AMERICAN COMMITTEE ON THE HISTORY
OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR
NEWSLETTER
Donald S. Detwiler, CJw.irman
Department of History
Southern Illinois University
at Carbondais
Carbondale, Illinois·62901
Permarumt Directors
Charles F. Delzell
Vanderbilt University
Arthur L. Funk
University of Florida
H. Stuart Hughes
University ofCalifomia~
San Diego
Forrest C. Pogue
Smithsonian Institution (ret.)
Terms expiring 1991
Brig. Gen. James L. Collins, Jr.
Center of Military History (rel)
John Lewis Gaddis
Ohio University
Robin Higham
Kansas State University
D. Clayton James
Virginia Military Institute
Robert O. Paxton
Columbia University
Agnes F. Peterson
Hoover Institution
David F. Trask
Csnter of Military History (ret.)
Russell F. Weigley
Temple University
Terms e:<piring 1992
Martin Blumenson
Washington. D.C.
William H. Cunliffe
National Archives
Stanley L. Falk
Office of Air Force History (ral)
Maurice MatJoff
Center of Military History (rel)
Ernest R. May
Harvard University
Ronald H. Spector
George Washington University
Gerhard L. Wein berg
University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill
Earl F. Ziemke
University of Georgia
Terms expiring 1993
Desn C. Allard
Naval Historical Center
Stephen E. Ambrose
University of New Orleans
Ro bert Dallek
University of California,
Los Angeles
Harold C. Deutsch
Army War College (ret.)
Brig. Gen. Roy K. Flint
U.s. Military Academy (ret.)
David Kahn
Great Neck, N.Y.
Richard H. Kohn
University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill
Carol M. Petillo
Boston College
Robsrt Wolfe
National Archives
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D. Clayton James, Secretary
Department of History
and. Politics
Virginia Military Institute
Lexington, Virginia 24450
ISSN 0885-5668
No. 46
ISBN 0-89126-060-9
Fall 1991
CONTENTS
ACHSWW
General Information
The Newsletter
Annual Membership Dues
AnnuallJusiness Meeting, December 28, 1991
Enclosures with the Newsletter
FOR11lCOMING CONFERENCES
American Historical Association
Conference on the U.S. Army in the Mediterranean
and European Theaters of World War 11
SMH Meeting in Canada, 1993: Allies and Alliances
Other Conferences
RECENT PROGRAM: OSS Conference
OTIlERNEWS
Philip A. Crowl
Command and General Staff College Press
American Air Museum in Great Britain
Saipan Memorial Park, by Benjamin T. Manglona
Archives II Building
National Archives Research Numbers
Prologue
Researcher's Query
RESEARCH MATERIALS
An Indispensable Bibliography and Tho Symposia:
A Review Essay, by Donald S. Detwiler
An Insider's View, Number 2: World War II Holdings
of the MacArthur Memorial, by Edward 1. Boone, Jr.
An Insider's View, Number 3: World War II Holdings
of the U.S. Military Academy Library, by Alan C.
Aimone and Judith A. Sibley
Select Bibliography of Books and Articles in
English Relating to the World War II Era
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Anne S. Wells, Newsletter Editor
Department of History
and Politics
Virginia. Military Institute
Lexington, Virginia 24450
Robin Higham, Archivist
Department of History
Kansas State Unive""ity
Manhattan, Kansas 66506
The ACHSWW is affiliated with:
American Historical Association
400 A Street, S.E.
Washington, D.C. 20003
Comite International
d'Histoire de la Deuxi~me
Guerre Mondiale
A. Harry Paape, President
Henry Rousso, Secretary General
Institut d'Histoire
du Temps Pr~ssnt
44, rue de I'Arniral Mouchez
75014 Paris, France
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ACHSWW
GENERAL INFORMATION
Established in 1967 "to promote historical research in the period of World War II
in all its aspects," the American Committee on the History of the Second World War is
a private organization supported by the dues and donations of its members. It is affiliated
with the American Historical Association, with the International Committee for the History
of the Second World War, and with corresponding national committees in other countries,
including Austria, Belgium, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Italy, the
Netherlands, Poland, Romania, the Soviet Union, Spain, the United Kingdom, and
Yugoslavia. The ACHSWW meets annually with the American Historical Association. The
1991 annual meeting will be held in the last week of December in Chicago.
TIlE NEWSLEITER
The ACHSWW issues a semiannual newsletter, which is assigned International
Standard Serial Number [ISSN] 0885-5668 by the National Serial Data Program of the
Library of Congress. Back issues of the Newsletter are available from Robin Higham, the
ACHSWW archivist, through Sunflower University Press, 1531 Yuma (or Box 1(09),
Manhattan, KS 66502-4228. The first eighteen issues (1968-1978) are available as a spiral­
bound, 360-page xerox paperback (ISBN 0-89126-060-9) for $36.00. Subsequent back
numbers are available as single, unbound issues for $3.00 each. There is no postal charge
for prepaid orders to addresses in the United States, but there is a shipping charge of $4.00
for orders sent to addresses in Canada and other foreign countries.
Please send data and suggestions for the Newsletter to:
Anne S. Wells
Editor, ACHSWW Newsletter
Department of History and Politics
Virginia Military Institute
Lexington, VA 24450
ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP DUES
Membership in the ACHSWW is open to all who are interested in the era of the
Second World War. Annual membership dues of $10.00 are payable at the beginning of
each calendar year. Students with U.S. addresses may, if their circumstances require it,
pay annual dues of $2.00 for up to six years. There is no surcharge for members abroad,
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but it is requested that dues be remitted directly to the secretary of the committee (not
through an agency or a subscription service) in U.S. dollars. The Newsletter, which is
mailed at bulk rates within the United States, will be sent by surface mail to foreign
addresses unless special arrangements are made to cover the cost of airmail postage.
Please send dues to:
D. Clayton James
Secretary, ACHSWW
Department of History and Politics
Virginia Military Institute
Lexington, VA 24450
ANNUAL BUSINESS MEETING, DECEMBER 28, 1991
The annual business meeting of the ACHSWW will be held on December 28, 1991,
in conjunction with the annual meeting of the American Historical Association. This year's
meeting will take place at 5:00 P.M. in Conference Room 4H of the Chicago Hilton. All
members are invited to attend.
ENCLOSURES WITH TIIE NEWSLETIER
There are two important items enclosed with this issue of the Newsletter: (1) the
annual membership form, which, as stated above, is to be returned in January with your
dues; (2) the ballot for eight directors to serve three-year terms on the Board of Directors,
your selection being made from sixteen persons nominated this fall by the Board.
FORTHCOMING
CONFERENCES
AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
The American Historical Association will hold its annual meeting on December 27­
30, 1991, in Chicago. The ACHSWW is sponsoring the session entitled "New Research on
the Philippines Campaign, 1941-1942: A Multi-National Perspective," which will be held
on December 30, from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m, in Hilton Conference Room 4M. Chaired by
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Dean C. Allard, the session will include papers by John W. Whitman on "MacArthur's
Generalship: A Bad Decision Unredeemed" and David C. Evans on ''The Japanese Navy
in the Invasion of the Philippines." Commentators will be Carol M. Petillo and Allard.
There are a number of other sessions relating to World War II: "Italy and America:
Cross-Cultural Perceptions in the Fascist Era"; ''The 'High Noon' of U.S. Military Racial
Segregation, 1941-1951"; ''The Spanish Civil War: Reactions From Abroad"; "Pearl Harbor
as Symbol: A Fifty-Year Retrospective"; "From Weimar to Hitler: Conservative Elites and
the Establishment of the Third Reich"; and "World War II and the Structure of American
Cities."
CONFERENCE ON THE U.S. ARMY IN
THE MEDITERRANEAN AND EUROPEAN THEATERS
OF WORlD WAR IT
The U.S. Army Center of Military History is sponsoring the Conference of Army
Historians on Jun~ 10-12, 1992. Meetings will be held at the Holiday Inn Crowne Plaza,
Crystal City, Virginia. The conference is part of the Army's program to commemorate
the fiftieth anniversary of World War II.
The theme of the conference is "The U.S. Army in World War II: The
Mediterranean and European Theaters." Panels will include both scholars and World War
II veterans. Among the featured speakers are Russell Weigley, Carlo D'Este, and Joseph
Balkoski.
The conference is open to the public with prior registration. There will be a
discounted student registration fee. For a complete program and further information,
contact Dr. Judith Bellafaire, Field and International Division, U.S. Army Center of Military
History, Building 159, Southeast Federal Center, Washington, DC 20374-5088; (202) 475­
2955/6/7.
SMH MEETING IN CANADA, 1993: AI.I .IFS AND ALLIANCES
The annual meeting of the Society for Military History (formerly the American
Military Institute) will be held at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston,
Ontario, on May 21-24, 1993. The theme of the meeting will be "Allies and Alliances."
The deadline for proposals (including abstracts of less than 200 words) is December 15,
1992. Contact Dr. W. A. B. Douglas, Director of History, National Defence Headquarters,
Ottawa, Canada KIA 0K2; (613) 998-7044 (telephone); (613) 990-8579 (fax).
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OTIIER CONFERENCES
Dec. 3-6, 1991
"Prelude to Pearl Harbor--The Interwar Years," Midland, Tex.
Sponsored by the American Airpower Heritage Museum and Hardin­
Simmons University. Contact Barbara Breier, assistant to the provost
and director of continuing education, Hardin-Simmons University, Box
657, HSU Station, Abilene, TX 79698; (915) 670-1501.
Dec. 4-7, 1991
"Texas Goes to War: The Governor's Conference on World War II."
Contact University of North Texas, P.O. Box 5344, Denton, TX 76203­
5344; (817) 565-3487.
Dec. 5, 1991
"1941: The War Becomes a World Conflict." Contact John P. Rossi,
History Department, La Salle University, Philadelphia, PA 19141;
(205) 951-1090.
Dec. 5-7, 1991
"The United States and Japan in World War II." Sponsored by Hofstra
Cultural Center and the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute.
Contact Hofstra Cultural Center, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY
11550.
Dec. 6-8, 1991
"The Pacific War and Modem Memory: War, Culture, and Society."
Contact Carol S. Gruber, Department of History, William Paterson
College of New Jersey, Wayne, NJ 07470; (201) 595-3047.
Dec. 6-11, 1991
"December 7, 1941--A Retrospective, Part Two:
'The Storm
Unleashed,'" Honolulu, Hawaii. Sponsored by the Arizona Memorial
Museum Association, National Park Service, Admiral Chester Nimitz
Museum and Foundation, U.S. Naval Institute, Hawaii Maritime
Center, USS Bowfin Submarine Museum and Park, Fort DeRussey
Army Museum, Naval Historical Center, and MHQ: The Quarterly
Journal of MilitaIy History. Contact Arizona Memorial Museum
Association, No. 1 Arizona Memorial Place, Honolulu, Hawaii 96818.
Dec. 7, 1991
"Home Front Tennessee: The World War II Experience." Sponsored
by the Tennessee Historical Society, Knoxville, TN. Contact Ann
Toplovich, (615) 242-1796.
March 5-7, 1992
"Bringing the War Home: Virginia and the World War II Experience."
Contact Virginia Historical Society, P.O. Box 7311, Richmond, VA
23221-0311.
March 26-27, 1992 "1942 . . . Issue in Doubt," San Antonio, TX. Contact Helen
McDonald, Admiral Nimitz Museum, P.O. Box 777, Fredericksburg,
TX 78624.
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Apr. 2-5, 1992
Organization of American Historians annual meeting, Chicago.
Apr. 5-6, 1992
"Revisionism and the Holocaust." Contact Jack Fischel, Department
of History, Millersville University, Millersville, PA 17551.
Apr. 6-11,1992
"Main Street, USA at War: 1939-1946." Call for papers by September
1, 1991. Contact Jere Jackson, Department of History, Stephen F.
Austin State University, Box 13013, SFA Station, Nacogdoches, TX
75962.
Apr. 10-11, 1992
Society for Military History annual meeting, Fredericksburg, VA.
Theme:
"Joint, Combined, Amphibious, and Expeditionary
Operations." Contact Donald F. Bittner, P.O. Box 307, Quantico, VA
22134-0307; (703) 640-2746.
Apr. 10-11, 1992
"The World War II Home Fronts in a Comparative Perspective."
