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    "ocrText": "J. 333305-MONO-State\nGalley 447\nUNCORRECTED GALLEY PROOF\nGENERAL MARSHALL said that C. C.S. 774, upon which action had\nbeen deferred at the C. C.S. 183d Meeting, was the U.S. proposal for\nthe directive to Air Marshal Bottomley and General Spaatz for the\ndisruption of the German U-boat program. In C. C. S. 774/1 the\nBritish have presented a paper on the U-boat threat during 1945.\nADMIRAL KING was of the opinion that the Combined Chiefs of\nStaff would be obliged to accept the directive proposed in C. C.S. 774\nin the light of the British paper which implied that immediate action\nwas necessary. He suggested that the British paper should be noted\nby the Combined Chiefs of Staff.\nGENERAL MARSHALL drew attention to the fact that the British\npaper would provoke serious complications in the allotment of tonnage\nbeing considered in current shipping studies and would provide the\nBritish with arguments for the increase of the figure of 8 percent\nwhich had been set for estimated shipping deficiencies. He was\nmerely examining this aspect of the problem in order to formulate\nsome reply to the British if the point were raised.\nADMIRAL KING felt that the British paper might be accepted if the\nacceptance was without prejudice to the shipping deficiencies estab-\nlished in the current studies. He advised against any attempt to\nrevise the percentage figure of assumed losses at this time.\nADMIRAL COOKE suggested that it might be preferable to note the\npaper and review the deficiencies in sailings at some future date.\nTHE JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF:-\nAgreed to recommend that the Combined Chiefs of Staff take note\nof C. C.S S. 774/1 and review the percentage of deficiencies in sailings\non 1 April 1945.\n7. STRATEGY IN NORTHWEST EUROPE\nIn closed session,\nTHE JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF:-\nAgreed to recommend that the Combined Chiefs of Staff accept\nSCAF 180 (Enclosure \"B\" to C. C. S. 761/3) as amended by SCAF\n194, and take note of SCAEF's dispatch No. S-77211 of 31 January\n1945.¹ 13\n13 SCAF 180 was Eisenhower's appreciation and plan of operations for the\nwinter and spring of 1945; SCAF 194 contained General Smith's rewording of\ncertain paragraphs of the plan. In Message No. S-77211 Eisenhower agreed\nto\nthe changed text. SCAF 180 and SCAF 194 are summarized in the report by\nthe Combined Chiefs of Staff to the President and the Prime Minister at Yalta,\no\npost, pp. -\nAnnex\nMESSAGE BY GENERAL KUTER TO GENERAL ARNOLD DATED\n1 FEBRUARY 1945\n\"The following letter received this date:\n\"My dear Kuter. Since the British Chiefs of Staff issued CCS 691 14\nabout British participation in the very long range bombing of Japan\nand the United States Chiefs of Staff replied in CCS 691/1,14 we have\n14 Not printed.\nmade considerable progress in the development of our VLR bombing\npotential.\n\"The bombing of the \"Tirpitz\" proved that it is possible to increase\nthe all up weight of the Lancaster beyond our expectations, and we\nnow hope to achieve an effective radius of action of some 1,500 miles"
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