“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 5 2 - 6 6
because it tallies neither with I Bomber
Command assessments nor with those
made by COMINCH.
82. Memo for S/W from Bowles, 7
Aug. 1942.
83. Ltr., Marshall to King, 14 Sept.
1942, TAB XIVA, in Bowles report;
memo for C G AAF from McNarney, 7.2
Sept. 1942, Tab XIV C, in Bowles report.
84. GO 84, First AF, 15 Oct. 1942;
memo by Maj. F. E. Bauer, zo Nov.
1942; ltr., Col. F. C. Milner to C G
AAFAC, 2 8 Dec. 1942; memo by Milner,
2 8 Dec. 1942; ltr., Mai. Gen. G.E. Strate-
meyer to Air Marshal L.S. Breadner,
RCAF, 9 June 1943; all correspondence
in AAFAC files 2 1 1 , 2 1 1 . 1 , 2 1 2 .
85. JCS 38th Mtg., 20 Oct. 1942; notes
on JCS 38th Mtg., attached to JCS 93/1.
I.
2.
7.
NOTES TO CHAPTER 16
ABC-I, 2 7 Mar. 1941, par. 13.
JCCSS-I, 24 Dec. 1941.
ABC-4/6, 10 Jan. 1942; JCCSS-11,
13 Jan. 1942.
4. ABC-I: 32 squadrons of bombers
and fighters, more in 1942. RAINBOW
No. 5 , Concentration Plan (approved 19
August 1941): 3 groups HR, I group MB
for England: z groups of pursuits for
Northern Ireland, I for Scotland. RAIN-
BOW No. 5 , Basic Plan, Revision No. I ,
19 November 1941: 3 groups HB, z
groups MB, 3 groups of pursuits for the
British Isles.
5 . Memo for AC/S, WPD, Revision
of Joint Army and Navy Basic W a r
Plan, 31 Oct. 1941.
6. JCCSs-I.
7. R&R, Arnold to Spaatz, Conversa-
tion with Portal, I Jan. 1942; ltr., Arnold
to Portal, z Jan. 1942.
8. Memo for AC/S, W P D from
AC/AS, A-3, Air Corps Garrison Desig-
nated as BR, 5 Jan. 1942.
9. Memo for AAG from AC/AS,
A-3, Priority and Organization of Task
Forces, 15 Jan. 1942.
10. CCS zd Mtg., 27 Jan. 1942.
11. CCS 40, 16 Feb. 1942; draft memo
7 3 2
for C/AAF, Plan to Move z HB Groups,
n.d.
12. VIl’I Bomber Command Diary, 4
Feb. 1942.
1 3 . In the memo cited in note 8 above,
the 29th and 44th Bombardment groups
(H) were designated for BR.
14. Ltr., Portal to Arnold, 14 Jan.
‘942.
15. Ltr., Arnold to Portal, 14 Jan.
‘942.
16. CCS 47, 2 2 Feb. 1942.
17. CCS 56, 5 Mar. 1942.
18. Memo for Col. Craig from E.E.P.
[artridgel, Conference, 6 Mar. 1942; CCS
y6/1, 6 Mar. r g q .
19. Memo for C/AAF from D.D.
Eisenhower, AC/S, Establishment of
USAAF in the UK, 4 Mar. 1942.
20. Memo for the C/S, Air Support
of a Continental Invasion from the Brit-
ish Isles (to accompany W P D App., Sec.
V of Plan for Operations in N.W.
Europe, Mar. 2 7 , 1942), 30 Mar. 1942.
2 1 . CPS 26/1, 3 Apr. 1942.
22. C.O.S. (42) r3d Mtg. ( O ) , War
Cabinet Chiefs of Staff Committee, part
of C.O.S. (42) 112th Mtg., 9 Apr. 1942.
23. Ibid.
24. C.O.S. (42) 97 (O), 13 Apr. 1942;
C.O.S. (42) 118th Mtg., 14 Apr. 1942.
The substance of these papers is con-
tained in CM-2400, Amembassy to
MILID, 14 Apr. 1942.
2 5 . CM-70, “Former Naval Person” to
President, 17 Apr. 1942.
26. CPS 26/2/D, 28 Apr. 1942.
27. C.O.S. (42) 23d Mtg., 9 Apr.
1942; ltr., Eaker to CG USAFIB, 26 Apr.
1942.
28. File 706, 15 May 1942.
29. Memo for Adm. Stark from
Arnold, 2 3 Apr. 1942.
3 0 . Memo for Arnold from AC/AS,
Plans, British Offer to Equip with Spit-
fires our Pursuit Units going to Great
Britain, 22 Apr. 1942; CCS 69, 4 May
1942. The Air Staff did not favor this
proposal.
31. Memo for Marshall from FDR, 6