“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 7 8 - 8 5
is given in History, SPOBS, chap. i.
Something of the importance attached to
them in the winter of 1941-42 may be
sensed from the great amount of per-
tinent correspondence in AAF Hq. files.
(For TURBINLFTE see especially,
memo for Arnold from C.E. Duncan,
S/AS, Plan to Establish and Train il
Turbiiilite Squadron [N.F.] in the Brit-
ish Isles, 12 Jan. 1942; memo for Arnold
from Kuter, DC/AS, z May 1942. The
one squadron which was dispatched to
England for this purpose was redesig-
nated 15th Bombardment Squadron [L]
and was the first AAF unit to see action
in the ETO. For cancellation of
SHADOW 82, see RetR, Establishment
of a Shadow Organization in N. Ireland,
AFAEP to AFDOP, 2 5 Apr. 1942. On
TRIGGER, see especially, ltr., Mc-
Narney to Portal, 30 Sept. 1941; AWPD
Division Digest, 9 Apr. 1942.)
87. History, SPOBS, chap. ii.
88. Ltr., Ma!. Gen. A.E. Nye, Dir. of
Staff Duties, War Office to Chaney, 2 7
Sept. 1941; Chaney to Nye, n.d., but in
reply.
89. Ltr., Arnold to Chaney, 8 Nov.
1947.
90. Ltr., Chaney to C/S, Command
Arrangements, US Army Forces in Great
Britain, 20 Sept. 1941.
91. Ltr., Lt. Col. H.L. George,
AWPD to Col. H.L. McClelland, SPOBS,
8 Nov. 1941.
92. Ltr., Chaney to Arnold, 5 Dec.
‘941.
93. Ibid., 1x1. I , Graphic Outline of
the Basic Organization of US Forces in
Great Britain.
94. Memo for Gen. McNarney from
Chaney, 6 Dec. 1941.
95. Letter of Instruction No. 2 , 1 1
Dec. 1941.
96. CM, AGWAR to SPOBS, 8 Jan.
1942.
97. Memo for C G AFCC, etc. from
Arnold, Channels of Communications
with Gen. Chaney, 2 Feb. 1942.
98. See the many requisitions for staff
personnel, of which the following are
examples: CM-368, SPOBS to AGWAR,
7 Jan. 1942; CM-429, London to AG-
7 34
WAR, 16 Jan. 1942; CM-465, London to
AGWAR, 24 Jan. 1942; CM-92, London
to AGWAR, 2 1 Feb. 1942; CM-634,
London to AGWAR, 24 Feb. 1942; CM-
726, London to AGWAR, 9 Mar. 1942.
99. History, VIII AFSC, chap. i.
100. Ltr., Eaker to H.L. George, 5
Mar. 1942.
1 0 1 . The chart, Schematic Organiza-
tion US. Army Air Forces in the United
Kingdom, was indorsed: “Concur for
tentative approval. Chart to be referred
to General Chaney for remark. Lt. Gen.
L.J. McNair.”
1 0 2 . Memo for C/S USAAF in Brit-
ish Isles from Arnold as DC/S, 26 Jan.
‘942.
103. Directive for A-I by C/AS,
Activation of AAF Units for British Isles,
1 1 Feb. 1942.
104. CM-OUT-399 (1-24-42), Arnold
to SPOBS, AF 1/401, 24 Jan. 1942.
10s. CM-465, London to AGWAR,
24 Jan. 1942; CM-495, London to AG-
WAR, 30 Jan. 1942.
106. CM-52, Chaney to GHQ, 3 1 Jan.
1942; memo for A G from C G GHQ,
Organization of US Army Forces in the
UK, 3 Feb. 1942.
107. CCS 40, 16 Feb. 1942.
108. Ltr., Arnold to Eaker, Initial
Directive to Bomber Commander in Eng-
land, 31 Jan. 1942.
109. CM-OUT-472 (26-42), C G
AAF to SPOBS, AF 2/105, 5 Feb. 1942.
1 1 0 . Details Which Must Be Accom-
plished by Bomber Command Advance
Echelon, n.d.
I I I . Memo for JSP, 24 Feb. 1942.
1 1 2 . C M - O U T - ~ I ~(2-12-42), Arnold
113. CM-634, CM-635, CM-636, all
114. Ltrs., Eaker to George, 5 Mar.
1 1 5 . Ltr., Eaker to Spaatz, I Mar.
116. lbid.
117. Ltr., Eaker to George, 5 Mar.
to SPOBS, AF 2/207, 1 2 Feb. 1942.
London to AGWAR, 24 Feb. 1942.
1942; Eaker to Spaatz, I Mar. 1942.
1942.
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