The War Against The Nazi U-Boats 1942 – 1944. L. Douglas Keeney
Deputy Chief of Staff of the US Fleet, as liaison officer.
On 23 September, General McNarney instructed General Arnold to organize the First Antisubmarine Army Air Command, using the I Bomber Command as cadre. The principal mission of the command was to be “the location and destruction of hostile submarines.” As a necessary means to this and it had the secondary mission of training crews and developing devices and techniques. The command was to be directly under the CG AAF, although operations were to be conducted under naval control. It was not to be limited by the boundaries of defense areas, and its operations in areas other than the NDC or SDC were to be coordinated with OPD, WDGS. It was activated 15 October 1942 under the designation, Army Air Forces Antisubmarine Command.
The mission of the command was elaborated in subsequent orders which gave considerable latitude to its activities. It was to attack hostile submarines “wherever they may be operating.” Although operations on the Eastern and gulf Sea Frontiers were to be conducted under the tactical control of Navy officials, direct control over the command was vested in the office of the Commanding General, AAF; and provision was made for future transfer of units to extra-continental areas on a detached service base. General Larson, as Commanding General, was responsible for operations under the Director of Military Requirements, through the Director of Bombardment, but matters of “policy, broad plans, and the development of new weapons and equipment” remained with the Commanding General, AAF.
Such were the plans and orders under which the Antisubmarine Command was organized and under which it operated during the short course of its restless career.
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