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==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|accessdateaccess-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|last=|first=|date=10 January 2008|website=|publisher=Air Force Historical Research Agency|accessdateaccess-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 |accessdateaccess-date=13 August 2015 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

==Office of Flying Safety==

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==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">{{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.com/books?id=wm2mz4weQNsC&pg=PA233|page=233|accessdateaccess-date=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=https://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 |accessdateaccess-date=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 1945.¹⁸}} (p. 232) [Google Books version at https://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=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)] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130601170303/http://www.denix.osd.mil/cr/upload/kirtland-historic-context_0.pdf |date=June 1, 2013 }}</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 |format=Google Books |publisher=Turner Publishing |isbn=9781563119767 |accessdateaccess-date=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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