Endnotes for Chapter VIII
1 (1) Report on War Aid Furnished by the United States to the USSR, Foreign Economic Sec, Office of Foreign Liquidation, Dept State, 28 Nov 45, p. 19. (2) Official Munitions Production of the United States by Months, July 1, 1940-August 31, 1945 (Special Release, May 1, 1947), Civilian Production Administration (formerly War Production Board), p. 233. (3) Military Intelligence Division, Review of Europe, Russia and the Middle East, I (2 Jan 46), No. 10, estimates 370,000 trucks as equivalent to twenty-eight months of prewar Soviet production. (4 ) Table 7 and Charts 4, 5.
2 Unless otherwise noted, statements concerning General Motors operations are based upon: (1) Chart, Truck Assembly in Iran, seen at head office, General Motors Overseas Corporation (GMOC), New York. (2) General Motors Overseas Operations, The War Effort of the Overseas Division (1944). (3) Statistical Tables, Exhibits "A" and "C," filed at head office, GMOC, giving production figures for Andimeshk, 1942 and 1943, and Khorramshahr, 1943. (4) Intervs with A. S. Clark, General Staff, Foreign Affairs, and Henry M. Halsted, Jr., Regional Dir, Far East, GMOC, 25 Oct 44; and with L. C. Meyer, Head of Boxing and Inspection Dept, GMOC, 28 Nov 47. (5) Pamphlet, Packing Slip Summary: Equipment for TUP Mobile Assembly Unit, prepared by General Motors Overseas Operations. (6) Pamphlet, Methods of Packing . . for Overseas Operations, prepared by General Motors Overseas Operations and submitted to QMG, 5 Feb 42. ( 7 ) File, General Motors: Confidential Correspondence, Miscellaneous General Motors Quartermaster Contracts, NYODF. (8) Ltr, Bruce Harmon to author, 6 Jan 50.
3 (1) The contract was DA-W-398-QM-250, which became W-613-ORD-2930, for a fixed fee of $2,500 per month. 160 Genl Motors Overseas Corp Contract, SL 8982. (2) General shift authorized by WD Cir 245, 25 Jul 42. (3) Report on Overseas Assembly Plants, by Minna Grossman, 25 Jul 45. Hist Sec, OCofOrd.
4 Request for American vehicles for UKCC submitted to Gen Wheeler by CinC, India, 23 Oct 41. Iran 5/13, NADEF.
5 (1) Msg ARMINDIA Q (Ops) VVY/802/Q, GHQ, India, to War Office, Iraq, 14 Jan 42. NA 2051 (Iran DO-1), NADEF. (2) Rad AMSIR 10, 21 Jan 42. MID 400.3295 1-21-42 (1-6-42 ) .
6 The War Effort cited n. 2 ( 2 ) .
7 Rad AMSIR BAG 12, Gen Wheeler to Gen Moore, 14 Feb 42. Folder, MT RepairUmm Qasr, SL X-11,737.
8 Col Shingler, Rpt to American Aid Subcommittee, Cairo, sub: Status of Projects as of April 30, 1942. 334.8 American Aid Subcommittee, SL 9011.
9 Memo 206/77/Q-1 and 206/15/77/Q-1, Hq, Tenth Army, 12 Feb 42, sub: Development of American Installations at Andimeshk. .004.04 AIOC, SL 8976.
11 Folder, MT Assembly-Details of Transport, passim, SL X-11,737.
13 (1) Ltr, Col Shingler to CG, SOS, 10 Apr 42, sub: Status of U.S. Mil Iranian Mission. PGF 70. (2) Ltr, Col Shingler to Dir, Intn Div, SOS, Washington, 3 Jul 42 (cited hereafter as Shingler Ltr), says Bushire work began 3 Feb 42. AG 400.3295 Russia, Hq AMET. Another copy.004.04 Beta Pack Assembly Plants, SL 8976.
14 (1) Memo for Intn Div, 2 May 42. Defense Aid Papers, Russia, Trucks, Drawer 3, Cabinet 67, Intn Div, ASF CCF. (2) Rads AMSIR WASH 146 and 147 to Col Shingler, 2 May 42. AG 400.329'5 (5-9-41) Sec 4. (3) Rad AMSIR, from Basra, 30 Mar 42. Same file. (4) FBI Rpt, 27 Feb 44. MID 451.2, 24 Feb 44 (25 Jan 43). (5) Rad AMSIR 232, 30 May 42. Filed as in (2). (6) Hist Rpt, Plants Br, Opns Div, Hq, PGC, 6 Mar 45, Incl 4, Table, Truck Assembly Time and Cost per Truck Produced at TAP II, Khorramshahr, Period from Jul 43 through 31 Jan 45. PGF 125-Z. ( 7 ) Hist Rpt, TAP II, for Feb 45, 9 Mar 45. PGF 23-Z.
15 (1) Ltr cited n. 13 (1) gives date of beginning work as 27 Mar 42. General Motors records say 26 Mar 42. (2) Table 8.
16 (1) Special Rpt to Home Office, by Col John B. Luscombe, QM Off, USSR Mission, atchd to Weekly Progress Rpt 10, 21 Apr 42. 319.1 USSR, Intn Div, ASF NCF. (2) Folder cited n. 11.
18 (1) Shingler Ltr. ( 2 ) For strength figures, Memo, by Defense Aid Dir, Iran-Iraq Serv Comd, 27 Jul 43. 323.61 Establishment of Military Districts, Binder 1, SL 9008.
19 (1) Alternative explanations suggested by Col Shingler in Rad AMSIR 361 to Washington, 17 Jun 42. 330.14 Criticisms and Complaints 1942, SL 9008. ( 2 ) Rad, Gen Faymonville to Col Shingler, copies for Gens Wheeler and Maxwell, 5 Jun 42. Same file. (3) Rad, Maj. John G. Ondrick, U.S. MA, Tehran, to Col Shingler, 17 Jun 42. Same file. (4) Rad S-309. Col Shingler to Amembassy, Moscow, for Faymonville, 28 June 42. Same file.
20 Sherwood, Roosevelt and Hopkins, p. 576.
21 (1) Memo, 6 Sep 42. DE File C-3, Conferences, NADEF. ( 2 ) Ltr, General Motors Resident Deputy Regional Dir for Indian and Persian Gulf Areas to CG, PGSC, 14 Dec 42. DE File O-1, Operations, NADEF.
24 (1) File cited n. 2 (7 ) passim. (2 ) Memo cited n. 18 (2 )
25 Rad, Sven Dithmer to Gen Connolly, 20 Jun 43. PGF 125.
26 For transition see Ch. XIV below.
29 Rpt cited n. 14(4). The number given is 350 crated chassis units and 100 crated cabs burned in the open desert. Monthly Hist Rpt, Khorramshahr Port and Station, May 43, PGF 16-E, puts the total damaged or destroyed at about 250.
30 Memo, Mente for Shingler, 31 Mar 42. AG 095 UKCC, Hq PGC.
33 (1) Memo of 15 Jun 42 Mtg. DE File C-3, Conferences, NADEF. ( 2 ) Shingler Ltr.
34 Quoted Rpt by Maj C. M. Hearn, Chief, Opns Sec, Iranian Engr Dist, to Iranian Dist Engr, 22 Aug 42. DE File R-2, Reports, NADEF.
35 (1) Handwritten note, Col Shingler to Col Osborne, 14 Nov 42. DE File O-1, Operations, NADEF. (2) Notes supplied the author by General Shingler, 16 May 1950.
36 Army figures. For General Motors figures see Table 7, n. b.
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