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'''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|author=Craven and Cate| 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}}, see also pp. 69-70.</ref>

It supervised the [[Continental United States]] weather and communications services previously provided by the USAAF Directorate of Technical Services, which was discontinued when the Army Air Forces' "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).{{sfn|Frye|2004}}

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, the [[Army Airways Communications System]] (AACS) was activated as part of the newly created Flight Control Command.

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Movements and Operations? |date=October 2013}} Assistant Chief{{sfn|Van Citters & Bissen}} (AC/AS OC&R).

The [[Office of Flying Safety]] was established 1 October 1943 at the Winston-Salem "facilities of the old Directorate of Flying Safety" and replaced the Flight Control Command.{{r|VolumeSix}}

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