Bibliographical Note

Rearming the French is based almost entirely on documents now in the possession of the Department of the Army. These sources have been supplemented by documents made available by the French Service Historique de l'Armée, by interviews with American and French officers who participated in the rearmament operations and by documents from the latter, by published memoirs and histories, and finally be detailed comments on the manuscript by persons mentioned in the volume.

Primary Sources

I

The two most important single collections of documents used in the preparation of this volume are those of the Allied Force Headquarters (AFHQ) and Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Force (SHAEF). From these collections must be singled out, respectively, the files of the Joint Rearmament Committee (JRC) and those of the Rearmament Division of SHAEF Mission to France. Both of these files include letters, cables, memorandums, reports, minutes of conferences, plans, drafts of plans, and miscellaneous papers.

Details of high-level planning on French rearmament are based largely on the formal record of the wartime proceedings of the Combined Chiefs of Staff and the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff. This record contains minutes of their meetings, together with papers embodying the proposals which they formally considered. The record also includes minutes of the plenary conferences presided over by President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill. War Department records contain message files of cables and letters between the CCS and JCS and the Supreme Commander, between the War Department and the North African and European theaters, and between Allied commanders and Allied planners. Supplementing these are letters and cables exchanged by general Marshall and General Eisenhower.

The author also has drawn on documents made available by the Service Historique de l'Armée and by French officers who took an active part in the rearmament operations.

The sources have been supplemented by interviews conducted by the author with French and American officers in the period 1948-55. (See list at end of bibliographical note.)

II

The principal document collections used in this volume are as follows:

ABC files. A collection kept by the Strategy and Policy Group of OPD (q.v.).

AFHQ files. Records of Allied Force Headquarters. The collection consists of separate files for each of the general and special staff sections. For the present work the richest file is that of the JRC, the section most directly concerned with the rearmament of the North African forces. The files are held by the Department Records Branch, Adjutant General's Office. (DRB AGO.)

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World War I

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World War II

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Interviews

Col. George L. Artamonoff
Col. André Beaufre
Col. Roland de Beaumont
Brig. Gen. Paul Devinck
Col. R. Gilpin Erwin
Col. William Tudor Gardiner
General Henri Giraud
Lt. Gen. Augustin Guillaume
General Alphonse Juin
Brig. Gen. Allen F. Kingman

General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny
Col. André L'Huillier
Brig. Gen. Harold F. Loomis
Lt. Gen. Aimé de Goislard de Monsabert
Brig. Gen. Marcel P&ecute;nette
Brig. Gen. Jean Piatte
Brig. Gen. Jean Regnault
Brig. Gen. Gordon P. Saville
Lt. Claude Tiers
Lt. Gen. Jean Valluy

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