“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
ANZAC, 413
Aparri, 215, 2 1 ~ 2 0
AQUILA, FORCE, 493
Arafura Sea, 414
ARCADIA conference, 237-46, 248, 252-
5 5 , 265, 267, 281, 310, 312, 342, 367,
372, 492, 5 5 9 - 6 2 , 565, 612
Archerfield, 227, 230, 376, 414, 422, 432
Argentia, 142, 156
ArmCe de 1’Air. See French Air Force.
Armstrong, Col. F. A., Jr., 626, 660
Army, First (1918), 13-14
Army Air Corps: Chief of, 31-32, 48, 50,
59, 63, 115, 129, 176-77, 260, 314, 316,
326, 598 (see also Arnold; Brett; Fou-
lois; Patrick; Westover) ; expansion,
104-16; mission, 45, 47-52, 63, 67-68,
105, 114, 138; Office of Chief, 2 2 , 3 2 ,
46, 489 50, 531 55, 63, 1149 146, 250,
264; strength, 104-16
Army Air Force in Great Britain, 615,
618; CG, 615
Army Air Forces Antisubmarine Coind.:
established, 537, 552; genesis, 519, 538-
53; mission, 5 5 2 ; strength, 537
Army Air Forces Headquarters, 50, 170,
178, 182, 186, 238, 265, 292, 347, 384,
582, 616, 645, 652-53, 663. See also Air
Staff; Hq. offices.
Ammy Air Forces organization, 18-33; as
Aeronautical Div. (Signal Corps), 7;
as Aviation Sec. (Signal Corps), 4;
as Air Service (US. Army), 4, 9,
23; as Air Corps, 29; GHQ Air Force
created, 31; established as AAF, 1 1 5 ,
260; Air Force Combat Comd. created,
1 1 5 ; reorganization of 9 Mar. 1942, 264-
65, 579; mission, 151-52, 155-56, 158,
161, 264, 267, 342, 576. See also Air
Forces.
Army Airways Communications System,
‘559 ‘57, 169
Army Ground Forces established, 264
Army Regulation 95-5 ( 2 0 June 1941),
146, 260, 2 6 5 , 267
Army Reorganization Act of 1920, 23-24
Army Service Forces, 264. See also Serv-
Army War College, 33, 351
Arnold, Lt. Gen. H.H., 114-15, 133-34,
5 1 , 253, 260-65, 289, 292-93, 314, 318,
439, 481, 507, 526, 538-41, 546, 55% 5 5 2 -
4253 4289 430-3’1 454, 496, 539-537 575,
ices of Supply.
141-42, 146, 150, 159, 17% 1939 248, 2 5 0 -
321-22, 3271 359, 361-65, 430-3’3 4371
539 5599 562, 5671 573-76 57W’r 594359
I N W O R L D W A R I 1
601-3, 605, 607, 612, 617-18, 623, 627,
63*311 635-379 643, 646, 652, 463;
Deputy Chief of Staff, 114-15, 253, 259,
2 6 5 ; influence, 260, 265-67. See also
Army Air Corps, Chief.
Arnold, Lt. Col. M. W., 348
“Arnold line,” 318
Arnold-Portal agreement, 248-49, 566
Arnold-Towers-Portal agreement, 5673
Aruba, 240, 281-82, 518, 536
Asansol, 498, 500
Ascension I., 319-20, 329-30
Ashigara, z 16
Asiatic Fleet (US.), 138, 184, 366-67,
569
3 70
Assam, 329, 497-98, 507, 5 1 1
Assam-Burma-China Ferry, 498, 508
Atcliam, 643, 657
Atka, 467
Atkinson, Capt. Gwen, 497
Atkinson Field, 329
Atlantic, Battle of, 514-53
Atlantic Airways, Ltd., 320-23
Atlantic Charter, 142
Atlantic conference, 141, 150, 235, 252,
Attu, 462, 469
Augsburg, 596
2 6 5 , 594
Australia, 1 2 5 , 243, 423, 43-33? 436-37,
561; air deliveries to, 327-33, 336, 359;
air service, 421-23, 482-83; chiefs of
staff, 231; defense, 403-26; defense of
NEI, 366-402; Dept. of Aircraft Pro-
duction, 422; Directorate of Air Trans-
in reinforcement of Philippines, 178-
231; 7th Div., 472; withdrawal to, 220-
33. See also Allied Air Forces; RAAF;
SWPA.
4473 449-50.. 45f9 47’9 478-847 4927 4947
port, forces, 419, 477,; labor, 483;
Austrian Air Force, 89
Aviation Act of 1914, 2 3
Aviation Act of 1917, 6, 2 5
Aviation Cadet Center, 113
Aviation Objective, First, 105
Aviation Sec. (Signal Corps), 4-12, 23,
Aviation strength, First and Second, 2 5 0
AWPD/I, 131-32, 146-47, 150, 236, 246-
34; strength, 6-7
479 z50i 266, 5597 f65r 573-749 58% 594-
95, 599--600, 603-6, 630
AWPD/2, 133-34
AWPD/4, 236, 246
Azores, 326
Ayr, 3 18