Endnotes for Chapter XIV
1 (1) CCS 323, 20 Aug 43, title: Air Plan for the Defeat of Japan. (2) CPS
86/D, 26 Aug 43, title: Preparation of Studies on the Defeat of Japan. (3)
Min, 78th mtg CPS, 24 Aug 43.
2 (1) Min, mtg CCS with President and Prime Minister at White House,
9 Sep
43, ABC 334 CCS mtgs (1-23-42), 9. (2) Min, Both mtg CPS, 9 Sep 43. (3)
Min, sp mtg JCS, 9 Sep 43. (4) Memo, Hull for COPS, 9 Sep 43, no sub, Item
63b, Exec 10. (5) Ltr, B6thouart to Marshall, 28 Oct 43, no sub, OPD 336.2
France (28 Oct 43). (6) Memo, Lincoln for Hull, 21 Nov 43, sub: The
Distribution of French Ground and Air Forces in the Various Theaters of
operations and the Rearmament of French Air and Naval Forces, OPD 336.2
France (28 Oct 43). (7) Churchill, Closing the Ring, pp. 134, 200.
3 SS 143/1, 7 Sep 43, title: Defeat of Japan via the Island of Hokkaido,
ABC 381 SS Papers, Nos. 131-59 (7 .tan 43).
4 (1) CPS 86/1, 13 Sep 43, title:
Studies on the Defeat of Japan. (2) CCS 348, 16 Sep 43, title: Studies on the Defeat of Japan. (3) Min, 82d mtg CPS, 16 Sep 43. (4) Min,
119th mtg CCS, 17 Sep 43.
5 (1) JPS 288, 4 Oct 43, title: Plans for the Defeat of Japan Within 12
Months After the Defeat of Germany. (2) King and Whitehill, Fleet Admiral
King; pp. 444, 532. King had long regarded the Marianas as the most
important objective in the western Pacific but had gotten little support from
the Army until the question of B-29 bases arose. See also Philip A. Crowl,
Campaign in the Marianas, a volume in preparation for the series UNITED
STATES ARMY IN WORLD WAR II. Ch. I.
6 CPS 86/2, 25 Oct 43, title: The Defeat of Japan Within Twelve Months
After the Defeat of Germany.
7 Min, 109th mtg JPS, 27 Oct 43.
8 OPD brief, Notes . . . 111th mtg JPS, 3 Nov 43, sub: The Defeat
of Japan Within Twelve Months After the Defeat of Germany, filed with SS 186
in ABC 381 SS Papers, Nos. 160-95 (7 Jan 43)
9 Compilation of Background Material for SEXTANT [about 7 Nov 431,
prepared by S&P Gp OPD, Tab 4g, ABC 337 (18 Oct 43), 5.
10 JCS 564, 4 Nov 43, title: The Defeat of Japan Within Twelve Months
After the Defeat of Germany.
11 (1) JCS 581, 9 Nov 43, title: Specific Operations for the
Defeat of Japan. (2) JCS 533/6, 16 Nov 43, title: Recommended Line of Action
at Next U.S.-Br Staff Conf.
12 JCS 533/5, 8 Nov 43, title: Recommended Line of Action at Next
U.S.-Br Staff Conf.
13 Ltr, Nimitz to COMINCH, 20 Aug 43, sub: The Seizure of the Marshall
Islands, Item 67d, Exec 10.
14 (1) JCS 461, 30 Aug 43, title: The Seizure of the Marshall Islands. (2)
Min, 112th mtg JCS, 31 Aug 43- (3) Msg, JCS to CINCPAC, 2 Sep 43, CM-IN
1123. (4) JPS 205/5, 30 Oct 43, title: Operations in CPA. (5) Min, 110th
mtg JPS, 31 Oct 43. (6) Min, 121st mtg JCS, 2 NOV 43.
15 (1) Memo, Roberts for Handy, 27 Sep 43, sub: Substitution of Makin for
Nauru in Operation GALVANIC, ABC 384 Pacific (28 Jan 43). (2) Memo,
Marshall for COMINCH, 27 Sep 43, sub: Substitution of Makin for Nauru in
Operation GALVANIC, OPD 381 Security, 186.
16 (1) Memo, Marshall for King, 13 Jul 43, sub: Relief by Army Troops of
Marine Ground and Aviation Units . . . , WDCSA SOPAC. (2) OPD memo for
rcd, 9 Nov 43, sub: Designation of CPA as a T/Opns, OPD 384 PTO, 54.
