American Airpower Comes of Age

AMERICAN AIRPOWER COMES OF AGE
78. The printed account of the JCS meeting is in FRUS, Potsdam, vol. 2,
271–72; and that of the CCS in 292–94. Neither set of minutes referred to
issues relevant to the AAF.
79. As indicated above, Arnold was fully aware that this had already
been accomplished and probably included this comment in order to confuse
any unauthorized persons who gained access to the diary.
80. A brief account by the translator, assistant to US Secretary of State
Charles E. Bohlen, is in FRUS, Potsdam, vol. 2, 320–21. See also Winston S.
Churchill, The Second World War, vol. 5, Triumph and Tragedy (Boston:
Houghton Mifflin, 1953), 668.
81. At this session, the CCS presented their military report to Truman
and Churchill. After some discussion over wording in the draft, it was
adopted. No issue relevant to the AAF appeared in the printed account. The
record of the meeting is printed in FRUS, Potsdam, vol. 2, 339–44; the final
report is on 1462–73.
82. The Cecelienhof Palace at Potsdam was a relatively modern building
completed in 1913 for Cecelie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, wife of Crown
Prince Wilhelm, son of Kaiser Wilhelm II.
83. The abrupt reference is to the Tripartite (US, British, Soviet) military
chiefs meeting at 2:30. General Antonov, chief of staff of the Soviet Army,
spoke briefly about USSR “intentions and plans with reference to [entering
the war against] the Japanese.” Arnold spoke at some length about the air
war, emphasizing the AAF successes now that Okinawa had been secured.
He stressed problems that the Japanese AF was having against American
raids. There is an account in FRUS, Potsdam, vol. 2, 344–53. A second meeting
held that afternoon at 5:30 by the CCS dealt essentially with operations
in the Southeast Asia Command. The account appears in FRUS, Potsdam,
vol. 2, 375–78.
84. Arnold had earlier cabled that Spaatz should coordinate the selection
of targets with Maj Gen Groves; Arnold, Global Mission, 589.
85. There appears no record of this discussion; Brig Gen George A. Lincoln,
USA, OPD, War Department, Washington.
86. Along with four other officers representing the Army and Navy, those
named returned to Washington via the headquarters of “each Theater Commander
so that we could inform each of them about what had transpired at
Potsdam.” Their travels took them to Italy, India, China, the Philippines, Okinawa,
Iwo Jima, Guam, and Hawaii. They had no knowledge, however, of the
atomic bomb, its test firing, or any plans to use it; Charles P. Cabell, A Man of
Intelligence: Memoirs of War, Peace and the CIA, ed. Charles P. Cabell Jr., Brig
Gen, USAF, Retired (Colorado Springs, Colo.: Impavide Publications, 1997),
211–17. Jamison’s and Norstad’s instructions are not found.
87. Gen Malin Craig, USA, had succeeded MacArthur and preceded
George Marshall as Chief of Staff of the US Army in the period 1935–1939.
Arnold worked closely with him after arriving in Washington in 1936. They
had also formed a strong bond during the 1930s when Hap commanded
March Field and Craig was the Army Area Corps commander. They were
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