1 Ltr, Somervell to Admiral Emory S. Land 31 Jan 42, G-4/29717-1 16; Draft of Memo for President for Marshall's signature, Hq ASF, Shipping 1941-43, Somervell file. Material otherwise not documented is taken chiefly from Wardlow, The Transportation Corps: Responsibilities, Organization, and Operations.
2 Memo for COPS, 18 Jun 42, OCT 569.14 Losses.
3 Memo, 25 Mar 43, sub: Proposed Allocation of U.S. Shipping, Hq ASF, CofS 1942-43.
4 War Mobilization, rpt of Subcom to Corn on Military Affairs, Senate, 78th Cong, 1st Sess, 7 Oct 43, Subcom Rpt 3, pp. 3-5.
5 United States Maritime Commission Official Construction Record, Vessels Delivered 1939-45 (No. 106) (Washington, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1946).
6 Wardlow, The Transportation Corps: Responsibilities, Organization and Operations, pp. 149-51.
7 Col Marcus B. Stokes, Jr., Shipping in War, p. 5, Planning Div, OCT, Mar 46.
8 Leighton and Coakley, Logistics of Global Warfare, 1941-1943, Ch. IX, contains a penetrating analysis of the Gross-Somervell plan.
9 Memo, Gross for Somervell, Jan 43, Hq ASF, Shipping 1941-43, Somervell File, contains summary of controversy.
10 EO 9054, 7 Feb 42; EO 9244, 16 Sep 42.
11 Ltr, Somervell to Land, 5 Aug 42, Hq ASF, Shipping 1941-43, Somervell File.
12 Memo, Somervell and Douglas, 13 Jun 42, sub: Memo Covering the Interdepartmental Relations Between the Army and the WSA To Form a Basis for Full and Complete Co-operation in Connection With the Purchase, Charter, Use, and Operation of Vessels and Terminal Facilities, Hq ASF, WSA.
13 Memo, Somervell for Hopkins, 14 Jun 42, Hq ASF, WSA.
14 Memo, Gross for Somervell, Hq ASF, Trans SOS 1941-43, Somervell File.
15 Memo, Graham for Somervell, about 30 Jun 42, Hq ASF, Trans SOS 1941-43, Somervell File.
16 Memo for Gross, 26 Jul 42, Hq ASF, Shipping 1941-43.
17 Ltr and Memo, Douglas to Somervell, 9 Oct 42, Hq ASF, Shipping 1941-43.
18 Memo, Gross for Somervell, 21 Oct 42, Hq ASF, Shipping 1941-43.
19 Ltr, Land to Stimson, 18 Dec 42; Memo Roosevelt for Land, 18 Dec 42. Both in OCT, HB, Gross WSA.
20 Ltr, Stimson to Land, 23 Dec 42, Hq ASF, Shipping 1941-43.
21 Memo for President, prepared 24 Dec 42, signed by Leahy for JCS on 6 Jan 43, Hq ASF, Somervell File.
22 Memo, Somervell for Leahy, 2 Jan 43, Hq ASF, Somervell File.
23 Ltr, Marshall to Douglas, 8 Jan 43, AG 334.8, WSA.
24 Memo for Somervell, 9 Apr 43, sub: Army Shipping Situation, Hq ASF, Shipping 1941-43; Memo, Gross to Somervell, 22 Oct 42, sub: Memo from Douglas, Hq ASF, Shipping, Somervell File; Rpt, about 9 Apr 45, title: Data on Shipping Situation, Hq ASF, Shipping, Somervell File.
25 Memo, Land for CofS, 22 Nov 44, sub: Merchant Shipping, Hq ASF, Shipping, Somervell File.
26 Memo, Somervell to CofS, 23 Nov 44, sub: Memo, Admiral Land on Merchant Shipping, Hq ASF, Shipping, Somervell File.
27 See above, p. 85.
28 Hillary St. George Saunders, "The Queens," Life, July 9, 194'5; Harold Larson, Troop Transports in World War II, Monograph 12, pp. 20-24, OCT ASF, Mar 45.
29 Final Report of Troopship Conversion Program, Sep 43 Jan 46, prepared by Maint and Rep Br, 30 Jan 46, OCT, HB, Water Div, Ship Rep and Conversion; Annual Rpt, Water Div, OCT, Fiscal Year 1945, OCT, HB, Water Div Rpts.
30 The information summarized here has been taken from the study, Operating Relationships of the Office of the Chief of Transportation, Army Service Forces, With Civilian Government Agencies, prepared in the Office of the Chief of Transportation, ASF, ASF Hist files.
31 EO 8751, 2 May 41; EO 8926, 28 Oct 41; EO 9830, 25 Sep 43.
32 See above, Ch. III, Lend-Lease Sec.
33 Ltr, Thomas B. McCabe to Somervell, 12 Mar 42; Ltr, Somervell to McCabe, 13 Mar 42, Both in 114 ASF, LL File. Ltr, McCabe to SW, 9 Apr 42, Intn Div, ASE File 400.318, Vol. I.
34 Draft ltr, ASW to Douglas, (filed 10 Sep 42), Intn Div, ASF, File 008 Shipmts, Vol. I; WSA Opns Regulation 23, 25 Nov 42; Memo, ASF for Chiefs Sup Svs, 4 Dec 42, sub: Procedure for Shipmts of WD LL Material for Waterborne Export, SPX 400.3295 (11-29-42).
35 The problems of distribution of lend-lease supplies will be discussed in greater detail in Leighton and Coakley, Logistics of Global Warfare, 1941-1943. This material is based largely on the chapter entitled: Transformation of Lend-Lease into an Instrument of Coalition Warfare.
36 EO 8751, 20 May 41.
37 EO 9165, 19 May 42.
38 see above, p. 105.