Endnotes for Chapter XV

1 H. Doc. 263, 81st Cong., 1st Sess., Twenty-Eighth Report to Congress on Lend-Lease Operations, pp. 2, 36.

2 Tod and Croft, Statistics section of Lend-Lease, Table LL-11, p. 20, and Table LL-14, pp. 23-34.

3 H. Doc. 263, 81st Cong., 1st Sess., Twenty-Eighth Report to Congress on Lend-Lease Operations, p. 2; Robert Warren James, Wartime Economic Cooperation (Toronto: Ryerson, 1949), p. 35; Dziuban, U.S.-Canadian Relations, Ch. X, p. 617.

4 The Alaska Highway-Control Div Report 175, ASF and, particularly valuable, the separate volume of exhibits. Both in OCMH Hist MS file. Unless otherwise noted, the material on which the following account of the Alaska Highway is based can be found in the volume of exhibits.

5 Keenleyside MS, p. 25, PJBD 100-2, Organization and Agendas (2).

6 Memo, Gen Embick for CofS, 23 Jun 41; AG 611 (4-24-41).

7 Memo, SGS for WPD, 24 Jun 41, AG 611 (4-24-41).

8 See Ch. VI, above, and Feis, Road To Pearl Harbor, pp. 215-16, 219.

9 Ibid., Chs. 31, 32.

10 Journal of 29 Jul 41, PJBD files; Recommendation 19, 29 Jul 41, PJBD 124-1.

11 Ltr, SW to Hon, Wilburn Cartwright, 6 Oct 41, Exhibit E, Alaska Highway Exhibits, Control Div ASF.

12 Secy Stimson's notes of a mtg in his office on 2 Feb 42; Excerpt from notes of Brig Gen Clarence L. Sturdevant same date; Memo, WPD for CofS, 6 Feb 42, sub: International Highway. All in Exhibit F, Alaska Highway Exhibits.

13 Ltr, La Guardia to President, 27 Feb 42, Roosevelt Papers, FDRL; Keenleyside MS, pp. 2527, PJBD 100-2, Organization and Agendas (2); Mins of PJBD 26 Feb 42, in Exhibit G, Alaska Highway Exhibits.

14 Notes exchanged between the American Minister at Ottawa and the Canadian Secy State for External Affairs, 17-18 Mar 42, Exhibit G, Alaska Highway Exhibits.

15 Keenleyside MS, pp. 29-31, PJBD 100-2, Organization and Agendas (2).

16 U.S. Army Progress Report, 3 Jul 42, in journal of 6 Jul 42, PJBD files; Memo, DCofAS for CG SOS, 29 Jul 42, in Exhibit U, Alaska Highway Exhibits.

17 Paper, title: Airfields . . .-U.S. Army Program of Expansion, 1943-44, in Exhibit U. Alaska Highway Exhibits; Dziuban, U.S.-Canadian Relations, Ch. VIII.

18 Progress Reports of U.S. Army and RCAF members, notably the reports of 20-21 Aug 43, 3-4 Nov 43; and 30 Mar-7 Apr 44, in OPD 334.8 PJBD, Sec. II, Cases 27-34; Recommendation 29, 24 Feb 43, PJBD 124-1.

19 Keenleyside MS, p. 27, PJBD 100-2, Organization and Agendas (2); 1st Ind, Senior U.S. Army Member, PJBD, to ACofS OPD, 22 Jul 44 (basic Ltr missing), OPD 580.82 Canada, Sec. I; Official History . . Alaskan Department, App. K; and Exhibit U, Alaska Highway Exhibits. Last two in OCMH Hist MS file.

20 For a discussion of the relation of the highway and staging route to the strategy of defense, see Conn, Engelman, and Fairchild, Guarding the United States and Its Outposts.

21 Report on the Canol Project, by a committee of the Control Div ASF, Office, CofEngrs, Office QMG, and CG Northwest Service Command, 1 Jun 45, pp. 31-42, in OCMH Hist MS file.

22 A good summary of early air ferry activities along the northern route is Samuel Milner, "Establishing the BOLERO Ferry Route," Military Affairs, Vol. XI, No. 4 (Winter 1947), pp. 213-22.

23 Comment of General Arnold during conference in office of DCofS 17 Jun 41, OCS Conf Binder 18. See also Conn, Engleman, and Fairchild, Guarding the United States, Ch. XIII.

