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{{short description|1943 United States Army Air Forces command}}

'''Flight Control Command''' was a command of the [[United States Army Air Forces]], active from 29 March 1943 – 1 October 1943. For a period it was under the command of Colonel S.R. Harris.<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|access-date=2015-08-13}}</ref>

It supervised the [[Continental United States]] "weather and communications services" previously provided by the USAAF '''Directorate of Technical Services''', which was discontinued when AAFthe Army Air Forces'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

|reason=In which of OCR's 3 divisions was Flight Control Command:

Movements and Operations? |date=October 2013}} Assistant Chief{{r|AAFchart194303}} (AC/AS OC&R).

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 CommandIncluded:<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|access-date=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/About-Us/Fact-Sheets/Display/Article/433902/air-force-communications-command/|title=Factsheets : Air Force Communications Command|date=10 January 2008|publisher=Air Force Historical Research Agency|access-date=13 August 2015}}</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 : Air Force Weather Agency (USAF) |last=Bailey |first=Carl E. |date=12 March 2009 |publisher=Air Force Historical Research Agency |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131023065329/http://www.afhra.af.mil/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=13509 |archive-date=2013-10-23 |access-date=13 August 2015 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

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