Endnotes for Chapter III

1 S Doc 244, 79th Cong, 2d sess, Investigation of the Pearl Harbor Attack: Report of the Joint Committee on the Investigation of the Pearl Harbor Attack, pp. 43-44.

2 (1) Ibid., p. 44. (2) Henry L. Stimson, On Active Service in Peace and War (New York, 1947), p. 563. The "Committee of Three" reorganized its conferences and put them on a slightly more formal basis late in the war. Minutes were kept throughout 1945 and were frequently distributed to the OPD chief. See copies of some of these minutes in ABC 334.8 Far East (9 Nov 44), 4.

3 (1) Memo, FDR for Secy State, 4 Apr 38. (2) Ltr, Secy State to SW, 8 Apr 38. (3) Memo, ASGS for TAG, copies of (1), (2), and (3) filed with minutes of meetings of Standing Liaison Committee, Vol. I, WDCSA rcds.

4 WPD adm memo, 18 Apr 41, sub: Meeting—Standing Liaison Com, Paper 110, Item 2A, OPD Hist Unit file.

5 Notes on Conferences in OCS, I, 70, WDCSA rcds.

6 Min of meetings Standing Liaison Committee, four volumes (15 Feb 38-14 Jun 43), WDCSA rcds.

7 See Secretary Stimson's tribute to Mr. Hopkins in his diary, 5 March 1941: "The more I think of it, the more I think it a godsend that he should be at the White House." Stimson, On Active Service in Peace and War, p. 334. On Hopkins' role, see also Robert E. Sherwood, Roosevelt and Hopkins: An Intimate History (New York, 1948).

8 (1) Industrial Mobilization for War: History of the War Production Board and Predecessor Agencies: 1940-1945 (Washington, D. C., 1947), Vol. I. (2) Donald M. Nelson, Arsenal of Democracy (New York, 1946).

9 Natl Def Act, 4 Jun 20, as quoted in AR 5-5, 15 Aug 28. For Assistant Secretary's and Under Secretary's work, especially in the critical period 1939-41, see: (1) Annual Report of the Secretary of War, 1940, pp. 1-10; (2) Annual Report of the Secretary of War, 1941, pp. 21-46.

10 (1) Edward R. Stettinius, Jr., Report to Congress on Lend-Lease Operations: Mar. 11, 1941-Dec. 31,1942. (2) Stettinius, Lend-Lease: Weapon for Victory (New York, 1944).

11 Memo, WPD for CofS, 23 Jul 40, no sub, WPD 635-50.

12 Notes on Conferences in OCS, II, 310, WDCSA rcds.

13 S Doc 244, 79th Cong; 2d sess, Investigation of the Pearl Harbor Attack: Report of the Joint Committee on the Investigation of the Pearl Harbor Attack, p. 45.

14 (1) Hq of Army GO 107, 20 Jul 03. (2) Memo, WPD for ASW, 27 Aug 37, sub: Relations Between Army and Navy, WPD 3740-1. This paper, prepared by General Krueger and Colonel Gerow, said the board functioned in the years before 1914 with indifferent success.

15 WD GO 94, 25 Jul 19.

16 (1) WD GO 29, 2 Aug 23. (2) JB 301, ser 702, 2 Jul 41, sub: Change in Membership of JB.

17 Memo for rcd, 19 Dec 41, sub: WPD Membership on Departmental and Interdepartmental Bds, Coms, and Commissions, WPD 3797-8.

18 EO, 5 Jul 39, Federal Register, Doc 39-2343. See also: (1) Jt Planning Com Rpt, 17 Jul 39, sub: Mil Order of 5 Jul 39, JB 346, ser 646; (2) memo for rcd, Secy JB, 20 Jul 39, with JB 346, ser 646; (3) ltr, G. C. Marshall, Actg SW and Charles Edison, Actg SN to President, 14 Aug 39, filed with JB 346, ser 646. For the Jt Army-Navy Munitions Bd, see WD GO 51, 29 Nov 22.
WPD supplied a member for the Aeronautical Board as well as for the JB. See: (1) WD GO 20, 30 Jun 24; (2) WD GO 17, 2 Apr 42.

