Endnotes for Chapter I
1 John J. Pershing, My Experiences in the World War (New York, Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1931),1, 17.
2 WD GO 80, 26 Aug 18
3 Pershing, My Experiences in the. World War, II, 18586.
4 Annual Report of the Chief of Staff to the Secretary of War, 1919
(Washington, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1919), pp. 15ff.
5 Ibid., p. 20.
6 Ibid., p. 241.
7 Hearings before the Committee on Military Affairs, H.R., 66th Cong, 1st Sess, on Army Reorganization 919, p. 493.
8 Ibid., p. 765.
9 Ibid., pp: 557-59.
10 An interpretation of these events is available in a lecture by Goldthwaite Dorr, Assistant Director of Munitions under Crowell, to the Army Industrial College in 1945. See Goldthwaite H. Dorr, The Reorganization of the War Department of 9 Match 1942, 14 Jun 45 (mimeographed:
11 See Some Accomplishments of the Services of Supply, 2d ed., revised to 1 May 19, mimeographed rpt prepared by Stat Br, SOS, AEF, p. 42.
12 Hearings before the Committee on Military Affairs, H.R., 66th Cong, 1st Sess, on Army Reorganization 1919,11, 1803-04.
13 Dorr lecture, p. 8, cited in n. 10.
14 Hearings before the Committee on Military Affairs, H.R., 66th Cong, 1st Sess, on Army Reorganization 1919,11, 2016.
15 WD GO 48, 12 Aug 20.
16 WD GO 155, 7 Jul 21. See also Troyer Anderson, introduction to the History of the Under Secretary of War's Office, MS, OCMH, Ch. III, pp. 12-17.
17 Pershing, My Experiences in the World War, I, 103.
18 The author has sketched the story in "The Direction of Supply Activities in the War Department: an Administrative Survey," American Political Science Review, XXXVIII (April, June 1944), 249, 475.
19 Hearings before the Committee on Military Affairs: Historical Documents Relating to the Reorganization Plans of the War Department and to the Present National Defense Act, H.R., 69th Cong, 2d Sess, 3 Mar 27, Pt. 1, pp. 580-83.
20 Ibid., pp. 597, 618, 626, 638, 645, 648; Anderson, Introduction to the History of the Under Secretary of War's Office, MS, OCMH, Ch. III, pp. 18-23.
21 WD GO 41, 16 Aug 21.
22 Various orders and documents on the organization of the WDGS, the AEF in France, and on the history of War Department organization were collected and published by the House Committee on Military Affairs. See House Hearing . . . Historical Documents, cited in n. 19. A briefer account of these developments may be found in Otto L. Nelson, Jr., National Security and the General Staff (Washington, Infantry Journal Press, 1946), Chs. V-VI. See also Kent R. Greenfield, Robert R. Palmer, and Bell I. Wiley, The Organization of Ground Combat Troops, UNITED STATES ARMY IN WORLD WAR II (Washington, U.S. Government Printing Office 1947), and Ray S. Cline, Washington Command Post: The Operations Division, UNITED STATES ARMY IN WORLD WAR II (Washington, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1951). .
23 Wesley F. Craven and James L. Cate, eds., The Army Air Forces in World War 11: 1, Plans and Early Operations, January 1939 to August 1942 (Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1948), pp. 24-29. (Hereafter cited as Craven and Cate, AAF 1.)
24 WD GO 7, 25 Feb 24.
25 These data are taken from charts prepared in 1941 by Brig. Gen. Leonard P Ayres which were filed in the Control Division, ASE
26 Annual Report of the Secretary of War to the President, 1938 (Washington, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1938), p. 1.
27 Annual Report of the Secretary of War to the President, 1941 (Washington, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1941), p. 7.
28 These figures are taken from a report to the Under Secretary of War by the management engineering company of Booz, Frey, Allen, and Hamilton, entitled Survey of the Office of the Under Secretary of War, dated 20 December 1941, and filed in the Under Secretary's office. This report will hereafter be cited as the Booz report.