“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…
I N D E X
Kurusu, Saburo, 194
Kuter, Brig. Gen. L.S., 50, 146
Kweilin, 440
L
Labor supply, 424, 483, 508-9, 632, 650
Labrador, 1 5 5 , 342-437 345-47, 641
Ladd Field, 167, 169, 465
Lae, 184, 372, 408, 417. 425, 471-72, 4741
La Fleur, Chaplain J.F., 2 1 2
Lagos, 3 2 0 , 3 2 z 1 324, 354
La Guardia, Fiorello, 2 1 , 279
Lakunai, 480
Lampert Comm., 27-29
Lanai, 171
Lanao, Lake, 407
Lancashire, 636, 648
Landis, J.M., 298
Landon, Maj. T.H., 200
Landry, Lt. L.D., 386
Lane, Capt. William, Jr., 385-87
Langford Lodge, 634-39, 650
Langley Field: antisuh. patrols, 5 2 3 , 550;
ASTS, 45, 50; VIII Bomber Comd.,
activation, 613; GHQAF Hq., 3 1 ;
Memorial Aeronautical Lab., 55
Langoa, 380
Larson, Brig. Gen. W.T., 528, 553
Lashio, 485, 506
Lassiter Board, 26, 28, 45
Latin America. See Central America;
Lawson, Lt. T.W., 442
LB-30: characteristics, 400-401; supply
for Britain, 317, 328, 332, 359
Leahy, Adm. W.D.: appointment to
JCS, 255; personal C/S to Pres. Roose-
velc, 254; TORCH, comments on, 573,
575
477-79, 481
Landey, 396989 484
South America.
Leary, Vice Adm. H.F., 419-20
Lee, Maj. Gen. J.C.H., 649
Leeward Is., 193
Legaspi, 219
Legislation: before World War I, 23;
between wars, 18, 54, 57, I O I , 104-5,
1 1 5 ; neutrality, 128-29, 272; World
W a r I, 6, 9. See also Lend-lease aid.
Leland, Maj. Gordon, 505-6
LeMay, Maj. C.E., 326
Lembang, 368
Lend-lease aid, 1 2 6 3 5 , 259, 317, 328, 337,
3439 351; Britain, 1 0 3 7 127-30, 133-34,
236, 245, 314, 318-19, 337-38; British
in Middle East, 3 1 2 , 318-20, 327-29,
337, 3 7 1 ; China, 244,. 3 1 2 , 328-29, 337-
38; France, 129; Indla, 328; passage of
act, 130, 314, 342; Southwest Pacific,
328; U.S.S.R., 132-35, 3 1 2 , 3 2 5 , 3293
337-397 3 5 1
Leopoldville, 324, 355
Letter contracts, 106
Levin, Sgt. M.S., 2 1 7
Lexington, 417, 447,449
Leyte, 406
Lhoknga, 379
Liberator. See B-24.
Liberia, 3 2 1 , 324, 329
Light bomber, first designation, 58-59
Lima, Declaration of, 1 2 0
Lincoln, hlaj. Gen. R.B., 421-22
Lingayen Gulf, 191, 207, 209, 2 1 5 , 2 2 3 - 2 4
Lipa, 2 2 5
Lishui, 40,444
Little, Adm. Sir Charles, 253
Little Staughton, 63 I
Liverpool, 630, 635-38, 640
Lockheed aircraft plant, 280, 3 2 1
Lockheed Overseas Corp., 635-37, 650
Loiwing, 490, 498, 501
Lombok, Strait of, 394
London conference (Sept. 1941), 1 3 2 .
London Naval Treaty, 77
Longfellow, Col. Newton, 644, 646
Long Kesh, 648
Long-range bomber, evolution of, 53-7 I
Los Angeles, 279; “battle of,” 283-86
Losses: Aleutians, 469; Darwin, 393-94;
Java, 393-99, 400-442; Luzon, 212-13;
New Guinea, 477, 481-83; Pearl Har-
bor, 197-201; submarine, 515-18, 530,
See also Special Observer Gp.
534-36
Louisiade Archipelago, 448, 450
Lovett, R.A., 1 1 5 , 146
Low-altitude flying, 48 I ; Eighth AF,
Lower California, 298
Lowery, Capt. H.F., 479
Lunga Plain, 471
Luzon, 1 2 5 , 186, 188, 191. 195, 2 3 2 , 234,
236, 242, 368, 405-18; U.S. defeat,
201-27
Lyon, Brig. Gen. A.J., 604, 620, 628, 636
657-58; World War I, 14
M
MacArthur, Gen. Douglas: CG South-
west Pacific Area, 419, 424, 426, 450.
777