The Air Force And The National Guided Missile Program, 1944-1950
Publisher: USAF Historical Division Liaison Office
Published: 1964
Place of publication: Washington, D.C., USA
Language: eng
Description: Declassified
Table of contents: title: CONTENTS; title: Introduction 1; title: Definition of a Guided Missile 2; title: Evolution of the Guided Missile 4; title: AAF Guided Missiles Before and During World War II 7; title: The Service Contest for Missile Responsibilities 14; title: Emergence of the Intraservice Missile Controversy 17; title: The McNarney Directive 21; title: The AAF Drive to Revise the McNarney Directive 23; title: Continued Dissatisfaction With the McNarney Directive 28; title: Re -examination of the McNarney Directive 31; title: Recision of the McNarney Directive 36; title: AAF Assumption of Development Management  38; title: Operational Responsibility Unresolved 40; title: The AAF -Navy Missile Rivalry 45; title: The National Guided Missile Program 54; title: Genesis of the National Program 54; title: Policies For A National Program 57; title: The National Program and Development Responsibilities 60; title: Establishment of JRDB's Committee on Guided Missiles 62; title: National Program Review by GMC 65; title: The National Program: Fact or Fiction 67; title: AAF Postwar Guided Missile Program 69; title: Planning the AAF Postwar Program 69; title: Inauspicious Start on Postwar Development Program 72; title: Black Christmas of 1946 77; title: Dim Prospects for Fiscal Year 1948 80; title: Establishment of Missile Priorities 84; title: The Mastiff Fiasco 85; title: V. The First 18 Months of Unification 96; title: Redefining Service Missions and Roles 96; title: Missile Development Responsibility 98; title: Missile Operational Responsibility 103; title: GMC and the National Missile Program 107; title: The Air Force Missile Program, 1947-1949 113; title: VI. The Johnson Era 120; title: JCS Efforts to Resolve Operational Responsibilities 123; title: RDB-GMC Efforts to Resolve Development Responsibilities  132; title: DOD Missile Program Review 135; title: Review of Missile Priority Ratings. 152; title: Policies and Plans for Atomic-Equipped Missiles 158; title: Planning for Missile Production 16 7; title: NOTES 172; title: GLOSSARY 198