“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
5th Air Base Gp., 188, 220, 407
5th Air Depot Gp., 639-40
5th Bomb. Gp., 170, 455
6th Bomb. Gp., 16;
7th Bomb. Gp., 183, 188, 192, 226,
3323 380-839 385, 412-139 4847 4941
497, 505: 5 ' 2
8th Pursuit Gp., 412, 424-25, 477
9th Bomb. Gp., 163
11th Bomb. Gp., 170, 455
13th Bomb. Gp., 526
14th Fighter Gp., 644-46
15th Pursuit Gp., 171
16th Pursuit Gp., 163
Ijth Bomb. Gp., 439, 613-14
18th Pursuit Gp., 171
19th Bomb. Gp., 172-73, 178, 182-
83, 185, 189, 208, 223, 225, 381-
82, 387, 4'2-149 425, 4471 450, 480
20th Air Base Gp., 177
20th Pursuit Gp., 613
22d Bomb. Gp., 414. 425, 447, 479,
23d Air Base Gp., 166, 307
23d Pursuit (Fighter) Gp., 492,
24th Pursuit Gp., 182-83, 186, 224,
27th Bomb. Gp., 162
27th Bomb. Gp., 183, 192, 222, 224,
28th Composite Gp., 166, 170, 307
31st Pursuit Gp., 615, 639-43; first
complete US. combat group in
ETO, 643; use of Spitfires, 643,
480-8 I
494-951 505, 5'2
405
226, 23% 3907 394, 414
646, 657
32d Pursuit Gp., 163
35th Air Base Gp., 422
35th Pursuit Gp., 183, 192, 386, 412,
37th Pursuit Gp., 163
38th Bomb. Gp., 414, 433-34
40th Bomb. Gp., 162
43d Bomb. Gp., 413, 526n
45th Bomb. Gp., 526
48th Bomb. Gp., 613
49th Pursuit (Fighter) Gp., 412,
51st Air Base Gp., 484
51st Pursuit (Fighter) Gp., 484,
52d Pursuit Gp., 613, 643, 646
b t h Transport Gp., 347, 640-43,
64th Troop Carrier Gp., 644, 648
4743 477
4'69 424, 4749476
4949 5 1 2
648
7 74
66th Obsn. Gp., 526-27
68th Obsn. Gp., 613
81% Air Depot Gp., 422
92d Bomb. Gp., 644, 646
96th Bomb. Gp., 526
97th Bomb. Gp., 299, 615, 639-43,
I 24th Obsn. Gp., 5 3 I
128th Obsn. Gp., 531
3 0 1 s Bomb. Gp., 455, 644, 646
303d Bomb. Gp., 455
435th Bomb. Gp., 479-80
Grumman (torpedo plane), 458
Guadalcanal, 433,447, 451, 470-71, 474
Guam, 427
Guatemala, 301
Gulf Sea Frontier, 518, 530-31, 534, 547
Gulf Task Force, $ 3 0 , 542
Gunn, Capt. P.I., 375
Gunnery deficiency, Eighth AF, 656-57
GYMNAST, 240,560,562,571-73, 612-15
646, 660-65
H
Haamstede, 659
Habbaniya, 329, 332, 338
Haiti, 321, 534
Hale, Maj. Gen. W.H., 457, 460
Haleiwa, 171, 199-200
Hallmark, Lt. D.E., 442
IHALPRO. See Halverson Det.
Halsey, Vice Adm. W.F., 440-41
Halverson, Col. H.A., 341, 493
Halverson Det., 341-42, 493, 5 0 5 , 526n
Hamilton Field, 172, 182, 189, 193, 199,
3321 3591 643
Hammer Field, 299, 643 n
Handley-Page bomber, 16, 37, 597
Hangchow, 444
Hansell, Maj. H.S., Jr., 50, 146
Harbord Board, 258
Harding, Lt. Col., N.B., 331
Harding, Pres. W.G., 25-26
Harmon, Maj. Gen. M.F., 257
Harmon Field, 156
Harriman, W.A., 1 3 3 , 578, 634
Harriman mission. See Moscow.
Harris, AM Sir Arthur, 253, 591, 594-95,
610, 622, 665
Harrisburg, 624
Hart, Liddell, 5 1
Hart, Adm. T.C., 191, 214, 370-71
Haruna, 216, 461, 469
Harvey, Maj. A.L., 318
Hastings Field, 329