Sponsored by the Eisenhower Center, University of New Orleans, New
Orleans, LA 70148.
Apr. 11, 1992
"Gender, Work, and Family in World War II." Contact Lynn H.
Parsons, Department of History, State University of New York,
Brockport, Brockport, NY 14420.
May 1, 1992
"Wurld War II: The Homefront in the South," Sponsored by a
consortium including the National Archives-Southeast Region, Georgia
Department of Archives and History, Southern Labor Archives,
Kennesaw State College History Department, Clark Atlanta University
Historical Society, Georgia World History Association, and Georgia
Historical Society. Contact Dave Hilkert, National Archives-Southeast
Region, 1557 St. Joseph Ave., East Point, GA 30344; (404) 763-7477.
May 7-10, 1992
"Battle of the Coral Sea." Sponsored by the Australian National
Maritime Museum. Contact John Wade, Senior Curator, USA Gallery,
Australian National Maritime Museum, GPO Box 5131, Sydney, NSW
2000, Australia; 011-612-522-7777 (telephone); 011-612-660-0729 (fax).
June 4-5, 1992
"World War II, 1942: A 50-Year Perspective." Call for papers by
December 15, 1991. Contact Thomas O. Kelly II, Department of
History, Siena College, Loudonville, NY 12211.
June 18-21, 1992
Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations annual meeting,
Hyde Park and Poughkeepsie, NY. Contact David L. Anderson,
Department of History & Political Science, University of Indianapolis,
1400 East Hanna Avenue, Indianapolis, IN 46227-3697.
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RECENT PROGRAM:
OSS CONFERENCE
A two-day conference entitled ''The Secrets War: The Office of Strategic Services
in World War 11," was organized by the National Archives and took place on July 11 and
12, 1991. The program was arranged by National Archives archivist George C. Chalou,
with the assistance of a steering committee made up of Ray C. Cline, Wayne S. Cole,
Elizabeth P. McIntosh, J. Kenneth McDonald, Lawrence McDonald, John Taylor, and John
Vernon. The conference consisted of both plenary and specialized sessions. The papers
will be published at a later date.
The plenary session liThe World Goes to War, 1939-1941" was chaired by Gordon
A. Craig. The first paper provided an overview of American responses to the shattering
events taking place in Europe and Asia after 1939: Waldo Heinrichs, "The United States
Prepares for War." The second presentation focused on Franklin D. Roosevelt's decision
to establish an independent intelligence organization responsible to him: Robin Winks,
"Getting the Right Stuff: FDR, Donovan, and the Idea of Professional Intelligence."
Harold C. Deutsch chaired the plenary session ''The ass: From Home and
Abroad," which provided a view of the essential role of the collection and analysis of
information performed in Washington, DC, by the "professor farm" (the Research and
Analysis Branch). Two members of ass and a British liaison officer from the Special
Operations Executive (SOE) provided some personal perspectives on their duties and life
in London, the largest ass overseas station. The Washington headquarters was described
by Barry Katz, "aSS and the Development of the Research and Analysis Branch." The
London operation was covered by Walt W. Rostow, '''Recollections of an Economist";
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., "Recollections of a Historian"; and Robin Brook, 'The British
View."
J. Kenneth McDonald chaired the plenary session "ass: A Review of Records,
Research, and Literature." The speakers were Lawrence McDonald, "Records"; Richard
Breitman, "Research"; and George Constantinides, "Literature."
Four concurrent sessions concerned "The ass Around the Globe." The first of
these, "I Spy," was chaired by David Kahn and consisted of first-person accounts of
espionage by three ass veterans who operated in different countries. The papers were
given by the Countess of Romanones, "Spain"; Peter Tompkins, "Italy"; and Helene
Deschamps Adams, "France." Comment was provided by S. Peter Kadow and Kahn.
The session on the ass in ''The Mediterranean and the Balkans" was chaired by
Henry Hyde, who also served as commentator. The speakers were Arthur L. Funk, "The
ass in Algiers"; the son of Max Corvo, who presented his father's paper, "aSS in Italy";
Dusan Biber, "aSS in Yugoslavia"; and Timothy Naftali, "Artifice: James Angleton and X­
2 Operations."
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Richard Helms chaired the session ''The OSS in Western Europe." Papers were
given by Frabrizio Calvi, "OSS in France"; Neal Petersen, "Allen Dulles and the Penetration
of Germany"; and M. R. D. Foot, "OSS and SOE: A Partnership?" Comment was given
by Richard Helms. Participating observers were Gervase Cowell, SOE Adviser, Foreign
and Commonwealth Office, United Kingdom, and Jurgen Heideking, Tubingen University,
Germany.
The session "OSS in Asia" was chaired by Elizabeth McIntosh, who also provided
commentary along with Michael Schaller. The papers were given by Carolle Carter, "The
Dixie Mission in China"; James Ward, ''The Activities of Detachment 101 in Burma"; and
E. Bruce Reynolds, "OSS in Thailand."
The final plenary session, ''The Legacy of OSS, 1945-1991," was chaired by Ray S.
Cline, who also provided commentary. The speakers were William Colby, ''The OSS
Impact on Modern American Intelligence"; Bradley F. Smith, "A Student of Modern
Intelligence"; and Elspeth Davies Rostow, ''The Significance of Research and Analysis."
Information for this report came from Arthur L. Funk and the conference program.
OTHER NEWS
PHILIP A CROWL
A former member of the ACHSWW Board of Directors, Philip A. Crowl died on
May 5, 1991, in Washington, D.C., after an extended illness. Born in Dayton, Ohio, on
December 17, 1914, he earned an A.B. from Swarthmore College in 1936, an M.A. from
the University of Iowa in 1939, and a PhD. in history from Johns Hopkins University in
1942. During World War II he was a lieutenant commander in the West Pacific operations,
earning a Silver Star in the Leyte naval actions. He taught at Princeton University and the
U.S. Naval Academy before joining the Office of the Chief of Military History of the
Department of the Army in 1949 where he worked on official histories until 1956. Then
he returned to Princeton for a year, serVed eleven years as an intelligence officer with the
Department of State, and, in 1967-1973, was professor and chairman of the Department
of History of the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. From 1973 to his retirement in 1980,
he was holder of the Ernest J. King Chair and chairman of the Department of Strategy at
the Naval War College.
His dissertation was published in 1943 as MaIYland During and After the Revolution:
A Political and Economic Study. Perhaps his best-known work is The U.S. Marines and
Amphibious War: Its TheoIY and Practice in the Pacific, coauthored with Jeter A. Isely
(1951). In the official U.S. Army in World War II series, he contributed two volumes:
Seizure of the Gilberts and Marshalls, coauthored with Edmund A. Love (1955); and
Campaign in the Marianas (1959). Crowl also wrote three historical travel guides on
England and Wales (1983), Scotland (1986), and Ireland (1990). In addition, he was the
Harmon Memorial Lecturer at the Air Force Academy in 1978, and he wrote a number
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of significant essays. He was chairman of the Advisory Board of the National Archives and
a member of the Board of Directors of the Truman Library.
He is survived by his wife, Mary Ellen Crowl of Annapolis, three daughters, and
three grandchildren. [DO]
COMMAND AND GENERAL STAFF COllEGE PRESS
The Command and General Staff College Press has been established under the aegis
of the Combat Studies Institute, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, Fort
Leavenworth, Kansas. It is hoped that the press will eventually become an independent
entity. The director is Roger J. Spiller.
The press will publish monograph-length works on a wide range of military subjects,
not only military history, as well as out-of-print military classics.
Manuscripts from all sources will be considered for publication. All publications will
become part of the public domain and will be distributed through the U.S. Government
Printing Office.
AMERICAN AIR MUSEUM IN GREAT BRITAIN
A museum to house a large collection of restored World War II aircraft is being
planned for Duxford, England, site of an Eighth Air Force base during the war. The
planes are currently in the custody of the British Imperial War Museum, and the land is
being donated by the British. The museum will honor U.S. airmen of the Second World
War. For further information, contact:
American Air Museum in Britain
P.O. Box 96908
Washington, DC 20077-7041
SAIPAN MEMORIAL PARK
The letter on the following page should be of interest to all ACHSWW members
and therefore has been reproduced in its entirety.
For further information, write:
American Memorial Park
P.O. Box 198--CHRB
Saipan, MP 96950
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LORENZO I. DELEON GUERRERO
t~r ~IlUrrnIlr
<!IommonwrnHq of thr Nortqrrn 1inrinnn ]slanbs
Governor
BENJAMIN T. MANGLONA
Lieutenant Governor
Dear Fellow ACHSWW Members:
The 50th anniversary of the Marianas Campaign during the Second
World War is rapidly approaching. Yet it is regrettable that no fitting
memorial exists on Saipan for the 4,000 brave and courageous
American marines, soldiers, airmen and sailors who made the
supreme sacrifice for their country during the liberation of our
islands. It is ironic that many memorials have been built here by
Japan, Okinawa and Korea. Even President George Bush participated
in the Marianas Campaign as the youngest pilot in the U.S. Navy.
It is a shame that our great nation has done so little to honor our
fallen heroes.
The federal government promised to build a monument in 1976
when the Northern Mariana Islands became the newest member of
the American political family as a Commonwealth under Public Law
94-241. That act ...lso set aside an area on Saipan to honor the U.S.
and Marianas war dead to be called the "American Memorial Park."
Public Law 95-348 later authorized the appropriation of $3 million
for its development. Yet, 13 years later, Congress has not fulfilled
this important commitment.
As Chairman of our American Memorial Park Planning Committee, I
am requesting the support of my fellow members in the ACHSWW to
help our small islands draw attention to our effort to construct a
fitting memorial to those brave and courageous young Americans
that died during the liberation of Saipan. I would be most grateful
if all ACHSWW members immediately write to their congressmen
and senators urging them to keep America's long-standing
commitment to fund our park, especially now as we approach
t e 50th anniversary of the Marianas Campaign.
Sin erely,\
NJA~NT.
L G~~l,;~or,
irman
American Mem ia Park Planning Committee
Capitol Hill • Salpan, MP 96950 • Tel: (670) 322-5091/2/3 • Fax: (670) 322-5096
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ARCIllVES II BUILDING
The National Archives is proceeding with the construction of its Archives II building
on the campus of the University of Maryland in College Park, Maryland. The new building
should be fInished in 1993. Records will be transferred in 1994-1995 and will be
unavailable to researchers for limited periods during the move.
Preliminary decisions have been made to retain the following categories in Archives
I: Congressional and Supreme Court records; genealogical records '(Census, Veterans
Administration, Bureau of Land Management [Land Entry Files], State Department
[Passport Applications], and War Relocation Authority); Bureau of Indian Mfairs and
related records; Navy and pre-World War II Army records; and several small miscellaneous
record groups. Archives II will contain all other record groups, civilian and military, and
all special media records such as motion and still pictures, electronic records, cartographic
records, and aerial photography. Microfilm copies will be housed with the original records.
Some series of records are being transferred to National Archives regional branches instead
of to the new building.
Current information about Archives II and transferral of records is published in the
Archives II Researcher Bulletin, which can be obtained by contacting the Textual Reference
Division, National Archives, Washington, DC 20408.
NATIONAL ARCIllVES RESEARCH NUMBERS
The National Archives encourages researchers to call or write before traveling to the
Washington area. A detailed list of names and telephone numbers of reference archivists
responsible for specifIc subjects is available from the Textua1 Reference Division, National
Archives, Washington, DC 20408. The telephone numbers for the reference branches are
listed below. Many of these numbers changed in the spring of 1990.
Captured German Records: (202) 501-5383
Cartographic Records: (703) 756-6700
Civil Records: (202) 501-5395/5425
Electronic Records: (202) 501-5579
General Information: (202) 501-5402
Legislative Records: (202) 501-5350
Military Records--Old Army: (202) 501-5390
Military Records--Modern Military: (202) 501-5385
Military Records--Navy: (202) 501-5671
Motion Pictures: (202) 501-5446
Still Pictures: (202) 501-5455
Suitland Reference Branch (Civil and Military): (301) 763-7410
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PROLOGUE
The Fall 1991 issue of ProloIDIe: Quarterly of the National Archives (Vol. 23, no.
3) is devoted to World War II, with special emphasis on the American home front.
RESEARCHER'S QUERY
For a book entitled "Love Letters from the Front," Margery Mandell is seeking love
letters written by servicemen and women to their spouses or loved ones during twentieth­
century wars. Please send information to her at 17 Interlaken Drive, Eastchester, New
York 10709.
