The Development of Mobile Logistic Support in Anglo-American Naval Policy, 1900–1953

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261 Notes Archives or Museums cited with abbreviations Citations to primary sources are given in the notes using the following abbreviations along with a document reference number or shortened title. AL Admiralty Library MoD, London FAAM Fleet Air Arm Museum, Yeovilton IC(L) Imperial College Library, London IWM Imperial War Museum, London LHCMA Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King’s College, London TNA(Kew) The National Archives (formerly Public Record Office), Kew NARA2 National Archives and Records Administration 2, College Park, Maryland NHB Naval Historical Branch, Ministry of Defence NL Nimitz Library, Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland NWC Naval War College, Naval Historical Collection, Newport, Rhode Island NWC(L) Naval War College, Library, Rhode Island NMM National Maritime Museum, Caird Library, Greenwich RNM Royal Naval Museum, Portsmouth RNZNM Royal New Zealand Navy Museum, Auckland USNHC Naval Historical Center, Department of the Navy, Operational Archives , Washington Navy Yard Other abbreviations that appear in the notes and bibliography include the following: 1SL First Sea Lord, Admiralty 2SL Second Sea Lord, Admiralty 4SL Fourth Sea Lord, Admiralty 5SL Fifth Sea Lord, Admiralty ACNS Assistant Chief of Naval Staff AE Fleet Replenishment Ammunition Stores ship (USN) AF Supply ship for fresh/frozen/dry provisions (USN) AFIC Armed Forces Industrial College USA AFO Admiralty Fleet Order AK General Stores/Cargo ship (USN) AKA Attack Cargo vessel (USN) 262 | Notes AKS Fleet Replenishment Stores ship (USN) AO Oiler for all petroleum products (USN) AOE Fast Combat Support ship (1964 USN) APD Administrative Plans Division ARL Repair Ship Landing craft (USN) A/S Antisubmarine ASIS Armament Stores Issuing ship (RN) ASW Antisubmarine Warfare BAD British Admiralty Delegation, Washington, D.C. BJSM British Joint Staff Mission, Washington, D.C. BNLUS RN/USN Collaboration Committee, Naval Staff Admiralty BPF British Pacific Fleet (1945–46) BSR Battle Summary Report BR Book of Reference BuSandA Bureau of Supplies and Accounts (USN) BuShips Bureau of Ships (USN) CAP Combat Air Patrol C-in-C Commander in Chief CinCLant Commander in Chief, Atlantic (USN) CinCNELM Commander in Chief, U.S. Naval Forces, Eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean CinCPac Commander in Chief, Pacific (USN) CinCPacFlt Commander in Chief, US Pacific Fleet (USN) CinCLantFlt Commander in Chief Atlantic and US Atlantic Fleet (USN) CNO Chief of Naval Operations (USN) CNS Chief of Naval Staff, Admiralty CominCH Commander in Chief United States Fleet (USN) ComNavEu United States Commander Naval Forces Europe (USN) ComServLant Commander Service Force Atlantic (USN) DCNAE Deputy Chief of Naval Air Equipment, Admiralty DCNS Deputy Chief of Naval Staff, Admiralty DNC Director of Naval Construction, Admiralty DND Director of Navigation & Direction, Admiralty DNE Director of Naval Equipment, Admiralty DOD Director of Operations Division, Admiralty D of P Director of Plans Division, Admiralty D of P(Q) Director of Plans Division (Q), Admiralty D of V Director of Victualling Department, Admiralty FO2FE Flag Officer 2nd in Command Far East Station (RN) FOCRF Flag Officer Commanding Reserve Fleet FT Fleet Train FO Flag Officer JPS Joint Planning Staff LST Landing Ship, tank (USN) M Head of Military Branch, Admiralty MoD Ministry of Defence MSC Military Sealift Command (USN) NID Naval Intelligence Division (RN and USN) Notes to Pages xxv–3 | 263 NSWSES Naval Ships Weapons Systems Engineering Station, Port Hueneme, California (USN) ONI Office of Naval Intelligence (USN) OPNAV Office of the Chief of Naval Operations (USN) PRO Public Record Office, Kew (now the National Archives, Kew) SL Sea Lord, Admiralty TF Task Force TG Task Group TU Task Unit USNLO United States Navy Liaison Officer VCNS Vice Chief of the Naval Staff Introduction 1. Conventional forces only. The U.S. Pacific Navy comprised 4,067 warships and auxiliaries; the British Pacific Fleet (BPF) 247, including 125 acting as logistic support. Carter, Beans, Bullets, 9; TNA(Kew), ADM 199/1766, apx. A. 2. The fleet train used 8,745,000 barrels (bbl) of fuel oil (about ninety tankers’ worth), 259,000 bbl of diesel and 21.48 million gallons of avgas (equivalent to 1.3 million tons of fuel oil, 34,000 tons of diesel, and 58,000 tons of avgas). Carter, Beans, Bullets , 361. See also NHB, BSR 453, apx. D, Logistic Support Group Statistics Parts III. 3. Wildenberg, Gray Steel, 203. 4. Ibid., 218. 5. Ballantine, U.S. Naval Logistics, 3. 6. Gray, The Leverage of Sea Power, xii. 7. Corbett, Drake and the Tudor Navy, 3. 8. Ballantine, U.S. Naval Logistics, 2–3; Eccles, Logistics in the National Defense, 59...