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The Air Force And The National Guided Missile Program, 1944-1950

CONTENTS Introduction 1 Definition of a Guided Missile 2 Evolution of the Guided Missile 4 AAF Guided Missiles Before and During World War II 7 The Service Contest for Missile Responsibilities 14 Emergence of the Intraservice Missile Controversy 17 The McNarney Directive 21 The AAF Drive to Revise the McNarney Directive 23 Continued Dissatisfaction With the McNarney Directive 28 Re -examination of the McNarney Directive 31 Recision of the McNarney Directive 36 AAF Assumption of Development Management 38 Operational Responsibility Unresolved 40 The AAF -Navy Missile Rivalry 45 The National Guided Missile Program 54 Genesis of the National Program 54 Policies For A National Program 57 The National Program and Development Responsibilities 60 Establishment of JRDB's Committee on Guided Missiles 62 National Program Review by GMC 65 The National Program: Fact or Fiction 67 AAF Postwar Guided Missile Program 69 Planning the AAF Postwar Program 69 Inauspicious Start on Postwar Development Program 72 Black Christmas of 1946 77 Dim Prospects for Fiscal Year 1948 80 Establishment of Missile Priorities 84 The Mastiff Fiasco 85 V. The First 18 Months of Unification 96 Redefining Service Mission

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