Endnotes for Chapter IV
1 Hull, Memoirs, I, 866.
2 Ibid., II, 919.
3 Memo, Secy State for President, 18 Jun 40, Roosevelt Papers, FDRL.
4 Langer and Gleason, Challenge to Isolation, p. 738.
5 Halder Journal, IV, 170, entry of 23 Aug 40.
6 Kittredge MS, Ch. 11, pp. 248-55.
7 A copy of this plan is in WPD 4422.
8 Telg, Dept of State to U.S. Charge, 25 Oct 40,- quoted in Langer, Our Vichy Gamble. p. 97.
9 Memo, CofS for SW, 22 Oct 40, SLC Min, Vol. I, Item 62; Hull, Memoirs, I, 849-50; Langer, Our Vichy Gamble, pp. 100-101. For the August agreement, see Ch. II, above.
10 Memo, WPD for CofS, 29 Oct 40, WPD 4337.
11 Memo, SGS for CofS, 31 Oct 40, OCS Conf Binder 6; Stimson Diary, entries of 31 Oct and 1 Nov 40.
12 WPD Memo for Record, 29 Oct 40, WPD 4337; Memo, CofS for JB, 2 Nov 40, WPD 4337-1.
13 Various papers in AG 381 (11-12-40) and WPD 4337-1, especially Incl to Ltr, CG 1st Div to WPD, 3 Dec 40, WPD 4337-1.
14 Memo of Adm Robert, Fort de France, 17 Dec 41, sub: Confirmation to [Rear Adm Frederick J.] Horne of Robert- Greenslade Agreements, WPD 4337-9; Morison, Battle of the Atlantic, p. 32.
15 Rad, President to Adm Leahy, 16 Nov 40, FDR Personal Letters, II, 1080-81; Tel msg, White House to Warm Springs, Ga., 15 Dec 40, Roosevelt Papers, FDRL.
16 Ltr, President to Adm Leahy, 20 Dec 40, William D. Leahy, I Was There (New York: Whittlesey House, 1950), p. 445.
17 Memo, WPD for G-3, 11 Jun 40, WPD 4232-3; Ltr, TAG to CG First Army, 26 Jun 40, WPD 4161-3.
18 Memo, WPD for CofS, 4 Oct 40; Memo, WPD for G-3, 14 Oct 40. Both in WPD 4161-2. Notes on Conf in OCS, 10 Oct 40, OCS Conf Binder 6; Greenfield and Palmer, "Origins of the Army Ground Forces: General Headquarters, United States Army, 1940-42," in The Organization of Ground Combat Troops, pp. 85-86; Leighton and Coakley, Global Logistics and Strategy, 1940-43, pp. 60-62.
19 In February 1941 the reinforced Ist, 30th, and 44th Divisions were designated Task Forces A, B, and C, and. subsequently, as Task Forces 1, 2, and 3. The above summary is based on various papers, dated November 1940- April 1941, in WPD 4161-3, WPD 4161-4, WPD 4161-6, and AG 381 (11-12-40).
20 Notes on SLC mtg, 5 Oct 40, SLC Min, Vol. I, Item 58; Ltr, SW to President, 12 Oct 40, Roosevelt Papers, FDRL.
21 Kittredge MS, Ch. 12, pp. 295-96, paraphrasing a personal letter of Admiral Stark to Admiral Ghormley, dated 16 October 1940.
22 Notes on SLC mtg, 5 Oct 40, SLC Min, Vol. I, Item 58; Memo of Conv between Gen Marshall and CofS Chilean Army, 1 Nov 40, WPD 4228-7.
23 Stimson Diary, entry of 8 Oct 40.
24 Speech of 26 Oct 40, Hull, Memoirs, 1, 865-66.
25 Stimson Diary, entry of 29 Nov 40.
26 Memo, Capt Haywood S. Hansell, Jr., for Gen Arnold, 25 Nov. 40; Memo, Air Corps for WPD, 29 Nov 40, and atchd statement of "Basic Principles of Employment of the Air Component of the Army in the Order of Their Priority," as approved by Gen Marshall. Both in WPD 888-113.
27 Memo, Adm Stark, CNO, for SN Knox, 12 Nov 40, WPD 4175-15. The first version of the "Plan Dog Memorandum," as it was called, was dated 4 November 1940; copies of both versions went to the President, as well as to the War Department. See Matloff and Snell, Strategic Planning, 1941-42, pp. 25-27, for further details about Admiral Stark's paper and its aftermath.
