- 11 Ltr, General Jonathan M. Wainwright, Commanding General, Fourth Army,
to General Eisenhower, 31 Aug 47; Ltr, General Jacob L. Devers, Commanding
General, Army Ground Forces, to General Eisenhower, 12 Sep 47. Both in Cook
Report file.
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- 12 DF, Lt Gen LeRoy Lutes, Dir, SS&P, 20 Sep 47, sub: Wainwright
Letter of 31 August 1947. Cook Report file.
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- 13 Memo, Gen Haislip for the D/CS, 29 Dec. 47, sub: Army Organization.
Cook Report file.
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- 14 Memo, General Collins for Dir, O&T, Jan 48. Cook Report file.
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- 15 For Department of the Army organization under Circular 64, 1948, see Chart
16.
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- 16 (1) Raymond J. Snodgrass, Organization
and Management of the Ordnance Corps, 1945-1958, Monograph, Office, Chief
of Ordnance, Jul 58, pp. 31-34. (2) Harry B. Yoshpe, Pre-Korean Role and Operations
of the Transportation Corps, 1946-1950, Monograph, Office, Chief of Transportation,
30 Jun 55, pp. 27-33. (3) Conference Memo, Minutes of Conference on Army Reorganization
Plan, 5 Oct 49, pp. 6-8, incl. in draft Recommendations of the Vice Chief
of Staff to the Chief of Staff and the Secretary of the Army on the Organization
of the Department of the Army. C/S 320, 1949 files, RG 110, NARS. Hereafter
cited as Minutes of Conference on Army Reorganization Plan, 5 Oct 49.
- 17 (1) Memo, Gen Haislip for the D/CS,
29 Dec 47, sub: Army Organization. Cook Report file. (2) Final Report of the
War Department Policies and Programs Review Board, 11 Aug 47, p. 54. Hereafter
cited as Haislip Board Report.
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- 18 A Photostat of handwritten order, General Eisenhower to DCofS, Dec 46. Tab
A-2, Planning for a Logistics Command-1948, OCMH.
- 19 (1) DF, Lutes to DCofS, 30 Sep 47.
Cook Report file. (2) Memo, General Collins for General Aurand, Dir, SS&P,
2 Feb 48, sub: Role of the Service, Supply, & Procurement Division, summarizing
General Eisenhower's views at the meeting on 21 January. Tab A-4, Briefing Book,
Dir Log, 29 Mar 48, sub: The Pros and Cons of a Logistics Command, OCMH.
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20 (1) Memo for Record, 6 Feb 48, sub: ASF Type Organization. Tab 5, Right,
Planning for a Logistics Command-1948. (2) Staff Study, c. Feb 48, sub: Organization
of a Logistic Command. Tab 1, Left, Planning for a Logistics Command-1948,
OCMH files. (3) Staff Study, Lt Col Bernard S. Waterman, Ch, Projects Br,
Control Office, Log Div. 18 Mar 48, sub: Organization for Logistic Functions.
Tab 2, Left, Planning for a Logistics Command-1948. (4) Organization chart
of Logistics Command. Tab B-11a, The Pros and Cons of a Logistics Command.
- 21 (1) Memo for Record, 31 Apr 48, concerning presentation in Mr. Gray's
office, with copy of General Aurand's speech. Tab 15, Right, Planning for
a Logistics Command-1948. (2) Carbon copy, Ltr, Eisenhower to Bradley, 8 Apr
48. Tab 4, Left, Planning for a Logistics Command-1948.
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- 22 (1) Memo for Record, 14 Apr 48, sub: Briefing on Plan for a Wartime ASF. Tab 16, Right, Planning for a Logistics Command-1948. (2)
Ltr, General
Wheeler for General Aurand, 12 Apr 48. The Pros and Cons of a Logistics Command.
- 23 (1) Memo, Asst Secy Gray for General Collins, 15 Apr 48. Tab 17,
Right, Planning for a Logistics Command-1948. (2) Memo, General Aurand for
CofS, 22 Apr 48, sub: Logistics (ASF Type) Command in War. Tab 18, Right,
Planning for a Logistics Command-1948. (3) Memo for General Aurand, 1 May
48, re: Planning for a Logistics Command. Tab 19, Right, Planning for a Logistics
Command-1948.
