United States Army in World War II
The War Department

Global Logistics and Strategy: 1940-1943

by
Richard M. Leighton
and
Robert W. Coakley

 

This volume is "under development" and will be completed as time allows...


. . . For Those Who Served


Contents


Chapter Page
INTRODUCTORY: LOGISTICS--THE WORD AND THE THING 3
    The Revolution in Warfare 3
   
   
  Part One: The Neutrality Period  
I. REARMAMENT AND FOREIGN AID BEFORE LEND-LEASE 21
    The Peacetime Logistical Establishment 21
   
II. WAR PLANS AND EMERGEREPARATIONS 46
   
III. THE ARMY AND EARLY LEND-LEASE OPERATIONS 76
   
IV. THE BROADENING PATTERN OF LEND-LEASE OPERATIONS 97
   
V. WIDENING COMMITMENTS 117
   
  Part Two: Crisis  
VI. PEARL HARBOR AND EARLY DEPLOYMENT 143
   
VII. IMPROVISATION IN THE PACIFIC 166
   
  Part Three: The Emergence of Policy and Method  
VIII. STRATEGY, PRODUCTION GO AND SHIPPING 195
   
IX. THE MACHINERY OF LOGISTICAL COORDINATION AND ADMINISTRATION 213
   
X. LEND-LEASE AS AN INSTRUCMENT OF COALITION WARFARE 247
   
XI. THE ANLGO-AMERICAN MUNITIONS POOL 270
   
XII. THE ARMY''S SYSTEM OF REQUIREMENTS AND CONTROLLED DISTRIBUTION 295
   
XIII. THE SUPPORT OF OVERSEAS OPERATIONS 317
   
  Part Four: Build-up and Early Offensives  
XIV. BUILD-UP IN THE BRITISH ISLES--FIRST PHASE 353
   
XV. TURNING POINT IN THE PACIFIC 388
   
XVI. THE DESCENT ON NORTH AFRICA 417
   
XVII. FOLLOW-UP IN NORTH AFRICA 456
   
  Part Five: Theaters of Foreign Aid  
XVIII. THE ANGLO-AMERICAN ORBIT 491
   
XIX. CHINA, BURMA, AND INDIA 525
   
XX. THE LONG ROAD TO RUSSIA--I 551
   
XXI. THE LONG ROAD TO RUSSIA--II 574
   
  Part Six: the Casablanca Period--Strategic Plans and Logistical Method  
XXII. WAR PRODUCTION AND SHIPPING: YEAR'S END OUTLOOK 601
   
XXIII. ECONOMY AND STABILIZATION 632
   
XXIV. JOINT LOGISTICAL PLANNING AND COORDINATION 649
   
XXV. CCASABLANCA AND THE STRATEGIC-LOGISTICAL DEBATE 661
   
XXVI. AFTER CASABLANCA 687
   
  Part Seven: Conclusion  
XXVII. LOGISTICAL PLANNING AND ITS END PRODUCTS 709

Appendixes

A. SHIPPING GERMINOLOGY AND PLANNING DATA: 1942-43 722
 
B. PROCUREMENT: 1940-43 728
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C. LEND-LEASE TRANSFERS 730
 
D. NUMBER OF VESSELS AND CARGO TONNAGE SHIPPED FROM UNITED STATES TO USSR: 22 JUNE 1941-30 JUNE 1943 731
 
E. OVERSEAS DEPLOYMENT 732
 
F. OVERSEAS SUPPLY 734
 
G. SUPPLY RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE PORTS OF EMBARKATION 740
 
H. SHIPPING LOSSES AND GAINS 741
 
I. GROWTH OF THE SERVICE ESTABLISHMENT: 1942 742
 
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE AND GUIDE TO FOOTNOTES 743
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS 751
GLOSSARY OF CODE NAMES 756
INDEX 759

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1. Logistics of British Imperial Defense, 1940-41 47
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Illustrations

1 Army and Navy Munitions Board, June 1941 31
  The illustrations on pages 218 an 219 are from the U.S. Maritime Commission.
All others are from the Department of Defense files.



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