Endnotes for Chapter V

1 Ltr, Dir Selective Sv to SW, 18 Sep 41, AG 32471 (9-18-41)

2 Ltr, and Memo for Record attached, TAG to Dir Selective Sv, 1 1 Oct 41, AG 324.71 (9-18-41) .

3 Memo, G-1 for CofS, 5 Jun 42, WDCSA 291.21 (6-5-42).

4 Ltr, OCofAC to TAG, 3 Oct 40; Memo, G-3 for TAG, 12 Oct 40; Ltr, OCofAC to TAG, 10 Oct 40; Memo, OCofAC for G-3, 10 Oct 40. All in AG 320.2 Air Corps (10-3-40) (1) .

5 Memo, G-3 for G-1, 4 Mar 41, AG 580.7 (1­27-41) .

6 Memo, DCofAS for Asst CofAS, Tug, 9 Oct 42; Memo, CofAS for DCofS, 14 Oct 42; Ltr, Air AG to CG AFCC, CG TTC, 6 Mar 42. All in AAF 291.211.

7 Most of these, permanently assigned to airfields, were inactivated in 1944, their personnel being absorbed in one or another of the sections of the new AAF base units. While these sections were technically parts of the same base unit, the fact that each had its own commander and morning report made each a separate unit in conformity with the 16 October 1940 policy requiring separate Negro units.

8 Memo, CofAC Plans Div to Chief Buildings and Grounds, 9 Dec 40, AAF 291.2A.

9 Memo, G-3 for CofS, 6 Jan 42, OCS 20602-249.

10 Ibid.

11 Memo, AAF A-1 to WD G-3, 29 Jan 42, AAF 291.2B.

12 Memo, DCofS for G-3, 12 Feb 42, OCS 20602­249.

13 Ltr, Hq AAF to CofAC, CG AF, CG ACTFC, 25 Feb 42, AAF 291.2.

14 WD Cir 59, 1942; Memo, G-3 for CG AGF, 14 Mar 42, WDGCT 320 (3-14-42). 

15 See above, pp. 55-65.

16 Memo, SGS for G-3, 17 Sep 40, OCS 20602-80; Memo, SGS for G-3, 20 Sep 40, OCS 20602-83; Memo, G-3 for CofAC, 25 Sep 40, AAF 3539-4-A.

17 Memo, prepared by T&O Div OCofAC for G-3, 3 Oct 40, AAF 3539-4-A.

18 Memo, Chief of Air Plans Div for Chief of T&O Div OCofAC, 5 Oct 40, AAF 3539-4-A.

19 Memo, T&O Div for ExO, 15 Oct, 40, AAF 3539-4

20 Ibid., marginal note, signed HHA. Italics in original.

21 Memo, OCofAC for G-3, 22 Oct 40, AAF 353.9-4-A.

22 RS, G-3 for CofAC, 24 Oct 40, Tng of Pers for Cld Avn Units, G-3/42914; Memo, OCofAC for TAG, 18 Dec 40, AG 580.7 (12-18-40) (2).

23 Memo, OCofAC for TAG, 18 Dec 40, AG 580.7 (12-18-40) (2).

24 Ltr, OCofAC to CofAC, 18 Nov 40, AAF 353.9-4-A.

25 Memo, OCofAC for TAG, 11 Mar 41, AG 580.7 (3-11-41) .

26 Memo, Civ Aide to SW for DCofS, 18 Jan 41, AAF 291.2A.

27 Memo, Civ Aide to SW for USW, 31 Dec 40, AG 580.7 (12-18-40) (2) .

28 Memo, DCofS for CofS, 20 May 41, AG 580.7 (5-2-441) .

29 Memo, CofAC for ASW, 6 Jan 41, AG 580.7 (12-18-40) (2).

30 Memo, CofAC for SGS, 8 Jan 41; RS, G-3 to TAG, 23 Dec 40, approved 8 Jan 41. Both in AG 580.7 (12-18-40) .

31 Memos, G-1 for TAG, 28 Feb 41; CofS, 11 Mar 41. Both in AG 580.7 (1-27-41) (12-18-40)(2) .

32 Memo for SW, 17 Jan 41, Press Conf of Patterson, USW, 16 Jan 41, 3:00 p.m.-3:35 pm., in Gen Council Room, copy in AAF 291.2A.

33 Memo, Hq Armd Force to Ln Off Armd Force, 5 Dec 40, AG 320.2 (6-5-40) (3) sec. 3-D. A "basic" was an enlisted man with the minimum essentials of military training assigned to tasks requiring little experience and no specialized training.

