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	Henry Maitland Wilson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 1939 he became commander of the British forces in Egypt, and in 1941 he led the ill-fated Commonwealth expedition to Greece.
		He succeeded Dwight D. Eisenhower as the Supreme Allied Commander in the Mediterranean in 1944 and held that post until December of that year, when he replaced Field Marshal Sir John Dill as Chief of the British Joint Staff Mission in Washington: he was succeeded in the Mediterranean by Field Marshal Sir Harold Alexander.
		Wilson was made a Field Marshal on 29 December 1944 and continued to serve as head of the British Joint Staff Mission until 1947.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Henry_Maitland_Wilson (292 words)

	Joint
		British Joint Staff Mission The British Joint Staff Mission was a body constitued in Henry Maitland Wilson, Admiral Sir...
		Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairmen of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
		Joint effect Joint effect is a causation in which two things that have a common cause, are thought to be cause and effec...
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/joint.html (983 words)

	Endnotes for Chapter V
		One difficulty for the Americans in accepting the British view was that, while the British wished to reserve to themselves the main planning for the European Theater, they by no means proposed to relieve the United States of furnishing a large part of the supplies.
		Wright informed the British Joint Staff Mission on 24 July that questions of the type, amount, and time of supplies for Europe should be agreed upon in Washington on the basis of the U.S. theater commander's recommendations together with those of the British.
		The British were led to include civilian representation because of the interlinking of civilian agencies with their supply procedure for the military period.
	www.army.mil /CMH/books/wwii/civaff/ench05.htm (2361 words)

	AllRefer.com - Wilson, Henry Maitland Wilson, 1st Baron (British And Irish History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		He served in the South African War and World War I and in 1939 became commander of the British forces in Egypt.
		He led the ill-fated British expedition in Greece in 1941 and served as commander in chief in the Middle East (1943–44) and as supreme Allied commander in the Mediterranean (1944–45).
		"Jumbo" Wilson was head of the British joint staff mission in Washington from 1945 to 1947.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/W/Wilson-HMW.html (209 words)

	CH (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		British Field Marshall Alexander was especially susceptible to the Sunrise enthusiasm because he knew that the Germans still had a powerful force in Italy.
		Although the Joint Chiefs of Staff agreed with the British Chiefs that the Soviets needed to be informed, the Americans were anxious about asking the Soviets as it could possibly delay the success of Sunrise.
		Thus, the Joint Chiefs of Staff recommended that Alexander begin talks with the Germans in Bern and inform the Soviets that they would not be present but that they would be welcome at subsequent meetings.
	history.acusd.edu /gen/st/~vincent/page10.html (1138 words)

	John Dill (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Promoted Captain in 1911 he was studying at the Staff College in Camberley on the outbreak of the First World War when he became brigade-major of the 25th brigade (8th division) in France where he was present at Neuve-Chappelle, Alvers Ridge and Bois Grenier.
		Dill's entry in the Dictionary of National Biography makes clear that he was a typically excellent British officer of the period: he was handsome, charming, inspiring, noble and just a bit dim.
		Dill commanded British forces in Palestine (1936-7) but at the outbreak of World War II Dill initially had to watch younger, junior offices be promoted over him.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/J/John-Dill.htm (720 words)

	HyperWar: US Army in WWII: Washington Command Post: The Operations Division [Chapter 6]
		When the U.S. Chiefs of Staff went to London or elsewhere for military discussions, as they did occasionally and somewhat informally in 1942 and were to do regularly in the formal international conferences of 1943-45, they dealt directly with the British Chiefs of Staff rather than their Washington counterparts.
		In addition, the joint and combined machinery throughout World War II contained the committees primarily responsible for assisting the Chiefs of Staff in planning the strategic conduct of the war--the Joint Staff Planners and Combined Staff Planners (JPS and CPS), and also, for the United States, a working subcommittee of the Joint Staff Planners.
		Under the 1942 reorganization the Deputy Chief of Staff, besides acting for the Chief of Staff in his absence and "on all matters generally delegated to him by the Chief of Staff," was to exercise supervision over the General Staff and the three major commands and to deal with budgetary, legislative, and administrative questions.
	www.ibiblio.org /hyperwar/USA/USA-WD-Ops/USA-WD-Ops-6.html (8107 words)

	ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		When British Stuart Mills arrived in Phoenix from his brief stay in New England, Southwest leaders Connelly, Hayward and Al Storrs (who eventually became director of training at Falcon Field), were there to greet him and guide him to the proposed location for the new training field.
		A need for instructors, staff and maintenance crews were instrumental in providing many jobs for individuals in Mesa and surrounding communities.
		Letter from Air Marshal Douglas Colyer, British Joint Staff Mission, Offices of the Combined Chiefs of Staff, Washington D.C., to Governor Sidney P. Osborn, 19 September 1945, Box 30, Office of the Governor, SG 14, RG 1, History and Archives Division, Arizona Department of Library, Archives and Public Records, Phoenix.
	www.public.asu.edu /~icprv/courses/hst498/papers/Roberts.Falcon.htm (3986 words)

	NARA - Military Agency Records - Military Agency Records RG 218
		The United States Joint Chiefs of Staff, known also as JCS, was created as a result of the decision made during the Anglo-American military staff conference in Washington, December 1941- January 1942, to establish the Combined Chiefs of Staff.
		The Combined Civil Affairs Committee (CCAC) was established by the Combined Chiefs of Staff in July 1943, to recommend civil-affairs policies for enemy or enemy-held areas that were occupied by combined operations and to coordinate military and civilian agency interests in such matters.
		The British membership consisted of one representative of the Foreign Office (6), two from the British Joint Staff Mission, and one additional civilian expert.
	www.archives.gov /research/holocaust/finding-aid/military/rg-218.html (630 words)

	HyperWar: US Army in WWII: Chief of Staff: Prewar Plans and Preparations [Chapter 12]
		As understood by these two officers the purpose of these staff conversations is to determine the best methods by which the armed forces of the United States and the British Commonwealth can defeat Germany and the powers allied with her, should the United States be compelled to resort to war.
		Staff conversations should also include an examination into the present military situations of the United States and the British Commonwealth, and also into the probable situations that might result from the loss of the British Isles.
		In numerous British quarters it was felt that the means of maintenance should be to a considerable extent American, particularly American naval units, and on occasion this view found support in the United States as well until the firm recognition of America's priority of concern over the war in the Atlantic.
	www.ibiblio.org /hyperwar/USA/USA-WD-Plans/USA-WD-Plans-12.html (16290 words)

	The American Joint Intelligence Committee and Estimates of the Soviet Union, 1945-1947 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The British JIC, functioning since 1936 under the Chiefs of Staff, was responsible for the preparation of intelligence "appreciations" (estimates) and the coordination of administrative matters affecting the various intelligence services represented on the JIC, particularly the three military services.
		This new agency was to consist of the Assistant Chief of Staff, G-2, the Director of Naval Intelligence, an Assistant Secretary of State, a representative of the Board of Economic Warfare (later the Foreign Economic Administration), and the COI (later the Director of the OSS).
		The Joint Chiefs were concerned about the progress of the Soviets' atomic weapons program and their ability to deliver these new destructive devices against US forces.
	www.cia.gov /csi/studies/summer00/art06.html (9351 words)

	Booknotes Transcript
		BROWN: St. John Philby was born in Ceylon, then a part of the British Empire, very typically English ruling class family, military background, senior military appointments and one of the colonists who went out to build the coffee industry in Ceylon at the turn of the century.
		St. John Philby's mission there was to arrange for Ibn Saud's tribesmen, of whom there were many thousands, to rise and provide a flank guard to the advance by Lawrence of Arabia in the advance on Damascus and Jerusalem.
		Once again, the British were assisting and advising the Americans on the establishment of their own intelligence, foreign intelligence and security services.
	www.booknotes.org /Transcript/index_print.asp?ProgramID=1234 (6931 words)

