AMERICAN COMMITTEE ON THE HISTORY OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR Arthur L. Funk, Chainnan Secrf'1ariat find ~'{'IL'R'('Her University of florida Donald S. Detwiler, Serretary PHnlanenf Direrro1'S Department of History Southern Illinois University Carl:~:mdale, Illinois 62001 Charles F. Delzell NEWSLETTER Vanderbilt University Rook Reriews H. Stuart Hughes University of California Robert Dallek at San Diego Department of History U niversjt~ of Californ-ia Forrest C. Pogue at Los Angeles Dwight D. Eisenhower Institute Los Angeles, California 90)24 Number 15 August 1976 T('nn~ npiring 19ifJ Bi1Jliowaphy Stephen E. Ambrose Janet Ziegler L~\.l at New Orleans Reference Department UCLA Library RJ.C. Butow 1975 JOINT ACHSWW-AHA MEETING IN ATLANTA Los Angeles. California ~4 Uni"er~ity of Wa."ihington American Committee is Rohert W. Coakley affiliated withe Center of Military History The annual meeting of the American Committee, held Comite International Hans Gatzke in conjunction with the American Historical Asso­ d'Hisloire de la Demieme Yale University Guerre Mondiale ciation conventio~took place in December 1975. 32, rue de Leningrad Stanlev Hoffmann Paris VIlle, France HarValid University On Tuesday morning, 30 December, the joint AHA-ACHSWW Gaddis Smith session was scheduled: Yale University TeUord Taylor ~ew York City STRATEGY FOR VICTORY IN THE John Toland PACIFIC: AN EVALUATION THIRTY YEARS AFTER Danbury'. Connecticut T('nIlS pxpiring 1977 Chair: Philip A. Crowl, Naval War College Martin Blumenson Army \Var College Harold C. Deut.<;ch The Washington Perspective: Army \Var College Admiral Ernest J. King: Clark Reynolds, University Stanlev L. Falk Office of Air Force History of Maine Mamiee !l.fatloff General George C. Marshall: Forrest C. Pogue, Center of Military History Smithsonian Institution Ernest Mav Harvard University Louis ~forton The Theater Perspective: Dartmouth College Admiral Chester W. Nimitz and th~ Central Pacific Gerh<l.rd Weinberg l1niversity of North Carolina Offensive, 1943-45: E.B. Potter, U. S. Naval Roberta Wohlstelter Academy Pan HeuristiC'i, Los Angeles General Douglas MacArthur and the War in the South­ Earl Ziemke University of Georgia east Pacific: D. Clayton James, Mississippi Tcnn<; rrpiring 1.978 State University Dean C. Alia rd Naval History Division COMMENT: Raymond G. O'Connor, University of Miami Charles Burdick San Jose State University Philip A. Crowl Naval War College. BUSINESS MEETING RohlC'.rt A. Divine University of Texa!i at Austin \Villiam M. Franklin The business meeting was held late Monday afternoon, Department of State (ret.) 29 December. On receipt of the last ballots, just John Gaddi< Naval War College before it was convened at 5:00 P.H., the tally completed~ Col. A. F. Hurley was with the following results: Air Force Academy Robert Wolfe National Archives Janet Ziegler University of California at Los Angeles 2 CHAIRMAN: Arthur L, Funk, University of Florida SECRETARY Donald S. Detwiler, Southern Illinois Univ. at Carbondale DIRECTORS (terms expiring in 1978) Dean C. Allard, Naval Historical Center Charles B. Burdick, California State Univ. at San Jose Philip A. Crowl, Naval War College Robert A. Divine, University of Texas at Austin William M. Franklin, State Dept. Historical Office (ret.) John L. Gaddis, Naval War College Colonel Alfred F. Hurley, USAF, Air Force Academy Robert Wolfe, National Archives Janet Ziegler, UCLA Library PERMANENT DIRECTOR (ex officio as former chairman) Charles F. Delzell, Vanderbilt University 1. TREASURER'S REPORT As of 26 December 1975, there was a credit balance of $605.16. International dues of 500 Swiss francs ($190) for 1976 had been paid. The International Committee had advanced the American Committee $1400 to cover one half the expenses of the conference at San Francisco in August. The remainder, amounting to $703.46, was held in escrow pending a decision as to whether the Inter­ national Committee would partially subsidize publication of the papers. 2. SAN FRANCISCO MEETING IN AUGUST 1975 Concurrently with the Fifteenth International Congress of Historical Sciences, 22-29 August 1975, in San Francisco, there was a meeting of the International Committee on the History of the Second World War. The minutes of the business meeting on 27 August 1975, at which Professor Arthur L. Funk of the Univer­ sity of Florida, then Secretary, now Chairman of the American Committee, was elected Vice-President of the International Committee, are attached, together with the minutes of the subse­ quent meeting of the International Committee, held in Florence in March 1976. As noted above in the Treasurer's Report, funds were being held for dissemination of the papers delivered at the sessions of the International Committee in San Francisco. Prof. Funk explained the responsibility of the American Committee, as organizing committee, and was authorized to proceed with publica­ tion of the papers in coordination with the International .