“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…
T H E A R M Y A I R F O R C E S I N W O R L D W A R I 1
Air doctrine, development, 33-53, 60, 63,
Airfields: in Africa, 320-21, 3 2 9 - 3 0 ;
Alaska, 125-26, 168-69,303-7, 357-58,
464-65; British Isles, 344,346 (see also
Air Force, Eighth AF); Canada, 1 2 1 ,
343, 345-47, 357; Caribbean, 1 2 1 , 1 2 3 ,
440, 444,
511-12; Central Pacific, 125, 174-75,
178; Greenland, 1 2 2 , 342-47; Iceland,
122-23, 158-60,344,346;Latin America,
124-25, 3 0 1 , 319-21,329; need for
forward bases, 5 3 , 102, 120-26, 241-
42; need for more U.S. bases, 1 1 1 - 1 3 ;
Panama, 162-63,3 0 2 ; Philippines, 125,
179,186-88, 406-7; South Pacific, 180-
81, 192-93,228-29, 437, 469; SWPA,
483. See also fields by name.
Air Force Combat Comd., 1 1 2 , 155, 159,
2 5 0 , 260, 294, 316,350; abolished, 264;
CG, 1 1 5 , 560, 613;control of Eighth
AF, 613;crcated, I I ~ ;Hq. & Hq. Sq.,
615
67-70,5657 597
162, 299. 3 1 9 - 2 1 , 329;
1787 184,'93. 371-727 376, 39-91, 423,
Air Forces (numbered) :
First Air Force, 5 2 3 , 542, 546; aid
to Eighth AF, 613; air defense
responsibility, I 56, I 58, 294-96;
assigned to Eastern Theater of
Operations, 264, 294; CG, 5 3 0 ;
creation, 154;reassigned to AAF,
295. See also Antisub. defense;
I Bomber Comd.
Second Air Force: in air defense,
278,294,299;creation, 154;O T U
units, 617; reinforcements to
Pacific, 455; as training agency,
2647 294
Third Air Force: aid to Eighth
AF, 613-17,648; in air defense,
294;creation, 154;staging opera-
tions, 333; as training agency,
264,294;units in antisub. patrol,
5 3 0 7 542
Fourth Air Force: in air defense,
278, 281, 284, 294-96, 299; as-
signed to WDC, 264, 294; crea-
tion, 154;ferrying planes to Ha-
waii, 172;reassigned to AAF, 295;
training for Alaska flights, 304
Fifth Air Force, Eighth AF so
designated initially, 612.See also
FEAF.
Sixth Air Force. See Caribbean AF.
Seventh Air Force: in Battle of
Midway, 452-62; designated, 452.
See also Hawaiian AF.
764
Eighth Air Force: accident ratio,
645;air defense of UK, 584,622-
2 3 ; airfields in UK, 620,62633,
649;assigned to ETOUSA, 649;
at Bolling Field, 587; bombing
accuracy, 656,663-64; CG, 570,
587-88,612,616;communications,
625-26; deficiencies, 656-57; de-
pots in UK, 635-38,650; diver-
sions, 299, 574, 607, 614,616,
628, 641-43, 654; establishment
in UK, 576,587-91, 612-54;first
heavy unit complete, 655;Hq. in
UK, 645; Hq. & Hq. Sq., 613,
615, 639; intelligence, 623-24;
logistics, 620-2I , 628-39, 648-52,
667; maintenance, 633-38, 648;
mission, 575, 607; nucleus for
AAFIB, 615; operations, 591,
655-68; organizational scheme,
620,633;origin, 612-13;overseas
movement, 347-49, 639-45; pat-
tern for RAF collaboration, 622;
relations with RAF, 618-37,651;
relations with SOS, 649-52; re-
placements, 627-28, 645; short-
ages, 61617; Staging Area
Comd., 640; storage space, 638;
strength, 526 n, 612-13,615,652-
5 3 ; summary of activities, 651,
658-59, 664-65; target selection,
548 n, 597,621-22,624; training,
613-14,616-17,620,626-29,640,
648, 651, 653, 655-58, 66-61;
training comd. established, 628;
training manual, 626;transporta-
tion, 651;use of RAF Spitfires,
566,643,646,657;weather serv-
ices, 625, 639; wings, 633, 646,
648
Ninth Air Force, 206 n; organized,
341, 493 n; transport and ferry
services, 3 I 2-r 3, 340-41
Tenth Air Force, 492-502; A-3,
497;creation, 484-85;Hq. & Hq.
Sq., 494; mission and command
problems in CBI, 502-10; opera-
tions, 500-502, 509-10; reinforce-
ments,. 336, 339-40; supply, 496,
508; airlines to, 312-13, 340, 354,
497-98,508,5 1 1 - 1 3 . See also CBI.
Eleventh Air Force: chain of com-
mand, 308; designated, 307;
strength (~gqz), 307. See also
Alaskan AF.
Twelfth Air Force: creation, 588,
654;replacements, 645