The Army Air Forces in World War II, Vol. 1 (archived PDF)

“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…