Description - The The Papers of George Catlett Marshall by George Catlett Marshall
Army Chief of Staff George C. Marshall's Pentagon office was the nerve centre for United States ground and air forces during World War II. This fourth volume covers the 19 months that constituted the heart of American participation in the war, a period during which Marshall was operating at the peak of his abilities as a politician, strategist and co-ordinator. Marshall was undoubtedly disappointed in late 1943 not to be chosen Supreme Allied Commander in Europe - a job that would have been granted to him had he demanded it. But many people, including President Roosevelt, considered him too important to America's war effort and to the alliance to move him out of Washington D.C. As the documents in this volume demonstrate, Marshall directed great energy at maintaining and strengthening the crucial Anglo-American alliance through his participation in the great wartime decision-making conferences at Quebec, Cairo and Teheran, and through his perservance over strategic direction.
This volume also reveals Marshall's efforts to maintain the alliances of army and navy services, ground and air forces, regular and reserve components, home front and combat theaters, military and civilian, and Pentagon and Congress. Army personell increased to eight million by the end of these 19 months, and Marshall moved vigorously to complete the creation, training and transportation of combat units. He continually faced problems of logistics and shipping, research and development, finding exceptionally able leaders and supplying support personnel. All the while, Marshall was planning for the postwar military by advocating Universal Military Training and a united Department of Defense. "You are doing a grand job," he told General Eisenhower at the end of 1944, "go on and give them hell." The same might have been said of Marshall himself.
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