RESEARCH MATERIALS
AN INDISPENSABLE BffiUOGRAPHY AND 1WO SYMPOSIA:
A REVIEW ESSAY
by Donald S. Detwiler
Jurgen Rohwer and Hildegard Milller, eds., Neue Forschungen zum Zweiten Weltkrieg.
Literaturberichte und Bibliographien aus 67 Uindern [New Research on the Second World
War: Reports on the Literature and Bibliographies from 67 Countries], Schriften der
Bibliothek fur Zeitgeschichte [Publications of the Library of Contemporary History], vol.
28. Koblenz: Bernard & Graefe Verlag, 1990. Pp. xv, 564, hardback. DM 128.00.
Jurgen Rohwer, ed., Rustungswettlauf zur See 1930-1941. Von der Abrustung zum
Wettrusten [The Naval Arms Race, 1930-1941: From Disarmament to the Arms Race].
Koblenz: Bernard & Graefe Verlag for the International Commission on Military History,
1991. Pp. 136, paperback. DM 29.80.
Marlene P. Hiller, Eberhard Jackel, and Jurgen Rohwer, eds., Stadte im Zeiten Weltkrieg.
Ein internationaler Vergleich [Cities in the Second World War: An International
Comparison]. Essen: K.1artext, 1991. Pp. 332, hardback. DM 42.00.
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Although Jiirgen Rohwer has retired as director of the Library for Contemporary
History [Bibliothek fur Zeitgeschichte] in Stuttgart and become curator of its foundation,
he has by no means retired from the work that led to his standing as one of the world's
leading authorities on the historiography of the Second World War, particularly the naval
war. (He was, incioentally, trained as a submariner toward the end of the war, but had no
opportunity to serve at sea.)
As noted in this newsletter's issue of Fall 1978 (No. 20, p. 12), the Library for
Contemporary History, under Rohwer's editorship, has published an invaluable series of
book-length bibliographies, including, on the Second World War, Josef Schroder's
magisterial 1264-page volume on Italy during the war (vol. 14 of the series), Hans-Erich
Volkmann's vol. 23 on the economy of the Third Reich 1939-1945 (a sequel to vol. 20 on
the years 1933-1939), and Gerda Beitter's vol. 24 on the Red Army in World War II.
Rohwer and the deputy director of the library, Hildegard MUller, have now brought
out, as volume 28 of the series, a collaborative volume, with reports from. sixty-seven
countries on historical research on World War II, listing altogether 3570 titles. The
introductory essay is printed in German, English, and French, followed, in each case, by a
listing of the contributions on each country in alphabetical sequence according to the name
of the country as written in the three languages. The volume concludes with a thirty-three­
page two-column index of the authors and editors of the cited works, followed by a
directory, alphabetized by name, with addresses, of the eighty-two collaborators.
Their contributions take the form of bibliographical essays, many of which provide
a compressed overview of the history of the participation in the war of the country in
question, as well as an introduction to the literature, followed by listings of the cited titles.
Thirty-nine of the essays are in English, seven in French (including the one on Mexico), and
twenty-one are in German (including the ones on China, Iraq, Syria, and Uruguay).
Titles of works not in English that are cited in the English-language essays on
Greece, Japan, Norway, Romania, the Soviet Union, and others are parenthetically
translated into English. In length, these contributions range from a page on Cyprus by
G. S. GeorghaIlides (p. 525, a one-paragraph bibliographical note followed by three entries)
and Hoang Hung's five-page essay and two-page listing of twenty-two titles on Vietnam (pp.
518-524) to Richard J. Overy's ten-page essay with a six-page list of 116 titles on recent
British work on the World War II (pp. 171-186) and the eight-page essay with a twelve­
page list of 217 titles on American work since 1975 on the war by Robin Higham and
Jacob Kipp (pp. 498-517).
The contribution of Stuttgart University historian Johannes H. Voigt, "India in the
Second World War: A History with Problems" (pp. 187-201) is a penetrating ten-page
essay with a list of over seventy titles in English, including the English edition of his India
in the Second World War (New Delhi: Arnold-Heinemann, 1987; Liverpool: Lucas
Publications, 1988).
Historians of the war in the Near East will appreciate Jehuda Wallach's
bibliographical essay on "The Jewish Community ['Yishuv'] in Palestine in the Second
World War (pp. 215-224), with a seven-page essay dealing with participation in the British
war effort, with the Palmah (forces established to defend the Jewish settlements in
Palestine), with aspects of the ordeal of the Jewish Diaspora in Europe and in the countries
of Islam, and with illegal immigration. Most of the eighty-eight titles in Wallach's
bibliography are in Hebrew (with English translation), but he includes, among the citations
on illegal immigration, Jiirgen Rowher's monograph on the sinking of the Jewish refugee
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ships Struma and Mefkure in the Black Sea during the war (Frankfurt: Bernard & Graefe,
1965), and the work of the American journalist I. F. Stone, who, after the end of the war,
"first ... gave publicity to the ordeal of illegal immigrants" in his UnderlUound to Palestine
(New York: Boni & Gaer, 1946; New York: Pantheon, 1978).
In "Recent Japanese Research on the Second World War" (pp. 239-255, with a ten­
page essay and an eight-page bibliography), Kisaka Jun'ichiro discusses with rare and
illuminating candor the controversies that have raged in Japan regarding the history of ''The
Fifteen-Year War," i.e., the conflict that began with the Mukden Incident and ended with
the capitulation on the Missouri. The 115 titles in his listing are in Japanese, but English
translations of their titles are given, and he cites the British translation of the first edition
of an important title (explaining its place in the literature), Ienaga Saburo's Japan's Last
War (Oxford: Blackwell, 1979), published in New York as The Pacific War (Pantheon,
1978).
A group of Canadian historians, including Norman Hillmer of the Directorate of
History in Ottawa, has contributed an essay and bibliography on "Canada's Second World
War" (pp. 268-282) as a tribute to the late Col. Charles Perry Stacey, whose works,
including Arms, Men and Governments: the War Policies of Canada. 1939-1945 (Ottawa:
Queen's Printer, 1970), "provided the context," as they express it, "in which the war could
be better understood." Their nine-page essay, a brief but welcome introduction to the often
under-appreciated role of Canada, is followed by a selec£ bibliography of 120 titles (only
about half the number of titles they originally wished to include). Several of the titles,
including Stacey's work noted above, are listed with asterisks, indicating their publication
also in French. The simultaneous publication of official histories in English and French
reflects only in part th~ multiculturalism of Canada. This is brought out in a recently
published symposium, Norman Hillmer, Bohdan Kordan, and Lubomyr Luciuk, eds., On
Guard for Thee: War. Ethnicity. and the Canadian State. 1939-1945 (Ottawa: Canadian
Government Supply Centre for the Canadian Committee on the History of the Second
World War, 1988), with ten papers focusing on the ethnic minorities. The president of the
Canadian Committee, Norman Hillmer, writes in his introduction (p. xii): "The ethnic
minorities more than the French were out of the main-stream, and the burden of this
volume is that Canada's war was not their war." A chart (p. xiii) tracing the origins of
Canadians shows that of the population of 11,506,655, based on the 1941 Census,5,715,904
were of British Isles races, 5,526,%4 of other European races, 74,064 of Asiatic races, and
189,723 of other races, and that among the other European races, in addition to the
French, with 3,483,038, there were 464,682 of German stock (and 37,715 of Austrian),
305,929 of Ukrainian and 83,708 of Russian, 112,625 of Italian racial origin, among many
others. Those interested in the evacuation of Japanese-Americans may wish to consult the
paper on the corresponding Canadian experience by J. L. Granatstein and Gregory A
Johnson, "The Evacuation of the Japanese-Canadians, 1942: A Realist Critique of the
Received Version" (pp. 101-129, with seventy-two backnotes, several of them discussing the
literature and archival sources).
The secretary of the Spanish Committee on the History of World War II, Antonio
Marquina of Madrid, provides, in "Spanish Research on World War II after the Death of
Franco" (pp. 451-456, a five-page essay, with a forty-five-title bibliography), an account of
the gradual clarification, during the past fifteen years, of many aspects of Spain's complex
and widely misunderstood role during the war. His bibliography cites key periodical articles
as well as books. Anyone seeking more detailed treatment, with extensive bibliographical
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coverage, may turn to Marquina's ma~um opus, a thousand-page study of Spain's defense
policy and role in Western collective security from the end of the Civil War until a decade
after Franco's death, Espana en la politica de se~ridad occidental (1939-1986) [Spain in
the Security Policy of the West (1939-1986)] (Madrid: Ediciones Ejercito, 1986).
Robert A Graham, S.J., in "The State of Research on the Holy See in World War
II" (pp. 491-494, a one-page essay with a fifty-two title bibliography--including, as one entry,
the eleven-volume documentation on the Holy See during the Second World War as well
as Marquina's definitive study on Franco Spain's Vatican diplomacy from 1936 to 1945),
briefly and benignly comments on the impetus to historical studies on the role of the
Vatican given by Rolf Hochhuth's play The Deputy. Graham also points out areas in which
research remains to be done and on which archival material is open for research. "The
wartime public addresses of Pope Pius XII ... have not been reexamined in the light of
postwar documentation," Graham notes, and adds that "the wartime transmissions of
Vatican Radio and the editorials of the semi-official Osservatore Ramano likewise invite
interest as a guide to Vatican policy."
Bernd Wegner of the Military History Research Office in Freiburg contributes, in
German, a magisterial bibliographical essay on the Second World War in the historiography
of the Federal Republic of the 1970s and 1980s (pp. 102-129, nine pages of text and two
of annotations, followed by a 261-title list). In his tightly structured but readable essay,
Wegner explains the broad approach to the war that he and his Freiburg colleagues are
taking in the multivolume history produced under government auspices; he goes on to
introduce the most significant West German contributions to the literature from 1970
through 1988. Readers of German familiar with the indispensable Freiburg history of the
war will be delighted to know of the reprinting of its first volume in an unabridged, updated
edition in the Fischer paperback series (vol. 4432, 954 pp., DM 24.80); Wilhelm Deist,
Manfred Messerschmidt, Hans-Erich Volkmann, and Wilhelm Wette, Ursachen und
Voraussetzungen des Zweiten Weltkrieges [Causes and Preconditions of the Second World
War] (Frankfurt am Main: Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, ~989), reprint of Ursachen und
Voraussetzungen der Deutschen Krie2spolitik [Causes and Preconditions of German War
Policy], "Das Deutsche Reich und der Zweite Weltkrieg" [The German Reich and the
Second World War], vol. 1 (Stuttgart: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt for the Military History
Research Office, 1979). The relatively comprehensive bibliography of the paperback
edition, pp. 873-929, was expanded by Wilfried Radisch to include works published since
1979. In his contribution to the bibliography under consideration here, Wegner by no
means cites only works on Germany in the war but includes other German contributions
as well, such as the original edition of Johannes H. Voigt's work cited above in English,
Indien im Zweiten Weltkrieg (Stuttgart: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1978).
The second volume under consideration in this review, which also was edited by
Jurgen Rohwer, is a text edition of the annual Revue Internationale d'Histoire Militaire,
published by the International Commission on Military History, with studies of the naval
arms race by historians from Britain, America, Japan, France, Italy, the Soviet Union, and
the Federal Republic of Germany. The volume contains seven contributions, including
studies on the the U.K. by David K. Brown and the USA by Dean Allard. The essays on
Japan and on Italy are in English, the one on France is in French, and those on Germany
and the Soviet Union are in German (and each is followed by summaries in the other two
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languages). Five of the studies cover the period 1930-1941, but the one of Germany begins
in 1919 and the one on the USSR in 1921.
Brown's "Naval Rearmament, 1939-1941: The Royal Navy" (pp. 11-30) considers
technical questions clearly, is well annotated, and provides annexes with the main provisions
of the 1922 Washington and the 1930 London treaties affecting the Royal Navy.
In "Naval Rearmament, 1930-1941: An American Perspective" (pp. 35-50), Dean
Allard guides the reader through the complex, interactive international and domestic issues
of the period and provides, in his seventy footnotes, a guide for further research; in
addition to the published literature, he cites relevant archival documentation, unpublished
dissertations, works in production, and papers in his possession. His address (as director
of naval history in Washington)--and the addresses of the other contributors--can be found
at the end of the book.