17 (1) Memo, Marshall for King, 13 Jul .13, sub: Relief by Army
Troops of Marine Ground and Aviation Units . . . , WDCSA SOPAC. (2) Ltr. Nimitz to
COMINCH, 9 Sep 43, sub: Comd Relationships and Staff of CINCPOA and
i1.S. Pacific Fleet-Reorganization of, OPD 384 PTO. (3) Memo, Somervell
for Marshall, 12 Sep 43, no sub, CG ASF files, CofS, 1943 (4), Sep-Dec
43. (4) Ltr, Lt Gen Robert C. Richardson, Jr., to Marshall, t y Sep 43.
OPD 384 PTO. (5) Memo, Handy for Cooke, 20 Sep 43, sub: Joint Staff for ,Adm
Nimitz, WDSCA 320.2 (1942-43), III. (6) Memo, Marshall for King. 24 Sep
43, no sub, OPD 384 PTO. (7) Ltr, Marshall to Richardson, 8 Oct 43, no
sub, OPD 384 PTO.
18 Msg, Ritchie sgd MacArthur to Marshall, 28 Sep 43, CM-IN 19656. (2)
Msg, JCS to Mackrthur, 2 Oct 43, CM-OUT 630. The message was drafted by
OPD. (3) Memo, Somervell for Marshall, 3 Oct 43, no sub, WDCSA SOPAC.
19 RENO III, 20 Oct 43, title: Outline Plan for Operations of the SWPA
to Re-occupy the Southern Philippines, in ABC 384 Pacific (1-17-43), 8-A.
20 (1) Msg, Marshall to MacArthur, 27 Oct 43, CM-OUT 12164, (2) Msg,
MacArthur to Marshall, 31 Oct 43, CM-IN 18860. (3) Memo, Col G. A. Lincoln
for Chief SS OPD, 8 Nov 43, sub: RENO III, with Tab 151 in ABC 381 SS
Papers, Nos. 131-59 (7 Jan 43)- (4) Min, 123d mtg JCS, 15 Nov 43. (5)
Paper, n.d., title: Gen MacArthur's Estimate of the Pacific Situation and
Concept of the Over-all Plan for the Defeat of Japan, Item 9, Exec 17.
21 Quote is from memo, Arnold for Handy, 17 Oct 43, no sub, Book
13, Exec 9. See also: (1) memo, Harmon for Col Greeley, 27 Sep 43, no sub, Book 13,
Exec 9; (2) msg, Arnold to Harmon, 29 Sep 43, CM-OUT 13585; (3) msg, Harmon to Arnold, 5 Oct 43, CM-IN 2880; (4) msgs,
Arnold to Kenney and Harmon, 28 Oct 43, CM-OUT 12536 and CM-OUT 12538; and
(5) Craven and Cate, AAF IV, 244, 263.
22 (1) Min, mtg CCS with President and Prime Minister at White House,
11 Sep
43, ABC 384 CCS mtgs (1-23-42), 5, (2) Memo, Marshall for Dill, 20 Oct 43,
no sub, OPD 381 Security, 192. (3) Miller, CARTWHEEL: The Reduction of Rabaul
contains a detailed description of these developments.
23 Navy msg, 120452, COMSOPAC to CINCPOA and COMINCH, 12 Oct 43, Item 67d,
Exec 10. See also; ltr, Harmon to Handy, 23 Nov 43, no sub, OPD 381
Security, 274.
24 (1) Min, 99th mtg JPS, 8 Sep 43. (2) Min, 101st mtg JPS, 15 Sep 43.
25 (1) Memo, King for CofS, 30 Aug 43, sub: Tentative Plan for an Attack
on Paramushiru and Shimushu Prepared by CG, Western Defense Comd, with Tab
98 in ABC 381 SS Papers, Nos. 96-126/3 (7 Jan 43). (2) Min, 113th mtg JCS,
7 Sep 43. (3) Memo, Roberts for ACofS OPD, 16 Sep 43, sub: Policy
Concerning Garrisons and Bases in Alaska and Operations in the Northwest
Pacific, with Tab 147 in ABC 381 SS Papers, Nos. 131-59 (7 Jan 43). (4)
Memo, Handy for Marshall, 23 Sep 43, same sub, OPD 381 Security, 206. (5)
Min, 116th mtg JCS, 28 Sep 43. (6) Memo, Handy for CofS, 7 Oct 43, sub:
Establishment of Alaska Defense Comd as a Separate Theater of Operations,
WDCSA Alaska. (7) Memo, Marshall for King, 14 Oct 43, sub: Redesignation
of the Alaska Defense Comd as the Alaskan Department and Its Separation
from the Western Defense Comd, WDCSA Alaska.