	British Joint Staff Mission - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The British Joint Staff Mission was a body constitued in Washington during World War II to represent British interests on the Combined Chiefs of Staff when the British Chiefs of Staff Committee could not attend meetings of the Combined Chiefs of Staff.
		The Joint Staff Mission was a triservice organisation and included Field Marshal Sir John Dill, Field Marshal Sir Henry Maitland Wilson, Admiral Sir James Somerville amongst its members during the war.
		This United Kingdom military article is a stub.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/British_Joint_Staff_Mission (116 words)

	Memo. for the President 7/9/41 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		This latter plan has been in preparation for the past ten days, and should be ready for issue to the Fleet the latter part of this week.
		We have discussed this plan with the British Joint Staff Mission here in Washington, and have telegraphed it to London so that the British Chiefs of Staff could advise us on it.
		The British have expressed full agreement with it, except in minor details, and, naturally, desire to see it placed in effect.
	www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu /psf/box3/t33a02.html (221 words)

	British High Command - World War 2
		Eden was a tough and stubborn negotiator for the British and was against giving territiorial concessions to the Soviets in Eastern Europe.
		Chief of the Imperial General Staff from May 1940 until December 1941 when he was replaced due to poor health.
		Brooke replaced Dill as the Chief of the Imperial General Staff at the end of 1941.
	www.secondworldwar.co.uk /brits.html (302 words)

	Encyclopædia Britannica's Guide to Normandy 1944
		When U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill met at the Arcadia Conference (December 1941–January 1942), they began a period of wartime cooperation that, for all the very serious differences that divided the two countries, remains without parallel in military history.
		Anglo-American cooperation was formally embodied in the Combined Chiefs of Staff, which was not so much a body as a system of consultation, reinforced by frequent conferences, between the British Chiefs of Staff Committee and the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff.
		Between conferences, the British Joint Staff Mission, based in Washington, D.C., maintained contact with the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff on behalf of their counterparts in the United Kingdom.
	www.britanica.com /dday/article-9400223?tocId=9400223 (443 words)

	HyperWar: The Supreme Command (ETO) [Chapter 2]
		A week later, the U.S. Chiefs of Staff declared that "the issuance by the Combined Chiefs of Staff of directives to subordinates of the Supreme Allied Commander is unsound." They made clear that the earlier proposal to specify the nature of the ground organization was an encroachment on the powers of the Supreme Commander.
		The British had a claim on this post, not only because the initial assaults were to be made from Britain, but because they had both an army group and an army headquarters organized and available to start assault planning by the time the COSSAC plan was drawn up.
		The British, in the light of heavy commitments around the world and their doubts of the wisdom of a direct attack on enemy fortifications in northwest Europe, preferred to approach the enemy by flanking movements in the Mediterranean theater.
	www.ibiblio.org /hyperwar/USA/USA-E-Supreme/USA-E-Supreme-2.html (7672 words)

	1941: Action This Day - The Churchill Centre
		In his broadcast to the British people on August 24 Churchill acknowledged that the prime importance of the meeting was symbolic - the unity of the English-speaking peoples.
		The meetings of the British and American military and political leaders established the defeat of Germany as the key to victory in the war.
		Expressing confidence in the British Empire’s ability to prevail he declared: "We have not journeyed all this way across the centuries, across the oceans, across the mountains, across the prairies, because we are made of sugar candy."
	www.winstonchurchill.org /i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=221 (1408 words)

	U-boat Archive - Eastern Sea Frontier - February 1942 - Chapter VIII
		The first enclosure was a letter from the British representative of the Ministry of War Transport to Sir Arthur Salter in the OFfice of the British Merchant Shipping Commission.
		The Commandant of the First Naval District stated that the idea of organizing volunteer patrol of small craft was considered good provided certain conditions could be fulfilled; that the primary requisite would be to find vessels sufficiently rugged and seaworthy to perform the duties required.
		As soon as the plan had been approved by the Cruising Club, steps were taken to enlist those who would offer their sailing vessels for an experimental patrol and within a short time 36 vessels had been lined up.
	www.uboatarchive.net /ESFWarDiaryMar42CH8.htm (3623 words)

