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'''Flight Control Command''' was a 29 March 1943- – 1 October 1943 [[United States Army Air Forces]] command to supervise the [[Continental United States]] "weather and communications services" previously provided by the USAAF '''Directorate of Technical Services''', which was discontinued when AAF's "system of directorates"* was abandoned "to move all operations into the field"{{r|Frye}} under [[United States Army Air Forces#Assistant Chiefs of Staff|Assistant Chiefs of Staff]] (AC/AS) The reorganization placed the command as 1 of 3 support commands and 11 numbered air forces under the "Operations, Commitments and Requirements"{{Specify
|reason=In which of OCR's 3 divisions was Flight Control Command:
Requirements (which had a "Photographics Branch"),
Allocations and Programs, or
Movements and Operations? |date=October 2013}} Assistant Chief{{r|AAFchart194303}} (AC/AS OC&R)
==Components==
Col. S. R. Harris' Flight Control Command<ref name="ibiblio"> {{cite web|url=http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/AAF/VI/AAF-VI-APPENDIX.html |title=The Army Air Forces in World War II Volume VI: Men and Planes: Appendix|publisher=ibiblio.org|accessdate=2015-08-13}}</ref> had components which included:
*[[Army Airways Communications System]] on 26 April 1943 (reassigned to [[Air Transport Command]] as the "Air Communications Service" on 13 March 1946)<ref name="af"> {{cite web|url=http://www.afhra.af.mil/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=10977 |title=Factsheets : Air Force Communications Command|publisher=afhra.af.mil|accessdate=2015-08-13}}</ref>
*[[Weather Wing]] beginning 14 April 1943 (transferred to HQ AAF as the "Army Air Forces Weather Wing" on 6 July 1943)<ref name="af2"> {{cite web|url=http://www.afhra.af.mil/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=13509 |title=Factsheets : Unknown Fact Sheet|publisher=afhra.af.mil|accessdate=2015-08-13}}</ref>
==Office of Flying Safety==
==References==
<nowiki>*</nowiki>In addition to Technical Services,{{r|Frye}} USAAF directorates had included Air Defense, Base Services, Ground-Air Support, Management Control, Military Equipment,{{r|Futrell}} [[Muir S. Fairchild|Military Requirements]],<ref name="google"> http{{cite book|title=The Army Air Forces in World War II, Volume Six: Men and Planes|publisher=DIANE Publishing|isbn=9781428915916|url=https://books.google.comco.uk/books?id=wm2mz4weQNsC&pg=PA233&lpg|page=PA233&dq=%22Operations,+Commitments+and+Requirements%22&source=bl&ots=62dLfFSaD2&sig=YOlFEaGTlnhSC4yT3URBUtwMKF0&hl=en&sa=X&ei=6PVfUsWaNoSF2QWFm4Eg&ved=0CCoQ6AEwATgK#v=onepage&q=%22Operations%2C%20Commitments%20and%20Requirements%22&f233|accessdate=false 2015-08-13}}</ref> and Procurement & Distribution.<ref name=VolumeSix>{{Cite report |volume=Volume Six: Men and Planes |title=The Army Air Forces in World War II |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=wm2mz4weQNsC&pg=PA70&lpg=PA70&dq=%22Flight+Control+Command%22+USAAF&source=bl&ots=62dLfFSbD5&sig=rIm9rOJIlURgyCiBOWesAKFT8gk&hl=en&sa=X&ei=T_ZfUoHxLsL72QW4z4GYBQ&ved=0CEkQ6AEwBg#v=onepage&q=%22Flight%20Control%20Command%22%20USAAF&f=false |format=Google books |accessdate=2013-10-16 |quote=''AAF headquarters reached the same conclusion as AGF, that it was impractical to separate planning and operations, and in a reorganization in March 1943 it reverted to the familiar [[General Pershing|Pershing]] pattern.''[p. 83]'' … In August 1944 he directed transfer of responsibility for development and procurement of radar and radar equipment used in aircraft from the [[Signal Corps]] to the AAF. A month later he split responsibility for the development of missiles between the [[Ordnance Department]] and the AAF.''[p. 89]'' … Not until October 1944 did the AAF succeed in acquiring responsibility for radar; the transfer of personnel and facilities was completed by late January 1945.<sup>18</sup>}} (p. 232) [Google Books version at http://books.google.com/books?id=wm2mz4weQNsC&pg=PA233&lpg=PA233&dq=%22Operations,+Commitments+and+Requirements%22&source=bl&ots=62dLfFSaD2&sig=YOlFEaGTlnhSC4yT3URBUtwMKF0&hl=en&sa=X&ei=6PVfUsWaNoSF2QWFm4Eg&ved=0CCoQ6AEwATgK#v=onepage&q=%22Operations%2C%20Commitments%20and%20Requirements%22&f=false ]</ref>
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<ref name=Frye>{{Cite book |last=Frye |first=Richard W (foreword) |year=2004 |title=AACS Alumni Association: 1938-2004 |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=raDlmenz-csC&pg=PA18&lpg=PA18&dq=%22Flight+Control+Command%22+%22army+air+forces%22&source=bl&ots=K-rqDXzADj&sig=hz9nSOTQIz5hM0evLH2z6EVdTBM&hl=en&sa=X&ei=rhlcUrynLsKi2wX26ID4Cw&ved=0CE8Q6AEwDA#v=onepage&q=%22Flight%20Control%20Command%22%20%22army%20air%20forces%22&f=false |format=Google Books |publisher=Turner Publishing |accessdate=2013-10-16 |quote=[Flight Control Command] Established 29 March 1943 to supervise the weather and communications services of the discontinued Directorate of Technical Services, it was abolished 1 October 1943. (Craven and Cate, Vol. 6, pp. 69-70) … On 26 April 1943, following the decision to abandon the system of directorates at headquarters Army Air Forces and to move all operations into the field, [[Army Airways Communications System|AACS]] was activated as a wing of the newly created Flight Control Command.}}</ref>
<ref name=Futrell>{{Cite report |last=Futrell |first=Robert F. |publisher=Air Historical Office | date=July 1947 |title=Development of AAF Base Facilities in the United States: 1939-1945 |volume=ARS-69: US Air Force Historical Study No 69 (Copy No. 2) |page=250 (index) |quote=}}</ref>
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