Office of the Historian

Meeting of the Combined Chiefs of Staff, 3 p.m.1

1. C. C. S. 136th meeting.

Present
United States United Kingdom
Admiral Leahy General Brooke
General Marshall Air Chief Marshal Portal
Admiral King Admiral of the Fleet Cunningham
General Arnold Field Marshall Dill
Lieutenant General Somervell Lieutenant General Ismay
Vice Admiral Willson General Riddell-Webster
Rear Admiral Cooke Major General Stopford3
Rear Admiral Bieri Rear Admiral Troubridge
Rear Admiral Badger Air Vice Marshal Baker
Major General Sutherland Major General Laycock
Major General Stratemeyer Captain Lambe
Major General Handy Brigadier Sugden
Major General Fairchild Air Commodore Elliot
Major General Wedemeyer2 Brigadier McNair
Brigadier General Kuter Colonel Cornwall-Jones
Brigadier General Hansell
Brigadier General Roberts
Captain Freseman
Commander Long
Secretariat
Captain Royal Brigadier Redman
Colonel McFarland Commander Coleridge

[447] Combined Chiefs of Staff Minutes

December 5, 1943, 3 p.m.

J. C. S. Files

  1. Although listed in the C. C. S. minutes as “Lt. Gen. J. Stopford”, this officer is now known to have been Major General Montagu George North Stopford, who assumed command in December 1943 of the Thirty-third Indian Corps, which fought in Burma.↩
  2. Present during a part of the meeting.↩