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Sherman Miles
Sherman Miles
Born	December 5, 1882; Washington, D.C., United States
Died	October 7, 1966 (aged 83); Beverly, Massachusetts, United States
Place of burial	Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia, United States
Service / branch	United States Army
Years of service	1905–1946
Rank	Major General
Service number	0-2074
Battles / wars	World War I; World War II
Awards	Army Distinguished Service Medal
Relations	Nelson A. Miles (father)
Other work	Member of the House of Representatives of Massachusetts, 1947–1952
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Major General Sherman Miles (December 5, 1882^[2] – October 7, 1966^[1]) was an officer of the United States Army, who was Chief of the Military Intelligence Division in 1941, when the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor happened, bringing the United States into World War II.

Life

Miles' parents were General Nelson A. Miles and Mary Hoyt Sherman Miles (niece to Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman). In 1901, he enrolled at the United States Military Academy at West Point, where he graduated in 1905.^[3] In 1909, he married Yulee Noble, granddaughter of U.S. Senator David Levy Yulee, and had two children.^[2] He was a hereditary companion of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States.

During his military career, he held various posts as military attaché in Europe. In 1940, he became the head of the Military Intelligence Division of the U.S. Army in George C. Marshall's General Staff. Two months after the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, he was reassigned from that position to that of Commanding General of the First Service Command in Boston.

Early military career

Miles entered West Point on June 11, 1901, from where he graduated on June 13, 1905, and was commissioned as second lieutenant, 11th Cavalry. With the 11th Cavalry, he was sent in 1906 to Cuba by then Secretary of War William Howard Taft. Upon his return, he was transferred to the 3rd Field Artillery and promoted to first lieutenant in 1907.^[3]

From 1912 to 1914, he was military attaché on the Balkans. During World War I, he served as military observer in Russia until 1916. He returned to the U.S. and was detailed to the General Staff Corps. In 1918, after the American entry into World War I, he was an observer during the Meuse–Argonne offensive, the largest battle in the U.S. Army's history. As a General Staff member, he was temporarily promoted first to major in 1917, then to lieutenant colonel in 1918, and in 1919 to colonel.^[4]

Interwar period

Immediately after the armistice, Miles was assigned to the U.S. peace negotiation team. As a field member of the "Coolidge Mission" led by Archibald Cary Coolidge, he traveled through former Austria-Hungary to assess the situation and to make demarcation recommendations for the benefit of the U.S. negotiators at the Paris Peace Conference, 1919.^[5]

On January 27, 1919, Miles led the delegation of the Coolidge Mission which, on the way to Carinthia, visited the city of Marburg (today Maribor in Slovenia). Prior to the First World War, Marburg had a population comprising 80% Austrian Germans and 20% Slovenes.^[6] During Miles' visit, thousands of citizens of German ethnic origin gathered on the main city square, waving German Austria flags, many of which also decorated nearby buildings.^[7] Slovenian military units commanded by Rudolf Maister killed between 11^{[citation needed]} and 13^[8] German civilian protesters in a central Maribor square, during event known as Marburg's Bloody Sunday.

Regarding Carinthia, the Coolidge Mission focused on where to draw the future border between the newly formed Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes and Austria. The U.S. position before the Paris conference favored, like the British and French, a separation along ethnographic lines, i.e., a border along the river Drava (German: Drau), which would have split the economic and geographic region of the Klagenfurt basin. The Yugoslavs also favored this solution. Miles became instrumental in reversing this position.

In his field travels, he learned that many of the Slovene speakers in the region actually preferred to belong to Austria and had closer economic ties to the Klagenfurt area than to Slovenia. He proposed, instead, a border along the Karawanks further south. Through his reports, he was able to convince his superiors that the best way to settle the question was through self-determination. The U.S. team eventually convinced the British and French delegations in Paris, and finally it was decided that the area should remain undivided, and that the question of whether it should henceforth belong to Austria or to Yugoslavia was to be decided by a vote among the population of the area. In the plebiscite held on October 10, 1920, the population voted for Miles' border proposal.^[9]^[10]^[11]

When these post-war assignments terminated, he returned to the U.S. and reverted to the rank of major in 1920.^[5] In the 1920s, he attended various military schools (Army War College 1921–22, Coast Artillery School 1925–26, General Staff School 1926–27) and was posted to various units in the Coast Artillery and in the Field Artillery until the late 1930s.

From 1922 to 1925 he was military attaché at Constantinople in Turkey,^[5] and was sent in 1924 to Teheran to investigate the murder of U.S. Vice Consul Robert Whitney Imbrie there.^[12] Miles was promoted to lieutenant colonel in the Regular Army in 1929 and to colonel in 1935^[13] The March 1934 photo to the right, presents General Sherman Miles accompanying the Japanese statesmen Prince Iyesato Tokugawa, as Iyesato and his granddaughter as they honor America's Tomb of the Unknown Soldier Memorial in Arlington National Cemetery, Washington, D.C.^{[clarification needed]} Prince Tokugawa (1863–1940) devoted his life to maintaining goodwill between Japan and the U.S. and other nations, and was so politically influential in Japan and internationally, that it was only after his death that Japan joined the Axis Powers in WWII.^[14]

From September 1, 1938, on, he was commanding school troops at the United States Army Field Artillery School at Fort Sill, Oklahoma.^[15]

On September 1, 1939, he was promoted to brigadier general and served as military attaché in London for half a year before returning to the U.S., where he became a senior member of Army Chief of Staff General George C. Marshall's general staff in 1941.^[13] Miles was assigned as "Assistant Chief of Staff G-2", i.e., the head of the Military Intelligence Division (MID).^[16]

The MID greatly expanded during his time as G-2, but, as Miles put it, "always in a piecemeal manner".^[17] Qualified cryptography personnel were scarce, and Japanese-speaking personnel were also hard to come by. Miles' suggestions to set up an espionage service were ignored until June 1941,^[17]^[18] when U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed William J. Donovan as Coordinator of Information. Donovan's unit would eventually become the OSS, but it was independent from the MID and needed time to mature, which made for a difficult collaboration (if not to say a rivalry) between the MID and the OSS from the beginning and continuing throughout the war.^[17]

World War II

The attack on Pearl Harbor ended Miles' career in the General Staff.^[19] MID very much relied on intercepted Japanese radio messages. The decoded "Magic" messages were top-secret and circulated only in a very select circle of ten people comprising the General Staffs of the Army and the Navy, the Secretary of War, and the President.^[20] No coherent analysis of these messages was done.^[17] The warnings that the General Staff sent to Hawaii failed to stress the urgency because MID themselves did not consider the contents of the "Magic" intercepts received prior to the attack as particularly significant at that time.^[21] In addition, communication channels in the U.S. military were convoluted due to the split commands of Army and Navy, each with their own intelligence branch,^[22] and the last message to Hawaii before the attack was delayed and was decoded at Hawaii only after the attack had already begun.^[20]^[23]

Ten days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Miles was sent on an inspection tour through South America to survey installations there and to make recommendations for military assistance to the Latin American countries;^[24] Brigadier General Raymond E. Lee became Acting Assistant Chief of Staff G-2 .^[25]

On January 28, 1942, Miles was promoted to major general and then reassigned as commanding general of the First Corps Area Service Command (later re-designated as the First Service Command) in Boston.^[26]^[13] The Service Commands, sub-entities of the Army Service Forces, were supporting services for the fighting forces.^[27]

Miles served in this position for the duration of the war and retired from the Army on February 28, 1946. Upon his retirement, Miles received the Distinguished Service Medal, the Army's highest non-combat decoration, in recognition of his wartime service.^[16]^[28]

Later life

After his retirement from the Army, Miles served as a Republican member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1947 to 1952.^[29] In 1948, he wrote the article "Pearl Harbor in Retrospect" in the July 1948 issue of The Atlantic, in which he gave his perspective on the events just prior to the attack.^[30]

After the death of his wife Yulee in 1953, he married Edith Lawrence Coolidge, widow of Harold Jefferson Coolidge, Sr., in 1954.^[2]

He died at the hospital in Beverly, Massachusetts after long illness^[1] and was buried at Arlington National Cemetery^[31] in the Miles Mausoleum on October 12, 1966.