26 Msg, MacArthur to Somervell, 14 Aug 43, CM-IN 10721.
27 (1) Msg, Hull to Handy and Somervell, 15 Aug 43, CM-OUT 6054. (2) Msg,
Somervell to MacArthur, 18 Aug 43, CM-IN 13773. (3) Msg, MacArthur to
Marshall, 19 Aug 43, CM-IN 14061. (4) Msg, Marshall to MacArthur, 24 Aug
43, CM-OUT 18280.
28 (1) JCS 471, 6 Sep 43, title: Pacific Operations and Availability of
Resources. (2) Min, 113th mtg JCS, 9 Sep 43.
29 (1) Min, 115th mtg JCS, 21 SEP 48. (2) OPD brief, Notes . . . 116th mtg
JCS, 28 SEP 43, sub: Pacific Operations and Availability of Shipping, filed
with JCS 471/1, ABC 561 Pacific (6 Sep 43), 1-A.
30 (1) Msg, Ritchie (sgd MacArthur) to Handy, 27 Sep 43, CM-IN 18992. (2)
Msg, Marshall to MacArthur, 8 Oct 43, CM-OUT 3401.
31 (1) Memo, Handy for CG ASF, 4 Aug 43, sub: Planning, OPD 381 Security,
208.
32 Ltr, Handy to CG USAFICPA, 28 Oct 43, sub: Central Pacific Operations
and Deployment, OPD 381 Security, 257.
33 Ltr, Handy to Harmon, 8 Nov 43, no sub, OPD 381 Security, 261.
34 (1) OPD memo for rcd, 11 Aug 43, sub: Designation of CG Hawaiian
Department as CG USAFICPA, OPD 384 PTO. (2) Ltr, Hull to Richardson, 23
Aug 43, sub: Mutual Orientation (Plans Formulated re Combat Troops), OPD
381 Security, 225. (3) Msg, Marshall to Richardson, 27 Aug 43, CM-OUT
11429.
35 Msg, Marshall to MacArthur, 4 Nov 43, CM-OUT 1289.
36 STM-30, 1 Jan 48.
37 USAF Statistical Digest, 1947.
38 (1) Ltr, MacArthur to All Cmdrs, U.S. Army Units, SWPA, 29 Jul 43, sub:
Rotation of Personnel to the U.S., OPD 330.2, 4. (2) Memo, Stimson for
President, 23 Sep 43, sub: Rotation and Return of Personnel on Duty
Outside the U.S., OPD 330.2, 4.
Memo, Somervell for Marshall, 27 Sep 43, no sub, WDCSA SOPAC.
39 (1) Memo, Col Maxwell W. Tracy, OPD, for Chief Theater Gp, OPD,
9 Nov
43, sub: Rotation Policy, OPD 330.2, 4. (2) Msgs, Marshall to MacArthur,
Harmon and Stilwell, 12 Nov 43, CM-OUT 5526-CM-OUT 5528.
40 (1) Msg, MacArthur to Marshall, 15 Nov 43, CM-IN 9056. (2) Memo, Hull
for Styer, 20 Nov 43, sub: Rotation of Personnel, Book 13, Exec 9. (3)
Memo, Styer for Hull, 25 Nov 43, same sub, OPD 330.2, 4. (4) Memo, Hull
for COfS, 30 Nov 43, same sub, OPD 330.2, 4. (5) JCS 595, 2 Dec 43, title:
Rotational Policy for U.S. Army Units. (6) Msg, Marshall to MacArthur,
Stilwell and Harmon, 29 Dec 43, CM-OUT 10637.
