United States Army in World War II
The War Department

Global Logistics and Strategy: 1943-1945

by
Robert W. Coakley
and
Richard M. Leighton

 

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


. . . For Those Who Served


Contents


Appendixes

Chapter Page
  Part One: Backdrop  
I. LOGISTICS AND STRATEGY, SPRING 1943 3
    The Aftermath of Casablanca 6
    Assault Shipping:ool of Amphibious Strategy
    Divergent Strategies
II. HUSKY AND BOLERO 31
   
III. TRIDENT 57
   
  Part Two: Organization and Method  
IV. LOGISTICAL ORGANIZATION 89
   
V. ARMY REQUIREMENTS, 1943-44 109
   
VI. THE MECHANICS OF WHOLESALE DISTRIBUTION 135
   
  Part Three: The Mediterran in the Global War (June-December 1943)  
VII. OUTLINE OVERLORD AND THE INVASION OF ITALY 173
   
VIII. SFIRST QUEBEC 198
   
IX. BOG-DOWN IN THE MEDITERRANEAN 222
   
X. SHIPS, LANDING CRAFT, AND STRATEGY 246
   
XI. THE CAIRO-TEHRAN CONFERENCE 271
   
XII. INVENTORY AND AFTERMATH 297
   
  Part Four: Final Assault on Europe  
XIII. OVERLORD AND ANVIL 321
   
XIV. THE OVERLORD-ANVIL BUILD-UP 351
   
XV. THE AFTERMATH OF OVERLORD 369
   
  Part Five: The War Against Japan, 1943-44  
XVI. PACIFIC STRATEGY AND ITS MATERIAL BASES 417
   
XVII. JOINT LOGISTICS IN PACIFIC OPERATIONS: THE CONTINENTAL SYSTEM 417
   
XVIII. JOINT LOGISTICS IN THE PACIFIC THEATERS 435
   
XIX. SHIPPING IN THE PACIFIC WAR 455
   
XX. SUPPLYING THE ARMY IN PACIFIC THEATERS 471
   
XXI. CHINA, BURMA, AND INDIA 500
   
  Part Six: Shift to a One-Front War  
XXII. STRESSES AND STRAINS OF A TWO-FRONT WAR 533
   
XXIII. THE PACIFIC IN TRANSITION 563
   
XXIV. LOGISTICS OF A ONE-FRONT WAR 649
   
  Part Seven: Foreign Aid  
XXV. LEND-LEASE AND THE COMMON POOL 627
   
XXVI. THE END OF THE COMMON POOL 656
   
XXVII. AID TO THE USSR IN THE LATER WAR YEARS 671
   
XXVIII. MILITARY SUPPLY TO LIBERATED AND LATIN AMERICAN NATIONS 700
   
XXIX. LEND-LEASE TO CHINA, 1943-45 725
   
XXX. THE ARMY AND CIVILIAN SUPPLY--I 737
   
XXX1. THE ARMY AND CIVILIAN SUPPLY--II 763
   
  Part Eight: Conclusion  
XXXII. LOGISTICS AND STRATEGY IN WORLD WAR II 795
   
A. SHIPPING TERMINOLOG PLANNING A: 1943-45 821
 
B. LANDING CRAFT 826
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C. ARMY PROCUREMENT 830
 
D. OVERSEAS DEPLOYMENT AND SUPPORT 834
 
E. THE DIVISION AND AIR GROUP SLICE 839
 
F. MERCHANT SHIPPING 842
 
G. LEND-LEASE 845
 
H. CIVILIAN SUPPLY 849
 
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE AND GUIDE TO FOOTNOTES 851
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS 858
GLOSSARY OF CODE NAMES 866
INDEX 871

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Illustrations

1 Attack Troop Transport (APA) 12
  The illustration on pages 490 originnaly appeared in Yank. All other illustrations are from the files of the Department of Defense or the National Archives.



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