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see Besson speech to National Defense Transportation Association Annual Transportation and Logistics Forum, Washington, DC, October 14, 1968, Historical Office, Headquarters, U.S. Army Materiel Command; author’s telephone interview with Frank Hayden, former deputy head of contracts, MSTS, June 29, 2004; Department of Defense news release 458–66, May 25, 1966, Military Sea Transportation Service, Command History 1966, OAB/NHC, Washington, DC. “Ship Run Bid Refused,” Baltimore Sun, June 24, 1966.

16. Operational Report-Lessons Learned for quarter ended July 31, 1966, 1st Logistical Command, p. 16. Port delays are reported in Briefing Data Prepared in Conjunction with Secretary of Defense McNamara’s Visit to RVN, October 1966, General Records, Assistant Chief of Staff for Logistics, MACV, RG 472, NACP. Data on man-hour requirements are from Besson presentation to Association of the United States Army, October 10, 1966, Historical Office, Headquarters, U.S. Army Materiel Command.

17. Memorandum from Donaho on inspection trip to Asia, August 2–20, 1966, in Command Files, MSTS, OAB/NHC; Financial and Statistical Report, MSTS, various issues, OAB/NHC; Logistics Summary for 5–20 August, 1966, General Records, Assistant Chief of Staff for Logistics, MACV, RG 472, NACP; Operational Report-Lessons Learned for period ending January 31, 1967, 1st Logistics Command, RG 472, NACP Logistics Summary, 15 December 1966, 1st Logistical Command, RG 472, NACP; Pacific Stars & Stripes, October 14, 1966.

18. Ramage, “Reminiscences,” p. 532; Werner Bamberger, “Navy Augments Shipping for War,” NYT, March 30, 1967; Sealift, May 1967, pp. 9–10.

19. Katims interview, COHP; Campbell interview; Logistical Summaries, June and September 1967, USRVN, RG 472, NACP; Sealift, October 1967, p. 20; “New Supply Concept Comes to Vietnam,” 1st Logistical Command Vietnam Review 1, no. 1 (1967).

20. Command History 1967, p. 772, MACV, RG 472, NACP; Vice Admiral Lawson P. Ramage, Remarks to Propeller Club of the United States, St. Louis, October 11, 1968, Command History, MSTS, OAB/NHC. On the feeder ships, see John Boylston, interview with Arthur Donovan and Andrew Gibson, December 7, 1998, COHP, Box 639.

21. U.S. Army Materiel Command, “Sharpe Army Depot,” November 1966; MSTS Area Commanders’ Conference, March 5–8, 1968, p. 92, Command Histories, MSTS, AOB/NHC; MSTS Area Commanders’ Conference, March 5–8, 1968, p. 102.

22. MSTS Area Commanders’ Conference, March 5–8, 1968, p. 47; Logistical Summaries, 1968, USRVN, RG 472, NACP; Operational Report-Lessons Learned, October 31, 1968, Classified Organizational History Files, 1st Logistical Command, U.S. Army Pacific, RG 550, NACP; Memorandum from COMSERVPAC to COMNAVSUPSTSCOMME, June 30, 1968, Classified Organizational History Files, Assistant Chief of Staff for Logistics, RG 472, NACP; Memorandum from Commander, MSTS, September 26, 1968, Organizational History Files, Assistant Chief of Staff for Logistics, RG 472, NACP; Memorandum for Record, Expanded Containership Service to RVN, December 31, 1968, Classified Organizational History Files, Assistant Chief of Staff for Logistics, RG 472, NACP; Joseph M. Heiser, Jr., Vietnam Studies: Logistic Support (Washington, DC, 1974), p. 199.

23. “Remarks of Malcom P. McLean” in MSTS, “MSTS/Industry Conference on Military Sealift, 12–23 December 1967,” Command History, MSTS, OAB/NHC; Classified Organizational History Files for the Quarter Ending 30 April 1968, 1st Logistical Command, RG 472, NACP; Bes-son testimony, August 4, 1970, p. 46.

24. Vice Admiral Lawson P. Ramage, Speech to National Defense Transportation Agency 22nd National Transportation and Logistics Forum, October 6, 1967, Command History, MSTS, OAB/NHC; “New Supply Concept Comes to Vietnam”; Besson remarks to National Defense Transportation Association, October 14, 1968, p. 13, and congressional testimony, August 4, 1970, pp. 73–75. The Joint Logistics Review Board’s recommendations were controversial and were carried out only in part; see, for example, the objections to merging the MSTS with the army’s port