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- 24 (1) Memo, Gen Haislip for the D/CS, 29 Dec 47, sub: Army Organization.
Cook Report file. (2) Haislip Board Report. (31 Report of Edwin W. Pauley
submitted to Secretary Royall, 5 Feb 48. Department of Army Press Release
in ALP: Pauley Report Work Measurement and Cost Accounting, May 1949 file,
RG 117, NARS. Hereafter cited as Pauley Report.
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- 25 (1) Draft Memo, Advisory Group for DCofS 21 Oct 47, pp. 12-13. Cook Report
file. (2) Pauley Report. (3) Mosher, Program Budgeting, pp- 19-46.
(4) Elias Huzar, The Purse and the Sword, Control of the Army Through Military
Appropriations, 1933-1950 (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1950) , pp.
393-407.
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- 26 Haislip Board Report, pp. 54-57.
- 27 Memo, Gen Haislip for the D/CS, 29 Dec 47, sub: Army Organization. Cook
Report file, pp. 12-13.
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- 28 (1) Memo, Mr. Cockrill, OCSA, for Mr. Jordan, OCSA, 12 Feb 58, sub: Background
and Information on the Organization and Functions of COA. Hereafter cited
as OCA History. OCMH files. (2) SR 10-80-1, 21 Mar 51, sub: Organization and
Functions, Department of the Army, Office of the Comptroller of the Army.
(3) Mosher, Program Budgeting, pp. 211-12.
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- 29 (1) OCA History. (2) Mosher, Program
Budgeting, pp. 211-12. (3) The title of this office was changed in Department
of the Army Circular 109, 15 October 1949, to Comptroller of the Army to conform
to the provisions of Title IV, Public Law 216, 10 August 1949, the National
Security Act amendments of that year.
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- 30 (1) The family's original name was Johnston.
For an explanation of why General Johnson's father dropped the "t"
in the family name, see Johnson, The Blue Eagle From Egg to Earth.
(2) Management Division, OAC, Organization of the Department of the Army-A
Staff Study, 15 Jul 48, vol. 1, pp. fr7. Hereafter cited as the Johnston Plan.
Misc. 320.1, Army Reorganization, 1948, OCMH files.
- 31 Ibid., pp. 2-6, 11-12.
- 32 Ibid., pp. 12-14 and pt. IX ,Tab III-C, Inclosures 3 and 4, pp. 142-53.
- 33 Ibid., pp. 14-15, 18-20, and pt. IBC, Tab IV-E, pp. 225-26.
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- 34 Ibid., pp. 20-34, 38-41.
- 35 Ibid., pp. 34-36.
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- 36 (1) Memo, Colonel Johnston for CofS, 20
Jul 48, sub: Army Organization; Tab E to above memo, sub: Draft Circular-Subject:
Organization, Office, Chief of Staff. Both in CS/USA 320 D/A (27 Jul 49) ,
RG 110, NARS. (2) Army: O&M, CMP: Round-Up (McCrimmon), Mar 49,
pt. XXVI, RG 117, NARS. Hereafter cited as McCrimmon Round-Up.
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- 37 (1) Brief Chronology of Staff Study-Organization of the Department
of the Army. In Army: O&M: Circular 342, 1948-Revision & Writing of-Nov
48. Hereafter cited as Circular 342 file. RG 117-A56-453, NARS. (2) Army:
O&M: Base & Top Comments on-from Agencies, Jul-Aug 48. Hereafter cited
as Johnston Plan-Comments. (3) Memo, Colonel Johnston for CofS, 20 Sep 48,
sub: Analysis and Discussion of Highlights of Comments on Reorganization Plan,
pp. 1-2.
- 38 Tab B, SS, General Bull for CofS, 30 Aug 48, sub: Comments on the Report
by the Management Division on the Reorganization of the Army. Johnston Plan
Comments,
Tab 4.
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- 39 Ltr, General Noce to General Aurand, 6 Aug 48. Johnston Plan-Comments,
Tab 13.
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- 40 Memo, General Christmas, 4 Aug 48 (revised
12 Aug 48) , sub: Army Reorganization. Johnston Plan-Comments, Tab
13.
