Meeting of the Combined Chiefs of Staff, 12:30 p.m.1
1. C.C.S. 27th meeting. The meetings of the Combined Chiefs of Staff were numbered consecutively from the establishment of the organization, which held its first meeting in Washington on January 23, 1942. The 27th Meeting was the first held in connection with the Second Washington Conference.
| Present | ||
| United States | United Kingdom | |
| General Marshall | Field Marshal Dill | |
| Vice Admiral Horne2 | General Brooke | |
| Lieutenant General Arnold | Admiral Little | |
| Lieutenant General McNarney | Air Marshal Evill | |
| Major General Eisenhower | Lieutenant General Macready | |
| Major General Clark | Major General Ismay | |
| Rear Admiral Towers | ||
| Rear Admiral Cooke | ||
| Lieutenant Colonel Holmes | ||
| Secretariat | ||
| Brigadier Dykes | ||
| Brigadier General Smith | ||
| Colonel Jacob Commander McDowell | ||
| Commander Coleridge |
- Representing Admiral King.↩