Memberships

General Miles joined the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States as a Second Class Companion and, upon his father's death, became a Companion of the First Class.

Military awards

Army General Staff Identification Badge

	Army Distinguished Service Medal
	Army of Cuban Pacification Medal
	Mexican Border Service Medal
	World War I Victory Medal with three battle clasps
	Army of Occupation of Germany Medal
	American Defense Service Medal with Foreign Service Clasp
	American Campaign Medal
	World War II Victory Medal
	Chevalier of the Legion of Honor

References

^ ^a ^b ^c The Washington Post, obituary of Sherman Miles, October 11, 1966.
^ ^a ^b ^c Beer, Siegfried: "Sherman Miles – vor und nach Kärnten 1919. Anmerkungen zu einer hauptsächlich nachrichtendienstlichen Karriere in der US-Armee", pp. 309–317 in Valentin, H.; Haiden, S.; Maier, B. (eds.): Die Kärntner Volksabstimmung 1920 und die Geschichtsforschung, Verlag Johannes Heyn, Klagenfurt 2002. ISBN 3-85366-983-2.
^ ^a ^b Cullum, George Washington: "Biographical register of the officers and graduates of the U. S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. since its establishment in 1802. Supplement vol. 5 (1900–1910) Archived March 17, 2013, at the Wayback Machine". URL retrieved January 12, 2011.
^ Cullum, George Washington: "Biographical register of the officers and graduates of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. since its establishment in 1802. Supplement vol. 6B (1910–1920) Archived 2010-05-31 at the Wayback Machine". URL retrieved January 12, 2011.
^ ^a ^b ^c Cullum, George Washington: "Biographical register of the officers and graduates of the U. S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. since its establishment in 1802. Supplement vol. 7 (1920–1930) Archived March 17, 2013, at the Wayback Machine". URL retrieved January 12, 2011.
^ Osterreicheische statistik Herausgegeben von der K.K. Statistischen Zentralkommission. neue folge 1. band. Ergebnisse der volkszahlung vom 31. dezember 1910. Wien. aus der kaiserlich-koniglichen hof und staatsdruckerel 1917. in kommission bei karl gerold's sohn
^ Ude, Lojze (1961). "Boj za Maribor" (pdf) (in Slovenian). Slovenia: Zgodovinski časopis. p. 139. Retrieved January 11, 2011. Takoj po prihodu Američanov so se na hišah glavnih ulic, kmalu na to pa po vsem mestu, pojavile črno – rdeče – rumene trobojriice, frankfurtarce. Mariborsko nemško meščanstvo, pomešano z ljudmi, ki so prišli od dmigod, se je začelo zbirati v neprestano naraščajoče sprevode.
^ "Jänner 1919: Der Bluttag von Marburg a. d. Drau". Die Presse (in German). January 30, 2009. Archived from the original on October 9, 2012. Retrieved January 5, 2011. Eine Salve nach der anderen feuerten die Soldaten in die nichtsahnende, wehr- und waffenlose Volksmenge, .... 13 Tote und etwa 60 Verwundete...
^ Fräss-Ehrfeld, Claudia: "The Role of the United States of America and the Carinthian Question, 1918–1920", Slovene Studies 8/1 (1986), pp. 7–13. URL retrieved January 13, 2011.
^ U.S. Department of State, Papers relating to the foreign relations of the United States, The Paris Peace Conference, 1919, vol XII. URL retrieved January 11, 2011.
^ In Klagenfurt, a street was named after Miles in 1970. See Carinthia I: Mitteilungen des Geschichtsvereins für Kärnten, Vol. 194, 2004, p. 741. Also in the city of Völkermarkt in Carinthia, a street is named after Sherman Miles.[1].
^ Zirinsky, M.: "Blood, Power, and Hypocrisy: The Murder of Robert Imbrie and American Relations with Pahlavi Iran, 1924", in International Journal of Middle East Studies 18.3 (1986), pp. 275–292. URL retrieved January 12, 2011.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Biography of Major General Sherman Miles (1882−1966), USA". generals.dk.
^ "Introduction to The Art of Peace: the illustrated biography of Prince Iyesato Tokugawa". TheEmperorAndTheSpy.com. 2019.
^ Cullum, George Washington: "Biographical register of the officers and graduates of the U. S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. since its establishment in 1802. Supplement vol. 8 (1930–1940) Archived July 20, 2011, at the Wayback Machine". URL retrieved January 12, 2011.
^ ^a ^b Cullum, George Washington: "Biographical register of the officers and graduates of the U. S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. since its establishment in 1802. Supplement vol. 9 (1940–1950) Archived July 20, 2011, at the Wayback Machine". URL retrieved January 12, 2011.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Finnegan, John Patrick: Military Intelligence, Center for Military History, U.S. Army 1998, CMH pub 60-13, here "Chapter 4: Military Intelligence in Crisis". URLs retrieved January 14, 2011.
^ Life, Dec 2, 1940 issue, p. 94: "These are U.S. Army's six foremost Generals", wrote even that "spies are considered un-American". URL retrieved January 14, 2011.
^ Casey, Richard Gardiner: A delicate mission: the Washington diaries of R.G. Casey, 1940–42, ISBN 0-642-27662-5, p. 214: "25 December 1941 ... Amongst the various heads that have been rolled in the dust has been that of General Sherman Miles (U.S. Military Intelligence)... General Raymond Lee (late U.S. Military Attaché in London) has taken Sherman Miles' place."
^ ^a ^b U.S. Congress, Joint Committee on the Investigation of the Pearl Harbor Attack, Investigation of the Pearl Harbor Attack, U.S. GPO, 1946, here "Chapter IV: Responsibilities in Washington, p. 180, "Policy with respect to dissemination of Magic". URLs retrieved January 18, 2011.
^ Congress of the United States, 79th Congress, 1st session: Pearl Harbor attack: Hearings before the Joint Committee on the investigation of the Pearl Harbor attack, U.S. GPO 1946; testimony of Gen. Miles on November 29, 1945: p. 794ff.
^ Congress of the United States, 79th Congress, 2nd session: Investigation of the Pearl Harbor attack: Report the Joint Committee on the investigation of the Pearl Harbor attack, U.S. GPO 1946; here in particular Part V: Conclusion and recommendations, p. 253.
^ U.S. Army Pearl Harbor Board:Report of the Army Pearl Harbor Board, U.S. Army, 1944, here Chapter 3C: Critical Period: October 1 to December 7, 1941", p. 138ff, "December 7, 1941 Message". URLs retrieved January 18, 2011.
^ Conn, Stetson; Fairchild, Byron: The Framework of Hemisphere Defense Archived January 1, 2011, at the Wayback Machine, Center of Military History, U.S. Army 1960, CMH pub 4-1; "Chapter VIII: General Military Relations With Latin America", p. 200ff. URL retrieved January 17, 2011.
^ Mercado, Stephen C.: "FBIS Against the Axis, 1941–1945 (U)", Studies in Intelligence Fall/Winter 2001, issue 11, pp. 33–43. CIA, 2001. Mentions on page 40 and in footnote 25 that Raymond E. Lee was Acting ACoS G-2 on December 26, 1941. URL retrieved January 17, 2011.
^ Clay 2010a, p. 19.
^ Millet, John D.: The Organization and Role of the Army Service Forces, Center of Military History, U.S. Army, 1954, CMH pub. 3-1. Here "Chapter XXIII: The Management of the Army Services Forces", p. 370. URLs retrieved January 12, 2011.
^ After Marshall's reorganization of the General Staff, Maj. Gen. George V. Strong was G-2 from May 5, 1942 to February 6, 1944; then Maj. Gen. Clayton Bissell held that post until January 1946. C.f. Hewes, James E. Jr.: From Root to McNamara: Army Organization and Administration, Center of Military History, U.S. Army 1975, CMH pub 40-1; Appendix B: Principal Officials of the War Department and Department of the Army, 1900–1963 Archived January 23, 2017, at the Wayback Machine, p. 389, and "Chapter III: Changes in the Marshall organization", p. 107. URLs retrieved January 13, 2011.
^ Hayden, I.N., Grove, L.R.: Public officers of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (1951–1952), p. 237. URL retrieved January 13, 2011.
^ Miles, Sherman: "Pearl Harbor in Retrospect", The Atlantic, July 1948. URL retrieved January 13, 2011.
^ Burial Detail: Miles, Sherman (Section 3, Grave 1873) – at ANC Explorer

Clay, Lt. Col. Steven E. (2010a). US Army Order of Battle 1919–1941 Volume I. The Arms: Major Commands and Infantry Organizations. Command and General Staff College, Kansas: Combat Studies Institute Press. - Public Domain - United States Government

External links

Generals of World War II
Sherman Miles at ArlingtonCemetery.net, an unofficial website

Political offices
Preceded by Henry Lee Shattuck	Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from the 5th Suffolk District 1947–1953	Succeeded by John Yerxa

[obit-1] The Washington Post, obituary of Sherman Miles, October 11, 1966.

