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 �This Page Declassified lAW EO12958 tenant colonel in charge of the rocurement and maintenance of the Army mail planes at the time of the air mail episode, said later: ß,. excelt fro' thi experience the Air Force would have been caught even shorter when the war [World War I] began. During the weeks we carried the mail, we had more money for necessary equipment than in all our previou history combined. Or crews obtained invaluable training The Baker oard and the Howell Commission wore appointed to investigate the Air Corps, and the C, eneral Headquarters Air lorcc was the outcome of their recommendations * Already on 12 October 1933 the Drum Board, after reviewing a series of War De- partment and Air Corps studies, had rec- ommended the crestran of a General Head- quarters Ai Force with 1,800 planes. s The Baker Board was appointed by order of the Secretary of War on 17 April 1934 as a War Department special committee on the Air Corps. It was to make a constructive study of the operation, flying equipment, and tra. ining of the Air Corps, and to determine lts-ffe to perœorm its missions in peace and war. When the Baker Board had com- pleted its study, it subrmtted a report which stressed the principle of unity of command and disapproved the separation of the air arm from the Army as violating that prin- ciple. This report domed the vulnerability of the Urnted States to air invasion and did not support the ar officers m their request for a separate promotion list, a separate budget, and a separate staff. The Baker re- port &d, however, make an nnportant con- cession to airmen in recognizing the need for a tactical air force trained and organ- ized as a homogeneous unit to operate in close cooperation with the ground forces or to act independently. It therefore recom- mended a division of functions within the Air Corps; in the reorganization the com- bat force would be organized a a GHQ Air Force under a general directly responsible to the General Staff and supply and train- ing functions would remain under the con- trol of the Office of the Chief of the Air Corps. sv The second commission to be set up as a result of the mr ms/1 episode was the Fed- eral Aviation Commmsion, known as the Howell Commission, after its chairman Clark Howell, editor of the .4flints Coti- tiio. Tins commission was the result of legislative action, being provided for under the Air Mail Act of June 12, 1934. s In its report this committee did not comment on the subject of an independent mr force. Under ordinary circumstances the commis- sion would have probably reported m favor of an autonomous ar force, but it remained ilent on tins issue in order to give the new tactical air force, already recommended by the Baker Board, an opportunity for an adequate trial. The report of the Howell Commission did, however, favor acceptance oi the new concept of air power as a major arm rather than a mere auxiliary, thus gving encouragement to the advocates of an offensive air arm. ø Meanwhile the War Department had re- organized the Air Corps and on 1 March 1935 had established the GHQ Air Force. 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Supply and training func- tions remained under the control of the Office of the Chief of the Air Corps (OCAC), also responsible to the General Staff. The commandinõ general ot the GHQ A Force was responsible to the Chief of Staff m peacetime and to the theater commanders in tme of war. The commanding general of the GHQ Air Force had complete control over the tactical mr units as such, but the corps area commanders of the Army re- tamed administrative control over Air Corps personnel at bases where the tactical umts were stationed. Obwouly this reorganiza- tion had certain undesirable features in that it created a chvided command thonty 'm the Army Air Corps, and arm was ready for independent status at this time He stated at a ccmmLttee hearing in July ol 1916 that e GHQ Air Force wa as much c a rewlutlonary tep aa shuuld be ticd at at tl. flee Oeneral  H Arnold, Global Mon (New ork, 1949), p THIS PAGE Declassflied lAW EO12958
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