Endnotes for Chapter IV

Endnotes for Chapter IV

1 Pogue, Ordeal and Hope, p. 298. (2) Marshall, Harrison, and Lutes Interviews. Patch-Simpson Board files.

2 Thomas Committee Unification Hearings, pp. 50-51. Quotation from p. 50.

3 (l) Interview, Marshall with Stimson, 24 Apr 44. (2) Stimson Diary, entries of 18, 19, 21, and 24-27 Apr 44. (8) Marshall Interview. Patch-Simpson Board files. (4) Thomas Committee Unification Hearings, pp. 49-65.

4 (1) Memo, Brig Gen John McAuley Palmer (U.S. Army, retired) for the Committee on Civilian Components, 9 Jan 48, sub: Inter-relations between professional and non-professional personnel in the armed forces of a democratic state, pp. 2-3. Hereafter cited as Palmer Memorandum. (2) John C. Sparrow, History of Personnel Demobilization in the United States Army, (Washington, 1952) , pp. 32-34. (3) Special Planning Division, War Department General Staff, History of the Special Planning Division, War Department General Staff, c. Mar 46, 4 vols., vol. I, pp. 1-9, and vol. II, Tabs A-K. Manuscript in OCMH.

5 (1) Sparrow, History of Personnel Demobilization, pp. 35-37. (2) Nelson, National Security and the General Staff, p. 468. (3) Special Planning Division History, vol. I, pp. 1-9, vol. II, Tab L, vol. IV, Tab S.

6 Special Planning Division History, vols. 11 and 111, Tabs P-P31, Jim 43-Jan 46. Monthly Progress Reports on Demobilization and Post-War Planning, and vol. IV. Tab R.

7 Special Planning Division History, Tab C, The War Department Basic Plan for the Post-War Military Establishment, 9 Nov 45, pp. 3-4, 7-9.

8 (1) See pp. 163-65, below. (2) Woodrum Committee Hearings, pp. 33-45. (3) Thomas Committee Unification Hearings, General Marshall's testimony, pp. 49-62. and General Collins' testimony, pp. 155-80. (4) Demetrios Caraley, The Politics of Military Unification: A Stud)' of Conflict and the Policy Process (New York: Columbia University Press, 1966) .

9 (1) Palmer Memorandum, 9 Jan 48, pp. 3-8. (2) Wyckoff, The Office of Secretary of War Under Henry L. Stimson, ch. XI, pp. 57-59. (3) Legere, "Unification of the Armed Forces," vol. IV, pp. 310-15. (4) Daniel P. Griffin, The Size and Composition of the United States Army Since 1945, draft manuscript, OCMH Project 118, Introduction, pp. 1-14; Ltr, Marshall to Eisenhower, 20 Sep 45; and Report of the Committee on the Strength of the Permanent Military Establishment, 29 Nov 45, attached to Memo for Record, 12 Dec 45, sub: Presentation to the Chief of Staff of Report of Bessell Board on 11 Dec 45. All in OCMH Project 118 files. (5) Robert W. Coakley, Ernest F. Fisher, Karl E. Cocke, and Daniel P. Griffin, Resume of Army Roll-Up Following World War 11 (revised), OCMH Study, 31 Oct 68, pp. 15-18.

10 (1) Special Planning Division History, Tab O, pp. 10, 12. (2) Pogue, Ordeal and Hope, p. 298.

11 Memo, General Somervell for Chief of Staff, 3 Apr 43, sub: Suggested Changes in the Organization of the War Department. Copy in ASF-Somervell Post-War Organization files, OCMH.

12 Draft Chapter 16, Logistics Organization, prepared for but not included in Logistics in World War 11 (Nov 45) . Copy in ASF-Somervell Post-War Organization files, OCMH.

13 (1) Memo, General Somervell for Chief of Staff, 3 Apr 43, sub: Suggested Changes in the Organization of the War Department and 1 Jun 43, sub: Reorganization of Service Activities. Copies of both in ASF-Somervell Post-War Organization file, OCMH. (2) Millett, Army Service Forces, pp. 138--43. (3) Draft Chapter 16, Logistics Organization. (4) Coakley and Leighton, Global Logistics and Strategy: 1943-45, pp. 100-104. (5) Cline, Washington Command Post, pp. 266-77.

14 (1) Control Division History, vol. II, Report No. 56, 1943. (2) Millett, Army Service Forces, pp. 398-405. (3) Director of Service, Supply, and Procurement, The Pros and Cons of a Logistics Command, 1948. ASF-Somervell Post-War Organization files, OCMH.

15 McNarney Interview. Patch-Simpson Board files.

16 (1) Millet, Army Service Forces, pp. 405-13. (2) Stimson Diary, entries of 16-18, 21, and 24 Sep 43.

17 Wyckoff, The Office of Secretary of War Under Henry L. Stimson, p. 299.

18 (1) Control Division History, vol. 11, Report No. 56, 1943. (2) Millets, Army Service Forces, pp. 405-13. (3) Stimson Diary, entries of 16-18 and 21-22 Sep and 5, 13, and 29 Oct 43. (4) McNarney Interview. Patch-Simpson Board files. (5) For Secretary Lovett's later views, see Chapter VI, page 218. (6) Wyckoff, The Office of Secretary of War Under Henry L. Stimson, ch. VII, pp. 10-11. (7) Baruch, The Public Years, pp. 298-99. (8) Morison, Turmoil and Tradition, p. 499. (9) Harry C. Thomson and Lida Mayo, The Ordnance Department: Procurement and Supply, UNITED STATES ARMY IN WORLD WAR II (Washington, 1960) , p. 425. (10) Forrest C. Pogue, George C. Marshall: Organizer of Victory, 1943-1945 (New York: The Viking Press, 1973) , pp. 263-71.