[beer-2] Beer, Siegfried: "Sherman Miles – vor und nach Kärnten 1919. Anmerkungen zu einer hauptsächlich nachrichtendienstlichen Karriere in der US-Armee", pp. 309–317 in Valentin, H.; Haiden, S.; Maier, B. (eds.): Die Kärntner Volksabstimmung 1920 und die Geschichtsforschung, Verlag Johannes Heyn, Klagenfurt 2002. ISBN 3-85366-983-2.

[cullum5-3] Cullum, George Washington: "Biographical register of the officers and graduates of the U. S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. since its establishment in 1802. Supplement vol. 5 (1900–1910) Archived March 17, 2013, at the Wayback Machine". URL retrieved January 12, 2011.

[cullum6B-4] Cullum, George Washington: "Biographical register of the officers and graduates of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. since its establishment in 1802. Supplement vol. 6B (1910–1920) Archived 2010-05-31 at the Wayback Machine". URL retrieved January 12, 2011.

[cullum7-5] Cullum, George Washington: "Biographical register of the officers and graduates of the U. S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. since its establishment in 1802. Supplement vol. 7 (1920–1930) Archived March 17, 2013, at the Wayback Machine". URL retrieved January 12, 2011.

[oshvdk-6] Osterreicheische statistik Herausgegeben von der K.K. Statistischen Zentralkommission. neue folge 1. band. Ergebnisse der volkszahlung vom 31. dezember 1910. Wien. aus der kaiserlich-koniglichen hof und staatsdruckerel 1917. in kommission bei karl gerold's sohn

[7] Ude, Lojze (1961). "Boj za Maribor" (pdf) (in Slovenian). Slovenia: Zgodovinski časopis. p. 139. Retrieved January 11, 2011. Takoj po prihodu Američanov so se na hišah glavnih ulic, kmalu na to pa po vsem mestu, pojavile črno – rdeče – rumene trobojriice, frankfurtarce. Mariborsko nemško meščanstvo, pomešano z ljudmi, ki so prišli od dmigod, se je začelo zbirati v neprestano naraščajoče sprevode.

[diepresse.com-8] "Jänner 1919: Der Bluttag von Marburg a. d. Drau". Die Presse (in German). January 30, 2009. Archived from the original on October 9, 2012. Retrieved January 5, 2011. Eine Salve nach der anderen feuerten die Soldaten in die nichtsahnende, wehr- und waffenlose Volksmenge, .... 13 Tote und etwa 60 Verwundete...

[ehrfeld-9] Fräss-Ehrfeld, Claudia: "The Role of the United States of America and the Carinthian Question, 1918–1920", Slovene Studies 8/1 (1986), pp. 7–13. URL retrieved January 13, 2011.

[frus1919_12-10] U.S. Department of State, Papers relating to the foreign relations of the United States, The Paris Peace Conference, 1919, vol XII. URL retrieved January 11, 2011.

[street-11] In Klagenfurt, a street was named after Miles in 1970. See Carinthia I: Mitteilungen des Geschichtsvereins für Kärnten, Vol. 194, 2004, p. 741. Also in the city of Völkermarkt in Carinthia, a street is named after Sherman Miles.[1].

[zirinsky-12] Zirinsky, M.: "Blood, Power, and Hypocrisy: The Murder of Robert Imbrie and American Relations with Pahlavi Iran, 1924", in International Journal of Middle East Studies 18.3 (1986), pp. 275–292. URL retrieved January 12, 2011.

[Generals_of_World_War_II-13] "Biography of Major General Sherman Miles (1882−1966), USA". generals.dk.

[14] "Introduction to The Art of Peace: the illustrated biography of Prince Iyesato Tokugawa". TheEmperorAndTheSpy.com. 2019.

[cullum8-15] Cullum, George Washington: "Biographical register of the officers and graduates of the U. S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. since its establishment in 1802. Supplement vol. 8 (1930–1940) Archived July 20, 2011, at the Wayback Machine". URL retrieved January 12, 2011.

[cullum9-16] Cullum, George Washington: "Biographical register of the officers and graduates of the U. S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. since its establishment in 1802. Supplement vol. 9 (1940–1950) Archived July 20, 2011, at the Wayback Machine". URL retrieved January 12, 2011.

[finnegan-17] Finnegan, John Patrick: Military Intelligence, Center for Military History, U.S. Army 1998, CMH pub 60-13, here "Chapter 4: Military Intelligence in Crisis". URLs retrieved January 14, 2011.

[life-18] Life, Dec 2, 1940 issue, p. 94: "These are U.S. Army's six foremost Generals", wrote even that "spies are considered un-American". URL retrieved January 14, 2011.

[casey-19] Casey, Richard Gardiner: A delicate mission: the Washington diaries of R.G. Casey, 1940–42, ISBN 0-642-27662-5, p. 214: "25 December 1941 ... Amongst the various heads that have been rolled in the dust has been that of General Sherman Miles (U.S. Military Intelligence)... General Raymond Lee (late U.S. Military Attaché in London) has taken Sherman Miles' place."

[congress_180-20] U.S. Congress, Joint Committee on the Investigation of the Pearl Harbor Attack, Investigation of the Pearl Harbor Attack, U.S. GPO, 1946, here "Chapter IV: Responsibilities in Washington, p. 180, "Policy with respect to dissemination of Magic". URLs retrieved January 18, 2011.

[congress2-21] Congress of the United States, 79th Congress, 1st session: Pearl Harbor attack: Hearings before the Joint Committee on the investigation of the Pearl Harbor attack, U.S. GPO 1946; testimony of Gen. Miles on November 29, 1945: p. 794ff.

[congress_concl-22] Congress of the United States, 79th Congress, 2nd session: Investigation of the Pearl Harbor attack: Report the Joint Committee on the investigation of the Pearl Harbor attack, U.S. GPO 1946; here in particular Part V: Conclusion and recommendations, p. 253.

[armyboard-23] U.S. Army Pearl Harbor Board:Report of the Army Pearl Harbor Board, U.S. Army, 1944, here Chapter 3C: Critical Period: October 1 to December 7, 1941", p. 138ff, "December 7, 1941 Message". URLs retrieved January 18, 2011.

[conn-24] Conn, Stetson; Fairchild, Byron: The Framework of Hemisphere Defense Archived January 1, 2011, at the Wayback Machine, Center of Military History, U.S. Army 1960, CMH pub 4-1; "Chapter VIII: General Military Relations With Latin America", p. 200ff. URL retrieved January 17, 2011.

[mercado-25] Mercado, Stephen C.: "FBIS Against the Axis, 1941–1945 (U)", Studies in Intelligence Fall/Winter 2001, issue 11, pp. 33–43. CIA, 2001. Mentions on page 40 and in footnote 25 that Raymond E. Lee was Acting ACoS G-2 on December 26, 1941. URL retrieved January 17, 2011.

[FOOTNOTEClay2010a19-26] Clay 2010a, p. 19.

[millet1954-27] Millet, John D.: The Organization and Role of the Army Service Forces, Center of Military History, U.S. Army, 1954, CMH pub. 3-1. Here "Chapter XXIII: The Management of the Army Services Forces", p. 370. URLs retrieved January 12, 2011.

