II, on the development of CONARC, and on the background and events leading to the establishment in 1962 of the Defense Supply Agency. Without Dr. Coakley's guidance and assistance it would have been almost impossible to prepare this volume. Dr. Stetson Conn, Chief Historian during most of the period the undersigned was writing this work, assisted by providing information on the organization of the War Department before and during World War II. Miss Hannah M. Zeidlik, Deputy Chief of the General Reference Branch, was most helpful in locating historical manuscripts on file in that branch, particularly those relating to the General and Special Staffs, AGF, and ASF during World War II. Mrs. Hazel Ward, head of the Military Records Branch of the National Archives until her retirement in 1973, provided the source material employed in those sections dealing with departmental administration from 1945 to 1955. In tracing the growth of the Army's research and development programs after World War II the author has relied heavily upon an excellent and detailed draft manuscript by Mr. L. Van Loan Naisawald of the Office of the Chief of Research and Development. Mr. Maxey O. Stewart, now retired, guided the writer through the files of Project 80 on the 1962 reorganization of the Army along with Col. Edward McGregor, U.S. Army, retired, Col. Lewis J. Ashley, Maj. Gen. Donnelly P. Bolton, and Lt. Gen. John A. Kjellstrom, now Comptroller of the Army, all of whom were members of the Project 80 team. Mr. Stewart's personal files, now in CMH, contain important material concerning departmental administration and management from 1950 to the mid-1960s. Miss Annie Seely of the Reference Branch in the Photographic Library of the Army's Audio-Visual Agency located all but one of the photographs, that of Secretary Stimson in 1911, which came from the National Archives. Maj. Edward M. Kaprielian, Chief of CMH's Graphics Branch, and his staff prepared the charts for this book. Mr. Roger D. Clinton also prepared two special organization charts illustrating personnel management and research and development during World War II. The author is much obliged to the people who assisted in providing the data for Appendix B: Miss Esther D. Byrne, now retired, who prepared the list of Secretaries, Under Secretaries, and Assistant Secretaries of the Army; Mr. Detmar H. Finke, Chief of the General Reference Branch, CMH, and his staff; and Mrs. Sylvia A. Crabtree, a personal friend who gave generously of her free time to the project. In addition to Dr. Coakley who read and criticized several drafts, Professor Alfred D. Chandler, Jr.; Col. John E. Jessup, Jr., Chief of the Histories Division; Dr. Maurice Matloff, Chief Historian; Dr. Walter G. Hermes, Chief of the Staff Support Branch; Lt. Col. Heath Twitchell; Mr. Alfred M. Beck; and my colleague, Dr. Vincent C. Jones, read and commented on the manuscript. Mr. David Jaffé, senior editor, and Mrs. Barbara H. Gilbert, copy editor, worked on the final draft. Mrs. Dorothy B. Speight patiently labored to decipher the author's handwriting and mangled copy in typing the several drafts through which this manuscript has gone. The index was compiled by Miss Margaret L. Emerson. The responsibility for the final product, of course, is the author's alone. Washington, D.C. 15 January 1974 JAMES E. HEWES, JR. Creation of the New General Staff, 1900–1903 The Early Years of the General Staff, 1904-1917 World War I: The Bureau Period, 1917-1918 World War I: The March Period, 1918-1919 Research and Development of New Matériel IV. THE EISENHOWER REORGANIZATION Army Ground Forces and Unity of Command Planning for a Logistics Command The Johnston Plan and War Department Circular The Cresap, McCormick and Paget Survey SR 10-5-1 and SR 10-500-1, 11 April 1950 Page A. PRINCIPAL LAWS AND REGULATIONS GOVERNING LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS INDEX 379 411 429 433 Charts No. 1. The War Department, Late 1917 2. The War Department General Staff, 26 August 1918 4. Organization of the Army (the Marshall Reorganization), 5. The Operations Division, War Department General Staff, 6. Organization of the Army Ground Forces, October 1943 10. Responsibility for Research and Development of New 12. Long-Range Organization Plan for Army Service Forces, October-November 1943 121 11. The Marshall-Collins Plan for a Unified Department of the Armed Forces, 19 October 1945 13. Postwar Organization, Army Service Forces, Proposed by ASF Headquarters, 15 July 1944 14. Organization of the War Department, 11 June 1946 15. The National Military Establishment, 1947 16. Organization of the Department of the Army, 10 March 1948 173 17. Organization of the Department of the Army, 18. Organization of the Department of the Army, 11 April 1950 19. The Bendetsen Plan, 22 October 1952 20. Secretary of the Army's (the Slezak) Plan, 14 June 1954 |