41 (1) Round Robin Memo, Six Technical Service Chiefs or Deputies to CofS,
31 Aug 48, sub: Proposed Reorganization of the Army, 15 Jul 48. Johnston Plan-Comments
Tab 1. (2) Address by Maj Gen E. S. Hughes before CofS and Army staff, 15
Sep 48, sub: Reorganization of the Army as Viewed From the Technical Services
Level. Misc. 320 (Reorganization), OCMH files. (3) Transcript of Conference
on Reorganization of the Army, 15 Sep 1948. D/A: O&M: Reorganization by
Maj Gen Everett Hughes, C/Ord, Sep 48, pp. 6-11. RG 117, NARS.
- 42 (1) Transcript, Mr. Royall's Office-Conference on Reorganization of the Army,
20 Sep 48. Located in Reorganization Conference-Mr. Royall-18 Oct 48. RG 117,
NARS. (2) Johnston Plan Chronology. u (1)
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- 43 (1) Johnston Plan Chronology. (2) Memo
for Record, Colonel Johnston, 22 Sep 48, sub: S/A's Approval of the First Phase-Reorganization
of Hq D/A with two inclosures. McCrimmon Round-Up file.
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- 44 (1) Memo, General Bull for Secretary of the General Staff, 8 Oct 48,
sub: Comments on Proposed Circular "Organization of the Department of
the Army." (2) D/Log Comments on Management, 11 Oct 48, Proposal for
Paragraph 12c. Amending Circular 64. (3) Comments, General Wheeler to General
Leavey on telephone, 14 Oct 48, re: Proposals to Change Circular 64. All in
Army: O&M: Revision of Circular 342, 1948. RG 117, NARS.
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- 45 Memo for Record, Colonel Johnston, 18 Oct 48, sub: Conference With Mr. Royall
Covering First Phase of the Reorganization of the Department of the Army at
1330, Monday, 18 October 1948. In Reorganization Conference-Mr. Royall-18
Oct 48 file. RG 117, NARS.
- 46 (C) Memo, General Larkin for General
Collins, 5 Aug 49, re: Cresap, McCormick and Paget Report. CS/USA 320 D/A (27
Jul 49) , RG 110, NARS.
47 SS, General Leavey, c. 14 Mar 49, sub: Status of Organizational Planning
and Proposals for Further Action. McCrimmon Round-Up file.
48 Copy, Memo, Larkin for Army Comptroller, 29 Apr 49, re: Reorganization
of the Army. Case 1, CS/USA 320, D/A, 1-10, 1949. RG 110, NARS.
- 49 (1) Chandler, "Management Decentralization." (2) Study Group B,
OSD Project 80, The Three-Deputy Concept-Its Evolution and Disappearance. Working
Paper No. 18, 27 Jun 61. Project 80 files, OCMH.
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- 50 Cresap, McCormick and Paget, Survey of the Department of the Army Final Report.
15 Apr 49, secs. II, pp. 1-19, III, pp. 37-61. IV, pp. 6-16. CS/USA Survey of
the Department of the Army, 1949. RG 110, NARS.
- 51 (1) Army: O&M: CMP-Comments and Papers, 28 Mar-1 Jul 49, pt. XIII,
passim, RG 117, NARS. (2) Tab A to Tab 1, Comments submitted by Departmental
Staff Agencies on Final Report of Cresap, McCormick and Paget on Survey of
the Department of the Army, assembled by the Management Division, OCA, 27
Jun 49, and Tab Rd Rob, Memo for CofS, 19 May 49. Both in Tabbed Materials
to Accompany a Study on Improvement of Organization and Procedures of the
Department of the Army prepared by the Management Division, Office of the Army
Comptroller, 22 Jul 49. Original in RG 117, MARS. Comments by the staff agencies
accompanied only the original copy of the Tabbed Materials. The rest contained
only an analysis of them by the Management Division.
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- 52 Memo, General Hughes for Army Comptroller, 23 May 49, sub: Survey of the Department
of the Army Final Report by Cresap, McCormick and Paget. Attached to Tab A to
Tab 1, Tabbed Materials.
