The Organization and Role of the Army Service Forces: The Army Service Forces

United States Army In World War II. Additional Contributor Is Leo J. Meyer. Told From The Point Of View Of The Commanding General Of The Army Service Forces, ASF, This Study Focuses On The Organizational Experience Of The ASF, Detailing The Many Controversies Surrounding This Administrative Experiment.

John David Millett, Ph.D., LL.D., President of Miami University, earned his doctorate in political science at Columbia University where for a number of years he also served on the faculty. His experience as an adviser and administrator in government agencies and in the field of higher education has been extensive. Among these may be mentioned service on the National Resources Planning Board, the Committee on Organization of the Executive Branch of the Government, The President's Committee on Administrative Management, and the Commission on Financing Higher Education. For the last-named organization, he served as Executive Director. During World War II he was commissioned and brought to Washington to serve on General Somervell's staff as an expert adviser on organizing the newly created Army Service Forces. He also acted as the wartime historian for that command. Through both training and personal experience he was the logical person to prepare this particular volume.