“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
Sea W i t c h , 397-98, 484
Secretary of War, 20, 24, 26-28, 70, 1 1 5 ,
131, 134, 140, 157, 178, 180, 260, 271,
314, 328, 3 5 1 , 364, 485,. 548 (see also
Stimson); asst. for aviation, 29, 3 1 ;
Asst. Sec. for Air, 1 1 5 , 352; Second
Asst., 9, 24
Selective Service System, I 10-1 I
Selective Training and Service Act, I I I
Selfridge Field, 613
Semarang, 372
Services of Supply: air priorities func-
tion transferred to ATC, 362; in CBI,
495; organization, 264; in UK, 649-50,
652
Sewn-Mile Airdrome, 477
Seward, 170; Seward-Anchorage area,
Seychelles Is., 3 3 0
SHADOW 82, 578
Shanghai, 78, 2 3 2
Sharnbrook, 650
Shenandoah, 27
Shipping: losses, 39!-54! 515-18, 530,
534-36, 541, 547; priorities, 243; routes,
310-12, 404-5, 536, 548; shortages, 242,
374-757 4247 430. 538, 5473 6401 65'7
65 3
I 68
Shoho, 448-49
Shokaku, 448-49, 451
Short, Lt. Gen. W.C., 175, 180, 192-93
Shortland F., 447
Siemens, Lt. Col. Isaac, 508
Sierra Leone, 320, 329
Signal Corps: Chief Signal Officer, 7-8,
292-93; radar research, 55, 289-90. See
also Air Service; Aviation Sec.
Simard, Capt. C.T., 455-56
Simon, Frank, 5 1
sims, 449
Sinclair, AM Sir Archibald, 592
Sind desert, 496
Singapore, 183-84, 235-36, 242, 3671 4041
4279 4321 504
Sitka, 464.
Sixteen-Liberator project, 327-28
Skyways, 41
Singosari, 377, 379, 383, 394
SLEDGEHAMMER, 564-66, 571-73,
5889 5907 653
Slessor, AVM J.C., 567
Slessor Agreement, 134-35
Sneed, Col. A.L., 421
Soemba I., 372, 385, 390
Soerabaja, 2 3 1 , 371, 383-84, 386-87, 395,
427; Bay, 391
784
I N W O R L D W A R I 1
Solomon Is., 183, 410, 419, 425, 44-50,
470-76, 48p, 483; Resident Commis-
sioner (Brit.), 471
Sondre Stromfjord, 641
Soong, T.V., 487
Sotteville. See Rouen.
South Africa, Union of, 331, 494
South African Air Force, 9
South America, 147, 164, 240. See also
Airfields; Caribbean; South Atlantic
route.
South Atlantic air route, 123-24, 228,
South Atlantic Sector (ACFC), 337
South Atlantic Wing (ATC), 363
South China Sea, 209, z I I
Southern Defense Comd., 154
South Pacific air route, 18-83, 192-3,
Soryu,. 458
3 ' 2 , 3'9-421,354-569 3% 38874288,493-94
228-29, 331-329 3367 3 5 9 - 6 0 , 375, 380,
410-16, 419, 428-38, 447, 452-54, 560
South Pacific Area, 444, 454, 469, 473;
established, 419. See also South Pacific
route and specific islands.
South Pacific Wing (ATC),, 363
Southwest Pacific Area: air route via
South Atlantic, 228, 312-13, 328-36,
353-54, 359, 364. 428 (see also South
Pacific route); air service, 421-22, 482;
Allied Forces established, 419-20;
General Hq., 204-5, 208; operations,
397-98, 417, 425, 427, 4 4 6 5 % 48-81;
reinforcements, 227, 3 1 2 , 33637, 372,
376, 384-88, 40% 4087 413-147 452-54,
478, 562, 566; reorganization of bomber
units, 413-14; strategy for, 410-11,
472-74, 574, 576. See also ABDA;
Australia; NEI; Philippine Is.
Soviet Air Force, 79-80, 98, 1 3 3
Soviet protocol, 249
Soviet Union. See U.S.S.R.
Spaatz, Maj. Gen. Carl, 48, 60, 314; Air
Officer, ETOUSA, 591, 649-51, 656,
661, 663, 665; C G AFCC, 560, 614-15;
CG Eighth AF, 565, 570, 574, 582, 585,
587-91, 595, 606-7, 610, 616-17, 621-22,
625, 628, 637-38, 641-43, 645; Chief of
Air Staff, 262
Spanish civil war, 76, 83-84, 487
Spatz, Sgt. H.A., 442
Special Naval Observer Group, 123, 132,
'441 5773 594
Special Observer Group, U.S. Army, 109,
1 2 3 , 1 3 2 , 144, 252, 262, 577-82, 601,
618-20, 634,. 636
Sperry bombsight, 599, 601