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- 53 Mimeographed copy, Memo, General Hughes for CofS, 10 Jun 49, sub: Survey
of the Department of the Army Final Report by Cresap, McCormick and Paget. Tab
Ord to Tab 1, Tabbed Materials.
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- 54
Ibid.
- 55 Memo, General Larkin for Army Comptroller, 13 Jun 49, sub: Final Report
of Cresap, McCormick and Paget on Survey of Department of the Army. Tab Log
to Tab 1, Tabbed Materials.
- 56 Management Division, Office of the Army Comptroller, Report of Final
Recom-
- mendations to the Chief of Staff for Action on Report of the Cresap, McCormick
and Paget Survey of the Department of the Army, 22 Jul 49, pp. 5-6. In OCMH.
- 57 Management Division, Office of the Army Comptroller, Staff Study-Improvement
of the Organization and Procedures of the Department of the Army-Based on
the Cresap, McCormick and Paget Report, Hoover Commission Report, and Other
Factors, 22 Jun 49, pp. 1-9. In OCMH.
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- 58 (1) Interview with Dr. Forrest C.
Pogue, 6 May 69. (2) Memo for Vice CofS and others, 9 Aug 49, sub: Conference
on Organizational Proposals to be Conducted by the Vice Chief of Staff at
1500, 12 Aug 49. Tab 4, Left, Army: O&M: COMP: Comments and Papers . .
. , pt. XIV, RG 117, NARS. (3) Memo, General Moore, SGS, for Army Comptroller
and others, 11 Oct 49, transmitting minutes of conference on Army Reorganization
Plan on 5 Oct 49. Inclosed in file of draft Recommendations of the Vice Chief
of Staff to the Chief of Staff and the Secretary of the Army on the Organization
of the Department of the Army, c. 14-17 Nov 49. CS/USA 320, Box 504, 1949,
RG 110, NARS. (4) Memo for Record, 29 Nov 49, sub: Army Reorganization Conference:
Time: 1040, 25 Nov 49. CS/USA 320, Box 504, 1949, RG 110, NARS. (5) Recommendations
of. the Chief of Staff to the Secretary of the Army on the Organization of
the Department of the Army, 23 Dec. 49. Army: O&M: SR's on Organization
lst
Typed Draft-for C/S, 23 Dec 49, pt. 1, RG 117, NARS.
- 59 (1) Recommendations of the Chief
of Staff . . . on the Organization of the Department of the Army, 23 Dec.
49, especially Inclosure 1, An Analysis of Recommendations-Table Showing Principal
Issues, CMP Proposals Relating Thereto, Final Recommendations of the Chief
of Staff, and Brief Analysis. Army: O&M: SR's on Organization, 1st Typed
Draft, RG 117, NARS. (2) Compare this with Recommendations of the Vice Chief
of Staff to the Chief of Staff and the Secretary of the Army on the Organization
of the Department of the Army, 17 Nov 49, with inclosures. CS/USA 320, Box
504, 1949, RG 110, NARS.
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- 60 Memo, General Larkin, 14 Nov 49, on Reducing
the Number of Procuring Technical Services. Inclosure 5 to Recommendations of the Vice Chief of
Staff . . ., 17 Nov 49. CS/USA 320, Box 504, 1949, RG 110, NARS.
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- 61 Memo, Secy of Army for CofS, 9 Jan
50, sub: Recommendations of the Chief of Staff to the Secretary of the Army
on the Organization of the Department of the Army. Unclassified Xeroxed copy
of carbon copy, Misc. 320.1, Army Reorganization, 1950, OCMH files. Also located
in Tab 2, Left, Army: O&M: SR's on Organization Correspondence-Nov-Feb
50, pt. V111, RG 117, NARS.
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- 62 Army: O&M: SR's on Organization-Correspondence-Nov-Feb 50, pt. V111,
RG 117, NARS.
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- 63 (I) Opening remarks of Lt Gen Matthew
B. Ridgway, DCofS, Administration, Conference on Draft of Special Regulations
10-500-1 and 10-5-1, 30 Mar 50. Tab 15, Right, Army: O&M: SR's on Organization-Correspondence-Mar-Apr
50, pt. VI. RG 117, NARS. (2) Haislip Board Report, pp. 53-56. (3) Johnston
Plan, pt. V-C, pp. 15-21. (4) Cresap, McCormick and Paget, Survey of the Department
of the Army Final Report, pt. IV, pp. 1-45. (5) Mosher, Program Budgeting,
pp. 64-70.