34 Memo, G-3 for CofS, 15 Feb 41, approved 25 Feb 41, G-3/6541-Gen-527; Ltr, TAG to Chief Armd Force, 4 Mar 41, AG 320.2 (2-25-41) M (Ret) M-C.

35 Ltr, Hq Armd Force to TAG, 6 Mar 4t and 1st Ind, TAG to Chief Armd Force, 31 Mar 41, AG 320.2 (3-6-41) .

36 Memo, CofS for USW, 14 Apr 41, USW 291.2 Race, Negro.

37 The 76th and 77th Coast Artillery (AA) and 349th Field Artillery. Headquarters and additional battalions of these units were not provided and filled until 1941.

38 The 8th Illinois Infantry, inducted10 February 1941 as the 184th Field Artillery; 369th Infantry (ICY.), inducted 13 January 1941 as the 369th Coast Artillery (AA).

39 The 54th Coast Artillery; 99th and tooth Coast Artillery (AA); 46th Field Artillery Brigade; 350th, 351st, and 353d Field Artillery.

40 The additional regiments were the 90th, 612th, and 613th Coast Artillery (AA) . A tenth, the 84th Coast Artillery (AA) , was constituted but two batteries only were activated in September 1942. This unit had been intended to receive excess continental Negroes remaining from a reorganiza­tion of the 99th Regiment, then in Trinidad, and Puerto Rican Negroes. The unit later became the 84th Antiaircraft Artillery Gun Battalion, a wholly Puerto Rican outfit.

41 These were the 846th Tank Destroyer Bat­talion, activated on 15 December out of the 349th Field Artillery, and the 795th Tank Destroyer Bat­talion, activated the next day from the 184th Field Artillery.

42 Ltr, TAG to CG's All Corps Areas, 20 Aug 2 1, AG 320.2 (Misc Div); Lit, TAG to CG's, 11 Sep 22, AG 370.5 Mex Border (7-20-22) .

43 Ltr, TAG to CG's All Corps Areas, AG 320.2 (7-5-27).

44 Lit, OCoflnf to TAG, 8 Mar 33, AG 320.2 (8-6-32) sec.1-A; Annex1, Changes to Conform to the Four Army Organization, 1933, Incl 1 to Directive for Four Army Organization, AG 320.2 (8-16-33) (Misc) M-E.

45 Ltr, TAG to CG GHQ, Army, Corps Area and Dept Comdrs, Chiefs Arms and Svs, 14 Aug 40, AG 381 (8-31-40) M-C-M.

46 Tab C, Differences Between WPD Reqmts (Tab A) and PMP Allotments (Tab B) , to Memo, G-3 for COfS, 5 Aug 40, AG 320.2 (8-5-40) (3) .

47 Memo for Record attached to Memo, G-3 for TAG, 8 Oct 40, AG 320.2 (10-8-40)(2).

48 Action Memo, CofCav for COPS, 20 Sep 40, AG 320.2 Cav (9-20-40) .

49 Ltr, TAG to CG's et al., to Oct 40, AG 320.2 (10-8-40) M (Ret) M-C.

50 Ltr, TAG to CG's Seventh Corps Area and Second Army, 12 Feb 41, AG 320.2 (1-31-41) M (Ret) M-C; Ltr, TAG to CG's Second Army and Seventh Corps Area, Chiefs Arms and Svs con­cerned, 26 Mar 41, AG 320.2 (3-12-41) M (Ret) M-C.

51 Ltr, TAG to CG 2d Cav Div, 24 Oct 41, AG 320.2 ('7-17-41) MR-M-C. 

52 Ltr, Gen Marshall to Brig Gen Terry Allen, 23 May 41, AG 320.2 (5-13-41) (3) . Certain other units were assigned both Negro and white ele­ments, for example, the 18th Field Artillery Brigade and the 34th Coast Artillery Brigade (AA). Such brigades, however, were by no means comparable to a division in the nature of their tactical employment.

53 Memo, Hq ACT for G-3, 12 May 42; Memo, G-3 for CG ACT, 14 May 42. Both in AGF 320.2/ 165 GNGPS (5-11-42) .

54 Ltr, Allen to Marshall, 13 May 41, AG 320.2 (5-13-41) (3).

55 Ltr, TAG to CG's ACT, AAF, SOS, 21 Jul 42, AG 320.2 (7-17-42) MS-C-M; Ltr, TAG to CG's ACT, AAF, SOS, 28 Aug 42, AG 320.2 (8-27-42) MS-C-M.

