he Gillem Board, would fall the responsibility for formulating a
policy, preparing a directive, and planning the use of Negroes in the
postwar Army.

[Footnote 6-2: See, for example, Memo, SW for CofS, 7
Nov 45, SW 291.2; see also Ltr, McCloy to author,
25 Sep 69.]

[Footnote 6-3: Quoted in Memo, Gen Gillem for CofS,
17 Nov 45, sub: Report of Board of General Officers
on Utilization of Negro Manpower in the Post-War
Army, copy in CSGOT 291.2 (1945) BP.]

None of the board members was particularly prepared for the new
assignment. General Gillem, a Tennessean, had come up through the
ranks to command the XIII Corps in Europe during World War II.
Although he had written one of the 1925 War College studies on the (p. 154)
use of black troops and had many black units in his corps, Gillem
probably owed his appointment to the fact that he was a three-star
general, available at the moment, and had recently been selected by
the Chief of Staff to direct a Special Planning Division study on the
use of black troops that had been superseded by the new board.[6-4]
Burdened with the voluminous papers collected by McCloy, Gillem headed
a board composed of Maj. Gen. Lewis A. Pick, a Virginian who had built
the Ledo Road in the China-Burma-India theater; Brig. Gen. Winslow C.
Morse of Michigan, who had served in a variety of assignments in the
Army Air Forces culminating in wartime duties in China; and Brig. Gen.
Aln D. Warnock, the recorder without vote, a Texan who began his
career in the Arizona National Guard and had served in Iceland during
World War II.[6-5] These men had broad and diverse experience and gave
the board a certain geographical balance. Curiously enough, none was a
graduate of West Point.[6-6]

[Footnote 6-4: Interv, Capt Alan Osur, USAF, with Lt
Gen Alvan C. Gillem (USA Ret.), 3 Feb 72, copy in
CMH.]

[Footnote 6-5: Memo, Maj Gen Ray Porter, Dir, Spec
Planning Div, for Gillem, 28 Sep 45, sub: War
Department Special Board on Negro Manpower, WDCSA
320.2.]

[Footnote 6-6: In a later comment on the selections,
McCloy said that the geographical spread and lack
of West Point representation was accid