The Pentagon: A History (86 page)

Allan, Stanley Nance. “Building the Pentagon.” Lecture delivered to the Chicago Literary Club, 25 Nov. 2002.

Bailey, Helen McShane. “The Office of the Chief of Staff, U.S. Army, in World War II: A Memoir.” 2001. Memories Project, GCM Lib.

Casey, Hugh J.
Engineer Memoirs.
Washington, D.C.: Office of History, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 1993.

Davidson, Garrison. “Grandpa Gar—The Saga of One Soldier as Told to His Grandchildren.” 1974, CEHO.

Graves, Ernest Jr., “Recollections of General Brehon Somervell.” Memorandum to author, 12 Feb. 2004.

Groves, Leslie R. “Comments of Lt. Gen. Leslie R. Groves on MS, Construction in the United States.” 1955, 1963, 1965. CEHO.

Hardin, John R.
Engineer Memoirs.
Washington, D.C.: Office of History, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 1981.

Hoge, William M.
Engineer Memoirs.
Washington, D.C.: Office of History, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 1993.

Iselin, Amy L., ed. “Reminisces of the Early Days of the Pentagon.” Washington Headquarters Services, 1993, OSD HO.

Lee, John C. H. “Service Reminiscences of Lt. Gen. John C. H. Lee.” n.d. MHI.

Lemmon, Lawrence Clifton. “Twentieth Century Sojourn—The Story of My Life.” Published privately, 1989 (courtesy Ruth Lemmon Ferrill).

McShain, John. “Hyde Park: A Memoir—1939–40.” McShain papers, HML.

———. Autobiographical notes, post-1971 HML.

Somervell, Brehon B. “General Brehon B. Somervell Public Addresses,” vols. 1–4. 1941–1945, MHI.

American Society of Civil Engineers.
The Pentagon Building Performance Report: January 2003.
Reston, Va.: American Society of Civil Engineers, 2003.

Arlington County. “After-Action Report on the Response to the September 11 Terrorist Attack on the Pentagon,” 2002.

Army Service Forces, Control Division. “The Pentagon Project,” 25 June 1944. Copies in box 15, file 4, SDF, NARA RG 160 and box 1310, OSD HO.

Bureau of the Budget, “Report Covering Pentagon Building,” 31 Aug. 1942, I, CEHO.

Department of the Army, Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Military Operations. “The Anti-Vietnam War Demonstration at Washington, D.C. 21–22 October 1967, After Action Report,” draft, 7 Nov. 1967. Box 3, Anti-War Demonstrations, March on the Pentagon, CMH.

Department of Defense, Washington Headquarters Service. “Final Environmental Assessment of the Pentagon Reservation Master Plan.” Prepared by DMJM-3DI, 28 May 1991.

Headquarters Military District of Washington. “After Action Report, Operation Cabinet Maker,” 13 Nov. 1967, box 4, Anti-War Demonstrations, March on the Pentagon, CMH.

Koski-Karell, Daniel. Technical Report. Historical and Archaeological Background Research of the GSA Pentagon Complex Project Area. Submitted to David Volkert and Associates, Inc., Bethesda, Md., 3 Jan. 1986. Box 1312, OSD HO.

National Register of Historic Places Inventory—Nomination Form for Federal Properties. Pentagon Office Building Complex. Prepared by Daniel Koski-Karell, Karell Archaeological Services, 15 June 1989. Box 1312, OSD HO.

Office of the Chief of Engineers. “Basic Data on the Pentagon.” Washington, D.C., 21 Dec. 1943. SDF, NARA RG 160.

Office of the Chief of Engineers, “Comments on Statements of Congressman Albert J. Engel on the Pentagon, 29 February 1944” and “Comments on Statements of Congressman Albert J. Engel on the Pentagon, 6 March 1944,” 7 Apr. 1944, I, CEHO.

Office of the Inspector General, investigation report, 25 May 1942. Box 1188, NARA RG 159.

