American Airpower Comes of Age

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28. Martin Gilbert, Winston S. Churchill, vol. 7, Road to Victory,
1941–1945 (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1986), 741–42.
29. Ibid., 799; and chap. 8, this volume.
30. Gilbert, 905–6.
31. Ibid., 843.
32. Ibid., 899.
33. Pogue, 453–54.
34. Buell, 469–72.
35. Chap. 8, this volume; and Arnold, Global Mission, 524.
36. Winant to Hopkins, 1 September 1944, FRUS, Quebec, 1944, 254.
37. Stanley W. Dziuban, The United States Army in World War II: Military
Relations Between the United States and Canada, 1939–1945 (Washington,
D.C.: GPO, 1962), 271.
38. Arnold had spent at least one day en route to the conference at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, where he discussed
ongoing scientific aviation developments including advanced radar. He then
proceeded to relax, fish, and visit with his family at Kezar, a nine-mile-long
lake in southeastern Maine, about 60 miles northwest of Portland. Mrs.
Arnold and their youngest son David were spending the summer there and
10 September was the Arnolds’ 31st wedding anniversary. Arnold then drove
from Lake Kezar to enplane at Portland, Maine, on the morning of 11 September.
See Arnold to Dr. L. A. Dubridge, 13 September 1944, AP.
39. Neither person is otherwise identified.
40. The Frontenac is a famous Quebec City hotel where the military representatives
were billeted during this as well as the previous Quebec conference
of August 1943. Now a major general, Kuter was AC/AS Plans and
Combat Operations, AAF Headquarters; Maj Gen Muir S. Fairchild, member
Joint Strategy Survey Committee, JCS.
41. American military protocol provided that the senior officer normally
rode in the right rear seat of a sedan and that except for aides in the front
seat, the senior officer, in this case Arnold, emerge first from the automobile.
No doubt Col Peterson alighted first and the assembled photographers,
unfamiliar with American uniforms and rank, assumed he was Arnold and
photographed him.
42. Royal Canadian Mounted Police were used to guard the conference
participants. Photographs of the conference show the Mounties in the background.
See for example FRUS, Quebec, 1944, plates 1, 8, following page
194.
43. Adm Sir Percy Noble, RN, Head British Naval Mission, Washington,
D.C.; Air Marshal Sir William Welsh, RAF, Head, RAF Delegation, Washington.
44. As they had for the first Quebec conference in August 1943, the
British delegation traveled together aboard the Queen Mary, availing themselves
of the voyage’s five days to prepare further for the meeting. Although
the seas were calm, Churchill’s humor and temper provided a “rough passage”
for many of the accompanying British military. Because of the acri-
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