.
145. On the effects that dispersion
would have had, see History, Third Air
Force, to June 1944, pp. 135-37.
146. Fourth Air Force Historical
Study 111-2, chap. i.
147. Fourth Air Force Historical
Study 111-2, chap. iii.
148. Ibid., pp. ~wff.
149. Ibid., pp. 25 ff.
150. zzd Recommendation of Perma-
nent Joint Board on Defense, as sum-
marized in ltr., T A G to C/AAF and
others, I Feb. 1942.
1 5 1 . Quoted on title page of National
Service Handbook, Committee on Public
Information (Washington, 1917).
1 5 2 . See p. 2 2 of Watson-Watt re-
port, as cited in n. 119.
1 5 3 . See Fourth Air Force Historical
Study I1I-2, chap. ii.
154. New York Times, 20 Apr. 1942.
155. Minutes of S / W Conference, 18
156. Ibid.
157. Ibid., meeting of 2 5 May 1942.
158. Fourth Air Force Historical
Study 1-2, p. 61.
159. Minutes of S / W Conference, 8
June 1942. See also Fourth Air Force
Historical Study 1-2, p. 62.
160. AAF Historical Study No. 42,
Air Defense of the Panama Canal, I Jan.
1939-7 Dec. 1941.
161. No complete transcript of the
report by Watson-Watt was available,
but a digest, with many direct quotations,
is in History, Sixth Air Force, Mar. 1942
-May 1943, pp. 26ff.
162. Memo for Roosevelt from Stim-
son, 14 Mar. 1942.
163. lbid.
164. History, Sixth Air Force, p. 219.
165. Memo for Arnold from Eisen-
hower (OPD), received at AAF Hq., 29
Apr. 1942.
166. History, Sixth Air Force, pp.
‘94-97.
167. Minutes of S / W Conference, zy
June 1942. General Arnold announced
that “we are equipping [bombers] with
ASV at the rate of two per day.”
168. Watson-Watt report, as quoted
in History, Sixth Air Force, pp. 26ff.
1%. Ibid.
170. AAF Historical Study No. 4,
Alaskan Air Defense and the Japanese
Invasion of the Aleutians, pp. 22-27.
May 1942.
171. Ibid., p. 28.
172. The reinforcement preparations
are described in Fourth Air Force His-
torical Study IV-2, Processing Functions
699