24 June 1944 Part 1b

24 June 1944 Part 1b Army opposes increasing island reserves

Date note: Associated diary entry 24 June 1944.

Related existing record: 24 June 1944. Separate Army evidence concerning continuation of island supply and limits on reserve increases; retained without changing the earlier naval account.

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Secret Command Matter

Annex 81

Reference Teletype Chief Quartermaster West Qu 1 No 1204/44 Secret dated 22 June 1944

To Commander in Chief West and Chief Quartermaster West

1. Ia.

The Army considers an increase in island reserves impracticable in view of the present extremely strained supply situation of the fighting front in Normandy.

The Army requests that all available supplies and all existing transport tonnage be committed immediately and with concentration on Normandy.

Only in this way can a threatening serious supply crisis be avoided.

In this connection I expressly draw attention to the assessment of the supply situation forwarded with Seventh Army Headquarters Ia No. 3278/44, Secret Command Matter, dated 24 June 1944. [Number and date partly handwritten; reading uncertain.]

The Commander in Chief of Seventh Army

Signed [signature not confidently deciphered]

Chief Quartermaster No [blank] /44 Secret Command Matter

[Additional handwritten routing and drafting annotations are present but are not confidently legible. The text above follows the readable main draft; its related diary entry is dated 24 June 1944, reference 23.]

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