28 Memo, WPD for CofS, 13 Nov 40, WPD 4175-15. This memorandum omitted from a. the rest of Admiral Stark's phrase, "plus that of the remainder of the Western Hemisphere." Whether the omission was accidental or intentional is not known. The joint estimate of December (see below) restored Admiral Stark's phraseology.
29 Memo, WPD for CofS, 12 Nov 40 (commenting on Navy's 4 Nov draft); Memo, WPD for CofS, 13 Nov 40 (commenting on 12 Nov draft). Both in WPD 4175-15.
30 Memo, CofS for JB, 18 Nov 40; Memo, CNO for CofS, 22 Nov 40; JPC Report, 12 Dec 40, sub: Study of the Immediate Problems Concerning Involvement in War. All in WPD 4175-15. Ltr, JPC to JB, 21 Dec 40, JB 325, set 670.
31 Memo, CofS, for CNO, 2 Dec 40, WPD 4175-15; Kittredge MS, Ch. 13, p. 318.
32 Memo, WPD for CofS, 12 Nov 40; Memo, WPD for CofS, 2 Dec 40. Both in WPD
4175-15. Memo, Lt Col William P. Scobey for Gen Gerow, WPD, 22 Nov 40, reviews
briefly the current status of the RAINBOW war plan,;; and Memo, Col Joseph T.
McNarney for Gen Gerow, WPD, 19 Dec 40, summarizes the currently projected
deployment of Army forces under existing RAINBOW 4 plans. These memorandums are
in OPD Exec 4, Item 5, RAINBOW Plans Folder.
The Navy at this time wished the Army to subscribe to a RAINBOW 3 plan that
the Navy had drafted, but the Army refused to do so, preferring not to commit
itself in any way to the concept of an offensive against Japan. See Watson,
Prewar Plans and Preparations, pp. 121-22.
33 Stimson Diary, entry of 3 Dec 40, reporting his discussion with Knox and Hull.
34 Ibid., entry of 16 Dec 40. The meeting was called by Secretary Stimson in order to establish a common Army-Navy front on strategy to guide discussions with President Roosevelt.
35 Memo, unsigned, 16 Dec 40, recording discussion at Army-Navy conference of this date, WPD 4175-18.
36 Stettinius, Lend-Lease, Chs VI and VII; Sherwood, Roosevelt and Hopkins, Ch. X; Langer and Gleason, Undeclared War, Ch VIII.
37 Pets Ltr, President to Sayre, 31 Dec 40, Roosevelt Papers, FDRL; published in FDR Personal Letters, II 1093-95.
38 FDR Public Papers and Addresses, 1940, pp. 663-72; Hull, Memoirs, II, 920.
39 Memo, WPD for CofS, 3 Jan 41, WPD 4175-15.
40 Memo, Gen Marshall for Gen Gerow, 17 Jan 41, WPD 4175-18. See also Watson, Prewar Plant and Preparations, pp. 124-25.
41 Paper, 27 Jan 41, title: Statement by the Chief of Naval Operations and the Chief of Staff (text revised and approved by President Roosevelt on 26 January 1941), WPD 4402.
42 Baldwin, United We Stand, p. 48.
43 Ltr, White to Reverend Allen Keedy, 3 Jan 41, Walter Johnson, ed., Selected Letters of William Allen White, 1899-1943 (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1947), p. 422.
44 Stimson Diary, entry of 3 Dec 40.
45 WPD study, Jan. 41, title: The Possible Necessity for an Army of 1,400,000 Men and One of 4,000,000 Men, OPD Exec 4, Item 5, Army Folder. The figures used in this study are identical with those in the revised statement of "defense objectives" issued by The Adjutant General on 18 February 1941. AG 381 (2-17-41).
46 Notes on Conf in OCS, 27 Jan 41, OCS Conf Binder 8.
47 Memo, SW for President, 22 Jan 41, and Incl, title: Resume of Situation Relative to Bill 1776, Pearl Harbor Attack, Pt. 20, pp. 4275-80.
48 The ABC-1 report, with annexes, is printed in full in Pearl Harbor Attack, Pt. 15, pp. 1485550. See Watson, Prewar Plans and Preparations, pp. 367-82, and Matloff and Snell, Strategic Planning, 1941-42, pp. 32-41, for accounts of the ABC meetings.
49 Annex III, ABC-1, Pearl Harbor Attack, Pt. 15, pp. 1504-35.
50 Memo, WPD for CofS, 20 May 41, WPD 4175-22; Charts atchd to Memo; WPD for CofS, 15 May 41, WPD 3493-11.
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