“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 3 6 - 4 1
and XXW; Conference, Col. McGinnis,
CO, VIII AFSC and Col. McMullen,
Foreign Liaison Officer, ASC, 16 May
1942; ltr., Col. Lyon to CG AAF, 19
May 1942.
1 2 3 . Proposed msg., Spaatz to Chaney
for Eaker, 27 Apr. 1942.
124. Ltr., T A G to CG AAF, 27 Apr.
'942.
1 2 5 . Memo for Arnold from Spaatz,
z May 1942.
1 2 6 . VIII BC Diary, 1 1 - 1 2 May 1942.
127. VIII BC Diary, passim.
128. Msg., Black 831, Joint Planners,
Washington to Joint Planners, London,
30 Apr. 1942; ltr., CG Eighth AF to CG
AAF, 26 May 1942; File 706, 5 June
1 9 4 ~ ;memo for CG's AGF, AAF, SOS
from Eisenhower, AC/S WDGS, 18 May
'942.
129. Warning Orders, Hq. AAF to
Hq. Eighth AF, 30 Apr. 1942; ltr., W D
to All Activities Concerned, 13 May
1942; interview with Col. N.P. Beville,
as cited in n. 29; G O 2, Hq. Eighth AF
Staging Area Command, Ft. Dix, N.J.,
1 3 June 1942.
1 3 0 . History, VIII AFSC, chap. ii, p.
3 2 ; VIII BC Diary, 1 2 June 1942; memo
for Col. Craig from Gen. Kuter, 16 June
1942*
1 3 1 . Station List, Eighth Air Force,
3 1 Aug. 1942.
1 3 2 . History, North Atlantic Div.,
1 3 3 . Ibid., pp. 198-99; account of
meeting at Bolling Field with Gen.
George, Col. Giles, and Col. A.D. Smith,
in File 706, 6 June 1942; Report of
the Committee Appointed to take Neces-
sary Action for the Bolero Movement,
I May 1942; ltr., Hq. AAF to Gen. G.C.
Brant, C G Newfoundland Base Com-
mand, 4 May 1942.
134. File 706, 18 Apr. 1942; Re-
port.. . for the Bolero Movement, I May
'942.
1 3 5 . VIII FC Diary, 18 Apr. 1942;
ltr.; Spaatz to Hunter, 28 Apr. 1942;
memo for CG Eighth AF from CG
AAF, 17 May 1942.
136. Memo for CG's Third and
ATC, I, Pt. I, 192-94, 196-98.
74'
28 Oct. 1941; memo for C/S SPOBS
from Col. Davison, 5 Nov. 1941.
108. Memo for A-4, Hq. AAF from
Lt. Col. C.E. Duncan, S/AS, I Z Jan. 1942.
109. Ltr., Eaker to Spaatz, 1 1 Mar.
1942.
110. Ltr., Col. Lyon to C/S Hq.
USAFBI, 13 Apr. 1942; Eaker Diary, 2 3
Apr. 1942; memo for Robert A. Lovett,
AS/W for Air from Arnold, 2 7 Apr.
1942; Eighth AF Extract Diary, 28 Apr.
1942; msg. #1329, USAFBI to AGWAR,
29 Apr. 1942.
I I I . Memo for Lovett from Arnold,
2 7 Apr. 1942; ltr., Brig. Gen. Muir S.
Fairchild, Hq. AAF to Eaker, z May
'942.
I 1 2 . Conference, Gcn. Chanev and
Col. Llewellin, Minister of Aircraft Pro-
duction, n.d., probably late April or
early May 1 9 4 ~ ;ltr., Col. J,lewellin to
Gen. Bolte, C/S Hq. USAFBI, 2 3 May
'942.
1 1 3 . Standing Order #229, Burton-
wood Repair Depot, 3 0 June 1942.
114. Ltr., A.N. Duncan to Spaatz, 16
June 1942.
I 15. R&R, Air Officer, Hq. ETOUSA
to G-4 and G-3, Hq. ETOUSA, 20 June
'942.
116. Ltr, Spaatz to Arnold, 5 July
'942.
117. For a brief discussion of this
subject, see Bomber Command Plan, G-4
Annex, p. 4.
I 18. Ibid.
119. Ltr., Hq. AAF to CG's First,
Second, Third, Fourth, Eighth AF's, 7
May 1942; Accommodations of US.
AAF, as cited in n. 76, p. 3 ; memo for
CG AAF from Col. Eugene H. Beebe, I
June 1942.
120. Ltr., Eaker to Spaatz, 18 May
'942.
121. Ltr., Col. J.H. Hicks to Gen.
Lyon, 8 June 1942; ltr., Col. J.H. Hicks
to C G Air Service Command, 2 6 June
'942.
1 2 2 . Memo for A-4, Hq. AAF from
Col. George, 19 Jan. 1942; VIII BC
Diary, 27 Feb. 1942; ltr., Eaker to
Arnold, 11 Mar. 1942; JOMUS, Secs. XI1