War Department. Operations Division. Strategy and Policy Group. 3/23/1942-ca. 5/14/1946 Organization Authority Record

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War Department. Operations Division. Strategy and Policy Group. 3/23/1942-ca. 5/14/1946 Organization Authority Record

1942-1946

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The Strategy and Policy Group reviewed all directives for the theaters of operations, worked closely with the appropriate agencies of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Combined Chiefs of Staff, gave strategic guidance to other units of the War Department General Staff and to the three major commands (Army Air Forces, Army Ground Forces, and Army Service Forces), recommended actions to b taken on action papers of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Combined Chiefs of Staff, and in other ways served as the major planning unit of the Operations Division. The Group furnished officers for duty with the Joint Staff Planners, the Combined Staff Planners, the Joint War Plans Committee, the Aeronautical Board, the Munitions Assignment Committee (Air), and other Army-Navy and Army-Navy-Allied committees. Chiefs of the Strategy and Policy Group were Brigadier General Thomas T. Handy, February 16, 1942 - June 23, 1942; Brigadier General Albert C. Wedemayer, June 27, 1942 - September 10, 1943; Brigadier General Frank N. Roberts, September 11, 1943 - November 30, 1944; and Brigadier General George A. Lincoln, November 30, 1944 - September 2, 1945.

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