The third volume noted above, a symposium on cities during the war, includes the
proceedings of a conference (in German) at the Library of Contemporary History in
Stuttgart in September 1989, fifty years after the outbreak of World War II. The annotated
introduction, on everyday life during the war in the occupied capitals of Europe, is followed
by annotated papers on seventeen cities during the war, considering, in each case, the war's
direct or indirect impact, Le., Shanghai under the Japanese; unvanquished Warsaw; and
Leningrad under siege; Stockholm and Istanbul as neut;:-al cities; perspectives on three
industrial cities, Turin, Detroit, and Yokohama; cities in the rear echelons, Halifax, Cairo,
and Calcutta (with a riveting account of the famine of 1943); and Coventry, Hamburg, and
Dresden as bombing targets. The volume, illustrated with well-chosen black-and-white
photographs, concludes with a record of the critical but constructive discussion of the
papers and the historiographical significance of the conference as a whole. If the volume
is reprinted, it would be useful to have a listing of the photographs as well as of the
participants in the discussion, who are identified only by their surnames at the beginning
of their statements. The reader can identify the named participants in the conference and
the editors of the volume but is not told, to cite but three examples, that "Hirschfeld" is
(presumably) Gerhard Hirschfeld, the former director of the German Historical Institute
in London, the editor of The Policies of Genocide: Jews and Soviet Prisoners of War in
Nazi Germany (London: Allen & Unwin, 1986), reviewed in the Fall 1989 issue of this
newsletter (No. 42, p. 19), who succeeded Rohwer as director of the Library of
Contemporary History; that "Wallach" is (presumably) the Tel Aviv professor whose
contribution to the international bibliography considered here is reviewed above; and that
"Forster" is (presumably) Jiirgen Forster, the Freiburg military historian whose paper on
"The German Army and the Ideological War Against the Soviet Union," was published in
the Hirschfeld volume, as noted above. I suggest including a list of illustrations and
identification of participants precisely because I consider the well-produced volume to be
a significant--and in part, for me, very interesting--contribution to our understanding of the
human dimension of the war in urban centers around the world.
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[The articles below mark the second and third in a series entitled "An Insider's View."
The series consists of essays by professional archivists, historians, and administrators at the
foremost research repositories and centers of military studies in the United States (and
possibly elsewhere.)]
AN INSIDER'S VIEW, Number 2
WORID WAR II HOLDINGS
OF TIIE DOUGLAS MACARTIIUR MEMORIAL ARCHIVES
by Edward J. Boone, Jr.
General Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964) is buried in Norfolk, Virginia, beneath the
'rotunda of the Memorial bearing his name. The Memorial, built in 1847-1851, served as
city hall until the turn of the century and court house for the city of Norfolk until 1961.
In that year the General, after negotiations with Mayor W. Fred Duckworth, deeded his
papers, books, decorations, uniforms, and personal possessions to the city. The deed of gift
stipulated that the city of Norfolk would bury the General--and his wife--in the court house
and establish a memorial to the General open to the public free of charge.
Douglas MacArthur was born in Little Rock, Arkansas. Although he graduated from
West Texas Military Academy in San Antonio, he traveled with his mother to Milwaukee,
Wisconsin, where he took post-secondary school courses and was appointed in 1899 to the
U.S. Military Academy by Congressman Theodore Otjen. Milwaukee was the site of
Douglas MacArthur's grandfather's political successes, of his father's youth, death, and
burial, and of some of his own future duty assignments. Douglas MacArthur on occasion
indicated Milwaukee to be his "home." In his deed of gift to the city of Norfolk he cited
Norfolk as his choice of final resting place because his mother had been born in the
Berkley section of the city and because city officials had offered him the old court house
as burial site and repository of his possessions.
With the Norfolk City Council's acceptance of the General's gift, work went forward
with the rehabilitation of the old court house as a museum and final resting place. The
Memorial opened to the public in January 1964, and Douglas MacArthur was entombed
there in April. Jean Faircloth MacArthur still lives in New York City.
In the meantime, supporters of General MacArthur and civic leaders organized the
General MacArthur Memorial Foundation. This foundation, which is today titled the
General Douglas MacArthur Foundation, is a not-for-profit organization whose goal is the
support of the MacArthur Memorial in word and deeds. The latter have included grants;
construction of new buildings; and funding of internships, symposia, and exhibits. The
Foundation continuously fosters the ideals and principles of its eponym with essay contests,
ROTC and leadership awards, and scholarships. It has given considerable attention to the
library and manuscript and documentary holdings (the archives) of the Memorial. The
Foundation funded the initial employment of the first two archivists of the Memorial, built
the administration and archives building in 1967 and doubled the size of that building in
1989-1990. Computerization and microfilming of the archives and library have been major
projects sponsored by the Foundation in recent years.
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The original and early displays in the Memorial consisted of medals, swords,
photographs, uniform items, numerous personal items, gifts of silver and jade, Japanese
works of art, a Chrysler Crown Imperial limousine, and a few documents. By 1966 murals
of highlights of the General's life replaced the large photographs. Alton S. Tobey was
engaged by the Abbey Mural Trust to paint the six murals.
The MacArthur Memorial is a bureau of the city government of Norfolk; its director
is Colonel Edward M. Condra, III, USMC (ret.). The Memorial staff consists of twelve
persons. Volunteers occasionally assist the staff members. Maintenance and logistic
support is provided the Memorial from the city's Department of Civic Facilities. This
department of which the Memorial is a part is entirely devoted to public service and direct
public contact.
General MacArthur gave the city of Norfolk his 2,000,000 documents and 4,000
books. The former he collected from his official and unofficial activities; the latter was a
remnant of his and his father's library and the books he collected since December 1941.
Through purchases and gifts the archival staff has added some 1,000 volumes to the
General's library. These addenda cover World War II, the Korean War, the Allied
occupation of Japan, and the lives of General MacArthur and his contemporaries.
Although most of the books were collected by Douglas MacArthur after 1941, a few
volumes of his and his father's library were recovered after the Second World War. There
is a section of the library dedicated to use by researcher;:; who require secondary sources
on the General, World Wars I and II, the Korean War, U.S. foreign policy, occupation and
guerrilla studies, and staff and contemporaries of the General.
With a grant from the General Douglas MacArthur Foundation a retrospective
conversion of the library is currently being planned. A part-time librarian will be employed,
and a new, greater capacity microcomputer will be installed to handle this catalog as well
as the computerized catalog of the collection of photographs. Computer links with other
libraries and library systems are being studied.
The expectation for this project is to catalog the library fully and precisely for the
first time and to isolate the rare books known to be present at least in small number.
Some restoration work is under way with a few quite old histories of Japan. With the 1989­
1990 expansion of the administration and archives building, now named the Jean
MacArthur Research Center, an environmental system was installed. The library, archives,
and curatorial storage spaces can .now be maintained at reasonable levels of temperature
and humidity.
The library is in the center of the Jean MacArthur Research Center; off the library
are the microfilm reader carrels, the processing (copying) room, the archivist's office, and
the computer room, but, most important, there is a reinforced concrete vault that contains
the heart of the research center, the archives.
In such a short article not even a summary of the 48 record groups that compose
the archives of the MacArthur Memorial can be given. For the researcher into the history
of the Second World War, this precis is provided:
RG-l: MilitaIY Adviser to the Philippine Commonwealth, 1935-1941. 3 boxes, 1.3 feet.
A small remnant of Gen. MacArthur's official and private correspondence for these
years. Also on microfilm. Inventoried at item level.
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RG-2: HO. U.S. Army Forces Far East (USAFFE), 1941-1942. 14 boxes, 7 feet. This
group contains many of the items Louis Morton sought in vain for his The Fall of
the Philippines. Some of Gen. Sutherland's papers are herein--just as some of Gen.
MacArthur's papers are in Gen. Sutherland's collection. Included in this group are
the original G-2 Journals and G-3 Journals and Annexes of USAFFE and of
subordinate commands to April 1942. Also on microfilm. Inventories at folder level.
RG-3: HO. Southwest Pacific Area (SWPA), 1942-1945. 199 boxes, 98 feet. Principally
intelligence and operational documents, historical index cards, enemy prisoners of
war interrogations. See RG-4 below for the messages from this time period. Some
very interesting correspondence between the public and the General concerning such
matters as prisoners of war, the missing, the dead and the wounded. Also on
microfilm. Official correspondence is indexed on 4" x 6" cards; the remainder is
inventoried at folder level and even item level, e.g., captured documents, staff
studies, operations instructions, and others.
RG-4:
HO. U.S. Army Forces Pacific (USAFPAC), 1942-1947. 57 boxes, 24.5 feet.
Messages and correspondence, 1942-1945, are of considerable importance. The
remainder of this group covers military and intelligence activities in the Allied
occupation of Japan to January 1, 1947. Also on microfilm. A card catalog was
developed for much of the correspondence; the bulk of this group is inventoried at
folder level with some important-item level identifications, e.g., staff studies on
OLYMPIC, CAMPUS, CORONET, and BLACKLIST.
There is extensive
correspondence in this record group between Gen. MacArthur and other Australian
officials, especially Prime Minister John Curtin.
RG-5: Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers (SCAP), 1945-1951. 122 boxes, 57 feet.
This group consists mainly of documents of Gen. MacArthur's GHQ in Tokyo and
the Allied occupation of Japan. Some of the' Office of Military Secretary
correspondence covers the 1942-1945 period. On microfilm. Correspondence is
cataloged on cards; the collection as a whole is inventoried by folder level.
RG-lO: Private Correspondence, 1848-1964. 207 boxes, 99 feet. In fact, this group includes
some official correspondence. Only 8 boxes, 3.5 feet, cover the years 1939-1945.
On microfilm.
RG-ll: Audiovisual Materials. 18 feet of films, records, tapes, wires, the most important
of which have been dubbed to cassettes and videotapes (both 3/4" and VHS). The
latter are available for loan. A detailed inventory is available on request.
RG-12: Photographs, 1861-1964. Approximately 4,000 loose photos and 94 albums, but
constantly growing; many of these prints are of the years 1939-1945. The loose
photographs are grouped by era; most of the albums are arranged chronologically.
There are some special collections, especially of the Second World War, that have
been segregated by donor. All photographs are available to researchers. Copies of
photographs, slides, transparencies and negatives will be made on request; costs will
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be provided at the time of order; all processing work must be sent out to local
vendors. [See additional description below.]
RG-15: Contributions from the Public. Constantly expanding; now consists of 48 boxes, 27
feet. Most are on microfilm. At present the finding aid consists of index cards
arranged by donor and Library of Congress subject headings. As new contributions
are received, they are being entered into the microcomputer. World War II is the
major subject of this collection, with contributions from many veterans of the
Southwest Pacific Area, such as Frederic S. Marquardt of the Office of War
Information and signal officer Maj. Gen. B. H. Pochyla.
RG-16: Papers of Maj. Gen. Courtney Whitney, 1942-1947. 76 boxes, 33 feet. This is a
major documentation of the guerrilla campaign in the Philippines by its coordinator
on Gen. MacArthur's staff. Also on microfilm. There is a folder-level inventory.
RG-23, 23A, 23B, 23C: Papers of Maj. Gen. Charles A. Willoughby, 1942-1973. 33 boxes,
21 feet. This group (some are facsimiles from other repositories) is mostly
concerned with postwar matters but includes a complete set of Willoughby's history
of intelligence in the Southwest Pacific Area, which has been microfilmed. Gen.
Willoughby was MacArthur's G-2 from 1941-1951. The finding aid inventory is on
the folder level.
RG-32: Oral History Transcripts, 1964 to present. 8 boxes, 3.5 feet. These are transcripts
and tape recordings of 75 interviews and statements of individuals who served with,
had contact with, or who observed Gen. Douglas MacArthur. A list of interviewees
is available on request.
Anyone who wants a full list of record groups, including summaries of each group's
contents, may request it from the archivist.
RG-12, Photographs, is in constant demand by historians, authors, journalists,
television producers, genealogists, veterans, the staff, and the general public. Many of these
photographs were received from family members, the General's staff, veterans, and the
public; the bulk, however, came from the General. Many are unique. Some received from
the estates of the General's staff members appear to have been personal snapshots of
"action" scenes on Bataan and Corregidor. Most of the approximately 4,000 loose
photographs are cataloged on 4" x 6" cards; most of the photograph albums have not been
cataloged below the album level. The loose photographs have been entered into the
microcomputer in the MARC VM format. However, the work is hampered by labor
constraints. Two sets of photograph albums are arranged to provide easy access: Mrs.