[hewes-28] After Marshall's reorganization of the General Staff, Maj. Gen. George V. Strong was G-2 from May 5, 1942 to February 6, 1944; then Maj. Gen. Clayton Bissell held that post until January 1946. C.f. Hewes, James E. Jr.: From Root to McNamara: Army Organization and Administration, Center of Military History, U.S. Army 1975, CMH pub 40-1; Appendix B: Principal Officials of the War Department and Department of the Army, 1900–1963 Archived January 23, 2017, at the Wayback Machine, p. 389, and "Chapter III: Changes in the Marshall organization", p. 107. URLs retrieved January 13, 2011.

[publicMA-29] Hayden, I.N., Grove, L.R.: Public officers of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (1951–1952), p. 237. URL retrieved January 13, 2011.

[atlantic-30] Miles, Sherman: "Pearl Harbor in Retrospect", The Atlantic, July 1948. URL retrieved January 13, 2011.

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+Major General '''Sherman Miles''' (December 5, 1882<ref name="beer">Beer, Siegfried: "Sherman Miles – vor und nach Kärnten 1919. Anmerkungen zu einer hauptsächlich nachrichtendienstlichen Karriere in der US-Armee", pp.&nbsp;309–317 in Valentin, H.; Haiden, S.; Maier, B. (eds.): ''Die Kärntner Volksabstimmung 1920 und die Geschichtsforschung'', Verlag Johannes Heyn, Klagenfurt 2002. {{ISBN|3-85366-983-2}}.</ref> – October 7, 1966<ref name="obit"/>) was an officer of the [[United States Army]], who was Chief of the [[Military Intelligence Division]] in 1941, when the [[Empire of Japan|Japanese]] [[attack on Pearl Harbor]] happened, bringing the United States into [[World War II]].
 == Life ==
+Miles' parents were General [[Nelson A. Miles]] and Mary Hoyt Sherman Miles (niece to [[American Civil War|Civil War]] General [[William Tecumseh Sherman]]). In 1901, he enrolled at the [[United States Military Academy]] at West Point, where he graduated in 1905.<ref name="cullum5">Cullum, George Washington: "[http://digital-library.usma.edu/libmedia/archives/cullum/VOLUME_5_cullum.pdf Biographical register of the officers and graduates of the U. S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. since its establishment in 1802. Supplement vol. 5 (1900–1910)] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130317190341/http://digital-library.usma.edu/libmedia/archives/cullum/VOLUME_5_cullum.pdf |date=March 17, 2013 }}". URL retrieved January 12, 2011.</ref> In 1909, he married Yulee Noble, granddaughter of U.S. Senator [[David Levy Yulee]], and had two children.<ref name="beer"/>  He was a hereditary companion of the [[Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States]].
-Miles' parents were General [[Nelson A. Miles]] and Mary Hoyt Sherman Miles (niece to Civil War General [[William T. Sherman]]). In 1901, he enrolled at the [[United States Military Academy]] at West Point, where he was graduated in 1905.<ref name="cullum5">Cullum, George Washington: "[http://digital-library.usma.edu/libmedia/archives/cullum/VOLUME_5_cullum.pdf Biographical register of the officers and graduates of the U. S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. since its establishment in 1802. Supplement vol. 5 (1900–1910)] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130317190341/http://digital-library.usma.edu/libmedia/archives/cullum/VOLUME_5_cullum.pdf |date=2013-03-17 }}". URL retrieved 2011-01-12.</ref> In 1909, he married Yulee Noble; they had two children.<ref name="beer"/>  He was a hereditary companion of the [[Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States]].
 During his military career, he held various posts as military attaché in Europe. In 1940, he became the head of the [[Military Intelligence Division]] of the U.S. Army in [[George C. Marshall]]'s General Staff. Two months after the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, he was reassigned from that position to that of Commanding General of the First Service Command in Boston.
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 == Early military career ==
 [[File:Sherman Miles, 1904.jpg|left|thumb|Miles, as a cadet]]
-Miles entered [[United States Military Academy|West Point]] on June 11, 1901, from where he graduated on June 13, 1905 and was commissioned as [[second lieutenant]], [[11th Armored Cavalry Regiment (United States)#2nd Squadron|11th Cavalry]]. With the 11th Cavalry, he was sent in 1906 to Cuba by then [[United States Secretary of War|Secretary of War]] [[William Howard Taft]]. Upon his return, he was transferred to the 3rd Field Artillery and promoted to [[first lieutenant]] in 1907.<ref name="cullum5"/>
+Miles entered [[United States Military Academy|West Point]] on June 11, 1901, from where he graduated on June 13, 1905, and was commissioned as [[second lieutenant]], [[11th Armored Cavalry Regiment (United States)#2nd Squadron|11th Cavalry]]. With the 11th Cavalry, he was sent in 1906 to Cuba by then [[United States Secretary of War|Secretary of War]] [[William Howard Taft]]. Upon his return, he was transferred to the 3rd Field Artillery and promoted to [[first lieutenant]] in 1907.<ref name="cullum5"/>
-From 1912 to 1914, he was [[military attaché]] on the [[Balkans]]. During [[World War I]], he served as military observer in Russia until 1916. He returned to the U.S. and was detailed to the General Staff Corps. In 1918, he was as an observer at the [[Meuse-Argonne Offensive|Argonne Offensive]]. As a General Staff member, he was temporarily promoted first to major in 1917, then to lieutenant colonel in 1918, and in 1919 to colonel.<ref name="cullum6B">Cullum, George Washington: "[http://digital-library.usma.edu/libmedia/archives/cullum/VOLUME_6B_cullum.pdf Biographical register of the officers and graduates of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. since its establishment in 1802. Supplement vol. 6B (1910–1920)] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100531131358/http://digital-library.usma.edu/libmedia/archives/cullum/VOLUME_6B_cullum.pdf |date=2010-05-31 }}". URL retrieved 2011-01-12.</ref>
+From 1912 to 1914, he was [[military attaché]] on the [[Balkans]]. During [[World War I]], he served as military observer in Russia until 1916. He returned to the U.S. and was detailed to the General Staff Corps. In 1918, after the [[American entry into World War I]], he was an observer during the [[Meuse–Argonne offensive]], the largest battle in the [[history of the United States Army|U.S. Army's history]]. As a General Staff member, he was temporarily promoted first to major in 1917, then to lieutenant colonel in 1918, and in 1919 to colonel.<ref name="cullum6B">Cullum, George Washington: "[http://digital-library.usma.edu/libmedia/archives/cullum/VOLUME_6B_cullum.pdf Biographical register of the officers and graduates of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. since its establishment in 1802. Supplement vol. 6B (1910–1920)] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100531131358/http://digital-library.usma.edu/libmedia/archives/cullum/VOLUME_6B_cullum.pdf |date=2010-05-31 }}". URL retrieved January 12, 2011.</ref>
 ==Interwar period==
 Immediately after the armistice, Miles was assigned to the U.S. peace negotiation team. As a field member of the "Coolidge Mission" led by [[Archibald Cary Coolidge]], he traveled through former [[Austria-Hungary]] to assess the situation and to make demarcation recommendations for the benefit of the U.S. negotiators at the [[Paris Peace Conference, 1919]].<ref name="cullum7"/>
-On January 27, 1919 Miles led the delegation of the Coolidge Mission which, on the way to Carinthia, visited the city of Marburg (today [[Maribor]] in [[Slovenia]]). Prior to the [[First World War]], Marburg had a population comprising 80% [[ethnic German|Austrian Germans]] and 20% Slovenes.<ref name="oshvdk">Osterreicheische statistik Herausgegeben von der K.K. Statistischen Zentralkommission. neue folge 1. band. Ergebnisse der volkszahlung vom 31. dezember 1910. Wien. aus der kaiserlich-koniglichen hof und staatsdruckerel 1917. in kommission bei karl gerold's sohn</ref> During Miles' visit, thousands of citizens of German ethnic origin gathered on the main city square, waving [[German Austria]] flags, many of which also decorated nearby buildings.<ref>{{cite web
