“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 7 - 5 0 4
38. CM-OUT-32, Arnold to Brere-
ton, #AF 3/53, 4 Mar. 1942.
39. Minutes of meeting held in De-
fense Dept. Comm. Room, 2 1 Mar. 1942,
in Ninth AF, Papers Relating to the
USAAF in India, 1942; minutes of second
meeting of the Administrative Planning
Comm. held at Air Hq. (Delhi), Z L Mar.
1942, %id.; CM-IN-0578, Brereton to
AGWAR, #Aquila 696, 3 May 1942.
40. Ltr., Brig. Gen. C.V. Haynes to
Lt. Col. Samuel T. Moore, historian,
Tenth AF, 20 Apr. 1943, in History,
India-China Ferry Command, 1942. Col-
onel Haynes had been told by General
Arnold that he would command a bom-
bardment group in India, and he was
somewhat disappointed at his first assign-
ment. (Ltr., Gen. Arnold to Col. Haynes,
2 1 Feb. 1942.)
41. History, India-China Ferry Com-
mand; CM-IN-7009, Brereton to AG-
WAR, #Aquila 549, 26 Apr. 1942.
42. History, India-China Ferry Com-
mand.
43. CM-l'N-270 I , Brereton to AG-
WAR, #Aquila 1700, 9 June 1943.
44. In addition to regular duty, some
of the men served as guards to prevent
sabotage of the aircraft. (History, India-
China Ferry Command; ltr., Capt. A.I.
Boyer to Col. Robert F. Tate, 6 May
1942.)
45. A-2 Summary File, 7 Apr. 1942.
46. CM-0UT-0947, Marshall to Bre-
47. A-2 Summary File, 7 Apr. 1942.
48. Zbid., 18 Apr. and 2 May 1942;
CM-IN-4583, Brereton to Arnold,
#Aquila 356, 17 Apr. 1942.
49. A-2 Summary File, 5 , 6, and 9
May 1942; CM-IN-1663, Brereton to
AGWAR, #Aquila 754, 6 May 1942;
CM-IN-1708, Brereton to AGWAR,
#Aquila 814, 7 May 1942.
50. A-2 Summary File, 12, 14,.17, and
27 May 1942; CM-IN-6078, Naiden to
AGWAR, #Aquila 3134 L, 18 July 1942.
5 1 . The civilian airline pilots were
accustomed to carrying a load of 2,500
pounds. Army pilots were flying 6,000
pounds into Dinjan and 5,000 pounds into
reton, #113, 6 Apr. 1942.
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China. A compromise of 4,000 pounds
was reached for the flight to China, but
Colonel Haynes flew 7,200 pounds east-
ward and a CNAC pilot brought 6,920
pounds from Kunming to Dinjan.
Haynes states that one plane hauled sev-
enty-five passengers out of Burma. (His-
tory, India-China Ferry Command;
interview with Albert E. Nelson, Bendix
rep., 24 June 1943; CM-IN, Aquila to
AGWAR, #1135, 19 May 1942.)
5 2 . History, India-China Ferry Com-
mand.
WAR, #3, IO May 1942; CM-IN-3536,
Aquila to AGWAR, 13 May 1942; CM-
IN-7262, Stilwell to AGWAR, #AM-
MISCA 62, 26 May 1942.
54. CM-IN-6689, Brereton to Arnold,
#Aquila 2172, 2 1 June 1942; History,
India-China Ferry Command.
5 5 . CM-OUT-0947, Marshall to Bre-
reton, f113, 6 Apr. 1942.
56. CM-IN-7661, Stilwell to AG-
WAR, #AMMISCA 610, 29 Apr. 1942.
57. Stilwell and others in Chungking
continued to warn the War Department
of the suspicion and distrust that the
Chinese felt toward the British. (CM-
IN-4540, Stilwell to AGWAR, #AM-
MISCA 62, 17 Apr. 1942; CM-IN-4903,
Stilwell to AGWAR, #AMMISCA 540,
18 Apr. 1942.)
58. CM-OUT-3919, M a r s h a l l to
Aquila, #192, 2 1 Apr. 1942; CM-IN-6405,
Brereton to AGWAR, #Aquila 496, 24
Apr. 1942; CM-IN-6746, Brereton to
AGWAR, #Aquila 541, 2 5 Apr. 1942. As
early as the breakup of the ABDA Com-
mand in Java, AAF officers had them-
selves been apprehensive of RAF control
in India. (CM-IN, Java to AGWAR, # 2 ,
2 0 Feb. 1942; CM-IN-72, ABDACOM to
A G W A R , # 4 p , 21 Feb. 1942; CM-OUT,
Arnold to Brereton, #AF 2/473, 26 Feb.
1942; minutes of second meeting of the
Administrative Planning Comm., as cited
in n. 39; memo for C/S by AAF Hq.,
20 Feb. 1942; ltr., Arnold to Haynes, 21
Feb. 1942; ltr., Brereton to Arnold, 6
Mar. 1942.)
59. CM-l'N-7661, Stilwell to AG-
WAR, #AMMISCA 610, 29 Apr. 1942;
53. CM-IN-2821, AMMISCA to AG-