“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 8 5 - 9 3
137. CCS 75, 5 June 1942.
138. JCS, 19th Mtg., 9 June 1942.
139. CCS 24th Mtg., 10 June; JCS
20th Mtg., 15 June; CCS 25th Mtg., 16
June; JCS zist Mtg., 23 June; CCS 30th
Mtg., z July; JCS 29th Mtg., 18 Aug.
‘942.
140. CM-OUT-1697 (6-5-42), Mar-
shall to USFOR, W D 1 1 2 0 , 8 June 1942.
141. Memo for Eisenhower from
Arnold; Itrs., Arnold to Chaney, to Lee,
and to Hartle, all dated 10 June 1942.
142. CM-IN-6792 (6-21-42), London
to AGWAR, 2 2 3 8 , 2 1 June 1942.
143. R&R, Directive for General
Spaatz as CG of Eighth Air Force,
AFDAS to AFAEP, 1 7 June 1942; memo
for Spaatz from Arnold, zo June 1942.
144. Memo for Eisenhower from Mar-
shall, Lerter of Instruction, 20 June 1942.
145. Ltr., Eisenhower to CG Eighth
AF, 2 1 July 1942.
146. Ltr., Spaatz to C G ETOUSA,
1 2 Aug. 1942.
147. Ltr., Arnold to Spaatz, 30 July
‘942-
148. Ltr., Spaatz to CG ETOUSA, 14
Aug. 1942; G O 29, Hq. ETOUSA, 2 1
149. CM-OUT-j76 ( z - z I - ~ ~ ) ,Arnold
to Chaney, AF 2/353, 2 1 Feb. 1942.
1 5 0 . Ltr., Harris to Eaker, 3 1 J”ly
‘942.
1 5 1 . ABC-I, par. 12.
152. Liddell Hart, The Defence of
Britain (New York, 1939).
153. Speech on the War Situation
delivered to the House of Commons on
2 0 August 1940, in R.S. Churchill, ed.,
Into Battle (London, 1941),p. 2 5 3 .
154. General Strategy Review by the
British Chiefs of Staff, 3 1 July 1941,
par. 29.
1 5 5 . Quoted in Report [informall by
Lt. Col. G. DeF. Larner, 2 8 Apr. 1942.
156. General Strategy, as cited in n.
157. Serial 236, Employrnent by the
US. Navy of Aircraft Engaged in Op:
erations over the Sea, [British] Naval
A u ~ .1942.
‘54. par. 3637.
7 3 5
118. Ltr., Eaker to Asa N. Duncan,
10 May 1942.
119. CM-667, London to AGWAR,
27 Feb. 1942.
120. Memo for C/S USAAF in British
Isles from Arnold, 26 Feb. 1942.
1 2 1 . Memo for C/AAF from Eisen-
hower, Establishment of USAAF in the
UK, 4 Mar. 1942.
122. Memo for AC/S, W P D from
C/AAF, Establishment of USAAF in the
UK, I I Mar. 1942. A buck slip attached
to this memo, dated 6 March, carries this
penciled note from “HHA”: “In view
of activities yesterday, I think this action
to be OK for the present.”
123. Ltr., Arnold to Eaker, 5 Mar.
‘942.
124. Ltr., Marshall to CG USAFBI,
19 Mar. 1942.
125. CM-875, London to AGWAR,
24 Mar. 1942.
126. cM-150, Marshall to Chaney, 30
Mar. 1942.
127. CM-OUT-1181 (4-8-42), Mar-
shall to USFOR, W D 2 3 5 , 7 Apr. 1942.
1 2 8 . CM-OUT-2 141 (4-1z-42), Arnold
to Marshall, USFOR Rzgo, I I Apr. 1942.
129. CM-1261, Chaney to AGWAR,
24 Apr. 1942.
130. CM-1342, Chaney to AGWAR,
I May 1942; CM-IN+q87 (j-2-42),
Chaney to AGWAR, 1363, z May 1942.
1 3 1 , CM-IN-26gg ( ~ - I o - ~ z ) ,London
to AGWAR, 1474, I D May 1942.
1 3 2 . G O I , Hq. Eighth AF (Bolling
Field), 5 May 1942.
1 3 3 . Progress Report of VIII Air
Support Command, I Z May 1943.
134. Memo for CG AAF from Spaatz,
Organization of US Forces in the British
Isles with Particular Reference to the
Relationship of the Eighth Air Force to
the RAF, n.d.
1 3 5 . Memo for Eisenhower from Har-
mon, Organization of the US Forces in
the British Isles, 25 May 1942.
136. Memo for AC/S, OPD from Col.
J.E. Hull, European Sec., Theater Gp.,
OPD, Organization of US Forces in
British Isles, 4 June 1942.