MacArthur's 18 albums of her husbands's activities from 1935 to 1964 and the GHQ SWPA
staff albums of operations in the Southwest Pacific. Mrs. MacArthur has also donated to
the MacArthur Memorial archives 27 chronologically arranged photo albums of her own
activities from childhood to 1987. These photographs include many of General MacArthur
and his wartime staff and activities. Until the computer catalog is fully implemented, a
manual system of photo location has been used: ·loose photographs are filed by time
periods (categories) centered on General MacArthur's career.
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The archives contain much additional material covering the Allied occupation of
Japan, the Korean War, General MacArthur's post-1951 activities, and the papers (some
in facsimile) of the General's associates and staff.
For the researcher interested in the Allied occupation of Japan and the Korean War,
it is noted that two large record groups possess descriptive inventories:
RG-6: GHQ. Far East Command (FECOM), 1947-1951. 107 boxes, 47 feet. Also on
microfilm.
RG-9: RadiojUams, 1945-1951. 164 boxes, 80 feet. This group also possesses a massive
card catalog and has been microfilmed.
Research queries concerning World War II have increased significantly recently.
During calendar year 1990 there were 38 enquiries on "World War, 1939-1945"; 44
enquiries during the first nine months of 1991 have been handled. Neither of these figures
include queries such as "MacArthur, Douglas", "Mashbir, Sidney," or the like that concern
the war but are focused more narrowly. About one third of the requests are in person; the
telephone and mail are the favorite means of requests. Fax facilities at this time are not
available. The curator and educational coordinator presently are involved in scrutinizing
archival materials for their World War II exhibits and programs. A clear method of
"quantifying" Memorial staff use of the archives and library has not yet been developed.
As noted frequently above, most of the archives of the MacArthur Memorial have
been microfilmed. Over 1,000 reels of 35mm negative microfilm are in the library available
for the use of researchers and staff. Two reader-printers and one reader are available in
carrels; one of the reader-printers can be converted to microfiche work. Microfilm will
be loaned to researchers through interlibrary loan in reasonable quantities for one month
at a time. The microfilm can be purchased at $24.00 a reel, plus postage and insurance.
A xerographic copying machine is available to the staff to copy documents for researchers;
the volume of copies is limited only by the time and availability of staff.
There is no restriction of access to materials in the archives of the MacArthur
Memorial except for security classified material. A small amount of material from World
War II, about forty pages, requires a security clearance from the Department of the Army
for researcher access.
A list of record groups, including quite succinct summaries, is available free of
charge. Xerographic copies of those finding aids not on 4 x 6 cards can be provided at
$.075 per page, plus air mail postage if required.
The archives and library are open Monday through Friday from 8:30 to 5:00, except
holidays. However, special hours will be considered in special circumstances; do not
hesitate to telephone the archivist about your particular requirements. Since the archival
staff is literally unique, advance notice of research visits would be appreciated. The address
and telephone number are as follows: Archivist
MacArthur Memorial
MacArthur Square
Norfolk, VA 23510
(804) 441-2965
[Mr. Boone is the archivist of the MacArthur Memorial]
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AN INSIDER'S VIEW, Number 3
WORlD WAR II HOlDINGS
OF THE U.S. MILITARY ACADEMY LIBRARY
by Alan C. Aimone and Judith A Sibley
The following introduction and descriptions cover the collections relating to the
Second World War in the Special Collections Division of the U.S. Military Academy
Library, West Point, New York 10996-1799. The number to call regarding questions and
arrangements for research is (914) 938-2954. Collections cannot be loaned, photographed
(except by individual researchers), or photocopied unless no restrictions are stated by the
donor.
The Special Collections Division staff has identified more than ninety World War
II manuscript collections. Most of the collections are from U.S. Military Academy
graduates and include photographs, maps, some declassified documents, and period
newspaper and magazine clippings, as well as both letters and diaries. The collections are
about equally divided between European and Pacific Theaters of War.
West Point graduates who lost their lives during World War II numbered 488. The
classes which sustained the highest casualties in order of highest percentage to lowest
percentage are:
Class
Graduated Battle Deaths
Rate*
World War IIKorea Vietnam
1942
374
June 1943514
Jan. 1943 409
1941
424
298
1937
1939
456
1930
241
449
1940
1938
301
46
57
43
37
25
37
16
30
18
4
2
3
1
1
1
12.3%
12.1
11
9.4
8.4
8.3
7.1
6.7
6.0
*Data from Charles Mizell, USMA Class of 1942, "Battle Deaths of United States Military
Graduates," Assembly (December 1988): 173, 168.
Highlighted collections included:
1. Gen. of the Army Omar N. Bradley's diaries and post-World War II papers.
(World War II papers are at the U.S. Military History Institute, Carlisle, Pennsylvania
17013.)
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2. Col. Paul Delmont Bunker's Corregidor diaries.
3. Gen. Leslie Richard Groves atom bomb material and related Cold War
material.
4. The Holbrook family papers covering several military families. Topics range
from horse cavalry use to early armor training viewpoints.
5. Gen. George Arthur Lincoln's papers covering his role as a planner to the
Joint Chiefs of Staff and Combined Chiefs of Staff, 1944-1947.
6. Col. Henry C. McLean intelligence journals covering service as a military
attache in Berlin (1925-1926) and the Philippines (1936-1945) with maps and photographs.
7. Medal of Honor recipient Lieutenant Alexander Ramsey Nininger's papers,
including his Philippine Islands assignment. Nininger has been honored by family members
with a bookcase devoted to early World War II Philippine Island related publications.
8. Gen. George S. Patton's library of annotated books. The marginal notes in
some of Patton's books are very -revealing about his thoughts on war.
9. Maj. Joseph Fansler Petit Collection, including Gen. Bradley's staff
photographs taken between 1944 and 1945, ranging from combat and other war scenes to
prominent officers and celebrities.
In the near future Mrs. Judith A Sibley's Preliminary Guide to Manuscripts in
the U.S. Military Academy Library will be available for serious researchers.
WORLD WAR II MANUSCRIPTS IN THE USMA LIBRARY
1.
2.
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Alexander, Irvin (1896-1963) USMA 1919, CU 6445. Memoir. 284 pages, bound.
Note: Original typescript bound along with modern typescript. Infantry officer, U.S.
Army. Memoirs of internment in the Philippines, 1942-1945. Account of last days of
fighting on Luzon, before it was surrendered to the- Japanese, Death March to Camp
O'Donnell, conditions encountered by the prisoners at O'Donnell, Cabanatuan,
transport to Japan on the Oryoko Maru, and arrival at Camp Jinsen, Korea.
Ayers, Russell Gordon (1892-1952). Papers; 1944-1945. 6 items. Col., Infantry, U.S.
Army. "Narrative account of operations of 106th Infantry, 20 June to 26 June 1944";
"Unit journal regimental combat team 106 from: 22 June 1944 to 26 June 1944";
orders regarding command of l06th Infantry Regiment; official correspondence, 17
Nov. 1942-10 Jilly 1944; officer casualties, J06th Infantry, as of 6 July 1944; air and
gunnery target map of Palau Islands; collection includes holograph (2 leaves) military
career sketch by son Leslie Sherman Ayers, USMA 1945.
Badoglio, Pietro (1871- ). Papers; 1943. 3 items. Note: Originals with typed
translations. Gen., Italian Army. Letter, 22 Sept. 1943, to Dwight D. Eisenhower after
the Italian surrender asking that the Italian troops be allowed to keep their trucks;
letter, 30 September 1943, to Maxwell D. Taylor thanking him for birthday greetings;
letter, 11 October 1943, to Taylor, informing him that the Italian King will declare war
on Germany.
Balsam, Alfred S. (1889-1974) USMA 1915, CU 5424. Diary; c1981. 1 vol., bound.
Officer, U.S. Army. After Bataan: the diary of a POW. Diary, 1942 April 9-1945
Sept. 26, giving a personal account of Col. Balsam's experiences as a POW of the
Japanese Army in the POW Camps of Taiwan, Japan, and Muchoukno.
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Birdsall, Edward, Jr. Papers; 1941-1945. 1 box. Letters to parents, sister and brother­
in-law, 16 June 1941-11 Sept. 1945, presenting detailed narrative of Army life at
various stateside posts and posts in India; official correspondence of parents regarding
their son; orders; separation papers; three pictorial scrapbooks depicting duty in India.
Bluemel, Clifford (1885-1973) USMA 1909, Cu 4845. Papers; 1905-1973. 6 boxes.
Brig. Gen., U.S. Army. Commander 31st Division, Philippine Army, World War II.
POW, 1942-1945; Bataan Death March. POW diary and letters; partial inventory in
Box 1. Photographs related to West Point and World War II; 8mm movies filmed
on Philippine Islands, 1940-1941; list in Box 6.
Boesch, Paul M. Reminiscences; 1978. 1 vol., bound. World War II: as one soldier
knew it. An account of the author's experiences in the 121st Infantry of the 8th
Division from 1944-1945 in Germany. Includes poetry from his book "Much of me
in each of these," published by Premier Press, Houston, Texas, 1966.
Bonesteel, Charles Hartwell (1885-1964) USMA 1908, CU 4702. Papers; 1941-1957.
Gen., U.S. Army. Photographs, correspondence, and papers dealing with Gen.
Bonesteel's tenure as commander of American Forces on Iceland, 1941-1943. Includes
some retrospective material.
Booth, Donald (1902- ) USMA 1926, CU 7895. Letter; 1977. 1 page. Officer, U.S.
Army. Letter, 3 July 1977, to Russell "Red" Reeder, summarizing duty assignments
in World War II, 1941-1942.
Bradley, Amelia Mary Langley (1901- ). Memoir; 1947. 1 vol. Prisoner of war.
Manuscript concerning internment in the University of Santo Tomas, 1942-1945.
Memoirs relating to the fall of Manila; the move from the city into Santo Tomas; and
the internment and privations suffered by her husband Noble, her son John, and the
other internees before the final liberation of the camp in 1945. Photocopy.
Bradley, Omar N. (1893-1981) USMA 1915, CU 5356. Papers. 375 boxes. Gen. of
the Army, U.S. Army. Collection consists of documents, scrapbooks, photographs,
correspondence, and memoranda; correspondence and diary accounts as commander
of the 12th U.S. Army Group during World War II; correspondence as head of
Veterans Administration and as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; manuscript of
autobiography, A Soldier's Story. Inventory available.
Brown, John Kimball (1885-1969) USMA 1908, CU 4700. Papers; 1908-1969. 19
boxes. Officer, U.S. Army. Cavalry: 1917-1945 (USMA 1917-1921). Papers, 1908­
1950; orders; World War II maps; speeches; photographs; materials from Camp Hulen,
Fort Bliss, and Fort Riley; publications and memorabilia relating to horses.
Bunker, Paul Delmont (1882-1943) USMA 1903, CU 4145. Diary; 1941-1943. 1 vol.
Officer, U.S. Army. The diary tells of Bunker's experiences as a POW after the fall
of Corregidor as well as the actions preceding the siege of Corregidor.
Butt, Holt Fairfield (1907-1951). Papers. 15 items. Chaplain, USMA, 1938-194l.
Memoirs telling of early childhood, education, experiences as chaplain of the U.S.
Military Academy, in which he mentions incidents of prejudice against a black cadet,
cadet weddings, religious education of cadets. The second part of the memoirs focuses
on Butt's experiences as a Navy Chaplain in Alaska and New Guinea during the
Second World War and his return to civilian life. The papers also include his
sermons; family genealogy; and photographs. Photocopy.
Carter, Bernard Shirley (1873-1961). Papers; 1918-1945. 3 boxes. Intelligence officer,
U.S. Army. Col., member of George Patton's staff. Correspondence, 1918-1945;
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letters to Louise Hope Carter, describing his tour of duty in the European Theater,
1939-1945; medals, articles, clippings, obituaries.
Castles, John Wesley, Jr. Papers; 1917-1945. 4 boxes. Officer, U.S. Army. Served
with 315th New York Infantry; Tank Corps, World War I; Armor and General Staff
Corps, G-2; 12th Army Group, World War II. Collection includes World War I diary,
1917-1919; World War II diary, 1942-1944; G-2 notebooks; letters, 1917-1920; orders,
1942-1945.
