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UNCORRECTED GALLEY PROOF
5. COORDINATION OF OPERATIONS WITH THE RUSSIANS
SIR ALAN BROOKE said that as he saw it, the only point was to insure
that the Combined Chiefs of Staff were still in full agreement with the
instructions which they had issued to General Deane and Admiral
Archer in FAN 477.°
9
Not printed. FAN 477, dated January 15, 1945, dealt with the bombline in
Eastern Europe and the Balkan area between the Allied and Soviet Armies.
GENERAL MARSHALL confirmed that the United States Chiefs of
Staff were still in complete agreement with the contents of this mes-
sage, no answer to which had yet been received from the Russians.
He felt it would be necessary to raise the issue with them during the
forthcoming conference.
THE COMBINED CHIEFS OF STAFF:-
Agreed to press the Russians to agree at ARGONAUT to the proposals
in the Appendix to C. C. S. 741/6 (FAN 477).
6. THE COMBINED BOMBER OFFENSIVE
(C. C. S. 166 Series) 10
10 Not printed.
SIR CHARLES PORTAL explained that his object in raising this ques-
tion was to find out if the United States Chiefs of Staff had any views
on the possible move of the Fifteenth Air Force from the Mediter-
ranean to Western Europe. Such a move, involving some 1,000 heavy
bombers, would, of course, have considerable effect on the potentialities
in other theaters.
GENERAL KUTER explained that C. C. S. 400/2 11 did in effect give
11 Not printed.
the commander of the United States strategic air forces the right to
move such forces within the two theaters. He understood in fact
that General Spaatz had been considering the possibility of moving
the Fifteenth Air Force to the United Kingdom but had decided
against such a course.
GENERAL MARSHALL said that he had directed an examination of
the possibility of using the Fifteenth Air Force, or part of it, from
southern France, thus avoiding the bad weather over the Po Valley.
This proposal, however, had not commended itself to his staffs.
SIR CHARLES PORTAL pointed out that any large move as between
theaters should, he felt, be approved by the Combined Chiefs of Staff
since it had a great effect on the strategy in the theaters concerned.
The number of bombers available in Italy, for instance, very materially
affected the possibility of withdrawing ground forces from that theater.
GENERAL MARSHALL said that as he remembered it, the agreement
with regard to the movement of the Fifteenth Air Force was designed
to permit the commander of the strategic air forces the freedom of
movement and flexibility to employ his forces temporarily in which-
ever theater provided the best weather at that time. There was
in
his mind no question of a permanent move of forces.
SIR CHARLES PORTAL said that it had been felt that temporary
moves of air units to the United Kingdom was undesirable in view
of the difficult weather and the fact that operating out of the United
Kingdom was a highly specialized business.
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