41 (1) Msg, Marshall to Stilwell, 26 Aug 43, CM-OUT 10767. (2) Msg,
Marshall to Stilwell, 27 Aug 43, CM-OUT 11436. (3) Ltr, Arnold to
Stilwell, 28 Aug 43, no sub, OPD 384 CTO, 12. (4) Memo, Royal for Sexton,
1 Oct 43, no sub, OPD 384 CTO, 19.
42 (1) Msg, Ferris to Marshall, 1 Sep 43, CM-IN 511. (2) Msg, Ferris to
Marshall, 2 Sep 43, CM-IN 1111. (3) Msg, Ferris to Marshall, 8 Sep 43,
CM-IN 6163. (4) Memo, Kehm for Chief S&P Gp OPD, 20 Sep 43, no sub, with
Tab 166 in ABC 381 SS Papers, Nos. 160-95 (7 Jan 43). (5) Msg, Kehm sgd
Devers to Marshall, 22 Sep 43, CM-IN 16662. (6) Msg, Kehm sgd Devers to
Marshall for Roberts and Bessell, 28 Sep 43, CM-IN 19807. (7) Msg, Ferris
to Marshall, 3 Oct 43, CM-IN 2617. Message was passed on to the President.
43 (1) Msg, Auchinleck to Stilwell, 22 Sep 43, CMOUT 11384. (2) Msg,
Ferris to Marshall, 23 Sep 43, CM-IN 16829. (3) Msg, Stilwell to Marshall,
24 Sep 43, CM-IN 18684. (4) Msg, U.S. JCS to Br COS, 24 Sep 43, CM-OUT
11385. (5) CCS 327/1, 28 Sep 43, title: Operations From India.
44 (1) Memo, Arnold for Hopkins, 29 Sep 43, sub: Threatened Curtailment of
Air Operations in the China-Burma-India Area, OPD 381 Security, 250. (2) Min 121st mtg CCS, 1
Oct 43. (3) Memo, Marshall for the President, 4 Oct 43, sub: Air
Cargo India to China, WDCSA China.
45 (1) See Ch. VI, above. (2) Msg, Marshall to Stilwell, 20 Aug 43, CM-OUT
8654. (3) Msg, Stilwell to Marshall, 24 Aug 43, CM-IN 18225. (4) Msg,
Arnold to Stratemeyer, 28 Aug 43, CM-OUT 11828. (9) Msg, Br Military
Attach, China, to Field Marshall Dill, 3 Sep 43, OPD 384 Security, 8. (6)
Ltr, Marshall to Dill, to Sep 43, no sub, Item 66, Exec 10.
46 (1) Memo for Actg ACofS OPD, unsgd, 5 Sep 43, sub: Status of Fourteenth
Air Force Augmentation, Book 12, Exec 9. (2) Ltr, Hull to CofS, Air
Forces, Republic of China, 7 Sep 43, sub: Plan for Modernization of
Chinese Air Force, OPD 381 CTO, 176. (3) Memo, Marshall for the President,
10 Sep 43. sub: Telegram to Madame Chiang, WDCSA 38t China Super Secret.
47 Memo, F. D. R. for Marshall, 15 Oct 43, no sub, OPD 381 CTO,
182.
48 (1) Memo, F. D. R. for Marshall, 15 Oct 43, no sub, Item 70,
Exec 10. (2) Msg, Marshall to Stilwell for Somervell, 16 Oct 43, CM-OUT
7334, (3) Msg, No. 389, President to Prime Minister, 16 Oct 43, Item 63b,
Exec 10.
49 Msg, Arnold to Stratemeyer, 21 Oct 43, CM-OUT 9123. The message directed
Stratemeyer to send the two squadrons of mediums to Chennault without
delay.
50 (1) Msg, Somervell to Marshall, 23 Oct 43, CM-IN 14107. (2) Charles F.
Romanus and Riley Sunderland, Stilwell's Command Problems, UNITED STATES
ARMY IN WORLD WAR II (Washington, Government Printing Office, 1956), Ch.
1. (3) Joseph Bykofsky, Transportation Service in China, Burma and India
in World War II, MS, OCT, HB.
51 Stilwell Papers, pp. 233-35. See also: (1) msg, Stilwell to Marshall,
30 Sep 43, CM-IN 21103; (2) Itr, Wedemeyer to Marshall, 21 Oct 43, no sub,
Item 9, Exec 17; (3) msg, Somervell to Marshall, 24 Oct 43, CM-IN 15125;
and (4) Romanus and Sunderland, Stilwell's Mission to China, Ch. X.
Stilwell was informed at SEXTANT by Marshall that in September
consideration had been given in the War Department to his recall and
reassignment to command of the Fourth Army.