Chase, Theodore Mosher (1887-1963) USMA 1909, CU 4826. Papers. 8 items.
Officer, U.S. Army. Notebooks while a prisoner of war in the Philippines; last will
and testament; extracts from "H" station duty officers [sic] diary H. D. Manila and sub
bays, Dec 8, 1941-May 1, 1942.
Cheek, Earle C. (d. 1945). Correspondence. 1 box. Lt., U.S. Army Air Forces;
navigator. Killed in action, 1945. Letters to his girlfriend, describing flight school,
sights of Europe, and war experiences.
Conrad, George Bryan (1898-1976) USMA Nov. 1918, CU 6241. Papers; 1919-1946.
4 boxes. Officer, U.S. Army; instructor, USMA Field Artillery. Family papers;
personal and professional files; decorations; orders and papers, 1927-1946; letters,
receipts, and telegrams, 1924-1952. Military files as Assistant Military Attache at
American Embassy, London; and Chief of Operations Branch, G-2, Headquarters,
European Theater of Operations.
Craighead, Alexander McCook. Journal; 1942-1943. 2 vols. in case. Officer, U.S.
Army. Corps of Military Police. Military journal of Cairo. Watercolor sketches
describing the military police of the allied armies, the Cairo civilian and military police,
and the soldiers of the allied armies in Cairo, 1942-1943; mentioning the uniforms of
all allied armies. Also includes war posters, cartoons, and street scenes.
David, John Fuller (1917- ) USMA 1942, CU 12969. Papers; 1941-1945. 2 boxes.
Officer, U.S. Army. Historical material on Troop A, ·81st Cavalry Reconnaissance
Squadron, 1st Armored Division in World War II, including maps and photographs.
Davidson, Garrison H. (1904- ) USMA 1927, CU 8044. Autobiography; 1974. 1 voL,
bound. Lt. Gen., U.S. Army; Superintendent, U.S. Military Academy, 1956-1960.
Grandpa Gar: the saga of one soldier as told to his grandchildren. Autobiography
and family history. Davidson's World War II experiences covered North Africa, Sicily,
and Europe. Photocopy.
Dickson, Benjamin Abbot (1897-1976) USMA Nov. 1918, CU 6075. Papers. 16 boxes.
Lt. Col., U.S. Army. G-2 journal: Algiers to the Elbe (photocopy). The personal
story of Lieut. Col. Dickson, G-2, II Corps and First U.S. Army, from June 1942-9
May 1945. Includes campaigns in Algiers, Tunisia, Sicily, Normandy, and Germany.
Family papers; maps, photographs, articles, publications; history of the Class of 1918.
Doty, Archibald c., Jr. Diary; 1943-1945. 1 item. Officer, U.S. Army Air Forces.
Diary of A. C. Doty, Jr. India-China, 1943-1945. Describes daily activities of an Air
Transport Command Officer flying cargo planes from Jorhat, Assum, over the "Hump"
to China. Doty was also billeting officer and records insights into the labor problems
confronting him. Copyright 1982; Library of Congress duplicate.
Earl, Martha M. (1914- ). Papers; 1942-1972. 7 items. Memoirs of imprisonment
at Santo Tomas, 1942-1945, entitled "Looking back on certain aspects of Santo Tomas
internment camp," 16 pages; communications related to internment.
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26. Easter, Charles L. Letters; 1942-1944. 1 box. Sergeant, 101st Airborne Division.
Killed in action, 8 Oct. 1944. Letters 27 Sept. 1942-1 Oct. 1944. Letters to Marion
Page Bunge describing the paratrooper training received by Headquarters Company,
3rd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry; letters telling of the 101st Airborne's training
in England; letters describing action in which the 101st Airborne was involved; letter
to Mrs. Rose Easter expressing the division's sympathy on the loss of her son.
27. Eaton, Ralph Parker (1898-1986) USMA 1924, CU 7601. Memoirs; 1971-1972. 3
items. Officer, U.S. Army; secretary of staff, HQ Caribbean command. Eaton's
"Recollections of World War I by a first aid man" discusses the war as seen by an
enlisted man in the medical corps; "Contact Amminent" describes the precampaign
activities of the 82nd Airborne Division from July to December of 1943, 12 pages.
28. Flint, Harry Albert (1888-1944) USMA 1912, CU 5058. Biographical sketch. 15
pages. Cavalry officer, U.S. Army. Biographical sketch of Flint, commander of the
39th Infantry Combat Team, 9th Infantry Division during World War II. Contains
quotes of conversation with Gen. George Patton.
29. Forte, Floyd Felice (1908-1942) USMA 1934, CU 10101. Letter; 1942. 2 pages.
Infantry officer, U.S. Army; missing in action, Mindanao, Philippine Islands, May 1942.
Letter,· 13 April 1942, Mindanao, describing the action in the Philippine Islands and
relating his feelings on the Japanese Army, the U.S. Army, and his classmates and
military associates.
30. Frye, Pierre A. Papers; 1939-1951. 6 boxes. Col., U.S. Army. Collection of 44
scrapbooks of World War II news clippings, 1939-1945; 10 scrapbooks of Life
magazine clippings, 1939-1942; miscellany to 1951.
31. Gamelin, Maurice Gustave (1872- ). Order; 1940. 2 items. Note: Typescripts in
French and English. Copy of Gamelin's last order to Gens. Viullemin and Georges
along with cover letter explaining the repercussions of Gamelin's being relieved from
his position.
32. Gardiner, Henry E. (1905- ). Memoir; 1970. 401 pages. Officer, U.S. Army. Tank
commander: letters and diaries of H. E. Gardiner from Pearl Harbor to V-Day
narrates experiences as an officer in the First Armored Division in North Mrica and
Italy. Photocopy.
33. Gilbreath, Frederick (1888-1969) USMA 1911, CU 4967. Papers; 1918-1965. 8 boxes.
Cavalry officer. Collection includes ordnance papers from American Expeditionary
Forces in Europe, 1918-1920; papers and speeches delivered as assistant commandant
of the cavalry schools at Fort Leavenworth and Fort Riley, 1935-1949; speeches, 1942­
1950; papers relating to South Pacific Base Command. World War II scrapbook
containing correspondence, newspaper clippings, and orders in 6 vols.; cadet
scrapbook, 1 vol.; pre- and post-World War II scrapbook, 1 vol.; his memoirs covering
his West Point days, command of cavalry school, and World War II.
34. Godfrey, Stuart Chapin (1886-1945) USMA 1909, CU 4750. Letter; 1944. 1 page.
Officer, U.S. Army; engineer. Letter, 11 June 1944, from China, telling how the
Chinese workers eagerly built airfields under the directions of the allied forces.
35. Greer, R. A. Joint logistics in the Central Pacific Area. 348 pages. First draft of a
report, historical subsection G-2, on joint logistics and joint command among the U.S.
Army, Navy, and Marines during World War II.
36. Griswold, Oscar Woolverton (1886-1959) USMA 1910, CU 4924. Papers; 1918-1945.
5 boxes. Commanding Gen., XIV Corps, U.S. Army, World War II. The
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concentration of this collection is material relating to combat operations on the island
of Luzon. Photographs are included. Papers of his son, Col. George Griswold, are
also in the collection. Inventory in Box 1.
Groves, Leslie Richard (1896-1970) USMA 1918, CU 6032. Papers. 5 boxes. Officer,
U.S. Army; Commanding Gen., Manhattan Engineer District (Atom Bomb project).
Biographical and genealogical material; obituaries; oral history; audiotapes (list in Box
1); awards; scrapbook of visit to Argentina in May 1955. Materials relating to the
Manhattan Project and atomic energy include photographs; newspaper articles and
clippings; diplomatic history of the Manhattan Project; official documents concerning
atomic bomb mission to Hiroshima; copy of National Archives inventory of the
Records of the Manhattan Engineer District, 1942-1948; and copies of materials given
by Groves to the National Archives, with index.
Hardee, David L. Memoirs; 1946. 273 pages. Col., U.S. Army. Memoirs of a
Japanese prisoner of war cover the beginning of the war, the fall of Corregidor and
Bataan and the privations undergone by U.S. troops before the fall of Corregidor and
Bataan as well as Hardee's experiences as a prisoner of war. Photocopy.
Holbrook Family Collection (Helen Hoyle Herr Holbrook and Willard Ames
Holbrook, Jr., Collection). Papers; 1828-1980. 47 boxes. Army family, 5 generations.
USMA graduates include Rene E. DeRussy (USMA 1812), Eli Dubose Hoyle (USMA
1875), John K. Herr (USMA 1902), David S. Stanley (USMA 1852), Willard A.
Holbrook (USMA 1885), Willard A. Holbrook, Jr. (USMA 1917).
Diaries;
correspondence; documents; photographs; articles; speeches; scrapbooks; maps;
diplomas and commissions; prints and plates; songs; and memorabilia covering military
and social life in 19th and 20th centuries. Inventory in Box 1.
Hopkins, Armand (1901- ) USMA 1925, CU 7673. Papers; 1945-1949. 24 items.
Officer, U.S. Army. Correspondence from persons seeking information about relatives
who were POWs; correspondence with relatives of West Point graduates who were
POWs; Bataan relief organization bulletin; list of persons stationed at West Point in
1949 who served in the Philippines during World War II; memo listing dates and
events of the POW journey from the Philippines to Japan.
Krueger, Walter (1881-1967). Papers; 1899-1963. 41 boxes. Gen., U.S. Army. Rose
from private to gen. during career spanning 45 years. Faculty: Infantry School, Army
War College, Naval War College. World War II commander of Third Army and Sixth
Army. Collection contains biographical material; military, official, and personal
correspondence, 1899-1960 (includes correspondence with Gens. Eisenhower,
MacArthur, Marshall, McNair, Gruenther, and Eichelberger). Documents and
miscellaneous items include articles, maps, reports, speeches, photographs, notebooks,
logbook, rosters; materials relating to Third Army and Sixth Army. Oversized items
in map case. Partial inventory in Box 1.
Lang, Will (1911-1968). Notebooks; 1943-1945. 1 box. War correspondent for Life
magazine. 29 notebooks covering campaigns in North Africa, Italy, and France;
miscellaneous loose notes.
Lange, Herman W. W. Papers; 1870-1974. 8 boxes. Officer, U.S. Army. Col., 84th
Field Artillery Battalion in North Africa, Sicily, and Europe. Various publications
relating to the military from the period of the French Revolution, World War I and
II, and the Vietnam conflict; includes maps, manuals, guides, pamphlets, articles, and
Army War College textbooks. Inventory in Box 1.
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44. Lincoln, George Arthur (1907-1975) USMA 1929, CU 8490. Papers; 1944-1975. 75
feet. Brig. Gen., U.S. Army. Operations Division of the War Department General
Staff, World War II; member, Joint Planners to the Joint Chiefs and Combined Chiefs
of Staff, 1944-1947. USMA Professor of Social Sciences, 1947-1969 (Head of
Department, 1954-1969); Director, Office of Emergency Preparedness, 1969-1973.
Collection includes biographical material; War Department files, 1944-1947; working
files, 1962-1966; correspondence, 1952-1967; memoranda, 1957-1968; subject and
chronological files; academic and course materials; research projects, speeches,
lectures; files on committees and conferences at (and outside) West Point; draft of
book, International Relations; papers from Agency for International Development; files
of Office of Emergency Preparedness; testimony before U.S. House and Senate. Index
available.
45. Long, William Eldred (1902- ) USMA 1925, CU 7813. Papers; 1929-1946. 30 items.
Col., U.S. Army. Official reports while on infantry duty, 1944; history of 483rd
Infantry Regiment; news items; papers relating to air attack on Antwerp; Memorial
Day services, Antwerp, 1946; memorabilia and invitations; 3 photographs of Fort
Santiago, Manila, 1929; 2 photos of Czembrc, St. Malo, France, 1944; 3 maps.
46. Maginnis, John J. Memoir; 1969. 47 pages. My service with Col. David Marcus.
Memoirs of service during World War II with Col. David "Mickey" Marcus. Photocopy
of typescript.
