Lessons learned helped to integrate the E-2C platform into roles of Direct Air Support Center-Airborne ( DASC ( A ) ), Tactical Air Control-Airborne ( TAC ( A ) ), and Airborne Battlefield Command, Control and Communications ( ABCCC ) platform.
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On 17 January, the Army Air Force assumed responsibility for direct air support of American operations in Lingayen Gulf; and " Tulagi "'s fliers turned their attention toward the Zambales coast where they provided cover for support and protection of forces near San Narcisco.
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Subordinate to TACS was the Direct Air Support Centers ( DASC ) assigned to each of corps areas ( I DASC-Da Nang Air Base, DASC Alpha-Nha Trang Air Base, II DASC-Pleiku Air Base, III DASC-Bien Hoa Air Base, and IV DASC-C?n Th? Air Base ).
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"New Orleans " made patrols and bombardments on Saipan and Tinian into August, returned to Eniwetok on the 13th, and sailed the 28th for carrier raids on the Bonins, bombardments of Iwo Jima on 1 2 September, and direct air support for the invasion of the Palaus.
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Operations of the unit included close and direct air support, interdiction, combat airlift, aerial resupply, visual and photographic reconnaissance, unconventional warfare, counterinsurgency operations, psychological warfare ( including leaflet dropping and aerial broadcasting ), forward air control operations and escort, search and rescue, escort for convoy and defoliation operations, flare drops, civic actions, and humanitarian actions.
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They received direct air support from ZNDH Dornier Do 17Ks, as well as supplies from light aircraft, but were unable to prevent the loss of their base, together with 20 men, all of their parachute equipment and their transport aircraft . The ZNDH also lost a Dornier Do 17K bomber and a B�cker B?131 biplane shot down during this period.
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General George Kenney wielded a great deal of influence over MacArthur, and although he had no knowledge of jungle warfare, insisted that tanks had no role in ground action in the jungle, but that The artillery in this theater flies . " Harding reluctantly accepted MacArthur's decision to go ahead with the attack and to rely on direct air support in place of tanks or heavy artillery.
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"' Marine Air Support Squadron 5 "'( MASS-5 ) was a United States Marine Corps aviation command and control unit that provided the Direct Air Support Center ( DASC ) capability for the I Marine Expeditionary Force from 1966 through 1969 . MASS-5 was headquartered at Marine Corps Air Station El Toro, California, and was part of Marine Air Control Group 38 and the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing.