56 Ltr, TAG to CG Third Army, 23 NOV 42, AG 320.2 (11-21-42) OB-1-GN-M.

57 Memo, SGS for G-3, 7 NOV 40, AG 320.2 (11­27-40) (2) .

58 Memo, G-3 for CofS, 27 NOV 40, AG 320.2 (11-27-40)(2).

59 The suggestion for the formation of this di­vision appears to have originated at a conference of Negro editors, held on 8 December 1941, the day after Pearl Harbor. The NAACP and Negro newspapers supported the suggestions. See below,
PP. 143-44.

60 DF, C-3 for CofS, to Feb 42, AG 291.21 (2-6­42) MB; Ltrs in AG 291.21 (12-22-41) (1) ; Ltrs in AG 291.2, Jan-Feb 42.

61 Ltr, CofS to Mrs. Dorothy Canfield Fisher, 16 Feb 42, OCS 20602-254.

62 Ltr, CofS GHQ to G-3, 6 Dec 41, GHQ 320.2/ 5g.

63 Memo, G-3 for CofS, 9 Jan 42, AG 381 (Mob and Tng Plan 1942)(12-12-41) .

64 Incl 1 to Ltr, Hq AGF to CG's All Newly Activated Inf Divs, 23 Apr 42, AGF 320.2/9 (Inf) .

65 Memo, G-3 for TAG, and attached Memo for Record, G-3/46578 7 Aug 41, AG 324.71 (8-7-41) (15) ; Ltr, TAG to CofAAF, 26 Aug 41, AG 324.71 (8-7-41) E-C.

66 Memo, OPD for CG's AGF and SOS, 6 May 42, AGF 320.2/14 (CWS) ; Ltr, WD to CG's Central and Western Defense Comds and Edgewood Ar­senal, Md., i6 May 42, AG 320.2 (5-i5-42) MR­M-GN.

67 Memo, G-3 for G-1, 5 NOV 40, G-3/42108; Memo, G-1 for TAG, 13 NOV 40, and tst Ind, TAG to SGO, 15 NOV 40, 2d Ind SGO to TAG, 20 NOV 40. Last three in AG 320.2 (8-2-40) sec. 6. 

68 Memo, G-1 for COBS, 15 Jan 41, AG 320.2 (10-25-40) (8-2-40) (4) , see. 6.

69 Memo, G-4 for G-1, 21 Jan 41, G-4/32470; Memo, SGO for TAG, 4 Mar 41, AG 320.2 (3­4-41) (8-2-40) (4) sec. 6.

70 Memo for Record, attached to Memo, G-3 for TAG, 27 Feb 41, AG 320.2 (2-27-41). 

71 Cf. Min of Gen Council, 8 Feb 43.

72 Ltr, TAG to PMG et al., 26 Sep 41, AG 320.2 (9-26-41) MR-M-A.

73 Tab A to Memo, Chief MP Div OPMG for Dir Mil Pers SOS, 23 Oct 42, AG 210.31 (2-14-42) (3) .
MILITARY POLICE UNIT AT COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, APRIL 1942

74 Memo, G-3 for PMG, 11 Feb 42, G-3/42 107; Memo, SOS for G-3, 10 Aug 42; Memo, G-3 for CG SOS, 12 Aug 42, and Inds. Last three in WDGCT 320.2 Actv (8-10-42) .

75 Ltr, Hq Armd Force to TAG, 23 Feb 42, and Incls, AG 320.2 (2-23-42) (11-15-40) (1) sec. 11; Ltr, TAG to CG's, 12 Mar 42, AG 320.2 (2-23-42) MR-M-C.

76 Ltr, Hq Ft. Belvoir to CG Third Corps Area, 25 Feb 42, AG 320.2 (11-15-40) (1) sec. 11.

77 Ltr, FA School to CG R&SC, 2 Oct 42, AGF 352/402 (FA School).

78 Ltr, Prcht School to CG AGF, 27 Jul 42, AGF 322.999/2 (Cld Trps) (7-27-42).

79 Examples are aviation engineer battalions, re­quested by the South Pacific Base Command in 1942, to be activated in the theater with cadres from the 810th and 811th Engineer Battalions (Avn), which "will furnish the new units with a higher level of experience than can be obtained from any existing unit in the United States." DF, Hq AAF to Hq AGF, 4 Aug 42, AGF 320-2/347.

80 Ltrs, Senator J. H. Bankhead and others, various dates, April-June 1941, AG 291.21 (5-3-41) (1)

81 Telg, International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union to President Roosevelt, 9 Apr 41, AG 080 Los Angeles, Calif. (4-10-41) (1) arid Ltrs in AG 080 International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union (8-26-41) and AG 080 San Francisco, Calif. (8-27-41) (1) . These include letters from United Hotel Employees, CIO, supporting the IL&WU.


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