+On January 27, 1919, Miles led the delegation of the Coolidge Mission which, on the way to Carinthia, visited the city of Marburg (today [[Maribor]] in [[Slovenia]]). Prior to the [[First World War]], Marburg had a population comprising 80% [[ethnic German|Austrian Germans]] and 20% Slovenes.<ref name="oshvdk">Osterreicheische statistik Herausgegeben von der K.K. Statistischen Zentralkommission. neue folge 1. band. Ergebnisse der volkszahlung vom 31. dezember 1910. Wien. aus der kaiserlich-koniglichen hof und staatsdruckerel 1917. in kommission bei karl gerold's sohn</ref> During Miles' visit, thousands of citizens of German ethnic origin gathered on the main city square, waving [[German Austria]] flags, many of which also decorated nearby buildings.<ref>{{cite web
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 Regarding [[Carinthia (state)|Carinthia]], the Coolidge Mission focused on where to draw the future border between the newly formed [[Kingdom of Yugoslavia|Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes]] and [[Austria]]. The U.S. position before the Paris conference favored, like the British and French, a separation along ethnographic lines, i.e., a border along the river [[Drava]] (German: ''Drau''), which would have split the economic and geographic region of the [[Klagenfurt]] basin. The Yugoslavs also favored this solution. Miles became instrumental in reversing this position.
-In his field travels, he learned that many of the Slovene speakers in the region actually preferred to belong to Austria and had closer economic ties to the Klagenfurt area than to Slovenia. He proposed, instead, a border along the [[Karawanks]] further south. Through his reports, he was able to convince his superiors that the best way to settle the question was through self-determination. The U.S. team eventually convinced the British and French delegations in Paris, and finally it was decided that the area should remain undivided, and that the question of whether it should henceforth belong to Austria or to Yugoslavia was to be decided by a vote among the population of the area. In the [[Carinthian Plebiscite|plebiscite held on October 10, 1920]], the population voted for Miles' border proposal.<ref name="ehrfeld">Fräss-Ehrfeld, Claudia: "[https://digital.lib.washington.edu/ojs/index.php/ssj/article/viewFile/3612/3025 The Role of the United States of America and the Carinthian Question, 1918–1920]", ''Slovene Studies '''8'''/1 (1986)'', pp.&nbsp;7–13. URL retrieved 2011-01-13.</ref><ref name="frus1919_12">U.S. Department of State, ''[http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/FRUS/FRUS-idx?type=turn&entity=FRUS.FRUS1919Parisv12.p0009&id=FRUS.FRUS1919Parisv12&isize=text Papers relating to the foreign relations of the United States, The Paris Peace Conference, 1919, vol XII]''. URL retrieved 2011-01-11.</ref><ref name="street">In Klagenfurt, a street was named after Miles in 1970. See ''Carinthia I: Mitteilungen des Geschichtsvereins für Kärnten, Vol. 194'', 2004, p.&nbsp;741. Also in the city of [[Völkermarkt]] in Carinthia, a street is named after Sherman Miles.[https://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Sherman+Miles-Stra%C3%9Fe,+V%C3%B6lkermarkt,+%C3%96sterreich&sll=46.616667,14.3&sspn=0.220256,0.404434&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Sherman+Miles-Stra%C3%9Fe,+9100+V%C3%B6lkermarkt,+K%C3%A4rnten,+Austria&t=h&z=17].</ref>
+In his field travels, he learned that many of the Slovene speakers in the region actually preferred to belong to Austria and had closer economic ties to the Klagenfurt area than to Slovenia. He proposed, instead, a border along the [[Karawanks]] further south. Through his reports, he was able to convince his superiors that the best way to settle the question was through self-determination. The U.S. team eventually convinced the British and French delegations in Paris, and finally it was decided that the area should remain undivided, and that the question of whether it should henceforth belong to Austria or to Yugoslavia was to be decided by a vote among the population of the area. In the [[Carinthian Plebiscite|plebiscite held on October 10, 1920]], the population voted for Miles' border proposal.<ref name="ehrfeld">Fräss-Ehrfeld, Claudia: "[https://digital.lib.washington.edu/ojs/index.php/ssj/article/viewFile/3612/3025 The Role of the United States of America and the Carinthian Question, 1918–1920]", ''Slovene Studies '''8'''/1 (1986)'', pp.&nbsp;7–13. URL retrieved January 13, 2011.</ref><ref name="frus1919_12">U.S. Department of State, ''[http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/FRUS/FRUS-idx?type=turn&entity=FRUS.FRUS1919Parisv12.p0009&id=FRUS.FRUS1919Parisv12&isize=text Papers relating to the foreign relations of the United States, The Paris Peace Conference, 1919, vol XII]''. URL retrieved January 11, 2011.</ref><ref name="street">In Klagenfurt, a street was named after Miles in 1970. See ''Carinthia I: Mitteilungen des Geschichtsvereins für Kärnten, Vol. 194'', 2004, p.&nbsp;741. Also in the city of [[Völkermarkt]] in Carinthia, a street is named after Sherman Miles.[https://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Sherman+Miles-Stra%C3%9Fe,+V%C3%B6lkermarkt,+%C3%96sterreich&sll=46.616667,14.3&sspn=0.220256,0.404434&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Sherman+Miles-Stra%C3%9Fe,+9100+V%C3%B6lkermarkt,+K%C3%A4rnten,+Austria&t=h&z=17].</ref>
-When these post-war assignments terminated, he returned to the U.S. and reverted to the rank of major in 1920.<ref name="cullum7">Cullum, George Washington: "[http://digital-library.usma.edu/libmedia/archives/cullum/VOLUME_7_cullum.pdf Biographical register of the officers and graduates of the U. S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. since its establishment in 1802. Supplement vol. 7 (1920–1930)] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130317190955/http://digital-library.usma.edu/libmedia/archives/cullum/VOLUME_7_cullum.pdf |date=2013-03-17 }}". URL retrieved 2011-01-12.</ref> In the 1920s, he attended various military schools ([[United States Army War College|Army War College]] 1921–22, Coast Artillery School 1925–26, General Staff School 1926–27) and was posted to various units in the [[U.S. Army Coast Artillery Corps|Coast Artillery]] and in the [[Field Artillery Branch (United States)|Field Artillery]] until the late 1930s.
+When these post-war assignments terminated, he returned to the U.S. and reverted to the rank of major in 1920.<ref name="cullum7">Cullum, George Washington: "[http://digital-library.usma.edu/libmedia/archives/cullum/VOLUME_7_cullum.pdf Biographical register of the officers and graduates of the U. S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. since its establishment in 1802. Supplement vol. 7 (1920–1930)] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130317190955/http://digital-library.usma.edu/libmedia/archives/cullum/VOLUME_7_cullum.pdf |date=March 17, 2013 }}". URL retrieved January 12, 2011.</ref> In the 1920s, he attended various military schools ([[United States Army War College|Army War College]] 1921–22, Coast Artillery School 1925–26, General Staff School 1926–27) and was posted to various units in the [[U.S. Army Coast Artillery Corps|Coast Artillery]] and in the [[Field Artillery Branch (United States)|Field Artillery]] until the late 1930s.
-From 1922 to 1925 he was military attaché at Constantinople in Turkey,<ref name="cullum7"/> and was sent in 1924 to Teheran to investigate the murder of U.S. Vice Consul [[Robert Whitney Imbrie]] there.<ref name="zirinsky">Zirinsky, M.: "[http://scholarworks.boisestate.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1000&context=history_facpubs Blood, Power, and Hypocrisy: The Murder of Robert Imbrie and American Relations with Pahlavi Iran, 1924]", in ''International Journal of Middle East Studies '''18'''.3 (1986)'', pp.&nbsp;275-292. URL retrieved 2011-01-12.</ref> Miles was promoted to lieutenant colonel in the Regular Army in 1929 and to colonel in 1935.