24 Journal of 29 Jul 41, PJBD files; Recommendation 17, 29 Jul 41, PJBD 124-1; Milner, "Establishing the BOLERO Ferry Route," Military Affairs, Vol. XI, No. 4 (Winter 1947), p. 215; Report, JPC to JB 23 May 41, sub: Delivery of Aircraft to Great Britain, WPD 4323-36.

25 See Joseph Bykofsky and Harold Larson, The Transportation Corps: Operations Overseas, UNITED STATES ARMY IN WORLD WAR II (Washington: 1957), Ch. I; and Craven and Cate, AAF I, p. 348.

26 U.S. AAF "Appreciation of the North Atlantic Ferry Routes," 6 Jun 42, atchd to journal of 9 Jun 42, PJBD files; Memo, ACofAS Plans for Senior U.S. Army Member PDB, 23 May 42, PJBD 149-10, Weather Reporting Stations, NE Ferry Route.

27 Journal of 9 Jun 42, PJBD files; Recommendation 26, 9 Jun 42, PJBD 124-1; Keenleyside MS, pp. 27-28, PJBD 100-2, Organization and Agendas (2).

28 U.S. Army Progress Report, 3 Jul 42, journal of 6 Jul 42, PJBD files.

29 Craven and Cate, AAF I, pp. 641-45; Milner, "Establishing the BOLERO Ferry Route," Military Affairs, Vol. XI, No. 4 (Winter 1947), pp. 219-21.

30 Memo, ACofAS Plans for OPD, 1 Dec 42, sub: Projected Airfields, Greenland and NE Canada; Memo, ACofAS Plans for OPD, 2 Apr 43. Both in OPD 580.82, Sec. II, Cases 44, 66.

31 Journal of 6-7 May 43, and journal of 1-14 Jul 43, in PJBD files; Memo, OPD for DCofS, 18 Jun 43, WDCSA 676.3 Canada (31 Dec 43).

32 ASF, CE, Hist Monograph, Province of Quebec, Canada-Fort Chimo, Sec. VI, p. 7, in OCMH Hist MS file.

33 Hq, USAF, Central Canada, History of U.S. Army Forces, Central Canada, CE Exhibit B-2, p. 7 (History of the United States Army Air Field . . . Minneapolis, Minnesota) and Exhibit A12, p. 2 (TAG Ltr to CG's, 25 Jun 43, sub: Modification of the CRIMSON Project), in OCMH MS file.

34 Keenleyside MS, p. 27, PJBD 100-2, Organization and Agendas (2); American Aviation, Vol. VIII, No. 7, September 1, 1944; Alaska Highway Exhibits, Tab W, and fiscal data in historical monographs dealing with the various bases, in OCMH Hist. MS file.

35 Glazebrook, History of Canadian External Relations, p. 427.

36 Memo atchd to Journal of 3 Nov 42; Journal of 13 Jan 43. Both in OPD 334.8 PJBD (420-42), Sec. I, Cases 1-26. Recommendation 28, 13 Jan 43, PJBD 124-1.

37 Journal of 8-9 Nov 43, OPD 334.8 PJBD, Sec. II, Cases 27-34.

38 Journal of 6-7 Sep 44, OPD 334.8 PJBD, Sec. III, Cases 35-46; Recommendation 33, 6-7 Sep 44, PJBD 124-1.

39 Recommendation 21, 10-11 Nov 41; Recommendation 31, 6-7 May 43; Recommendation 32, 24-25 Aug 43. All in PJBD 124-1.

40 ABC-1, Annex 1, Par. 2, Pearl Harbor Attack, Pt. 15, p. 1497.

41 ABC-22, Par. 16, Pearl Harbor Attack, Pt. 15, p. 1588.

42 Ltr, Actg Secy State Welles to SW, 3 Jul 41, and atchd Memo, Canadian Legation for Dept State, AG 336 (7-3-41) Establishment of a Canadian Mil Mission in Washington.

43 Ltr, SW to Secy State, 3 Oct 41; Memo by Mr. P. Moffitt, American Minister to Canada, of a conversation with Mr. L. Pearson, Canadian Dept of External Affairs, in Ottawa, 5 Sep 41. Both in WPD 4543.

44 Edgar McInnis, The Unguarded Frontier (Garden City, N. Y.: Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc., 1942), pp. 358-59.

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