Office of the Secretary of Defense. “A Status Report to Congress on the Renovation of the Pentagon,” 2005, PENREN.

Office of the Secretary of Defense. “A Report to Congress on the Pentagon Renovation Program,” 1993, 1994. Washington, D.C.: Office of the Secretary of Defense, 1993, 1994, OSD HO.

The Pentagon Telephone Conversations. “With General Groves Office—Feb. ’42–’43” “Miscellaneous 3/42–6/43” “Re: Congressman Engel Inquiry,” I, CEHO.

Report of the Secretary of War to the President, 1939, 1941. Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, 1939, 1941.

United States General Accounting Office. “Report to the Chairman, Subcommittee on Public Buildings and Grounds, Committee on Public Works and Transportation, House of Representatives: Federal Buildings, Actions Needed to Prevent Further Deterioration and Obsolescence.” Washington, D.C.: United States General Accounting Office, 1991.

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Engineer Historical Division. “The Pentagon Project,” I, box 16, CEHO (three draft versions).

The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States.
New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2004.

The 9/11 Commission: Proceedings and Analysis.
Books 3–4, Seventeenth Volume, Second Series, Terrorism: Documents of International & Local Control. James R. Holbein, ed. Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.: Oceana Publications, 2005.

Collins, Larry. “Collapse Rescue Operations at The Pentagon 9-11 Attack: A Case Study on Urban Search and Rescue Disaster Response.”
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Cornell, Cecilia Stiles. “James V. Forrestal and American National Security Policy, 1940–1949.” Dissertation. Nashville, Tenn.: Vanderbilt University, 1987. Pentagon Library.

Department of Defense, Office of Public Information. “The Pentagon: A Description of the World’s Largest Office Building,” 1954, OSD HO.

Fearson, Jim. “The Telephone in Northern Virginia from the Beginning to World War II.” Monograph, May 1993. Courtesy Jim Fearson.

Frierson, William.
The Pentagon.
The Pentagon Post Restaurant Council, Washington DC., 1944. Copies in box 1311, OSD HO and CMH. See also manuscript draft, Records of the Office of Chief of Military History, entry 145, NARA RG 319.

Gilpin, Susan. Paper on Queen City, 1984, Queen City vertical file, ACL.

Hammond, Christina J. “Chapter III, The Architect, George Edwin Bergstrom,” from “The Italian-style Garden at Kimberly Crest” manuscript, Baldwin Memorial Files, AIA.

“The Pentagon.” Two-volume booklet prepared by Pentagon architects, Sept. 1942. SDF, NARA RG 160; OSD HO; AOC.

Reynolds, J. Lacey. “John McShain, Builder,” draft of article c. 1949. McShain papers, HML.

Titus, Leo J., Jr. “A Review of the Temporary Shoring Used to Stabilize the Pentagon After the Terrorist Attacks of September 11th, 2001.” University of Maryland, Department of Civil Engineering, 2002.

White, George Malcolm. “The Pentagon Drawings.” 1993. Box 1303, OSD HO.

Part I—
Stanley Nance Allan; Helen McShane Bailey; Marian Bailey; Henry E. Bennett, Jr.; Cecil Belcher; Opal Sheets Belen; Mary Anne Somervell Brenza; Nelson Clayton; Vera Pounds Dickerson; Celestine Dole; Marjorie Hanshaw Downey; Robert Furman; Alfred Goldberg; Ernest Graves, Jr.; Richard Groves; Brehon Somervell Griswold; Byron Henderson; Gertrude Jeffress; Connie Somervell Matter; Polly McShain; Thomas Munyan; Hank Neighbors; Lucille Ramale; Alan Renshaw; Elaine Renshaw; Socrates Thomas Stathes; Donald Walker; Rubye Olson Youngblood.

