“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 6 2 0 - 2 6
37. Ltr., C G USAFBI to Eaker, 25
38. Eaker Diary, 15 Apr. 1942.
39. Plan for a Bomber Command to
be in the United Kingdom, 2o M ~ ~ .1942
Plan), G-3 Annex.
1942.
AF, USAFBI, 19 May 1942.
Annex.
'942. 59. Bomber Command Plan, G-z
July 1942. 60. See Tables of Organization for
45. Ltr., Eaker to AM Sir Arthur T. various AAF echelons of organization, I
Harris, AOC-in-C RAF BC, 30 July July 1942.
1942; ltr., Harris to Eaker, 3 1 July 1942; 61. Eaker Report, p. 6, and Intel.
ltr., Eaker to Harris, 8 Aug. 1942; ltr., Annex, p. I ; ltr., Eaker to C G Eighth AF,
Harris to Eaker, 9 Aug. 1942. 16 Aug. 1942.
46. Ltr., Eaker to Duncan, 10 May 62. Ltr., Eaker to Spaatz, 18 Mar.
1942. '942.
47. Conferences with ACM Sholto 63. History, 18th Weather Sq., pp.
Douglas, AOC-in-C RAF FC, 2 3 June 24-26, 29.
2nd 7 J d Y 19429 in File 706; Conference 64. Memo for Arnold from Col. A.W.
with Gen. Eisenhower, 26 June 19421 Marriner, Dir. of Communications, I
File 706. Apr. 1942.
48. Minutes of a Meeting held at the 65. Ltr., Spaatz to Eaker, 2 2 May
Air Ministry on 30 November 1942 to
Discuss Revised Airfield Requirements
Of the Eighth (us)
49. Arnold-Portal Conference, United
Nations' Air Forces, Minutes of 3d Meet-
ing, 28 May 1942, p. 6.
to G/C Strafford, RAFDEL, Washing-
ton, D.C., 29 Jan. 1942; ltr., Eaker to
AVM Graham, RAF BC, 2 2 June 1942.
5 1 . L ~ ~ , ,CG Eighth AF to CG v n ~
Ground ~i~ supportCommand, 2 7 jUly
1942; Itr., Spaatz to C G ETOUSA, 8
Aug. 1942. Dec. 1943.
52. Draft ltr., by L ~ .col. John O'D.
Murtaugh, Hq. Eighth AF, 3 1 July 1942;
memo for AC/S, G-3, Eighth AF from
Col. Murtaugh, G-3 Defense Officer, 9
53. Lu., Gen, Longfellow, CG VIII
BC to CG Eighth AF, 10 Feb. 1943; kr.,
W/C Wood, Air Ministry to C G Eighth
AF, 16 Feb. 1943; kr., C G Eighth AF to
C G ETOUSA, 24 Feb. 1943.
54. C G Eighth AF to C G ETOUSA,
Of Lt. Gen. Eaker On USAAF
Activities in the U.K. Covering Period
3 1 Dec. 1943 (hereinafter cited as Eaker
Report), p. 6; Bomber Command Plan,
p. 4.
5 5 . Bomber Command Plan, p. 4.
56. VIII BC Diary, 14 Mar., 17 May
57. [bid., 18 May 1942.
58. I9 July '942.
Feb. 1942.
(hereinafter cited as Bomber Command from Feb* zo, '942 to Dee* 3 1 9 '9437 dtd*
40. Ltr., Eaker to Spaatz, 18 May
41. Office Memo I , Det. Hq. Eighth
42. Bomber Command Plan, G-3 '942.
43. Ltr., Eaker to Spaatz, 18 May
44. Ltr., Eaker to C G Eighth AF, 6
1942; ltr., Signal Officer, VIII BC to CG
VIII BC, 24 July 1942; w/c P.S. F ~ ~ ~ ,
Asst. Dir. Overseas (Ferrying), Air Min-
istry, Memorandum on the Movement by
Air of US. Forces to the United King-
dom, App. A, 19 Aug. 1942.
50. Ltr., Col. H.L. George, AWPD 66. Ltr., Col. Leland H. Stanford,
Signal Officer, Hq. VIlI BC to A-2 Sec.,
VIII BC, Report of Lessons Learned-
Communications, z z Nov. 1942, pp. I I -
1 2 ; Capt. E.K. Richardson, Radio and
Radar Officer, Hq. Eighth AF, Historical
Review-Radio and Radar Branch, 24
67. Sce sources in n. 66; also 1st ind.
to ltr.? Signal Set., Hq. VIII AFSC to
Signal Officer, Eighth AF, 24 Sept. 1942.
68. Stanford report, as cited in n. 66,
69. Ltr., Brig. Gen. J.T. McNarney,
C/S SPOBS to Sir Charles Portal, Brit.
C/AS, 30 Sept. 1941. See also, for the
Air Force*
Aug. 1942. p. 11.
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