Guide to Footnotes
An explanation concerning the method of documentation is necessary to facilitate the identification and location of material cited in this volume. In general, footnotes include the following: the sender, the addressee, date, subject, the file in which the document is located, and the classification number and/or the subject of the folder in which it is found. When a single location applies to several cited documents, it appears after the last citation to which it applies.
Documents most frequently cited are the letter (Ltr), correspondence between individuals or agencies; the memorandum (Memo), used chiefly for correspondence within headquarters, but also for correspondence between headquarters; the report (Rpt), review of a specific subject or development for a given period; the historical report (Hist Rpt); the historical record (Hist Rcd); the indorsement (Ind), used extensively in official Army correspondence as a substitute for separate memoranda; the informal routing slip (IRS), used to transmit comments informally regarding a document being circulated within a headquarters; the inclosure (Incl), a document attached to basic or covering correspondence; the radiogram (Rad); and minutes (Min) of meetings.
The principal record collections cited and their locations are as follows:
OCT—Records of the Office of the Chief of Transportation, at present in custody of the Departmental Records Branch, Adjutant General’s Office (DRB AGO).
OCT HB—Records of the Historical Branch (at one time called the Historical Unit) of the Office of the Chief of Transportation, now in the custody of the Office of the Chief of Transportation.
AG—Records of Adjutant General’s Office, in custody of DRB AGO.
AG ETO—Records collected by the Historical Section, European Theater of Operations, and transferred intact to DRB AGO in 1946.
ASF—Records of Army Service Forces, now in custody of DRB AGO.
KCRC AGO—Overseas Organizations Records, formerly in St. Louis and presently in the custody of the Kansas City Records Center, AGO. Documents in this depository are located by citing the body of theater records to which they belong, the specific headquarters file in which they are found, and the decimal number and/or subject of the folder in which it resides. An example is IBT Trans Sec 372.4 Z of LofC, KCRC AGO.
OCMH Files—A collection of historical manuscripts, correspondence, and miscellaneous records of the Army and related services, now in custody of the Office of the Chief of Military History.
OPD—Records of the Operations Division, War Department General Staff. Most OPD documents cited in this volume are in the custody of DRB AGO, but a special file, identified by the initials ABC, is in the custody of the Assistant Chief of Staff, G-3, Department of the Army.
Occasional references to other records will be found in the footnotes: WDCSA,
Chief of Staff; OCS, Office of the Chief of Staff; WPD, War Plans Division of the General Staff; G-4, Supply and Evacuation Section of the General Staff; OQMG, Office of the Quartermaster General; SGO, Surgeon General’s Office; and JAG, Judge Advocate General. All these records are now in the custody of DRB AGO. Documents from the records of the Commander in Chief, U.S. Fleet (COMINCH) and Navy manuscript materials are available in the Naval Records and History Division. Other materials cited include those at present in custody of the Historical Division of the Surgeon General’s Office (SGO Hist Div), the Historical Section of the Chief of Ordnance, and the personal file of the former Director of Plans and Operations of the Army Service Forces, Maj. Gen. LeRoy Lutes (Lutes File).
Where minutes and papers of the Joint Board (JB), the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS), the Combined Chiefs of Staff (CCS), and their various committees are cited without location, they will be found in the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Research and Analysis Section. Bound printed records of the proceedings of the ARCADIA, Casablanca, TRIDENT, QUADRANT, and SEXTANT Conferences are available in DRB AGO.
Monographs prepared in the Historical Branch, Office of the Chief of Transportation, as part of its wartime program are cited by number only. The authors and titles will be found in the Bibliographical Note. These monographs are in the records of the Historical Branch, OCT. Published letters of The Adjutant General and Technical Manuals (TM) cited without location may be found in the Army Publications Service Branch, AGO.
To economize on space, abbreviations have been used heavily in citing identifying data in footnotes. For the same reason, names, titles, and other information given in the text or appearing in preceding footnotes are frequently omitted from footnote citations. Footnotes have often been consolidated because of space limitations and sometimes refer to statements immediately following as well as those preceding. Where a file contains a number of documents relating to a subject, only the more significant documents have been cited. Reference to the files will often disclose details that it has not been possible to include in the text.