Part II—
Ted Anderson; Bill Ayers; Julie Beckman; Ken Blackshaw; Debra Burlingame; Aubrey Butts; Rita Campbell; Martha Carden; Steve Carter; Ken Catlow; Will Colston; Stacie Condrell; Aaron Cooper; John Deutch (e-mail); Lisa Dolan; Brian Dziekonski; Phil Entrekin; Lee Evey; Kris Fisher; Georgine Glatz; Paul Gonzales; John Hamre; Paul Haselbush; Tom Heidenberger; Dan Hooton; J. B. Hudson; Les Hunkele; James T. Jackson; John Jester; Douglas Johnson; Reis Kash; Allyn Kilsheimer; Dave Lanagan; Jim Laychak; Stephen Ludden; Brian Maguire; Carl Mahnken; Paul Mlakar; Bobby McCloud; Phil McNair; Nancy McNair; Robert McNamara; Peter Murphy; Frank Naughton; David Osterhout; Patty Pague; Heather Penney; Colin Powell; Frank Probst; Pat Riley; Donald Rumsfeld; Marc Sasseville; Reimund Schuster; Jim Schwartz; Abraham Scott; Kevin Shaeffer (e-mail); Brad Smith; Michael Sullivan; Walter Teague; William Wertz; David F. Wherley, Jr.; Richard Guy Wilson. (
Note: Some interviews for Part II were conducted on behalf of
The Washington Post.)

Margaret Roth interviews:
Mike Baker; Fred Calvert; Richard Cox; Don Fortunato; Bruce Hackert; Louise and Mike Kurtz; Jim McKay; Ed Monarez; Mike Smith; Alan Wallace; Payam Zeraat.

Charles W. Hall interview for
The Washington Post: Walt Freeman.

INTERVIEW SUMMARIES AND ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPTS

Amherst College Library, Archives and Special Collections:
John J. McCloy, interview by Eric Sevareid.

Architect of the Capitol:
Ides van der Gracht, interview by George M. White.

Arlington Central Library, Arlington County Oral History Project:
Rayfield Barber; J. Elwood Clements; Louise Gray; Ruth Jones; Everett Norton; Ellen Puterbaugh; Katherine Ross; George Vollin; Perry West.

Columbia University Oral History Research Office:
Horace M. Albright; Gilmore Clarke.

George C. Marshall Library: Interviews by Forrest Pogue:
Leslie Groves; T. T. Handy; Merrill Pasco; William T. Sexton; George C. Marshall; Joseph McNarney; Maxwell Taylor; Cora Thomas.
Other:
Mona Nason.

Hagley Museum and Library:
John McShain, interview by Harold Wiegand.

John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum:
Roswell L. Gilpatric.

U.S. Army Military History Institute:
Paul Caraway; Lucius Clay; Robert Colglazier.

Office of the Secretary of Defense Historical Office:
John J. McCloy; John Connell; David O. Cooke; William Haynes; Allyn Kilsheimer; Donald Rumsfeld; Mike Sullivan; Paul Wolfowitz.

Smithsonian Archives of American Art:
Florence Kerr.

Harry S. Truman Presidential Museum and Library:
Clark Clifford; Matthew Connelly; William Hastie; Donald Dawson; Marx Leva; Louis H. Renfrow; Stuart Symington.

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Office of History: Interviews by Lenore Fine and Jesse Remington:
Donald Antes; James Burns; Winnie Cox; W. A. Danielson; F.J.C. Dresser; Christian Dreyer; Edmund Gregory; Leslie Groves; John Hardin; Charles Hartman (letter); John Hogan; Luther Leisenring; Michael Madigan; John J. McCloy (memo); Mary Pagan; Clarence Renshaw; Eugene Reybold; Julian Schley; August Sperl; Wilhelm Styer (letter); E. G. Thomas; Harry S. Truman; Rigby Valliant; Stephen Voorhees.
Other:
Hugh Casey (letter); Garrison Davidson; Gavin Hadden (letter); Franklin Matthias; Richard C. Moore (letter); Kenneth Nichols; Carl Strock; Frederick Strong.