47. Mahoney, John Thomas (1905-1981). Papers: 1917-1981. 6 boxes. Author,
newspaperman. Collected propaganda material from World War I and II and
Vietnam War; includes leaflets, posters, pamphlets, letters, reports, and photographs.
48. Malmedy Case. 73 pages. Information on the Malmedy Case to be heard at Camp
Dauchau, Germany, 2 May 1946. J. T. Dalby's copy of information regarding
defendants being tried for their roles in the execution of prisoners at Malmedy, Dec.
1944-Jan. 1945.
49. Marcus, David (1901-1948) USMA 1924, CU 7368. Papers; 1939-1948. 5 boxes; 7
scrapbooks. Officer, U.S. Army, World War II. Brigadier Supreme Commander
Jewish Forces Jerusalem Area, 1947-1948. Letters to his wife, 1939-1948; biography;
medals; scrapbooks; photographs; and official papers.
50. Martyn, Andy. Papers; 1944-1946. 1 box. Letters received from American
servicemen who were on active duty in 1944-1945; stamps and first-day covers
autographed by U.S. military leaders who had served in World War II; U.S. Armed
Forces commemorative blocks signed by military leaders of World War II; UN
commemorative stamps autographed by signers of the UN charter.
51. McLennan, Carter K. (1894- ). Papers; 1917-1945. 4 boxes. Col., U.S. Army.
Military records, 1917-1938; correspondence to his wife, Marion, before the fall of the
Philippines, 1941-1942; letters to family while incarcerated in Japanese prison camps;
letters received by McLennan while a prisoner of war; drafts of messages to be sent
McLennan through the Red Cross; communications, 1942-1945, received by Marion
McLennan concerning her husband; the "long line", newsletter published in Guam and
Manila, Oct. 1939; newspaper clippings on Carter's career and POWs; log, 8 Sept.
1942, containing account of surrender to Japanese; 8 diaries, 2 Aug. 1944-12 Sept.
1945, kept while a prisoner of the Japanese; log of names and addresses of fellow
prisoners; typed memoirs.
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52. McMaster, Archie L. Memoir; 197-. 1 voL, bound. Officer, U.S. Army. "Lo Joe":
memoirs of Archie L. McMaster. The personal story of the Army captain of 1st
Battalion, 45th Infantry in Philippine Islands from 19 Feb 1941 to 2 Feb. 1945.
Describes how the Imperial Japanese Army Forces attacked the Philippines and the
suffering of POWs of the Japanese Military Forces. Photocopy.
53. Mesick, Benjamin Schultz (1901- ) USMA 1924, CU 7229. Papers. 1 box. Officer,
U.S. Army; Research and Development. Collection of papers concerning titanium
as an engineering material and rockets; captured enemy war material reports, 1945.
54. Mittenthal, Harry M. Paper. 22 pages. Infantry Capt., U.S. Army. Statement
regarding treatment and living conditions of American and Allied POWs while being
transported by land and sea from Manila to Japan during Dec. 1943-Jan. 1944, as
observed by the author. Photocopy.
55. Morton, William Jackson (1901-1971) USMA 1923, CU 7002. Letters; 1946-1947. 16
items. Lt. Col., U.S. Army, Field Artillery; Librarian, USMA. Correspondence with
Renee Semple and memos to the post chaplain, Capt. Pugh, regarding collection of
clothing for French war victims; letters of thanks and photographs from the people
of Royan sent to Chaplain Pugh by Renee Semple; confirmation of the arrival of
parcels from American Aid to France, Inc.; correspondence regarding aid to Holland;
lists of articles donated.
56. Murphy, Audie (1924-1971). Papers; 1941-1971. 2 boxes. Infantry, U.S. Army. World
War II hero; recipient of 28 medals. Collection includes personal accounts of war
actions; photographs; film; tapes; movie scripts; articles.
57. Nininger, Alexander Ramsey (1918-1942) USMA 1941, CU 12317. Papers; 1930-1942.
1 box. Officer, U.S. Army. Medal of honor recipient; killed at Bataan, 12 Jan. 1942.
Cadet letters, 1937-1941, bound in 5 vols., discussing cadet activities and classes; letters
written while in infantry school at Fort Benning, Georgia; 2 letters from duty station
in the Philippine Islands, Nov. 1941; commission, June 1941, as 2nd Lt., U.S. Army;
posthumous medal of honor citation signed by Franklin D. Roosevelt; presidential
certificate, ca. 1960-1963. Also, 1 box of articles and clippings (photocopied).
58. Noce, Daniel (1894-1976) USMA 1917, CU 5608. Papers; 1917-1954. 24 boxes. Gen.
Commanded Engineer Amphibious Command; invasion of South France; Inspector
General, 1952-1954. Correspondence, personal files, photographs, speeches, clippings.
Inventory in Box 1.
59. Opperman, Henry J. Papers; 1943-1944. 1 box. Officer, U.S. Army. Photograph
album of Company A, 95th Signal Battalion, 1943-1944, Persian Gulf Command;
pamphlets, maps, and newspapers relevant to the Persian Gulf Command.
60. Osborn, Frederick H. (1889-1981). Papers. 1 box. Maj. Gen., U.S. Army;
Information and Education Division, World War II. Publications and memorabilia
relating to Osborn's role with the Special Services Division in World War II.
61. Osborne, Frederick. Diary; 1945. 26 pages. Hospital orderly. GI Hospital Diary, 22
Feb.-9 June 1945, describing conditions and patient morale at Tryon General Hospital.
62. Palmer, Williston Birkhimer (1899-1973) USMA 1919, CU 6264. Papers; 1942-1973.
16 boxes. Gen., U.S. Army; Deputy U.S. Commander in Chief, Europe. Calendars,
1954-1962; diaries, 1942-1947, 1951-1962; correspondence; orders; promotions; lectures;
speeches; published writings; photographs.
63. Perlmutter, Rubin (1905- ). Papers; 1969-1985. 1 box. Polish soldier, World War
II; Croix de Guerre winner. Collection contains memorabilia from the Order of
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Lafayette; material from D-Day and Battle of Monte Cassino reunions; photographs
and copies of letters from VIPs, including Omar Bradley, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Mark
Clark, Hamilton Fish, and Barry Goldwater.
Quinn, Howard Walter (1906-1978) USMA 1930, CU 8968. Address. 1 box. Officer,
U.S. Army. Several copies of Prelude to Global War (the operations of Branch "X"),
an address by Quinn recounting the World War II mission of providing landing craft
for allied forces operations, accompanied by 21 black and white drawings of types of
landing craft.
Reeder, Russell Potter (Red) (1902- ) USMA 1926, CU 7995. Papers; 1960-1980.
3 boxes. Col., U.S. Army; author; coach, USMA baseball team. Papers include
biographical information; correspondence; photographs; memorabilia; typed
manuscript, "Heroes and leaders of West Point'" essay on Tom Jenkins entitled, "You
don't have to be as big as the other man'" speech, 5 June 1980, regarding Normandy
invasion; outline for a talk on duty presented to the new cadets of the U.S. Military
Academy, August 1960; manuscript, "General of the Army: Omar Nelson Bradley";
correspondence with Bradley, Matthew B. Ridgway, and Ralph Easton; biographical
background material on Bradley; newspaper articles.
Reeves, Louis P. Papers. 2 boxes. Officer, U.S. Army Reserve. The collection
relates mainly to his active service in the Signal Corps during World War II, in North
Africa, Italy, and Austria.
Ridgway, Matthew B. (1895- ) USMA Apr. 1917, CU 5657. Interview; 1969. 30
pages. Gen., U.S. Army. Interview conducted by Maj. Matthew P. Caulfield and Lt.
Col. Robert M. Elton, 29 Aug. 1969. Topics covered include Gen. Ridgway's
experiences leading and training men during World War II and in the Korean War,
and comparison of the Korean War with the conflict in Vietnam.
Robertson, Laurence (1917- ). Memoirs; 1942-1943. 39 pages. U.S. Army. Combat
experiences with "Company H", First Armored Regiment, First Armored Division,
1942-1943; provides a vivid account of 14 months as a platoon leader from the unit's
landing in Ireland to the Battle of Kasserine Pass in Tunisia.
Rosenthal, Harold S. Papers. 1 box. World War II materials include Action on Attu
(G-2 Alaska Defense Command Advance Command Post, 30 July 1943); detail charts
of Kiska Island (Photographic Interpretation Unit, Advanced Intelligence Center, 11th
Air Force, July 1943); and papers and diary extracts, 1943.
Rosholt, Malcolm L. Papers; 1928-1945. 1 box. Officer, U.S. Army Air Corps. Diary
of operations as Liaison Officer, 14th Air Force, in China and in Office of Strategic
Services, 3rd War Area China, 1944-1945 (photocopy); and 16 maps of China, 1928­
1945, the Persian Gulf Area, and India.
Smith, Rex Lee (1904- ) USMA 1928, CU 8452. Papers; 1944-1945. 1 box. Officer,
U.S. Army. The collection consists of papers, photographs, maps, and charts used by
Smith while Commanding Officer for the Military Pipeline Service.
Smythe, George Winfered (1899-1969) USMA 1924, CU 7545. Papers; 1920-1969.
14 boxes. Officer, U.S. Army; commander in World War II and Korean War.
Correspondence; orders and citations; maps; speeches; lectures; scrapbooks; photos;
memorabilia relating to Smythe's cadet days and military career. Inventory in Box 1.
Stilwell, Joseph Warren (1883-1946) USMA 1904, CU 4246. Papers; 1942-1954. 11
items. Gen., U.S. Army. Correspondence, 1942-1943, with William R. Wigley, who
discussing American home front and rationing; correspondence of Wigley with Mrs.
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Joseph Stilwell, 1951-1954; photograph; 2 scrapbooks containing West Point
photographs.
Strong, Frederick Smith, Jr. (1887-1986) USMA 1910, CU 4853. Papers; 1910-1986.
2 boxes. Engineer, U.S. Army. Chief engineer, supply service in China-Burma-India
Theater, World War II; involved in engineering the Burma Road, Pan American
Highway, and Alcan Highway. Collection consists of correspondence, photographs,
pamphlets, books, and biographical information used in writing his autobiography,
What's It all About (copyright 1985 by F. S; Strong). Inventory in Box 1.
Svihra, Albert (1899-1944) USMA 1922, CU 6860. Papers; 1939-1948. 4 items. Col.,
U.S. Army. Transcripts of correspondence to his family, 1939-1942; original and typed
transcript of diary kept while incarcerated in a Japanese POW camp after the fall of
Corregidor and Bataan; photocopies of correspondence of the Svihra family concerning
Albert Svihra's diary; photocopies of newspaper clippings on Svihra.
Swanton, Donovan (1891-1976) USMA Apr. 1917, CU 5717. Papers; 1912-1952. 1
box. Col., U.S. Army. Cadet letters, 1912-1917; letters from France during World
War I; letters, 1942-1945, to family from Donovan in a Japanese concentration camp;
scrapbook, 1912-1952, containing cadet memorabilia, manuscript maps, ca. 1918,
orders, personal and official correspondence, 1918-1951, Bronze and Silver Star
citations; newspaper clippings; photographs; memorabilia.
Swing, Joseph May (1894-1984) USMA 1915, CU 5350. Papers; 1935-1978. 1 box.
Officer, U.S. Army; Commanding Gen., 11th Airborne Division, World War II. The
papers include correspondence with Peyton March, Bernard Baruch, Dwight D.
Eisenhower, and Douglas MacArthur.
Tatum, Ernest S., Jr. ( -1943). Papers. 12 items. U.S. Army; Private, 745th
Ordnance Company. The collection includes newspaper items and letters announcing
the death of Tatum while a prisoner of war of the Japanese.
Tempel, Jane ( -1976). Papers. 2 boxes. Officer, U.S. Army. Papers of a woman
army officer, containing information about women in the Army in World War II and
during the postwar period. Included are Women's Army Auxiliary Corps and
Women's Army Corps photographs; material on Army public relations and the home
front in World War II; uniforms; mission statements; humor; Armed Forces Radio
scripts; WAC life and recreation, 1945-1948; rehabilitation of war disabled and
returned POWs, 1946-1948, at Oliver General Hospital in Georgia (Medical Corps).
Toole, John H. Combat diary; 1944-1945. 133 pages. Note: typescript (photocopy).
