Chapter IX


1 The seven vessels were the Holbrook, Republic, Meigs, Bloemfontein, Admiral Halstead, Farmer, and Chaumont. The vessels carried a field artillery brigade with 20 75-mm. guns; the ground elements of the 7th Heavy Bombardment Group; 18 P-40's; and 52 A-24's, 500,000 rounds of 50-caliber armor-piercing and tracer ammunition; 9,600 rounds of high explosive for 37-mm. antiaircraft guns; 2,000 500-pound and 3,000 30-pound bombs; and miscellaneous vehicles and equipment. The total number of U.S. troops aboard was 4,600. Rad, Marshall to MacArthur, No. 776, 12 Dec 41, WPD 4628.

2 Min, JB Mtg, 9 Dec 41, OPD Reg Doc.

3 Rad, Marshall to MacArthur, No. 736, 7 Dec 41, WPD 4544-20.

4 Min, mtg in OCS, 10 Dec 41, Notes on Conf, WDCSA, CofS Confs, II.

5 Ibid., 12 Dec 41.

6 Ibid., 12 Dec 41.

7 Memo, CofS for Comdr D. H. Harries, RAN, Australian Naval Attaché", 12 Dec 41, sub: Msgs for U.S. Mil Attaché, WPD 4628-1; rad, OPNAV to COM TF 15, 10 Dec 41, WPD Msg File.

8 Rad, Marshall to MacArthur, No. 776, 12 Dec 41, WPD 4628.

9 Rad, MacArthur to Marshall, 13 Dec 41, OPD Exec O; ltr, Hart to Ward, 19 Dec 51, OCMH.

10 Rad, MacArthur to Marshall, 13 Dec 41, OPD Exec O.

11 Memo, Brereton for MacArthur, 14 Dec 41, cited in Craven and Cate, The Army Air Forces in World War II, I, 222; rad, MacArthur to Marshall, 14 Dec 41, OPD Exec O.

12 Note, Gerow to Marshall on WPD copy of rad, MacArthur to Marshall, 15 Dec 41, OPD Exec O.

13 Stimson and Bundy, On Active Service, pp. 395-96.

14 Rad, Marshall to MacArthur, No. 787, 15 Dec 41, WPD 4544-31.

15 Memo for Rcd by Gen Gerow, 15 Dec 41, OPD Exec O; memo, Arnold for CofS, 15 Dec 41, sub: Aerial Reinf for Hawaii and Phil, WPD Msg File; rad, Marshall to MacArthur, No. 824, 18 Dec 41, WPD 4622-28.

16 Rad, Marshall to MacArthur, No. 824, 18 Dec 41, WPD 4622-28; ltr, Maj Gen Richard C. Moore, DCofS, to Maj Gen George H. Brett, 19 Dec 41, OCS 18136-161. The way in which the $10,000,000 was spent is described in Chapter XXII, below.

17 Min, JB Mtg, 8 Dec 41, OPD Reg Doc.

18 Ibid., 10 Dec 41.

19 Rad, OPNAV to CINCAF, 14 Dec 41, copy in AG 381 (11-27-41 Gen) Far East.

20 Ibid.

21 Stimson's Diary, 17 Dec 41, cited in Stimson and Bundy, On Active Service, pp. 396-97.

22 Ibid., p. 395.

23 Rads, CINCAF to OPNAV, 101330 and 131026, 10 and 13 Dec 41, War Diary, 16th Naval Dist, Off of Naval Rcds.

24 Rad, MacArthur to Marshall, No. 198, 10 Dec 41, WPD 4544-26.

25 Morison, Rising Sun in the Pacific, pp. 389-90, credits Admiral King with the idea of proposing the raid and initiating studies for its execution in January 1942. Actually, the President suggested the raid at a White House meeting on 28 January. WDCSA 334 Mtgs and Confs (1-28-42).