52 (1) Msg, Stilwell to Marshall, 18 Oct 43, CM-IN 11139. (2) Msg,
Somervell to Marshall, 21 Oct 43, CM-IN 12040. (3) Msg, Somervell to
Marshall, 21 Oct 43, CM-IN 12672. (4) Msg, Marshall to Stilwell, 23 Oct
43, CM-OUT 10245. (5) Ltr, Somervell to Marshall, 24 Oct 43, no sub, CG ASF files, CofS 1948 (4) Sep-Dec 1943. (6) Msg, Somervell to Marshall, 24
Oct 43, CM-IN 15125. (7) Msg, Somervell to Marshall, 24 Oct 43, CM-IN
15127. (Mountbatten and Somervell did not agree on the possible necessity
of reducing Hump tonnage to carry on land operations.) (8) Msg, Brigadier
L. C. Hollis to Field Marshal Dill, 27 Oct 43, Item 16, Exec 3. (9) Report
to the Combined Chiefs of Staff by the Supreme Allied Commander,
South-East Asia, 1943-1945 (London, H. M. Stationery Office, 1951)
(hereafter cited as Mountbatten Report), pp. 5-7, 26. (10) Stimson and
Bundy, On Active Service, p. 536. (11) Romanus and Sunderland, Stilwell's
Mission to China, Ch. X.
53 Msg, COSSEA 1, Prime Minister to Mountbatten, 21 Oct 43, SEAC
Information Book, Tab 1, ABC 384 Burma (21 Oct 43).
54 (1) JCS 472/2, 6 Nov 43, title: Dir to Supreme Allied Comdr. (2) Memo,
Handy for CofS, 9 Nov 43, sub: Prime Minister's Dir to Adm Mountbatten,
OPD 384 Security, 6. (3) Min, 122d mtg JCS, 9 Nov 43- (4) CCS 390/1, 18
Nov 43, title: Future Operations in SEAC.
55 See Ch. XIII, above.
56 (1) Msg, Marshall to Ferris, 28 Sep 43, CMOUT 13960. (2) Memo,
Timberman for Chief S&P Gp OPD, 13 Oct 43, sub: Second 30 Chinese Div
Plan. (3) Memo, Roberts for Chief Asiatic Sec OPD, 28 Oct 43, same sub.
Last two with Tab 168 in ABC 381 SS Papers, Nos. 160-95 (7 Jan 43). (4) SS
135, 4 Nov 43, title: Re-analysis of our Strategic Policy in Asia,
Summary, ABC 337 (18 Oct 43), 5. (5) See also, msg, Maj Gen Thomas G.
Hearn to Gen Marshall, 4 Nov 43, CM-IN 2881.
57 Quote is from Stilwell Papers, p. 219. See also: (1) memo, Somervell
for Marshall, 19 Feb 43, no sub, WDCSA 320.2 (1942-43), III; and (2) msgs,
Marshall to MacArthur and Harmon, 1 Sep 43, CM-OUT 384 and CM-OUT 385.
58 (1) Ltr, Harmon to Handy, 10 Sep 43, no sub, OPD 381 PTO, 173. (2) Msg,
Marshall to MacArthur, 11 Sep 43, CM-OUT 5567. (3) Msg, MacArthur to
Marshall, 12 Sep 43, CM-IN 9420. (4) Msg, Handy to Wedemeyer, 1 Nov 43,
CM-OUT 65.
59 Quote is from msg, Marshall to Stilwell, 13 Nov 43, CM-OUT
5889. See also, (1) memo, Arnold for CofS, 18 Sep 43, sub: Air Task Force Windgate
(2), Book 12, Exec 9; (2) memo, Timberman for SGS, 24 Sep 43, sub:
American Long Range Penetration Group, WDCSA 381 China Super Secret; (3) msg, Marshall to Stilwell,
30 Sep 43, CM-OUT 486; (4) msg, Wedemeyer to
Handy, 4 Nov 48, CM-IN 2874; (5) msg, Wedemeyer to Handy, 11 Nov 48,
CM-IN 7087; (6) memo, Hull for Handy, 13 Nov 43, no sub, Item 12a, Exec 5;
and (7) Arnold, Global Mission, P. 442.
60 (1) Min, 114th mtg CCS, 21 Aug
43. (2) CCS
828, 20 Aug 43, title: Air Plan for the Defeat of
Japan. (3) Wesley Frank Craven and James Lea Cate, eds., The Army Air Forces in World War II,
V, The Pacific: MATTERHORN to Nagasaki, June
1944 to August 1945 (Chicago, The University of
Chicago Press, 1953) (hereafter cited as Craven and Cate, AAF V), pp.
