“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 5 2 8 - 4 0
Historical Study No. 19, Civilian Volun-
teer Activities in the AAF.
2s. Joint Action, chap. ii, par. 8 (a)
and (b); msg., COMINCH and C/S to
C G EDC, 2 s Mar. 1942; ltr., C G EDC
to Comdr. ESF, 28 Mar. 1942.
26. Ltr., Brig. Gen. Westside T. Lar-
son to Gen. Bradley, 19 Mar. 1942. Cf.
draft history, I BC.
27. See sources in n. 4.
28. Correspondence in AAFAC file,
Gulf Task Force Organization. See espe-
cially, ltr., Arnold to Maj. Gen. W.H.
Frank, 3 1 May 1942; ltr., Bradley to C G
I BC, 26 May 1942; ltr., T A G to CGS,
Southern Defense Command and Third
AF, 3 July 1942; ltr., Hq. Gulf Task
Force to The Air Inspector, 2 Oct. 1942.
29, See sources in n. 28; also ltr., Hq.
Third AF to C G AAF, 8 June 1942. Cf.
History, Third Air Force, Defense Ac-
tivities, 1941-44, p. 36.
30. Assessment of Attacks, in AAFAC
file 557. See also n. 38 below.
3 1 . Ltr., Hq. Advance Echelon, I BC
to all tactical comdrs., 19 Jan. 1942, in
AAFAC file, I Bomber Command Opera-
tions, Procedure. See also other cor-
respondence in same file.
32. AAFAC file, I Bomber Command
Operations, Procedure.
33. Ibid., passim.
34. Ibid., passim; Information Bulletin
35. Ltr., Comdr. ESF to all task group
36. Three Essays, Tab I N.
37. AAFAC file, I Bomber Command
Operations, Convoy Escort. See espe-
cially, ltr., Hq. Seventh Naval Dist. to
AS/W for Air, 1 3 May 1942; ltr., Hq.
I BC to C G s EDC and First AF, 29
May 1942.
38. Standish report; AAFAC file 557
(the assessments herein contained have
been checked with those printed in US.
Fleet Antisubmarine Bulletin to Dec.
13, Hq. I BC, 3 1 July 1942.
comdrs., 24 Sept. 1942.
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~~~~.
1944). Authority for the “kill” of 7 July
comes from C/NO, German, Japanese,
and Italian Submarine Losses, World
W a r 11, which is a final summary of all
I 5 Jan. 1942.
55- lbid.
56. Ltr., Arnold to King, 2 5 Feb. 1942.
certain evidence from all Allied and
enemy sources.
39. Standish report. See also charts in
AAFAC hlonthly Intel. Sum., Nov. 1942,
40. Standish report; Antisubmarine
Warfare Operations Research Group
Mcmo 2 0 , Analysis of US. Aircraft At-
tacks on U/Boats, 7 Dec. 1942, p. 4. In
this connection it should be noted that
several attacks reported by I Bomber
Command are not included here and
that of the total attacks listed, half, or a
significantly larger proportion, of radar
contacts were made by Army planes.
41. Doenitz, The Conduct of the War
at Sea.
42. Estimated at 859,000 tons for No-
vember as compared with 575,886 for
October. Monthly Intel. Sum., Nov. and
Dec. 1942.
pp. 8-9.
43. History, First Air Force.
44. History, Caribbean Air Force, 8
May 1941-6 Mar. 1942, p. 569; memo
for C G Field Forces from Deputy C/S
US. Army, 19 Feb. 1942.
45. History, Sixth Air Force, Mar.
19q-May f943, pp. I 18ff.; History,
Caribbean Air Force, p. 463.
46. US. Fleet Antisubmarine Bulletin,
47. Report, Col. R.H. Wooten to C G
Field Forces, 1 2 Feb. 1943, in History,
Sixth Air Force, March 1942-May 1943;
Statistical Control, Caribbean data file,
Dec. 1941-Dec. 1943.
48. Memo, Office of A-2, Hq. Antilles
Air Command, 3 0 Nov. 1944; US. Fleet
Antisubmarine Bulletin, June 1943.
49. Standish report; History, 1st Sea
Search Attack Gp.
so. Standish report.
51. Memo for Arnold from AC/AS,
AWPD, 1 5 Jan. 1942.
5 2 . Memo for Arnold from Rear
Adm. J.H. Towers, 14 Feb. 1942.
53. lbid.
~ 4 .Memo for Arnold from AC/AS,
June 1943.
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