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UNCORRECTED GALLEY PROOF
d. Creation, training and supply of a Russian strategic bomber force.
e. Development and use of the port of Petropavlovsk.
f. Creation and supply of an air transport line through Patropav-
lovsk to the Maritime Provinces.
g. Establishment of bases for strategic air operations from Kam-
chatka.
h. Preparation for movement of Army Air Forces and other units
to the Maritime Provinces, and means of supplying these units.
3. It seems to me that these and other operations, some of which
are already under consideration, must be carefully gone into imme-
diately by the Joint Staff Planners, the Joint Logistics Committee,
and other agencies concerned, with a view to submitting appropriate
reports and recommendations to the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Those
operations which are accepted should be developed and plans pre-
pared as to when they must be done, who is going to do them, how
they are going to be done, and what supplies and forces will be re-
quired. This line of action will make it possible to negotiate more
realistically with the Russians, and to inform them for example that
a particular operation will take twelve months to mount, which
accordingly requires a decision by the Russians at once.
4. I consider that on short notice we should be prepared to present
a paper to the Russians at the next staff meeting, setting forth the
point of view of the United States Chiefs of Staff. A paper of this
kind obviously cannot be completed far in advance, as the situation is
fluid and subject to change in the light of the work of the Roberts
Mission and further facts that may become available. The Joint
Staff Planners should nevertheless thave ready at all times studies
which are as complete as possible under existing circumstances so
that a single paper can be quickly prepared setting forth our objec-
tives, capabilities and requirements as well as those of the Russians.
H. H. ARNOLD
General, U. S. Army
Commanding General, Army Air Forces
J. C. S. Files
Memorandum by the Commander in Chief of the United States Fleet
(King)
TOP SECRET
11 DECEMBER 1944.
J. C.S. 1176/2
JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF
OPERATIONS IN THE KURILES
References: a. J.C.S. 1176 1
b. J.C.S. 1176/1
2
1
Not printed as such, but see J. C.S. 1176/6, post, pp.
and the memo-
,
randum from the Joint Chiefs of Staff to the President, January 23, 1945, post,
pp.
2 Supra.
MEMORANDUM BY THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF, UNITED STATES FLEET, AND
CHIEF OF NAVAL OPERATIONS
10 DECEMBER 1944.
1. Reference (a) presents various aspects of prospective Russian
participation in the war against Japan. In this paper possible opera-
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