19 For establishment of Joint Intelligence Committee, which was approved by the Joint Board in September 1941, ordered by the Chief of Staff in October, and finally accomplished by G-2 and the Navy's intelligence unit 3 December 1941, see: (1) JB 329, ser 710, 10 Sep 41, sub: Coordination of Int and Establishment of Central Info Gp as Agency of JB; (2) min of JB Meetings, 19 Sep 41; (3) memo, CofS for AAF and G-2, 20 Oct 41, sub: Jt Int Com, WPD, 4584-3 (the action on this memorandum was taken by General Gerow); (4) min of meetings 1st Jt Int Com, 3 Dec 41, copy filed WPD 4584-6.

20 An example was the attempt to revise the Joint Board publication of 1935, Joint Action. See n. 23.

21 For official description of the Joint Board system at the beginning of U. S. participation in the war, see WD GO 6, 23 Jan 42. For Joint Chiefs of Staff, see Ch. VI.

22 Guides for WPD Officers to Supplement the Green Book, 1941, a semiofficial handbook of administrative methods, Item 4, OPD Hist Unit file.

23 (1) WD GO 94, 25 Jul 19. (2) Cf. lecture, Maj G. V. Strong, Army Industrial College, 8 Oct 29, title: Orgn and Functions of WPD, GS, and Jt Army-Navy Bd, WPD 2722-1. See also Joint Action of the Army and Navy (Washington, 1935), par. 128. This publication, prepared by the Joint Board in 1927 and revised in 1935, was issued by the Government Printing Office. It recorded the principal agreements about interservice collaboration until the approach of World War II spurred Army-Navy planning.

24 (1) JB 301, ser 689, 5 May 41, sub: Reorgn of Jt Planning Com. (2) WPD adm memo [May 41], sub: Orgn and Functions of WPD, Paper 103, Item 2A, OPD Hist Unit file. WPD considered that by virtue of the May reorganization, the "entire personnel of the War Plans Division become temporary working members of the Joint Planning Committee." The paper reorganizing the planning committee was approved by the Joint Board 8 May 1941. See memo, Lt Col W. P. Scobey, Secy JB for ACofS WPD, 9 May 41, sub: Reorgn of Jt Planning Com, filed with JB 301, ser 689.

25 For initiation of correspondence, see Winston S. Churchill, The Gathering Storm (Boston, 1948), pp. 440-41.

26 See Ch. IV.

27 (1) Note, Secy British Mil Mission in Washington, 18 May 41, sub: Apmts to British Mil Mission in Washington, incl with memo, WPD for CofS, 20 May 41, same sub, WPD 4402-10. (2) Memo, WPD for G-4, 8 Jul 41, sub: Methods of Collaboration Between U. S. Army and Navy and British Mil Mission in Washington, WPD 4402-29.

28 For designation of WPD as Army liaison, see: (1) memo, WPD for CofS, 13 May 41, sub: Liaison with British, WPD 4402-10; (2) AG ltr, 26 Jul 41, sub: Liaison with British Jt Stf Mission in Washington, AG 334.8 British Supply Council in North America (7-9-41) MC-E-M.

29 (1) Draft Joint Board paper, 16 May 41, title: Collaboration Between U. S. Mil Servs and British Mil Mission in Washington, WPD 4402-29. (2) For approval by the Chief of Staff and Chief of Naval Operations, see ltr, Secy for Collaboration to Secy British Mil Mission, 3 Jun 41, sub: Methods of Collaboration . . ., WPD 4402-29. (3) For British approval, see ltr, Jt Secys British Mil Mission in Washington to Secy for Collaboration, 10 Jun 41, no sub, WPD 4402-29.

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