“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 9 2 - 9 7
29. CM-OUT, AGO to Wheeler, 3
Mar. 1942.
30. Histories, Hq. Tenth Air Force,
51st Service Gp., 51st Fighter Gp., 7th
Bomb. Gp., 436th Bomb. Sq.; Russell
interview.
31. CM-IN, Brereton to Arnold, 6
Mar. 1942; Supplies and Services to be
Rendered to USA Forces in India, rec-
ord of meeting held 22 Mar. 1942, in
Ninth AF, Papers Relating to USAAF
in India, 1942.
3 2 . T h e mission was composed of
Henry F. Grady, H.E. Beyster, Dirk
Deltker, A.W. Herrington, and Frank A.
Waring. They arrived a t New Delhi on
17 April and departed from Karachi 2 2
May. ( A Survey of India's Industrial
Production for W a r Purposes, Report of
the American Technical Mission to India
[hereinafter cited as Grady report], sub-
mitted to the governments of India and
the United States, August 1942.)
WAR, #4 ST, 19 Feb. 1942; CM-IN,
Brereton to Arnold, #Aquila 83, 1 5 Mar.
1942; CM-IN, Brereton to AGWAR,
#Aquila 5, 30 Mar. 1942.
34. CM-IN, Brereton to Arnold:
#Aquila 83, 15 Mar.; #Aquila 19, 2 6 Mar.;
and #Aquila 24, 18 Mar. 1942; CM-I",
Brereton to AGWAR, #Aquila 5, 30
Mar. 1942; interview with Col. Homer
L. Sanders (Air Room), June 1943;CM-
IN, ABDACOM to AGWAR, 37 DX,
17 Feb., and #17, 19 Feb. 1942.
35. CM-IN-I.B. 70, Brereton to AG-
WAR, #Aquila 63, 4 Mar. 1942; CM-IN,
Brereton to Arnold, #Aquila I, 26 Mar.
1942; CM-IN, Brereton to AGWAR,
$Aquila 1 3 1 , 2 8 Mar. 1942; memo for
C/AS from O.L. Ferson, AFROM, 2 3
Apr. 1942.
36. CM-IN, Brereton to AGWAR,
#Aquila 64, 4 Mar. 1942; CM-IN, Karachi
to Arnold, #618, 29 Apr. 1942.
37. CM-IN, Brereton to Arnold,
#AMSEG 516, 2 Mar. 1942; CM-OUT-
35, Arnold to Brereton, #AF 3/89, 5 Mar.
1942; memo for Chief, WPD, W D G S
from Arnold, 24 Mar. 1942; History, X
Air Force Service Command, 1942.
33. CM-IN, ABDACOM to AG-
725
Staff, Washington, 2 5 Mar. 1942. Also,
see popular accounts of AVG.
18. CM-IN, Magruder to AGWAR,
#AMMISCA 161,4 Jan. 1942;CM-OUT-
0046, Marshall to Brereton, $93, I Apr.
1942; memo for AS/W John J. McCloy
from Brig. Gen. Gordon P. Saville, Dir.
of Air Defense; memo for Gen. Arnold
from Lt. Col. H.A. Halverson, 3 Feb.
1942; memo for AC/S, W P D from
AFDMR.
19, Col. John Y. York, Jr., Report on
Planes for A V G and Chinese, 6 Mar.
1942; Maj. Paul G. Pennoyer, Report on
Planes for China and AVG, I Apr. 1942;
CM-OUT-3 268, Arnold to Marshall,
#362, 17 Apr. 1942.
20. CM-IN, GHQ Java to T A G , sgd.
Brett, #ABDA 448 A, 18 Feb. 1942; CM-
IN, Brett to AGWAR, 10 Feb. 1942.
21. ABC-4/9, 10 Jan. 1942.
22. Memo for AC/S, W P D from
AFDMR, 18 Mar. 1942; memo for AAG
from Col. H.L. George, AC/AS, AWPD,
2 3 Feb. 1942; R&R, Maj. Gen. M.F. Har-
mon, C/AS to Col. Shumacker, 17 Mar.
'942.
2 3 . CM-IN, Brereton to Arnold, #89,
18 Mar. 1942; History, Hq. and Hq. Sq.,
Tenth Air Force.
24. Histories, 51st Service Gp., Hq.
Tenth Air Force, 5Ist Fighter Gp., 7th
Bomb. Gp., 436th Bomb. Sq.; CM-I",
Brereton to AGWAR, # I I Z , 2 8 Mar.
1942; CM-IN, Brereton to Arnold, #89,
19 Mar. 1942.
25. Memo for C/AS from Col. H.A.
Craig, 4 Mar. 1942; CM-OUT-99,
Arnold to Brereton, #AAF PC 42, z Apr.
1942; History, 59th Service Sq., 1941-42.
26. CM-OUT-57, Ulio to Brereton,
#AAF RC 165, 20 Mar. 1942; CM-IN-
2400, Brereton to AGWAR, #Aquila
1724, 8 June 1942; Lt. Col. John E. Barr,
Report on P-40 Mission, Special Project
157, 19 June 1942. in History, Hq. Tenth
Air Force, 1942.
27. Barr report.
28. Interview with Brig. Gen. Clinton
W. Russell, 4. June 1942; CM-IN, Brere-
ton to Arnold, #AMSEG 516, 2 Mar.
1942.