10-13. (4) Arnold, Global Mission, p. 245.
61 CCS 323, 20 Aug 43, title: Air Plan for the Defeat of Japan.
62 (1) Msg, Somervell to Stilwell, 23 Aug 43, CM-IN 17502. (2) Msg, .Arnold
to Stilwell, 26 Aug 43, CM-OUT 10990. (3) Msg, Marshall to Stilwell, 29
Aug 43, CM-OUT 12229.
63 Msg, Stratemeyer and Stilwell to Marshall, 11 Sep 43, CM-IN 9027.
64 (1) CCS 348, 16 Sep 43, title: Studies for the Defeat of Japan. (2) JPS
288, 4 Oct 43, title: Plan for the Defeat of Japan 12 Months After the
Defeat of Germany.
65 (1) Msg, Arnold to Stilwell, 15 Oct 43, CM-OUT 6963. (2) Msg, Stilwell
to Marshall, 18 Oct 43, CM-IN 11422. (3) Memo, Roberts for ACofS OPD, 30
Oct 43, sub: Bomber Offensive From China, OPD 381 Security, 192.
66 (1) JPS 320, 9 Nov 43, title: Early Sustained Bombing of Japan. (2) Msg,
President to the Prime Minister, 10 Nov 43, Item 63b, Exec 10. (3) Msg, President to Chiang
Kai-shek, 10 Nov 43, Item 63b, Exec 10. (4) JCS boa, 11 Nov 43, title: VLR Airfields (B-29) in China-Burma-India Area. (5) Msg, Arnold to
Stratemeyer, 9 Nov 43, CM-OUT 3611. See also, min, 123d mtg JCS, 15 Nov
43, and min, 124th mtg JCS, 17 Nov 43.
67 (1) Memo, F. D. R. for Marshall, 15 Oct 43, no sub, WDCSA 381 China. (2)
Memo, Arnold for CofS, 23 Oct 43, sub: B-29 Airplanes, WDCSA 452.1 (23 Oct
43)- (3) Memo, McNarney for USW, 25 Oct 43, sub: Production of Engines for
B-29 Airplanes, WDCSA 452.1 (23 Oct 43). (4) Min, 122d mtg JCS, 9 Nov 43.
(5) Msg, Stilwell to Marshall, 14 Nov 43, CM-IN 8594. (6) CCS 401/1, 23
Nov 43, title: VLR Airfields (B-29) in the CBI. (7) Msg, Stratemeyer to
Arnold, 22 Nov 43, CM-IN 13569.
68 Craven and Cate, AAF V, 19-20.
69 (1) Msg, Arnold to Kenney, 25 Oct 43, CM-OUT 10849. (2) Min, 88th mtg
CPS, 28 Oct 43. (3) Ltr, Kenney to Arnold, 29 Oct 43, no sub, Item 9, Exec
17. (4) CPS 86/3, 8 Nov 43, title: The Defeat of Japan Twelve Months After
the Defeat of Germany.
70 See, for example, min, 123d mtg JCS, 15 Nov 43.
71 (1) Samuel Eliot Morison, History of United States Naval Operations in
World War II, V, The Struggle for Guadalcanal, August 1942-February 1943
(Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1950) (hereafter cited as Morison,
Struggle for Guadalcanal), pp. 133, 222. (2) Morison, Operations in North
African Waters, October 1942-June 1943, p. 31 (3) Morison, Aleutians,
Gilberts and Marshalls, App. II.
72 See Leighton and Coakley, Global Logistics and Strategy, 1943-45. LVT (A)
(1) is landing vehicle, tracked (armored) (Mark I) ("Water
Buffalo," turret type); LVT (A) (2) is landing vehicle, tracked (armored)
(Mark II) ("Water Buffalo," canopy type); LCT (7) is landing craft, tank
(Mark VII); and LSM is landing ship, medium.
73 (1) Joint Army-Navy Assessment Committee, Japanese Naval and Merchant
Shipping Losses During World War II by All Causes (Washington, Government
Printing Once, 1947). (2) Vice Adm. Charles A. Lockwood, Sink 'Em All;
Submarine Warfare in the Pacific (New York, E. P. Dutton and Company,
Inc., 1951), p. 123.
74 King and Whitehill, Fleet Admiral King, p. 530.
75 Craven and Cate, AAF
IV, 240, 241, 524, 527, 531.
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