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ALLIED MASTER STRATEGISTS ALLIED MASTER STRATEGISTS THE COMBINED CHIEFS OF STAFF IN WORLD WAR II DAVID RIGBY Naval Institute Press • Annapolis, Maryland Naval Institute Press 291 Wood Road Annapolis, MD 21402 © 2012 by David Rigby All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Rigby, David. Allied master strategists : the Combined Chiefs of Staff in World War II / David Rigby. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-61251-304-1 1. Combined Chiefs of Staff (U.S. and Great Britain) 2. World War, 1939-1945 —United States. 3. World War, 1939-1945—Great Britain. 4. Military planning—United States—History— 20th century. 5. Military planning—Great Britain—History—20th century. 6. United States—Military relations—Great Britain. 7. Great Britain—Military relations—United States. 8. Strategy—History—20th century. I. Title. D769.25.R54 2012 940.54’12—dc23 2012025617 This paper meets the requirements of ANSI/NISO z39.48-1992 (Permanence of Paper). 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 First printing For Anne CONTENTS List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction 1The Combined Chiefs of Staff: Principals 2Organization, Anatomy of a Summit Conference, and Home Base 3The Combined Chiefs of Staff and the War in the Pacific 4Related Advantages: Working with Allies and Mobilizing Fully 5The Combined Chiefs of Staff and Overlord 6Keeping the Armchair Strategists at Bay 7Delegation versus Control from the Center 8Production and Diplomatic Tasks for the Combined Chiefs Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index ILLUSTRATIONS Photos Hap Arnold Field Marshal Brooke Sir Andrew Cunningham, foreground, with American vice admiral H. Kent Hewitt Sir John Dill Ernest J. King William D. Leahy General Marshall Sir Charles Portal Admiral Pound with his CCS colleagues Generals Marshall and Dill with the president and the prime minister The Combined Chiefs of Staff, and some aides, at the Casablanca Conference The Combined Chiefs of Staff (minus Admiral Leahy and Field Marshal Dill) at Casablanca Douglas builds B-17s at Long Beach B-24Ds on the line in the Consolidated-Vultee plant in Fort Worth, Texas Maps 1. The Pacific Theater 2. The European Theater Tables 1-1. Rank, Age, and Appointment Date of CCS Priciples 2-1. The British Joint Staff Mission in Washington 2-2. The Combined Planning Staff 54 Figure 2-1. The Combined Chiefs of Staff Organization in July 1942 PREFACE I was motivated to write about the Combined Chiefs of Staff because this organization, particularly its principal members, contributed tremendously to the success of the British-American alliance in World War II. The Combined Chiefs are mentioned and discussed in many histories of that war. However, I felt that the Combined Chiefs of Staff deserved a book of their own. As regards the principal members of the Combined Chiefs of Staff, these were great men. They are my heroes. I only wish that God had given them a better writer to tell their story. For now, however, they are stuck with me. —David Rigby, December 2011

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Calling the Combined Chiefs of Staff the glue that held the British-American alliance together in World War II, David Rigby describes the vital contributions to Allied victory made by the organization, which drew its members from the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, the British Chiefs of Staff Committee,
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