-------------------------------- ------ -­ 3 Committee. (Copies of these papers are now--in August 1976--being printed for distribution.) 3. NEWSLETTER AND BULLETIN In the future, the chairman announced, he hoped that the News Bulletin of the International Committee would alternate with the American Newsletter. Negotiations on methods of distributing the International Bulletin were in progress. During Prof. Rochat's term as secretary-general of the International Committee, he had mailed the International News Bulletin directly from Milan to some sixty members of the American Committee, leaving the rest to be supplied from a sometimes insufficient batch of copies sent to the American secretary in Gainesville. With the inter­ national and American secretariats having moved to Brussels and to Carbondale, respectively, some new arrangements would in any case have to be worked out, Prof. Funk observed. He hoped the eventual outcome would be that members of the American Committee would receive a copy either of the international bulletin or the ACHSWW newsletter every three or four months--each appearing twice a year, in other words, but representing, when taken together, the equivalent of a quarterly bulletin. (The present newsletter, No. 15, the first of 1976, is to be followed by the second, No. 16, later this autumn.) 4. PROJECTS There was extended consideration of the proposal set forth in ACHSWW Newsletter No. 14 (October 1975) by Janet Ziegler of the UCLA Library. Compiler of a bibliography of books published in English between 1945 and 1965 (Hoover Institution Press, 1965), she was now addressing herself to the challenge of developing a comprehensive bibliography of the international periodical literature on the war. Also there was discussion of an undertaking, proposed by Vojtech Mastny of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, to publish recently declassified documentation on the war; of the possibility, raised by Donald S. Detwiler of Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, of establishing post-graduate historical internships in various archives and agencies; and of a University of Turin inventory of Resistance materials in American archives. A number of suggestions were made regarding these projects, but no formal action was called for or taken. 5. FORTHCOMING ACHSWW MEETINGS It was resolved that the chairman appoint a committee to develop a proposal for a joint ACHSWVi-AHA session on intelligence, to be submitted to the AHA Program Committee for the December 1976 meeting in Washington, D.C., and it was also agreed--as the sense of the meeting, rather than as a formal resolution--that planning 4 for the 1977 meeting of the ACHSWW should be continued along lines defined by the chairman in his remarks on the subject. (Subsequent arrangements for both the 1976 joint session and the 1977 conference are reported immediately below.) 1976 JOINT ACHSWW-AHA MEETING IN WASHINGTON, D. C. with the cooperation of the AHA Program and Local Arrange­ ments committees, the annual business meeting of the ACHSWW is scheduled for the Assembly Room of the Sheraton Hotel, 4:45-6:30 P.M., Tuesday, 28 December, and the joint ACHSWW­ AHA session is scheduled for the following morning, Wednesday, 29 December 1976: CODEBREAKING AND INTELLIGENCE IN THE EUROPEAN THEATER, WORLD WAR II CHAIR: Arthur 1. Funk, University of Florida The Significance of Codebreaking and Intelligence in Allied Strategy and Tactics David Kahn, New York University COMMENT: Telford Taylor, Columbia University Jurgen Rohwer, Director, Bibliothek fur Zeitgeschichte, Stuttgart Harold C. Deutsch, U.S. Army War College 1977 BIENNIAL CONFERENCE IN WASHINGTON, D. C. Following discussion of the question at the business meeting in Atlanta, the chairman requested the secretary to serve with two members of the ACHSWW Board of Directors as an organizing committee for the 1977 conference, Forrest C. Pogue, Director of the Smithsonian Institution's Dwight D. Eisenhower Institute for Historical Research, and Robert Wolfe, Chief of the Modern Military Branch of uhe National Archives (and director of the National Archives conference on captured records). Plans are being made, in coordination with the Eisenhower Institute, the MacArthur Memorial Library and Archives of Norfolk, and the George C. Marshall Research Library in Lexington, Va., for a conference in Washington, D. C., late in May, on U. S. Military Government in Germany and Japan, 1945-52. Seminars on the occupation of Germany and of Japan, respectively, have been held at the Marshall and the MacArthur libraries (for "The Occupation