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- 64 (1) Memo, Maj. T. H. Scott, Asst SGS, for VCofS, 31 Mar 50, sub: Proposed
Special Regulations Dealing With Army Reorganization. Tab 6, Left, Army: O&M:
SR's on Organization-Correspondence-Mar-Apr 50, pt. VI. RG 117, NARS. (2) For
the development of the Army's program review and analysis functions assigned
to the Management Division, see Chapter VII, pages 279-84.
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65 (1) A Compilation of Laws (of a permanent and general nature) Affecting
the Organization of the Army, I December 1948, Management Division, Office
of the Army Comptroller. CS/USA 320, 12/48, sub: as above. RG 110, NARS. Colonel
Baya was assisted by Capt. Roderick F. Greig, JAGD. (2) The quotation is from
DF by Lt. Col. George E. Baya, An Explanation of the Army Organization Act
of 1950, 27 Jul 50, p. 3. Mimeographed copy in OCMH files.
- 66 (1) Memo for Secretary of the Army, thru: Chief of Staff by Lt. Col. G.
E. Baya, FA, sub: Extent to Which the Target Organization May Be Put into
Effect Under Existing Law without Enactment of Additional Legislation, 21
Dec 48. OCA: O&M: Memo for the Secretary of the Army (Brown Binder) RG
117, NARS. (2) Plan for a Bill (Draft of 20 Dec 48) To provide for the organization
of the Army and the Department of the Army, and for other purposes by Colonel
Baya. Designated as Inclosure 1 to DF, 20 Dec 48, from Army Comp., sub: Army
Organization Bill. CS/ USA 320 D/A (20 Dec 48) Plan for a Bill. RG 110, NARS.
(3) DF, 20 Dec 48, sub: Army Organization Bill of 1949, to: Directors, General
Staff Divisions and others, by Col. Kilbourne Johnston. Army: O&M: Organization
Bill of 1950, Implementation of Project 0-133, pt. II. RG 117, NARS. Col.
Archibald King, JAGD, drafted this DF.
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- 67 Round Robin Memo, Chiefs of Technical Services, thru: Director of Logistics,
to: Army Comptroller, 14 Jan 49, sub: Proposed Army Organization Bill of 1949,
Tab Tech Ser., Army: O&M: Organization Bill of 1950 (sic) -Comments-1949.
RG 117, NARS. In addition to the round robin there were individual memorandums
from each of the Army staff divisions, general and special, and also each
of the technical service chiefs.
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- 68 Material bearing on the Army Organization
Bill of 1949 is in CS/USA 320, D/A,Cases 1-10, 1949, RG 110, NARS. The file, unindexed, indicates that this
material is probably Case 2.
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- 69 Secretary Gray's letter to Congress explaining the bill is included
in Department of the Army, Analysis and Explanation of Army Organization Bill-81st
Congress, 1st Session, S. 2334, H.R. 5794-a bill to provide for the organization
of the Army and the Department of the Army and for other purposes, February
1950. Copy in OCMH files.
- 70 (1) Memo for Record, Colonel Embry,
typed on carbon of DF, 12 Jul 50, sub: Proposed Changes to SR's 10-5-1 and
10-500-1. Tab 1950, O&M: SR 10-5-1, General, RG 117, NARS. (2) DF, Colonel
Baya, 3 Aug 50, sub: An Explanation of Army Organization Act of 1950. Misc.
320.1, Army Organization Bill of 1950, OCMH.
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- 71 See Chapter I, above, page 24.
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- 72 Ibid., page 53.
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- 73 See Chapter
II, above, pages 58-59 and 74.
- 74 (1) King, Memorandum With Respect to the Command of the Army by the
Chief of Staff. (2) Col Archibald King, The Command of the Army: A Legal and
Historical Study of the Relations of the Presidents, the Secretaries of War,
National Defense, the Army, the General of the Army, and the Chief of Staff
With One Another, c. 30 Mar 49. See also a much larger study on the same subject
submitted in draft by Colonel King in 1950. Copies of both studies in OCMH
files.
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