American Girls, Beer, and Glenn Miller: GI Morale in World War II

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183 Notes 1 The Abnormal Communities 1. Robert H. Ferrell, A Soldier in World War I: The Diary of Elmer W. Sherwood , 22. 2. Bruce Catton, Glory Road, 221–22. 3. David Kenyon Webster, Parachute Infantry, 368. 4. Frederick Palmer, Newton D. Baker: America at War, 1:297. 5. Ibid., 299–300. 6. Edward Frank Allen and Raymond B. Fosdick, Keeping Our Fighters Fit for War and After. 7. Palmer, Newton D. Baker, 1:309–10. 8. CPL Maurice Moser to parents, January 2, 1918, Moser Letters and Diaries. 9. Surgeon General of the Army, Keeping Fit to Fight, (1917), 3. 10. Allen and Fosdick, Keeping Our Fighters Fit, 7–8. 11. James J. Cooke, The Rainbow Division in the Great War, 1917–1919, 18. 12. Sergio Lugo,“The Books We Need When We Want Them,” 8–13. 13. Fielder to Parents, May 30, June 3, 1918, SGT Eustace Fielder Letters. 14. Moser to parents, December 17, 1917, Moser Letters and Diaries. 15. For a detailed study of American logistics in World War I, see Phyllis A. Zimmerman, The Neck of the Bottle. 16. For a detailed look at Pershing, see James J. Cooke, Pershing and His Generals . 17. Palmer, Newton D. Baker, 2:4. 18. Albert M. Ettinger, A Doughboy with the Fighting 69th, 175. 19. James J. Cooke, The All Americans at War, 52, 92. 20. Erna Risch, Quartermaster Support of the Army, 1775–1939, 671–72, 685– 87. 21. Entry 25, December 1918, Moser Diaries. 184 Notes 22. Palmer, Newton D. Baker, 2:206–7. 23. Allen and Fosdick, Keeping Our Fighters Fit, 51, 95–96. 24. CPL Harold H. Sherman Diary. 25. James J. Cooke, The U.S. Air Service in the Great War, 1917–1919, 203–4. 26. James J. Cooke,“The Americans,” 142–56. 27. Palmer, Newton D. Baker, 2:404–6. 28. Ferrell, A Soldier in World War I, 152. 2 American Beer and American Girls 1. Risch, Quartermaster Support of the Army, 689–98. 2. Frederick H. Osborn,“Eugenics and National Defense,” 203–4. 3. Frederick Osborn, oral history interview, Harry S. Truman Library and Museum. 4. Ibid. 5. Memorandum from Byron to General Somervell, May 25, 1943, Army Service Forces Records, Records Group 160, Entry 1, Carton 13. 6. Meghan K. Winchell, Good Girls, Good Food, Good Fun: The Story of USO Hostesses during World War II, 7. 7. Osborn, oral history interview, Truman Library. 8. Office of the Chief of Military History, History of the Special Service Division , Special Services Division Records. 9. Special Services Handbook (draft copy), 1942, ibid. 10. Office of the Chief of Military History, Historical Record of the First Special Services Unit, Adjutant General’s Office files, Special Services Division Records. 11. Transcript, Morale Officers’ Conference, January 19–23, 1942, Army Service Forces Records, Records Group 160, Entry 196A, Carton 445. 12. For a comprehensive study of Somervell’s command of the Army Service Forces, see John Kennedy Ohl, Supplying the Troops: General Somervell and American Logistics in WW II. 13. See James J. Cooke, Chewing Gum, Candy Bars, and Beer: The Army PX in World War II. 14. Information Chart, ca. 1943,Army Service Forces Records, Records Group 160, Entry 1, Carton 13. 15. Enclosure from Lawrence, contained in a letter from Somervell to Osborn, June 14, 1942, Army Service Forces Records, Records Group 160, Entry 1, Carton 13. 16. Ibid. Office of the Chief of Military History, Historical Record of the First Special Notes 185 Services Unit, Adjutant General’s Office files, Special Services Division Records . 18. Carole Landis, Four Jills in a Jeep, 1–9. 3 1943: Consolidation 1. Sarah Winston, ed., V-Mail: Letters of a World War II Combat Medic, 10–11. 2. PVT Arthur F. Jacklewski to sister, June 23, 1943, Jacklewski Letters. 3. Memorandum for Osborn, August 19, 1942, Army Service Forces Records, Records Group 160, Entry 1, Carton 73. 4. James J. Cooke,“The Songs behind the Stars and Stripes,” 60–63. 5. Frederick H. Osborn, “Recreation, Welfare, and Morale of the American Soldier,” 50–51. 6. History of the Financial Services Branch, Center of Military History, Special Services Division Records. 7. See Cooke, Chewing Gum, Candy Bars, and Beer, for a discussion of the civilian efforts. 8. Report to board, June 6, 1943, President’s War Relief Board Records, Records Group 220, Entry 32055, Carton 196. 9. Souvenir Menu, the American Center Canteen, Melbourne, Australia...