“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
Board, 20; joint and combined col-
laboration, 28-29, 155, 163-64, 167-68,
2 3 1 , 254-56, 266, 4287 435-38; 462, 473-
74, 48?, 566-67 (see also Joint Chiefs;
Combined Chiefs) ; Naval Air Trans-
port Service, 352; hTaval Transporta-
tion Service, 256; Patrol Wings, 184,
28, 131, 247, 284-85, 548-49; scientific
agencies, 5 5 1 ; Task Force ANZAC,
413. See also Special Naval Observer
191, 366, 454, 465, 468; Sec. of, 20,
GP.
Near East, 3 3 0
Negros, 406
Neosho, 449
Netherlands, 180, 240, 658-59
Netherlands East Indies: collaboration in
defense of Australia and New Guinea,
419-20, 478; defense facilities, 224, 230-
32, 371-72, 383-84, 3873 392, 394; de-
fense plans and operations, 180-84, 2 0 1 ,
213, 226, 231, 235-36, 242-43, 366-96,
484-85; evacuation of Java, 394-404,
408, 427; ferrying, 327-28, 338, 359
Neuberger, R.L., 271
Neutrality Act, 128, 2 7 2
Nevada, 197
New Britain, 178-79, 3 7 2 , 382, 425, 472-
New Brunswick, 347
New Caledonia, 181, 183, 192, 2 2 8 , 242-
437 3 3 ' 7 3599 3757 419, 430-377 4447
4477 47'
743 476, 489
New Caledonia Task Force, 433
New Delhi, 496
Newfoundland: defense, 156-57, 193, 345,
5.14, 535; in Eastern Theater of Opera-
uons, 294; in ferrying and air trans-
645; lease of bases, 120-21
port, 155, 313, 317-18, 342-43, 347,
Newfoundland Airport, 1 2 2 , 156-57, 5 1 5
Newfoundland Base Comd., 156
New Guinea, 178-79, 182-84, 372, 384,
395, 408, 4107 4167 419, 4259 4509 470-
83
New Guinea Force, 421
New Hebrides, 410, 435, 447, 471
New Ireland, 372, 382, 450, 474
N e w Jersey, 26
New Orleans, 317
New South Wales, 422-23
New York City, 279-80, 293-94, 356,
New Zealand, 18-81, 242-43, 419, 430,
Ngoro, 386, 391, 394, 398
526-27
432, 436. See also Royal NZAF.
780
I N W O R L D W A R I 1
Nichols Field, 177, 186, 203, 207, 209,
213-14, 218-19, 223, 405, 418
Nielson, Lt. C.J., 4 4 2
Nielson Field, 207-8, 214, 219, 405
Nigeria, 320, 324, 354
Night fighters, 578, 634
Nimitz, Adm. C.W., 403, 419, 452, 454,
Nome, 169, 358
Nomura, Kichisaburo, 194
Norden, C.L., 598
Norden bombsight, 439, 598-601
Norfolk (England), 646
North African invasion, 240, 560, 573
North African military mission, 325-26,
497
North Atlantic Naval Coastal Frontier,
521-23, 526
North Atlantic route: defense, 155-60,
171; ferrying and air transport, 316-19,
North Atlantic Sector (ACFC), 344, 349
North Atlantic Wing (ATC), 349, 363
Northeast Air District, 577
Northeast Airlines, 347, 356
Northeastern Defense Comd., 154
Northern Ireland, 140, 239-40, 243, 375,
4627 464
327, 342-497 356-571 626, 639-45
43% 560, 562, 5789 580, 586, 627-289
63-31, 634, 638, 648, 650
Northern Territory, 42 I
North Honshu, 464
Northland, 345
North Pacific Area, 419
ATorthwest Airlines, 357-58
Northwestern, 467
Noumea, 433
0
Oahu, 125, 234, 462; attack, 194-201;
Oakley, 627
Observation plane, as category, 57, 65
O'Donnell, M a j . Emmett, Jr., 178, 189,
O'Donnell Field, 186
Oestreichcr, Lt. R. G., 393
Oklahoma, 197
Old, Col. W.D., 498, 5 0 2
Old Catton, 646
Olds, Brig. Gen. Robert, 316, 364, 507
Oliver, Col. R.C., 509
Olongapo, 2 19
Ominato, 464
Ioo-octane gasoline supply, 230, 378
strength (1941), 170-75
215-16
%den, 358