| Description |
xxii, 780 p., [3] folded leaves of plates : ill., maps ; 26 cm. |
| Series |
United States Army in World War II. The War Department |
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CMH pub ; 1-5 |
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CMH pub ; 1-5.
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United States Army in World War II. War Department.
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| Note |
Originally published: Washington, D.C.: Office of the Chief of Military History, U.S. Army, 1955. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [743]-750) and index. |
| Contents |
Introductory: Logistics: the world and the thing -- PART ONE: THE NEUTRALITY PERIOD: Rearmament and foreign aid before Lend-Lease -- War plans and emergency preparations -- The Army and early Lend-Lease operations -- The broadening pattern of Lend-Lease operations -- Widening commitments -- PART TWO: CRISIS: Pearl Harbor and early deployment -- Improvisation in the Pacific -- PART THREE: THE EMERGENCE OF POLICY AND METHOD: Strategy, production goals, and shipping -- The machinery of logistical co-ordination and administration -- Lend-Lease as an instrument of coalition war -- The Anglo-American munitions pool -- The Army's system of requirements and controlled distribution -- The support of overseas operations -- PART FOUR: BUILD-UP AND EARLY OFFENSIVES: Build-up in the British Isles, first phase -- Turning point in the Pacific -- The descent on North Africa -- PART FIVE: THEATERS OF FOREIGN AID: The Anglo-American orbit -- China, Burma, and India -- The long road to Russia, I -- The long road to Russia, II -- PART SIX: THE CASABLANCA PERIOD: STRATEGIC PLANS AND LOGICAL METHOD: War production and shipping: year's end outlook -- Economy and stabilization -- Joint logistical planning and co-ordination -- Casablanca and the strategic-logistical debate -- After Casablanca -- PART SEVEN: CONCLUSION: Logistical planning and its end products -- APPENDICES: A: Shipping terminology and planning data: 1942-43 -- B: Procurement: 1940-43 -- C: Lend Lease transfers -- D: Number of vessels and cargo tonnage shipped from United States to USSR: 22 June 1941-30 June 1943 -- E: Overseas deployment -- F: Overseas supply -- G: Supply responsibilities of the ports of embarkation -- H: Shpping losses and gains -- I: Growth of the service establishment: 1942. |
| Summary |
U.S. Army logistics, primarily of ground forces, in its relation to global strategy; the treatment is from the viewpoint of the central administration in Washingtonb7sJoint and Combined Chiefs of Staff, the War Department General Staff, and the Services of Supply. |
| Subject |
World War, 1939-1945 -- Equipment and supplies.
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| Added Author |
Coakley, Robert W.
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Center of Military History.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Leighton, Richard M. Global logistics and strategy, 1940-1943. Washington, D.C. : Center of Military History, U.S. Army : For sale by the U.S. G.P.O., Supt. of Docs., 1995 (OCoLC)763153227 |
| ISBN |
016001901X |
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9780160019012 |
| Gpo Item No. |
0345 |
| Sudoc No. |
D 114.7:W 19/V.4/995 |
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