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American Warlords

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by Jonathan W. Jordan


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  ENDNOTES

  ENDNOTE ABBREVIATIONS

  AP

  Henry H. Arnold Papers, Library of Congress

  BCS

  British Chiefs of Staff

  CCS

  Combined Chiefs of Staff

  COHP

  Columbia Oral History Project

  DAM

  Douglas A. MacArthur

  DDE

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  EJK

  Ernest J. King

  EL

  Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library

  EP

  Eisenhower Papers

  ER

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  FDR

  Franklin Delano Roosevelt

  FDRL

  Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library

  FDR-PL

  FDR, Personal Letters

  FDR-PP

  FDR, Public Papers and Addresses

  FRUS

  Foreign Relations of the United States

  GCM

  George C. Marshall

  GCML

  George C. Marshall Library

  HHA

  Henry H. Arnold

  HLH

  Harry L. Hopkins

  HLS

  Henry L. Stimson

  HST

  Harry S. Truman

  HSTL

  Harry S. Truman Presidential Library

  JCS

  Joint Chiefs of Staff

  KP

  Buell-Whitehill Collection of Ernest J. King Papers, NWC

  LC

  Library of Congress

  MP

  The Papers of George Catlett Marshall

  MP-GCML

  George C. Marshall Papers, GCML

  NARA

  National Archives and Records Administration II

  NHC

  Naval Historical Center

  NHC-OL

  NHC Online Archives

  NWC

  Naval War College

  NYT

  The New York Times

  PHH

  Joint Congressional Committee, Pearl Harbor Hearings

  PL

  Forrest Pogue Collection, Murray State University

  PP-LC

  Patton Papers, LC

  PSF

  President’s Secretary’s File, FDRL

  SEP

  The Saturday Evening Post

  SP

  Henry L. Stimson Papers, Yale University

  USAMHI

  U.S. Army Military History Institute

  WP

  The Washington Post

  WSC

  Winston S. Churchill

  Dates without corresponding descriptions represent diary entries.

  PROLOGUE “THERE MUST BE SOME MISTAKE”

  1 Pharmacist’s Mate 2d Class Lee Soucy, interview, n.d., NHC-OL (“crazy Marines”); “Spectacular Air Drama Plays at the Waikiki,” Honolulu Star-Bulletin, 12/7/41; “Navy Is Superior to Any, Says Knox,” NYT, 12/7/41; CINCPAC to Secretary of the Navy, “Report of Japanese Raid on Pearl Harbor,” 2/15/42, NARA/NHC-OL; Arakaki and Kuborn 62–67.

  2 James Powder, interview, 10/19/59, GCML; GCM, testimony, 12/7/45, 12/13/45, PHH 3:1108–10, 3:1509; GCM, interview, 3/29/54, GCML; GCM to Madge Brown, 12/5/41, MP 2:694–95; Toland 201. There are many discrepancies regarding the timing of Marshall’s movements that morning. This account is based on the testimony of Marshall and the few associates who were with him that day.

  3 GCM, testimony, 12/7/45, 12/13/45, PHH 3:1108–10, 3:1509; Katherine Marshall 98–99; “Army Pearl Harbor Investigation,” PHH 3:1448; Pogue 2:229, 3:57.

  4 Japanese Government to United States Government, 12/7/41, Department of State Bulletin, vol. 3, no. 129, 12/13/41; Sherman Miles to GCM, 12/15/41, PHH 2:929; Miles, testimony, 11/29/45, PHH 2:930, 938.

  5 GCM, testimony, 12/7/45, PHH 3:1108–10; Sherman Miles to GCM, 12/15/41, PHH 14:1410; J. R. Deane to W. B. Smith, 6/8/42, PHH 14:1411; Sherman Miles, “Sunday Morning, December 7, 1941,” 12/15/41, PHH 2:929; Leonard T. Gerow, “Memorandum for the Record,” 12/15/41, PHH 14:1409; W. B. Smith, “Memorandum for the Record,” 12/15/41, PHH 14:1410; Toland 191, 202; Prange 506; Morison 3:98–127.