+From 1922 to 1925 he was military attaché at Constantinople in Turkey,<ref name="cullum7"/> and was sent in 1924 to Teheran to investigate the murder of U.S. Vice Consul [[Robert Whitney Imbrie]] there.<ref name="zirinsky">Zirinsky, M.: "[http://scholarworks.boisestate.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1000&context=history_facpubs Blood, Power, and Hypocrisy: The Murder of Robert Imbrie and American Relations with Pahlavi Iran, 1924]", in ''International Journal of Middle East Studies'' '''18'''.3 (1986), pp.&nbsp;275–292. URL retrieved January 12, 2011.</ref> Miles was promoted to lieutenant colonel in the Regular Army in 1929 and to colonel in 1935<ref name="Generals of World War II">{{cite web|url=https://generals.dk/general/Miles/Sherman/USA.html|title=Biography of Major General Sherman Miles (1882−1966), USA|website=generals.dk}}</ref> The March 1934 photo to the right, presents General Sherman Miles accompanying the Japanese statesmen [[Tokugawa Iesato|Prince Iyesato Tokugawa]], as Iyesato and his granddaughter as they honor [[Tomb of the Unknown Soldier|America's Tomb of the Unknown Soldier Memorial]] in [[Arlington National Cemetery]], Washington, D.C.{{Clarify|reason=There is no image.|date=September 2021}} Prince Tokugawa (1863–1940) devoted his life to maintaining goodwill between Japan and the U.S. and other nations, and was so politically influential in Japan and internationally, that it was only after his death that Japan joined the Axis Powers in WWII.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://theemperorandthespy.com/2020/04/the-art-of-peace-the-illustrated-biography-on-prince-iyesato-tokugawa/|title=Introduction to The Art of Peace: the illustrated biography of Prince Iyesato Tokugawa|last=|first=|date=2019|publisher=TheEmperorAndTheSpy.com|access-date=}}</ref>
-[[File:March 1934 General Sherman Miles accompanies Prince Iyesato Tokugawa to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.png|thumb|March 1934 General Sherman Miles accompanies Prince Iyesato Tokugawa to the American Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.]]
-The March 1934 photo to the right, presents General Sherman Miles accompanying the Japanese statesmen [[Tokugawa Iesato|Prince Iyesato Tokugawa]], as Iyesato and his granddaughter as they honor [[Tomb of the Unknown Soldier|America’s Tomb of the Unknown Soldier Memorial]] in [[Arlington National Cemetery]], Washington, D.C. Prince Tokugawa (1863–1940) devoted his life to maintaining goodwill between Japan and the U.S. and other nations, and was so politically influential in Japan and internationally, that it was only after his death that Japan joined the Axis Powers in WWII.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://theemperorandthespy.com/2020/04/the-art-of-peace-the-illustrated-biography-on-prince-iyesato-tokugawa/|title=Introduction to The Art of Peace: the illustrated biography of Prince Iyesato Tokugawa|last=|first=|date=2019|website=TheEmperorAndTheSpy.com|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}}</ref>
-From September 1, 1938 on, he was commanding school troops at the [[United States Army Field Artillery School]] at [[Fort Sill]], Oklahoma.<ref name="cullum8">Cullum, George Washington: "[http://digital-library.usma.edu/libmedia/archives/cullum/VOL8_PART0002.PDF Biographical register of the officers and graduates of the U. S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. since its establishment in 1802. Supplement vol. 8 (1930–1940)] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110720103013/http://digital-library.usma.edu/libmedia/archives/cullum/VOL8_PART0002.PDF |date=2011-07-20 }}". URL retrieved 2011-01-12.</ref>
+From September 1, 1938, on, he was commanding school troops at the [[United States Army Field Artillery School]] at [[Fort Sill]], Oklahoma.<ref name="cullum8">Cullum, George Washington: "[http://digital-library.usma.edu/libmedia/archives/cullum/VOL8_PART0002.PDF Biographical register of the officers and graduates of the U. S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. since its establishment in 1802. Supplement vol. 8 (1930–1940)] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110720103013/http://digital-library.usma.edu/libmedia/archives/cullum/VOL8_PART0002.PDF |date=July 20, 2011 }}". URL retrieved January 12, 2011.</ref>
-On September 1, 1939, he was promoted to [[Brigadier general (United States)|brigadier general]] and served as military attaché in [[London]] for half a year before returning to the U.S., where he became a senior member of Army Chief of Staff General [[George C. Marshall]]'s general staff in 1941.  Miles was assigned as "Assistant Chief of Staff G-2", i.e., the head of the [[Military Intelligence Division]] (MID).<ref name="cullum9">Cullum, George Washington: "[http://digital-library.usma.edu/libmedia/archives/cullum/VOL9_PART0001.PDF Biographical register of the officers and graduates of the U. S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. since its establishment in 1802. Supplement vol. 9 (1940–1950)] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110720103455/http://digital-library.usma.edu/libmedia/archives/cullum/VOL9_PART0001.PDF |date=2011-07-20 }}". URL retrieved 2011-01-12.</ref>
+On September 1, 1939, he was promoted to [[Brigadier general (United States)|brigadier general]] and served as military attaché in [[London]] for half a year before returning to the U.S., where he became a senior member of Army Chief of Staff General [[George C. Marshall]]'s general staff in 1941.<ref name="Generals of World War II"/> Miles was assigned as "Assistant Chief of Staff G-2", i.e., the head of the [[Military Intelligence Division]] (MID).<ref name="cullum9">Cullum, George Washington: "[http://digital-library.usma.edu/libmedia/archives/cullum/VOL9_PART0001.PDF Biographical register of the officers and graduates of the U. S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. since its establishment in 1802. Supplement vol. 9 (1940–1950)] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110720103455/http://digital-library.usma.edu/libmedia/archives/cullum/VOL9_PART0001.PDF |date=July 20, 2011 }}". URL retrieved January 12, 2011.</ref>
-The MID greatly expanded during his time as G-2, but, as Miles put it, "always in a piecemeal manner".<ref name="finnegan">Finnegan, John Patrick: ''[http://www.history.army.mil/books/Lineage/mi/mi-fm.htm Military Intelligence]'', Center for Military History, U.S. Army 1998, CMH pub 60-13, here ''[http://www.history.army.mil/books/Lineage/mi/ch4.htm Chapter 4: Military Intelligence in Crisis]''. URLs retrieved 2011-01-14.</ref> Qualified cryptography personnel were scarce, and Japanese-speaking personnel were also hard to come by.  Miles' suggestions to set up an [[espionage]] service were ignored until June 1941,<ref name="finnegan"/><ref name="life">''[[Life (magazine)|Life]]'', Dec 2, 1940 issue, p.&nbsp;94: ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=O0oEAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA94&ots=57DHOUFRq5&pg=PA94#v=onepage These are U.S. Army's six foremost Generals]'', wrote even that "spies are considered un-American". URL retrieved 2011-01-14.</ref> when U.S. President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] appointed [[William J. Donovan]] as [[Office of the Coordinator of Information|Coordinator of Information]]. Donovan's unit would eventually become the [[Office of Strategic Services|OSS]], but it was independent from the MID and needed time to mature, which made for a difficult collaboration (if not to say a rivalry) between the MID and the OSS from the beginning and continuing throughout the war.<ref name="finnegan"/>
+The MID greatly expanded during his time as G-2, but, as Miles put it, "always in a piecemeal manner".<ref name="finnegan">Finnegan, John Patrick: ''[http://www.history.army.mil/books/Lineage/mi/mi-fm.htm Military Intelligence]'', Center for Military History, U.S. Army 1998, CMH pub 60-13, here "[http://www.history.army.mil/books/Lineage/mi/ch4.htm Chapter 4: Military Intelligence in Crisis]". URLs retrieved January 14, 2011.</ref> Qualified cryptography personnel were scarce, and Japanese-speaking personnel were also hard to come by.  Miles' suggestions to set up an [[espionage]] service were ignored until June 1941,<ref name="finnegan"/><ref name="life">''[[Life (magazine)|Life]]'', Dec 2, 1940 issue, p.&nbsp;94: "[https://books.google.com/books?id=O0oEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA94 These are U.S. Army's six foremost Generals]", wrote even that "spies are considered un-American". URL retrieved January 14, 2011.</ref> when U.S. President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] appointed [[William J. Donovan]] as [[Office of the Coordinator of Information|Coordinator of Information]]. Donovan's unit would eventually become the [[Office of Strategic Services|OSS]], but it was independent from the MID and needed time to mature, which made for a difficult collaboration (if not to say a rivalry) between the MID and the OSS from the beginning and continuing throughout the war.<ref name="finnegan"/>