26 Rad, MacArthur to Marshall, 13 Dec 41, OPD Exec O.

27 Stimson and Bundy, On Active Service, p. 396.

28 Rad, OPNAV to CINCAF, 170105, 17 Dec 41, War Diary, 16th Naval Dist, Off of Naval Rcds.

29 Rad, MacArthur to Marshall, 13 Dec 41, OPD Exec O.

30 Ibid.

31 This meeting, called the ARCADIA Conference, is discussed in full in Maurice Matloff and Edwin M. Snell, Strategic Planning for Coalition Warfare, 1941-1942, UNITED STATES ARMY IN WORLD WAR II (Washington, 1945).

32 Gen, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Crusade in Europe (New York, 1948), p. 18.

33 Ibid., p. 21-22. An unsigned and undated paper entitled Assistance to the Far East, OPD Exec O, is probably the one prepared by Eisenhower on 14 December.

34 Memo, WPD for CofS, 17 Dec 41, sub: Plan for Australian Base, WPD 4628-1.

35 Ltr, R. C. Moore to Brett, 19 Dec 41, OCS 18136-161; rad, Marshall to Military Attache, Melbourne for Brett, No. 31, 17 Dec 41, WPD 4628-1. See also the Administrative Order dispatched to CG USAFIA, 20 Dec 41, AG 381 (12- 20-41) MSC-D-M.

36 Rad, Marshall to Military Attaché, Melbourne, No. 36, 22 Dec 41, WPD 4630-2. General MacArthur received copies of the radios sent to Australia.

37 Rad, OPNAV to CINCAF, 222302, 23 Dec 41. War Diary, 16th Naval Dist, Off of Naval Rcds.

38 Rad, Marshall to MacArthur, No. 855, 22 Dec 41, AG 381 (11-27-41 Gen) Far East.

39 Hist of Fifth Air Force, Part I, p. 44 and App. 2, Doc 67; Arnold, Global Mission, p. 290.

40 Rads, MacArthur to Marshall, Nos. 22 and 40, 22 Dec 41, AG 381 (11-27-41 Gen) Far East.

41 Memo, Stark for Marshall, 23 Dec 41, sub: Transportation of Aircraft to Phil, AG 381 (11- 27-41 Gen) Far East; rad, Marshall to MacArthur, 23 Dec 41, OPD Exec O.

42 Rad, CINCAF to OPNAV, 220830, 22 Dec 41, War Diary, 16th Naval Dist, Off of Naval Rcds.

43 Rad, OPNAV to CINCAF, 231601, 23 Dec 41, War Diary, 16th Naval Dist.
Hart's reply, dated the 24th, was that until he received reports from the submarines still at sea he would be unable to give a full report. Rad, CINCAF to OPNAV, 241225, 24 Dec 41, War Diary, 16th Naval Dist.

44 Hart, Narrative of Events, Asiatic Fleet, pp. 45-46; rad, CINCAF to OPNAV, 241225, 24 Dec 41, War Diary, 16th Naval Dist.

45 Rad, MacArthur to AGWAR, 26 Dec 41, AG 381 (11-27-41 Gen) Far East; Rockwell, Naval Activities in Luzon Area, pp. 6-8; ltr, Hart to MacArthur, 25 Dec 41, sub: Move of Comd Post, War Diary, 16th Naval Dist.

46 Rockwell, Naval Activities in Luzon Area, p. 7.

47 Rpt, COMSUBS to COMINCH, War Activities, Submarines, U.S. Asiatic Fleet, 1 Dec 41-1 Apr 42, Off of Naval Rcds.

48 Ltr Order, USAFFE to CG FEAF, 24 Dec 41, reproduced in Brereton, Diaries, p. 62.

49 Rad, MacArthur to AGWAR, 25 Dec 41, AG 381 (11-27-41 Gen) Far East.

50 Craven and Cate, The Army Air Forces in World War II, I, 224-25; Brereton, Diaries, p. 62; Ind, Bataan, The Judgment Seat, passim.

51 Rad, Marshall to MacArthur, No. 879, 24 Dec 41, AG 381 (11-27-41 Gen) Far East.

52 Rad, Marshall to Military Attaché, Melbourne for Brett, No. 41, 25 Dec 41, WPD 4628-3.

53 Ibid.

54 Rad, MacArthur to AGWAR, 27 Dec 41, AG 381 (11-27-41 Gen) Far East; see Brereton's views on the same subject in his Diaries, pp. 64-67.


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