This booklet is designed to supplement the lectures on OSS organization. The Office of Strategic Services (OSS) is an agency of the Joint Chiefs of Staff charged with collecting and analyzing strategic information and secret intelligence required...
War Department, Special Staff, Historical Division
This document contains appendices of official documents such as memorandums, letters, and communications to and from the Commanding General with respect to logistics, training and planning, supply operations, staff operations, organization and...
This pamphlet was prepared for the Historical Division, European Command, by a group of former German generals and general staff officers. The names of the contributors are not announced at this time. The principal author, who by the end of the war...
This directive covers the San Francisco Port of Embarkation major phases of activity involved in the return of personnel to San Francisco Port of Embarkation including activities aboard transports, reception at SFPE, processing personnel at SFPE,...
This report is a summary of the operations of antiaircraft artillery from December 1941 until August 1945 against the enemy in the Pacific theater. Engagements with aircraft, protection to airfields, supply bases, and ground troops, combat service...
This report describes the effects of the atomic bombs which were dropped on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, summarizing the information available on damage to structures, injuries to personnel, morale effect, etc.
This report is an account of Germany's oil economy from 1933 up to the time of her defeat. Its compilation is the result of the work of three groups: the Technical Sub-Committee on Axis Oil, the Oil Committee of the Combined Strategic Targets...
There are several topics discussed in this document regarding the operations surrounding the port that was Cherbourg during the Second World War. Military planning included how plans were made and then changed. Contents revealed administering the...
This is the G-3 report of seizure, occupation and defense of Iwo Jima (19 February through 16 March 1945). The subject matter for this document includes planning and organization, training, and embarkation and movement to the objective. There are...
Official AAR contains a monthly accounting of over-all army operations in the European theater. Supplemented with maps and supporting documents. In 2 volumes with volume II a compilation of general and special staff sections operations reports.
This work is concerned with the Mediterranean Theater of Operations from the point of view of the staff section at Allied Force Headquarters for CA/MG (known as the Civil Affairs Section, Military Government Section, and G-5). It is based with some...
The purpose of this manual is the instruction of Army and Navy personnel in military government and civil affairs field operations. The manual contains first hand reports of numerous, typical military government and civil affairs situations and...
This volume is an abridgment of the official history of the Office of the Provost Marshal General; its purpose was to make immediately available an accurate account of the operations of the Provost Marshal General. Contents of this document include...