  6 CINCPAC to Secretary of the Navy, 2/15/42, NARA/NHC-OL; Richardson 2–19, quoting Robert E. Thomas, Oswald S. Tanczos, Dave Smith, and Tom A. Beasley, Howard Asa Price, Jr., interviews; Toland, Rising Sun, 212–14.

  7 HLH, memorandum, 12/7/41, in Sherwood 430–31; FDR, Jr., interview 1/11/79, FDRL; Toland, Rising Sun, 223 (“mistake”); Smith, FDR, 508.

  8 Commanding Officer, USS Utah, to CINCPAC, 12/15/41, NHC-OL. Utah had been commissioned as a battleship, but was a target ship by the time of Pearl Harbor, and not moored on Battleship Row.

  9 CINCPAC to Secretary of the Navy, 2/15/42, NARA/NHC-OL; Commanding Officer, USS Oklahoma, to CINCPAC, 12/18/41, NHC-OL; “Report by the Secretary of the Navy to the President,” 12/14/41, FDRL (PSF 59).

  10 Commanding Officer, USS Tennessee, to CINCPAC, 12/11/41, NHC-OL; Commanding Officer, USS West Virginia, to CINCPAC, 12/11/41, NHC-OL; Commander, Battleships, Battle Force to CINCPAC, 12/19/41, NHC-OL.

  11 “Report by the Secretary of the Navy to the President,” 12/1
4/41, FDRL (PSF 59); Prange 506; Toland, Rising Sun, 216–19.

  12 HLS, 12/6–7/41; Pogue 2:222. Note: all HLS diary entries are found in Stimson Papers, Yale.

  13 Foreign Office to Nomura, 11/15/41, PHH 12:137; HLS, 12/6–7/41.

  14 HLS, 12/7/41 (“Have you”); Felix Frankfurter, interview, 2/20/58, PL; Morison 529.

  15 Toland, Rising Sun, 219.

  16 EJK, interview, 5/6/46, KP (box 2); George Russell, interview, 12/11/74, KP (box 11); Francis S. Low, “A Personal Narrative of an Association with Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King, U.S. Navy,” 20, unpublished MS, 1961, KP (box 10); Buell, excerpts from “CINCLANT History,” 1:257, KP (box 5); D. L. Madeira to Thomas Buell, 8/9/74, KP (box 2) (“Hell”).

  17 EJK, portrait, NARA; EJK, interview, 8/27/50, KP (box 8); EJK, interview, 5/6/46, KP (box 2); Neil Dietrich, interview, 12/10/74, KP (box 11); Whitehill 349; Buell 135.

  18 CINCPAC to Walter B. Howe, 12/27/41, NARA/NHC-OL; CINCPAC to CINCUS, “Damages Sustained by Ships as a Result of the Japanese Raid,” 12/7/41, NARA/NHC-OL.

  19 Memorandum, 12/7/41, FDRL (Official File 4675: World War II, 1941, box 1).

  20 ER, This I Remember, 233; Goodwin 290, citing James Roosevelt, interview.

  21 Usher’s Log, 12/7/41, FDRL; FDR and Morgenthau, transcript, 12/7/41, FDRL (Morgenthau Papers, box 515); Tully 254–55; Ickes 3:661; Claude R. Wickard, 12/7/41, FDRL (Claude R. Wickard Papers; Department of Agriculture Files; Cabinet Meetings, 1941–1942, box 13).

  22 HLH, 12/7/41, in Sherwood 432–33; Francis Biddle, 12/7/41, FDRL (Biddle Papers, Cabinet Notes 1941, box 1); Smith 536; Tully 256 (“Sit down”); FDR, Draft No. 1, 12/7/41, FDRL (“world history”). “Infamy” was added in the next draft.

  23 Claude R. Wickard, 12/7/41, FDRL (Wickard Papers, Cabinet Meetings, box 13); Francis Biddle, 12/7/41, FDRL (Biddle Papers, Cabinet Notes 1941, box 1); Ickes 3:662; HLS, 12/7/41 (“1861”); HLH, 12/7/41, in Sherwood 432–33; Perkins 124; Frances Perkins, interview, part viii, 63, COHP (“berth”); Tully 257.

 

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