19 (1) Control Division History, vol. 11, Report No. 92, 1944. (2) Millett, Army Service Forces, pp. 422-24. (8) Organization of Army Service Forces in the Post War World, Hq., ASF, 15 Jul 44. ASF-Somervell Post-War Organization files, OCMH.

20 (1) Control Division History, vol. II, Report No. 186, 1945. (2) Draft Chapter 16, Logistics Organization.

21 (1) Interview, Hewes with Dr. Forrest C. Pogue, 6 May 69. (2) Memo, Asst Dep CofS for Dir, SPD, 19 Aug 45, sub: War Department Reorganization; Memo, General Porter for Asst Dep CofS, 25 Aug 45, same subject; WDCSA 020 (30 Aug 45) , Memo, Dep CofS for Lt. Gen. Alexander Patch and others, 30 Aug 45, sub: Reorganization of the War Department; Memo, Asst Dep CofS for General Patch and others, 11 Sep 45, same subject. All in WDSSP 334 Reorganization of the War Department (Patch Board) Simpson Board, 19 Aug 45, NARS, Washington, D.C. This was the Special Planning Division's file on the Patch-Simpson Board [hereafter cited as SPD Patch-Simpson Board file.] (3) Millett. Army Service Forces, pp. 421-22. (4) Thomson and Mayo, Procurement and supply, pp. 472-476. (5) On General Patch's bewilderment, see Patch Board Interviews.

22 (1) Patch Board Interviews. (2) Brig Gen Raymond G. Moses, Organizational Difficulties in the European Theater of Operations, c. 12 Sep 45, Inclosure 2 to Memo, General Handy for General Patch, 16 Sep 45, sub: Organizational Difficulties in ETO. Patch-Simpson Board Interviews.

23 (1) WDCSA (10 Sep 45) , Memo, General Handy for General Patch, 10 Sep 45, sub: General Eisenhower's Plan for Reorganization of the War Department, and attached Organizational Chart. (2) McNarney Interview.

24 (1) Memo, General Patch for CofS, 18 Oct 45, sub: The Report of the Board of Officers on Reorganization of the War Department. Copy in OCMH files. (2) Cline, Washington Command Post, p. 355.

25 (1) Millett, Army Service Forces, p. 425. (2) S-30526 to AGWAR for Handy from USFET Main from Eisenhower, 6 Nov 45, sub: Patch Board Report. SPD Patch-Simpson Board file. (3) For the Navy Department personnel organization, see Julius A. Furer, Administration of the Navy Department in World War 11 (Washington, 1959) , pp. 200, 262-265.

26 Memo, General Somervell for Dep of CofS, 12 Nov 45, sub: Report of Board of Officers on Reorganization of the War Department, with two inclosures. Patch Simpson Board files, copy in OCMH.

27 (1) Memo, General Simpson for CofS, 25 Dec 45, sub: Report of Board of Officers to Study Organization of the War Department. Copy in OCMH files. (2) Cline, Washington Command Post, pp. 355-356. (3) Memo, General Eisenhower for ACofS, G-1, and others, 10 Dec 45, sub: Responsibility of Staff Officers, Scope, Approach, and Execution (comments of Chief of Staff before group of staff officers, 5 Dec 45) . Copy in OCMH files.

28 (1) Memo, General Hodes for President of the Board of Officers on Reorganization of the War Department and others, with inclosure, Simpson Board Report revised as of 18 Jan 46; Memo, SGS for Chiefs of War Department General and Special Staff Divisions and others, 23 Jan 46; Memo, General Hodes for Chiefs of All War Department General and Special Divisions and others, 28 Jan 46, sub: War Department Reorganization. All in SPD Patch-Simpson Board file. (2) Cline, Washington Command Post, pp. 356-57.

29 (1) WDCSA 020 (2 Feb 46) , Memo, General Hodes for President of the Board of Officers for Organization of the War Department and others, 2 Feb 46; Memo, General Hodes for President of the Board of Officers for Organization of the War Department and others, 21 Feb 46, sub: Report of the Board of Officers on Organization of the War Department; Ibid., 4 Apr 46, sub: Statement of Approved Policy to Effect Increased Autonomy for the Army Air Forces within the War Department. All in SPD Patch-Simpson Board file. (2) Cline, Washington Command Post, p.117, n. 26. (3) Harry Yoshpe, "The Quest for a Statutory Base," Office, Chief of Transportation, 1954, pp. 4-10.

30 Memo, General Lutes for CofS, 22 Jan 46, sub: Reorganization of the War Department; Memo, General Hodes for CG, ASF, I Feb 46, same subject. Both in G-3 Div, O-M, Simpson Board Report file, NARS.

31 WDG/T 320 (4 Mar 46) , Memo, Committee on Territorial Sub-Division of the Zone of the Interior for President of the Board of Officers for Organization of the War Department, 4 Mar 46, sub: Simpson Board Report; Memo, General Simpson for General Eberle, 5 Mar 46, same subject. G-3 Div, O-M, Simpson Board Report file.

32 Memo, General Hodes for CG's, AAF, AGF, ASF, and others, 29 Apr 46, sub: Research and Development Division, War Department General Staff; Memo, General Eisenhower for Directors and Chiefs of War Department General and Special Staff Divisions and others, 30 Apr 46, sub: Scientific and Technological Resources as Military Assets. Both in G-3 Div, o-M, Simpson Board Report file.

33 Interview with General Smith, 24 Sep 45. Patch-Simpson Board files.

34 Eisenhower Comments to General Staff officers, 5 Dec 45.