 ==World War II==
+The attack on Pearl Harbor ended Miles' career in the General Staff.<ref name="casey">[[Richard Casey, Baron Casey|Casey, Richard Gardiner]]: ''A delicate mission: the Washington diaries of R.G. Casey, 1940–42'', {{ISBN|0-642-27662-5}}, p. 214: "25 December 1941 ... Amongst the various heads that have been rolled in the dust has been that of General Sherman Miles (U.S. Military Intelligence)... General Raymond Lee (late U.S. Military Attaché in London) has taken Sherman Miles' place."</ref> MID very much relied on intercepted Japanese radio messages. The decoded "[[Magic (cryptography)|Magic]]" messages were top-secret and circulated only in a very select circle of ten people comprising the General Staffs of the Army and the Navy, the Secretary of War, and the President.<ref name="congress_180">U.S. Congress, Joint Committee on the Investigation of the Pearl Harbor Attack, ''[http://www.ibiblio.org/pha/pha/congress/part_0.html Investigation of the Pearl Harbor Attack], U.S. GPO, 1946, here "[http://www.ibiblio.org/pha/pha/congress/part_4.html#179 Chapter IV: Responsibilities in Washington], p.&nbsp;180, "Policy with respect to dissemination of Magic". URLs retrieved January 18, 2011.</ref> No coherent analysis of these messages was done.<ref name="finnegan"/> The warnings that the General Staff sent to Hawaii failed to stress the urgency because MID themselves did not consider the contents of the "Magic" intercepts received prior to the attack as particularly significant at that time.<ref name="congress2">Congress of the United States, 79th Congress, 1st session: ''[https://archive.org/stream/pearlharborattac02unit#page/794/mode/2up Pearl Harbor attack: Hearings before the Joint Committee on the investigation of the Pearl Harbor attack]'', U.S. GPO 1946; testimony of Gen. Miles on November 29, 1945: p.&nbsp;794ff.</ref> In addition, communication channels in the U.S. military were convoluted due to the split commands of Army and Navy, each with their own intelligence branch,<ref name="congress_concl">Congress of the United States, 79th Congress, 2nd session: ''[http://www.ibiblio.org/pha/pha/congress/part_0.html Investigation of the Pearl Harbor attack: Report the Joint Committee on the investigation of the Pearl Harbor attack]'', U.S. GPO 1946; here in particular [http://www.ibiblio.org/pha/pha/congress/part_5.html#252 Part V: Conclusion and recommendations], p.&nbsp;253.</ref> and the last message to Hawaii before the attack was delayed and was decoded at Hawaii only after the attack had already begun.<ref name="congress_180" /><ref name="armyboard">U.S. Army Pearl Harbor Board:''[http://www.ibiblio.org/pha/pha/army/chap_0.html Report of the Army Pearl Harbor Board]'', U.S. Army, 1944, here [http://ibiblio.org/pha/pha/army/chap_3c.html#138 Chapter 3C: Critical Period: October 1 to December 7, 1941]", p.&nbsp;138ff, "December 7, 1941 Message". URLs retrieved January 18, 2011.</ref>
+Ten days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Miles was sent on an inspection tour through South America to survey installations there and to make recommendations for military assistance to the Latin American countries;<ref name="conn">Conn, Stetson; Fairchild, Byron: ''[http://www.history.army.mil/books/wwii/Framework/index.htm#contents The Framework of Hemisphere Defense] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110101035303/http://www.history.army.mil/books/wwii/Framework/index.htm#contents |date=January 1, 2011 }}'', Center of Military History, U.S. Army 1960, CMH pub 4-1; "[http://www.history.army.mil/books/wwii/Framework/ch08.htm Chapter VIII: General Military Relations With Latin America]", p.&nbsp;200ff. URL retrieved January 17, 2011.</ref> Brigadier General Raymond E. Lee became Acting Assistant Chief of Staff G-2 .<ref name="mercado">Mercado, Stephen C.: "[https://web.archive.org/web/20100426222510/https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/kent-csi/vol45no5/html/v45i5a04p.htm FBIS Against the Axis, 1941–1945 (U)]", ''Studies in Intelligence Fall/Winter 2001'', issue 11, pp.&nbsp;33–43. CIA, 2001. Mentions on page 40 and in footnote 25 that Raymond E. Lee was Acting ACoS G-2 on December 26, 1941. URL retrieved January 17, 2011.</ref>
-The attack on Pearl Harbor ended Miles' career in the General Staff.<ref name="casey">[[Richard Casey, Baron Casey|Casey, Richard Gardiner]]: ''A delicate mission: the Washington diaries of R.G. Casey, 1940–42'', {{ISBN|0-642-27662-5}}, p. 214: "25 December 1941 ... Amongst the various heads that have been rolled in the dust has been that of General Sherman Miles (U.S. Military Intelligence)... General Raymond Lee (late U.S. Military Attaché in London) has taken Sherman Miles' place."</ref> MID very much relied on intercepted Japanese radio messages. The decoded "[[Magic (cryptography)|Magic]]" messages were top-secret and circulated only in a very select circle of ten people comprising the General Staffs of the Army and the Navy, the Secretary of War, and the President.<ref name="congress_180">U.S. Congress, Joint Committee on the Investigation of the Pearl Harbor Attack, ''[http://www.ibiblio.org/pha/pha/congress/part_0.html Investigation of the Pearl Harbor Attack], U.S. GPO, 1946, here "[http://www.ibiblio.org/pha/pha/congress/part_4.html#179 Chapter IV: Responsibilities in Washington], p.&nbsp;180, "Policy with respect to dissemination of Magic". URLs retrieved 2011-01-18.</ref> No coherent analysis of these messages was done.<ref name="finnegan"/> The warnings that the General Staff sent to Hawaii failed to stress the urgency because MID themselves did not consider the contents of the "Magic" intercepts received prior to the attack as particularly significant at that time.<ref name="congress2">Congress of the United States, 79th Congress, 1st session: ''[https://archive.org/stream/pearlharborattac02unit#page/794/mode/2up Pearl Harbor attack: Hearings before the Joint Committee on the investigation of the Pearl Harbor attack]'', U.S. GPO 1946; testimony of Gen. Miles on November 29, 1945: p.&nbsp;794ff.</ref> In addition, communication channels in the U.S. military were convoluted due to the split commands of Army and Navy, each with their own intelligence branch,<ref name="congress_concl">Congress of the United States, 79th Congress, 2nd session: ''[http://www.ibiblio.org/pha/pha/congress/part_0.html Investigation of the Pearl Harbor attack: Report the Joint Committee on the investigation of the Pearl Harbor attack]'', U.S. GPO 1946; here in particular [http://www.ibiblio.org/pha/pha/congress/part_5.html#252 Part V: Conclusion and recommendations], p.&nbsp;253.</ref> and the last message to Hawaii before the attack was delayed and was decoded at Hawaii only after the attack had already begun.<ref name="congress_180" /><ref name="armyboard">U.S. Army Pearl Harbor Board:''[http://www.ibiblio.org/pha/pha/army/chap_0.html Report of the Army Pearl Harbor Board]'', U.A. Army, 1944, here [http://ibiblio.org/pha/pha/army/chap_3c.html#138 Chapter 3C: Critical Period: October 1 to December 7, 1941]", p.&nbsp;138ff, "December 7, 1941 Message". URLs retrieved 2011-01-18.</ref>
