“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 4 0 6 - 1 4
statement; Lt. Col. William J. Kennard,
Report on Philippine and Australian Ac-
tivities, 14 Nov. 1942, in AAG, Reports
of Air Surgeon; Rowe combat report;
statement of Col. Ray Elsmore, Doc. 30 a,
in History, Fifth Air Force, Pt. I ; G O
37, Hq. USAFIA, 5 Apr. 1942; G O 2 6 ,
GHQ SWPA, 28 hug. 1942.
8. Elsrnore statement; msg. #zo, Mac-
Arthur to TAG, 7 Jan. 1942; msg. $116,
Ft. Mills to AG, 24 Jan. 1942; Supple-
mental Report on Airfields, I Mar. 1942,
Doc. 30, in History, Fifth Air Force, Pt.
I ; unrecorded interview with Col. Cecil
E. Combs by Maj. R.L. Watson, 19 Jan.
1945.
9. Elsmore statement.
10. Msg. # z ~ z ,MacArthur to Roose-
velt, 11 Feb. 1942; msgs., Hq. USAFFE,
Ft. Mills to Sharp, Del Monte for Mac-
Arthur, sgd. Marshall, 15 and 16 Mar.
1942.
I I. Msg. # z ~ z ,Ft. Mills to TAG, Mac-
Arthur for Roosevelt, 11 Feb. 1942; msg.
#5, Australia to Marshall, 2 1 Mar. 1942;
msg., Hq. USAFFE to Del Monte for
MacArthur, sgd. Marshall, 15 Mar. 1942;
memo for Gen. Brett by Gen. Royce, 6
Apr. 1942, in AFSHO files; Hmory,
435th Sq.; G O 37, Hq. USAFIA, 5 Apr.
1942.
rz. USSBS (Pacific) Intr. 503, Vice
Adm. S. Fukudome, 9 Dec. 1945.
13. CPS 24, 14 Mar. 1942. See also
USSBS, Employment of Forces under
the Southwest Pacific C o m a n d , Feb.
'947, P. 4,
14. CCS 18/1, 13 Mar. 1942.
15. JCS 5th Mtg., 9 Mar. 1942; JCS
6th Mtg., 16 Mar. 1942; study prepared
by Strategy and Policy Gp., OPD, at-
tached to JCS 152/1, IZ Dec. 1942.
16. It should be noted that Darwin
and Port Moresby were merely outposts,
and at this time were not expected to
hold out long against an enemy attack.
The main Australian forces were to be
disposed for protection of the vital Bris-
baneMelbourne area. (CPS 24, 14 Mar.
1942; USSBS, Employment of Forces, as
in n. 13.) In the Darwin area, there were
no more than twenty-two heavy antiair-
craft guns and six 6-inch coastal guns;
and at Port Moresby only ten antiaircraft
guns and two coastal guns. (CPS 24,
14 Mar. 1942.)
17. Msg., Washington to CG USA-
FIA, 12 Mar. 1 9 4 2 , Doc. 278, in History,
Fifth Air Force, Pt. I.
18. Msg. 8510,sans origine to TAG,
sgd. Brett, 8 Mar. 1942.
19. Brett's operations officer later sub-
mitted a modified plan to include six
areas with combat squadrons located as
follows: Darwin-Daly Waters, Clon-
curry-Townsville, Brisbane, Sydney,
Melbourne, and Perth. Curiously, al-
though pursuit units were to be located
at Darwin, Brisbane, and Sydney, none
were to be placed at Townmille. (Memo
for C/AS by Col. Ross G. Hoyt and
concurred in by A-I, A-2, and A-4, 24
Mar. 1942.)
20. GO 16, Hq. USAFIA, 24 Feb.
'942-
21. Shipment of A/C from the US.,
Doc. 283, in History, Fifth Air Force,
Pt. I; msg. #754, Australia to AGWAR,
22. History, V Fighter Command,
chap. 1; History, 41st Fighter Sq.;Flying
Time of the 49th Pursuit Group, Doc.
926, in History, Fifth Air Force, Pt. I.
23. AAF Historical Study No. 9, The
AAF in Australia, to the Summer of
1942, pp- 37-43.
24. Shipment of A/C from the U.S.,
as cited in n. 21; msg. #754, Australia to
AGWAR, 18 Mar. 1942.
25. Msg., Brett to AGWAR, 26 Feb.
1942; 435th [Bomb. Sq.] Overseas; His-
tory, 19th Bomb. Gp.; interview with
Col. Richard H. Carmichael, 5 Dec. 1942;
memo for Chief AAF by Col. Vanden-
berg, 16 Feb. 1942; msg. $570, Brett to
AG, 9 Mar. 1942; msg. #3/219, Ulio to
CG USAFIA, 11 Mar. 1942.
26. History, 43d Bomb. Gp.; inter-
view with Col. Harold R. Wells, 2 1 May
1943; History, 63d Bomb. Sq.; History,
19th Bomb. Gp.; memo for Chief AAF
by Eisenhower, 19 Mar. 1942; memo for
WPD by C/AS, 20 Mar. 1942; msg. #TOT,
Marshall to USAFIA, 16 Mar. 1942; msg.
$1188, Brett t o TAG, 27 Mar. 1942.
27. Histories, 3d and 27th Bomb.
18 Mar. 1942.