	US Navy, Strategic Planning
		Plan Gray: Joint Army and Navy Basic Plan for the Occupation of the Azores; 1941.
		British joint Staff Mission Correspondence (Atlantic Area Joint Staff Correspondence); 1941.
		Davis, Vernon E., "The History of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in World War II: Organizational Development." 2 Vols., Joint Chiefs of Staff, 1953.
	lib.uaa.alaska.edu /archives/CollectionsInv/USCtoUSN/USNSTRPL.wpd.html (711 words)

	Middle East Open Encyclopedia: AFHQ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		By the end of 1942, there was a need to unify the Allied forces, since those from the west landed during Operation Torch, and those from the east that had won the Second Battle of El Alamein were now close enough together to need coordination.
		Wilson was in command for just under a year, until he was sent to Washington in December 1944 to replace Field Marshal Sir John Dill of the British Joint Staff Mission who had died suddenly.
		Wilson was succeeded by Field Marshal Sir Harold Alexander who was Supreme Commander and commander of AFHQ until the end of the war.
	www.baghdadmuseum.org /ref/index.php?title=AFHQ (489 words)

	Sir John Greer Dill, Field Marshal, British Army
		Born in Ireland on September 25, 1881, he was the Chief of the Imperial General Staff during the early stages of World War II.
		British Prime Minister Winston Churchill had him replaced because he was regarded as over cautious.
		British Joint Staff Mission to the U.S.A. and Senior British
	www.arlingtoncemetery.net /jgdill.htm (244 words)

	USHMM Information Access (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The United States Joint Chiefs of Staff, known also as JCS, was created as a result of the decision made during the Anglo-American military staff conference in Washington, December 1941-January 1942, to establish the Combined Chiefs of Staff.
		The British membership consisted of one representative of the Foreign Office{Note 4}, two from the British Joint Staff Mission, and one additional civilian expert.
		Useful for understanding the British economic warfare role and activities is W. Medlicott, The Economic Blockade (London: HMSO and Longmans, Green, and Co. 2 vols.
	www.ushmm.org /uia-bin/uia_doc/art/x9-03 (1310 words)

	64 The General Officer Commanding, British Troops in Egypt (Cairo) to the Chief of the General Staff (Wellington) ...
		After consultation with the General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, British Troops in Egypt, two sites appear possible: on the Suez Canal or near Cairo.
		Owing to the late decision not all will be completed by the time of arrival, but I have given orders for priority of buildings to ensure the minimum interference with comfort….
		British Troops in Egypt using NAAFI service, which, if wanted, is available for us.
	www.nzetc.org /tm/scholarly/tei-WH2-1Doc-c6-24.html (634 words)

	Inside the Journals - The Churchill Centre
		There was also a perception that Dill was in ill health, understandably distracted by his wife's lengthy, terminal illness and eventual death in December 1940, shortly after Churchill appointed Dill Chief of the Imperial General Staff.
		He actually served several functions: personal representative of Churchill in WSC's capacity as Minister of Defense; and as representative of the collective British chiefs of staff; and as head of the British Joint Staff Mission.
		General Marshall went so far as to tell Admiral Pound that he doubted if "he [Pound] or your Cabinet associates fully realize the loss you have suffered." Dill's role came to be seen as a guarantor of British commitments, and of special concern, a guarantor of Churchill himself.
	www.winstonchurchill.org /i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=294 (801 words)

	Hiroshima: The Henry Stimson Diary and Papers (part 6)
		The Chiefs of Staff had taken their position at the meeting on Monday [the above mentioned June 18 meeting], and Forrestal and I have agreed to it as far as the purely military side of it goes.
		But there was a pretty strong feeling that it would be deplorable if we have to go through the military program with all its stubborn fighting to a finish.
		"At eleven o'clock Sir Henry Wilson [head of the British Joint Staff Mission in Washington] came in bringing me a hitherto unseen paper on S-1 which was signed by Roosevelt and Churchill at Hyde Park on the latter's last visit there I believe.
	www.doug-long.com /stimson6.htm (2715 words)

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