“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 3 0 4 - 1 6
and Relations with Alaska, 1942-45,
chap. i.
173. Ibid.
174. Minutes of the Joint Board, 26
175. History, Eleventh Air Force,
176. Ibid., pp. 90ff.
177. History, Fort Glenn Army Air
Base, Aug. 1941-July 1944, pp. 1-8.
178. History, Eleventh Air Force, pp.
91 ff.
179. Ibid., pp. 118, 128-29, 132, 134-
35, 141; AAFHs4, pp. 50-51.
180. Memo for Chief, Radar Div.
from Maj. E.J. Atkinson, 26 Aug. 1942.
181. Memo for Dir. of Mil. Require-
ments from Col. G.P. Saville, I Sept.
‘942.
182. Ltrs., Hq. WDC to CG Field
Forces, 2 7 and 28 Jan. 1942.
183. R&R, Col. G.P. Saville to
AWPD, 25 Feb. 1942; 2d ind. (basic un-
known), Hq. AAF to Chief of Engineers,
14 Apr. 1942, both in AAG 676-A,
Alaska.
184. Memo for CG AAF from Brig.
Gen. Wm. 0. Butler, CG Eleventh Air
Force, 16 June 1942.
185. History, Eleventh Air Force, p.
116.
NOV. 1941.
Aug. 1940-Sept. 1942, p. 89.
NOTES T O CHAPTER 9
I . Maj. Oliver LaFarge, “Strategic
Air Supply,” Air Transport, I1 (Sept.
1944), 2@25.
2 . J C C ~ I ,Annex I.
3 . See chapters on early operations
over the various routes in History,
Ferrying Command Operations, 7 Dec.
1941-30 June 1942.
4. Ministry of hformation, Atlantic
Bridge, T h e Official Account of R.A.F.
Transport Cornand‘s Ocean Ferry
(London, 1945), pp. 5-19; Summary of
Information covering the organization of
the Atlantic ferry bomber service by the
Canadian Pacific, 25 Mar. 1942, incl. with
ltr., C.H. Dickens, Canadian Pacific Air
Lines, Ltd., to Lt. Col. Fred C. Morgan,
700
2 1 Mar. 1944. The transoceanic ferrying
of aircraft for the Eritish was first under-
taken by the Canadian Pacific Railway’s
Air Services Department, under contract
with the British Ministry of Aircraft
Production. The first delivery by the
Air Services Department was completed
on 1 1 November 1940. In the spring of
1y41 it was determined to transfer direct
control of the operation to the Ministry
of Aircraft Production. ATFERO, the
agency of the ministry for this job, ac-
tudly assumed control as early as March
1y41, although the official notice to the
Canadian Pacific of the proposed can-
cellation of that organization’s contract
was not sent until 27 May 1941. The
formal transfer was made on 15 July. On
I August 1941the RAF Ferry Command,
organized in July, in turn took over the
operation from ATFERO.
5 . Memo for Gen. Arnold from Maj.
E.H. Alexander, 2 1 Mar. 1941;report of
conference in office of Mr. Lovett, 14
Apr. 1941,in AAG 353; memo for Gen.
Brett from H.T. Lewis and Q.W. Coyle,
I 5 Apr. 1941; History, Ferrying Command
Operations, 29 May-7 Dec. 1941, p. 17.
6 . CM-IN, London to T A G (Arnold
for Lovett), #1051, 2 1 Apr. 1941.
7. Ltr., Air Marshal H.C.T. Dowding
to AS/W Robert A. Lovett, 28 Apr.
1941; ltr., British Minister Sir Gerald
Campbell to Sec. of State, 8 May 1941;
memo for C/AC from US/W Robert
P. Patterson, 1 2 May 1941.
8. Memo for Gen. Spaatz from Gen.
Arnold, 26 May 1941; memo for Gen.
Arnold from Gen. Spaatz, 27 May 1941.
9. Ltr., President to S / W , 28 May
‘94’.
10. Administrative History, Ferrying
Command, 29 May 1941-20 June 1942,
pp. 9-10.
1 1 . Ltr., T A G to C G s All Armies
et al., 5 June 1941.
12. When the Ferrying Command
was established the term “ferrying” was
used in a broad sense to include both
the flight delivery of aircraft and the
operation of a back-and-forth service for
the transportation of cargo and pas-
sengers. In time the term came to mean
only the former type of operation in