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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/About-Us/Fact-Sheets/Display/Article/433902/air-force-communications-command/|title=Factsheets : Air Force Communications Command|last=|first=|date=10 January 2008|website=|publisher=Air Force Historical Research Agency|accessdate=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 |website= |publisher=Air Force Historical Research Agency |archive-url=httphttps://web.archive.org/web/20131023065329/http://www.afhra.af.mil/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=13509 |archive-date=2013-10-23 October 2013|accessdate=13 August 2015 |deadurl=yes |df= }}</ref>

==Office of Flying Safety==

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<ref name=AAFchart194303>{{Citation |type=organizational chart |title=Commanding General: Army Air Forces [title in top box] |url=https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:USAAF_Reorganization_Chart,_29March1943.pdf |via=Wikicommons }} ([http://www.denix.osd.mil/cr/upload/kirtland-historic-context_0.pdf Figure 14 in Van Citters & Bissen)] {{wayback|url=http://www.denix.osd.mil/cr/upload/kirtland-historic-context_0.pdf |date=20130601170303 }}</ref>

<ref name=Frye>{{Cite book |last=Frye |first=Richard W (foreword) |year=2004 |title=AACS Alumni Association: 1938-2004 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=raDlmenz-csC&pg=PA18&lpg=PA18 |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>