-Ten days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Miles was sent on an inspection tour through South America to survey installations there and to make recommendations for military assistance to the Latin American countries;<ref name="conn">Conn, Stetson; Fairchild, Byron: ''[http://www.history.army.mil/books/wwii/Framework/index.htm#contents The Framework of Hemisphere Defense]'', Center of Military History, U.S. Army 1960, CMH pub 4-1; "[http://www.history.army.mil/books/wwii/Framework/ch08.htm Chapter VIII: General Military Relations With Latin America]", p.&nbsp;200ff. URL retrieved 2011-01-17.</ref> Acting Assistant Chief of Staff G-2 became Brigadier General Raymond E. Lee.<ref name="mercado">Mercado, Stephen C.: "[https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/kent-csi/vol45no5/html/v45i5a04p.htm FBIS Against the Axis, 1941–1945 (U)]", ''Studies in Intelligence Fall/Winter 2001'', issue 11, pp.&nbsp;33–43. CIA, 2001. Mentions on page 40 and in footnote 25 that Raymond E. Lee was Acting ACoS G-2 on December 26, 1941. URL retrieved 2011-01-17.</ref>
+On January 28, 1942, Miles was promoted to [[major general]] and then reassigned as commanding general of the First Corps Area Service Command (later re-designated as the [[First Service Command]]) in Boston.{{sfn|Clay|2010a|p=19}}<ref name="Generals of World War II"/> The Service Commands, sub-entities of the [[Army Service Forces]], were supporting services for the fighting forces.<ref name="millet1954">Millet, John D.: ''[http://www.history.army.mil/books/wwii/ASF/index.htm#contents The Organization and Role of the Army Service Forces]'', Center of Military History, U.S. Army, 1954, CMH pub. 3-1. Here "[http://www.history.army.mil/books/wwii/ASF/chapter23.htm Chapter XXIII: The Management of the Army Services Forces]", p.&nbsp;370. URLs retrieved January 12, 2011.</ref>
-On January 28, 1942, Miles was promoted to [[major general]] and then reassigned as commanding general of the First Service Command (later re-designated as the First Service Corps) in Boston.  The Service Commands, sub-entities of the [[Army Service Forces]], were supporting services for the fighting forces.<ref name="millet1954">Millet, John D.: ''[http://www.history.army.mil/books/wwii/ASF/index.htm#contents The Organization and Role of the Army Service Forces]'', Center of Military History, U.S. Army, 1954, CMH pub. 3-1. Here "[http://www.history.army.mil/books/wwii/ASF/chapter23.htm Chapter XXIII: The Management of the Army Services Forces]", p.&nbsp;370. URLs retrieved 2011-01-12.</ref>
+Miles served in this position for the duration of the war and retired from the Army on February 28, 1946.  Upon his retirement, Miles received the [[Distinguished Service Medal (U.S. Army)|Distinguished Service Medal]], the Army's highest non-combat decoration, in recognition of his wartime service.<ref name="cullum9"/><ref name="hewes">After Marshall's reorganization of the General Staff, Maj. Gen. [[George V. Strong]] was G-2 from May 5, 1942 to February 6, 1944; then Maj. Gen. [[Clayton Bissell]] held that post until January 1946. C.f. Hewes, James E. Jr.: ''[http://www.history.army.mil/books/root/index.htm#contents From Root to McNamara: Army Organization and Administration]'', Center of Military History, U.S. Army 1975, CMH pub 40-1; [http://www.history.army.mil/books/root/appB.htm Appendix B: Principal Officials of the War Department and Department of the Army, 1900–1963] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170123130338/http://www.history.army.mil/books/root/appB.htm |date=January 23, 2017 }}, p.&nbsp;389, and "[http://www.history.army.mil/books/root/chapter3.htm#b3 Chapter III: Changes in the Marshall organization]", p.&nbsp;107. URLs retrieved January 13, 2011.</ref>
-Miles served in this position for the duration of the war and retired from the Army on February 28, 1946.  Upon his retirement, Miles received the [[Distinguished Service Medal (U.S. Army)|Distinguished Service Medal]], the Army's highest non-combat decoration, in recognition of his wartime service.<ref name="cullum9"/><ref name="hewes">After Marshall's reorganization of the General Staff, Maj. Gen. [[George V. Strong]] was G-2 from May 5, 1942 to Feb 6, 1944; then Maj. Gen. [[Clayton Bissell]] held that post until January 1946. C.f. Hewes, James E. Jr.: ''[http://www.history.army.mil/books/root/index.htm#contents From Root to McNamara: Army Organization and Administration]'', Center of Military History, U.S. Army 1975, CMH pub 40-1; [http://www.history.army.mil/books/root/appB.htm Appendix B: Principal Officials of the War Department and Department of the Army, 1900–1963], p.&nbsp;389, and "[http://www.history.army.mil/books/root/chapter3.htm#b3 Chapter III: Changes in the Marshall organization]", p.&nbsp;107. URLs retrieved 2011-01-13.</ref>
 ==Later life==
+After his retirement from the Army, Miles served as a [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] member of the [[Massachusetts House of Representatives]] from 1947 to 1952.<ref name="publicMA">Hayden, I.N., Grove, L.R.: ''[https://archive.org/stream/publicofficersof19511952bost#page/236/mode/2up Public officers of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (1951–1952)]'', p.&nbsp;237. URL retrieved January 13, 2011.</ref> In 1948, he wrote the article "Pearl Harbor in Retrospect" in the July 1948 issue of ''[[The Atlantic]]'', in which he gave his perspective on the events just prior to the attack.<ref name="atlantic">Miles, Sherman: "[https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1969/12/pearl-harbor-in-retrospect/5485/ Pearl Harbor in Retrospect]", ''The Atlantic'', July 1948. URL retrieved January 13, 2011.</ref>
-After his retirement from the Army, Miles served as a [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] member of the [[Massachusetts House of Representatives]] from 1947 to 1952.<ref name="publicMA">Hayden, I.N., Grove, L.R.: ''[https://archive.org/stream/publicofficersof19511952bost#page/236/mode/2up Public officers of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (1951–1952)]'', p.&nbsp;237. URL retrieved 2011-01-13.</ref> In 1948, he wrote the article "Pearl Harbor in Retrospect" in the July 1948 issue of ''[[The Atlantic]]'', in which he gave his perspective on the events just prior to the attack.<ref name="atlantic">Miles, Sherman: "[https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1969/12/pearl-harbor-in-retrospect/5485/ Pearl Harbor in Retrospect]", ''The Atlantic'', July 1948. URL retrieved 2011-01-13.</ref>
 After the death of his wife Yulee in 1953, he married Edith Lawrence Coolidge, widow of [[Harold Jefferson Coolidge, Sr.]], in 1954.<ref name="beer"/>
-He died at the hospital in [[Beverly, Massachusetts]] after long illness<ref name="obit"/> and was buried at [[Arlington National Cemetery]].<ref>[https://ancexplorer.army.mil/publicwmv/#/arlington-national/search/results/1/CgVtaWxlcxIHc2hlcm1hbg--/ Burial Detail: Miles, Sherman (Section 3, Grave 1873)] – at ANC Explorer</ref> in the [[Miles Mausoleum]] on October 12, 1966.
+He died at the hospital in [[Beverly, Massachusetts]] after long illness<ref name="obit"/> and was buried at [[Arlington National Cemetery]]<ref>[https://ancexplorer.army.mil/publicwmv/#/arlington-national/search/results/1/CgVtaWxlcxIHc2hlcm1hbg--/ Burial Detail: Miles, Sherman (Section 3, Grave 1873)] – at ANC Explorer</ref> in the Miles Mausoleum on October 12, 1966.
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+==See also==
+* Massachusetts legislature: [[1947–1948 Massachusetts legislature|1947–1948]], [[1949–1950 Massachusetts legislature|1949–1950]], [[1951–1952 Massachusetts legislature|1951–1952]]
 == References ==
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+* {{cite book| first = Lt. Col. Steven E.| last = Clay| title = US Army Order of Battle 1919–1941 Volume I. The Arms: Major Commands and Infantry Organizations| year = 2010a | location = [[Command and General Staff College]], Kansas| publisher = Combat Studies Institute Press}} - ''Public Domain - United States Government''
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+* [https://generals.dk/general/Miles/Sherman/USA.html Generals of World War II]
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-* [http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/shermanm.htm Sherman Miles] at ArlingtonCemetery•net, an unofficial website<!--non-RS [[WP:SPS]] website, do not use for citations -->
+* [http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/shermanm.htm Sherman Miles] at ArlingtonCemetery.net, an unofficial website<!--non-RS [[WP:SPS]] website, do not use for citations -->
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