(Published as: Battle diary. Missoula, Montana: Vigilante Press, c1978.) Officer,
U.S. Army. A personal account of the Army lieutenant's experiences as a rifle platoon
leader and company commander in Co. K and Co. L of the 15th Infantry, Third
Infantry Division, Seventh U.S. Army, European Theater of Operations from Oct. 1944
to Apr. 1945.
Ulsaker, Carl Comer (1920- ) USMA 1942, CU 12835. Letters. 1 box. Letters to
Ulsaker's mother from England, France, Belgium, and Germany, describing combat
activities.
U.S. Army. Orders; 1942-1944. 7 items. U.S. Army, Fifth Army. Administrative
directives. Orders and instructions, Headquarters Fifth Army (G-4) and Third Infantry
Division dating from 30 Jan. 1942 to 23 Mar. 1944. Collection also contains copies
of the Fort Lewis Sentinel and Stars and Stripes, Fifth Army edition.
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83. U.S. Army. Papers; 1943-1944. 1 box. Fifth Army. Administrative file of Orders and
Instructions, Headquarters Fifth Army (G-4) dating from 3 June 1943 to 23 Mar. 1944.
84. U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey (Pacific). Papers; 1945. 3 boxes. Interrogation
reports. Includes list of interrogations by subject.
85. Van Sickle, Emily (1901- ). Memoir. 391 pages. How Far the Dawn; account of
internment with her husband, Charles, at Santo Tomas, Manila, describing camp life,
medical care, food situation, work details, the internal administrations of Earl Carroll
and Carroll Grinnell, smuggling by and for prisoners, and the liberation.
86. Vogel, Herbert D. (1900-1984) USMA 1924, CU 7244. Papers; 1975. 1 vol. Brig.
Gen., U.S. Army. ''The Other War" includes extracted and abstracted letters, 12 Jan.
1944-21 Sept. 1945, to his wife, Loreine, from Brisbane, Australia through New Guinea
to the Philippines and finally to Japan; a paper, "Logistical support of the Lingayen
operation," delivered at the National War College in Dec. 1945. Photocopy.
87. Von Schritz, Dick Stanley (1916- ) USMA 1941, CU 12503. Papers; 1941-1950. 1
box. Officer, U.S. Army; European Theater of Operations in World War II.
Biographical information; cadet reminiscences; World War II diaries and letters.
88. Wallnau, Ed. Papers, 1940-1945. 7 items. World War II correspondence and
memorabilia; three postcards from American soldiers held captive in German prison
camps; Christmas greetings and Italian lira received from overseas; three letters with
enclosed Japanese newspaper clippings and matchbook covers which warn the
Japanese against foreign spies.
89. Walsh, James Lawrence (1885-1952) USMA 1909, CU 4792. Papers; 1912-1952. 2
boxes. Officer, U.S. Army; Advisor to Chief of Ordnance, World War II. The papers
include correspondence, articles, and pamphlets relating to ordnance.
90. Walton, George H. Oral history interviews. 1 box. Officer, U.S. Army; writer. Tape­
recorded interviews with Gen. Mark Wayne Clark, officers of his staff, and war
correspondents on the events that led to the fall of the city of Rome, Italy, to Allied
forces, 4 June 1944. The interviews served as the basis for the book Rome Fell Today
by Robert H. Adleman and George Walton.
91. Yamasaki, Yasuyo. Field order; 1943. 9 pages. Final orders issued by Yamasaki, 29
May 1943, detailing plan of attack on the 7th Infantry at Attu. Japanese with typed
English translation.
[Mr. Aimone is the assistant librarian for Special Collections Division and Mrs. Sibley is the
manuscript librarian, U.S. Military Academy Library.]
Alan C. Aimone has provided the following from the Friends of the West Point Library
Newsletter, no. 8, July 1986:
The holdings of the USMA Orientalia Collection, written mostly in Chinese with some
works in Japanese and English, include books and periodicals of general and military
history, history of military art and science, biography, culture, geography, language,
literature, philosophy, politics, and general reference works of China and Japan. The
collection is strong in political and military history of modem China, particularly in works
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on the Sino-Japanese War from 1937-1945, the Chinese Civil War from 1945-1949, and the
political and military development in both Communist China and Nationalist China in
Taiwan since 1950.
Formation of the Orientalia Collection began in 1970 when the Academy acquired the
accumulated research materials of Dr. William Whitson, USMA Class of 1948, who had
served as Chief of the Military Advisory and Assistance Group (MAAG) Historian's Office
on Taiwan and as Army Liaison Officer in Hong Kong. The materials he collected came
from careful cultivation of nationalist war time figures, exhaustive surveys of local book
markets, and extensive contributions from friends. Other contributions to the collection
have been made by language and Chinese area studies instructors at the Military Academy,
including Col. Monte Bullard, Lt. Col. Joseph Heinlein, and Col. Kenneth G. Kochel. The
Republic of China has been the donor of many books and continues to provide the current
periodicals published in Taiwan.
Since the acquisition of the Whitson Collection, the organization and expansion of the
collection have been the results of efforts by Mr. Pinkun Lee, now retired, and Mrs. Angela
H. H. Kao, the present librarian.
Complementing this special collection are English language materials on China in the
circulating collection. One of the contributors to these publications and books on China
has been Maj. Gen. H. L. Boatner.
SELECf BffiUOGRAPHY OF BOOKS AND ARTICLES
IN ENGUSH RELATING TO THE WORLD WAR IT ERA
The following select bibliography includes works published from January 1, 1990, to
October 1, 1991. As did the first bibliography in the Spring 1991 issue, installments
appearing in future issues will continue to include titles published since January 1, 1990.
BOOKS:
Ayers, Eben A. Truman in the White House: The Diary of Eben A. Ayers. Ed. by
Robert H. Ferrell. Columbia, Mo.: University of Missouri Press, 1991.
Bacque, James. Other Losses: The Shockin~ Truth Behind the Mass Deaths of Disarmed
German Soldiers and Civilians Under General Eisenhower's Command. Rocklin, Calif.:
Prima Publishing, 1991.
Barkai, Avraham. Nazi Economics: Ideolo~. Theory, and Policy. Trans. by Ruth Hadass­
Vashitz. New Haven, Conn.: Yale, 1990.
Barnes, Kenneth C, Nazism. Liberalism, and Christianity: Protestant Social Thou8ht in
Germany and Great Britain, 1925-1937. Lexington, Ky.: University Press of Kentucky,
1991.
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Bellon, Bernard P. Mercedes in Peace and War: German Automobile Workers. 1903­
1945. New York: Columbia University Press, 1990.
Bland, Larry I., ed. George C. Marshall Interviews and Reminiscences for Forrest C.
Po~e. Lexington, Va.: George C. Marshall Research Foundation, 1991.
Bolloten, Burnett. The Spanish Civil War: Revolution and Counterrevolution. Chapel
Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 1991.
Breuer, William B. Death of a Nazi Army:
Scarborough House, 1990.
The Falaise Pocket.
Chelsea, Mich.:
Browder, George C. Foundations of the Nazi Police State: The Formation of Sipo and
SD. Lexington, Ky.: University Press of Kentucky, 1990.
Burgess, Alan. The Longest Tunnel: The True Story of World War II's Great Escape.
New York: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1990.
Clarke, J. Calvitt. Russia and Italy Against Hitler: The Bolshevik-Fascist Rapprochement
of the 1930s. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1991.
Cooper, Matthew. The German Army. 1933-1945. Chelsea, Mich.: Scarborough House,
1990.
Copp, Terry, and Bill McAndrew. Battle Exhaustion: Soldiers and Psychiatrists in the
Canadian Army. 1939-1945. Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1990.
Corvo, Max. The
a.s.s. in Italy:
A Personal Memoir." New York: Praeger, 1990.
Cox, Bryan. Too Young to Die: The Story of a New Zealand Fighter Pilot in the Pacific
War. Ames, la.: Iowa State University Press, 1990.
Crosswell, D. K. R. The Chief of Staff: The MilitaIy Career of General Walter Bedell
Smith. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1991.
Cundiff, Michael J. Ten Knights in a Bar Room: Missing in Action in the Southwest
Pacific. 1943. Ames, la.: Iowa State University Press, 1990.
Davis, Benjamin a., Jr. Benjamin a. Davis. Jr.. American: An Autobiography. New
York: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1991.
D'Este, Carlo. Fatal Decision: Anzio and the Battle for Rome. New York: Harper
Collins, 1991.
Devereux, Tony. Messenger Gods of Battle--Radio. Radar. Sonar: . The Story of
Electronics in War. Oxford, Eng.: Brassey's, 1991.
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Duffy, Christopher. Red Storm on the Reich: The Soviet March on Germany. 1945. New
York: Atheneum, 1991.
Duffy, James P. Hitler Slept Late and Other Blunders That Cost Him the War. New
York: Praeger, 1991.
Dundas, Hugh.
1990.
Flyin~
Start: A
Fi~hter
Pilot's War Years. New York: St. Martin's Press,
Dwork, Deborah. Children With a Star: Jewish Youth in Nazi Europe. New Haven,
Conn.: Yale, 1991.
Edmonds, Robin. The Bi~ Three: Churchill. Roosevelt. and Stalin in Peace and War.
New York: Norton, 1991.
English, John A The Canadian Army and the Normandy
in Hi~h Command. New York: Praeger, 1991.
Campai~n:
A Study of Failure
Evleth, Donna, compo France Under the German Occupation. 1940-1944: An Annotated
Bibliography. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1991.
Fischer, Conan. The German Communists and the Rise of Nazism.
Martin's Press, 1991.
New York:
St.
Flood, Charles B. Hitler: The Path to Power. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1990.
Ford, Ken. Assault on Germany: The Battle for Geilenkirchen. BruneI House, Eng.:
David & Charles, 1991.
Forty, George. Patton's Third Army at War. London: Arms and Armour, 1991.
Fox, Stephen. The Unknown Internment: An Oral History of the Relocation of Italian
Americans During World War II. Boston: Twayne, 1990.
Freidel, Frank. Franklin Delano Roosevelt: A Rendezvous with Destiny. Boston: Little
Brown, 1990.
Gailey, Harry A Bou~ainville: The
University Press of Kentucky, 1991.
For~otten
Campaign. 1943-1945. Lexington, Ky:
Gallagher, Hugh Gregory. By Trust Betrayed: Patients. Physicians. and the License to Kill
in the Third Reich. New York: Holt, 1990.
Gamboa, Erasmo. Mexican Labor and World War II: Braceros in the Pacific Northwest.
1942-1947. Austin, Tex.: University of Texas Press, 1990.
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Gelb, Norman. Dunkirk: The Complete StOIY of the First Step in the Defeat of Hitler.
New York: Morrow, 1991.
Glantz, David M. The Role of Intelligence in Soviet MilitalY Strategy in World War II.
Novato, Calif.: Presidio Press, 1990.
Gleichauf, Justin F. Unsung Sailors: The Naval Armed Guard in World War II.
Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 1990.
Gormly, James. From Potsdam to the Cold War:
Wilmington, Del.: Scholarly Resources, 1990.
Bi~
Three DiplomaG)'. 1945-1947.
Graebner, William. The Age of Doubt: American Thought and Culture in the 1940s.
Boston: Twayne, 1990.
Guyton, Boone T. Whistling Death: The Test Pilot's StolY of the F4U Corsair. New
York: Crown, 1990.
Harper, John L., and Andrew Parlin. The Polish Question During World War II.
Washington: Johns Hopkins Foreign Policy Institute, 1990.
Hays, Otis, Jr. Home From Siberia: The Secret Odysseys of Interned American Airmen
in World War II. College Station, Tex.: Texas A&M University Press, 1990.
Hinsley, F. H., and C. A G. Simkins. British Intelligence in the Second World War. Vol.
4, Security and Counter-Intelligence. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991.
Hodgson, Godfrey. The Colonel: The Life and Wars of HenlY Stimson. 1867-1950. New
York: Knopf, 1990.
Howard, M. E. British Intelligence in the Second World War. Vol. 5, Strategic Deception.
New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991.
Hoyt, Edwin P. Yamamoto: The Man Who Planned Pearl Harbor. New York: McGraw­
Hill, 1990.
Huber, Thomas M. Japan's Battle of Okinawa, April-June 1945. Fort Leavenworth:
Combat Studies Institute, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, 1991.
Hunt, Linda. Secret Agenda: The United States Government. Nazi Scientists. and Project
Paperclip. 1945-1990. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991.
Johnson, David. The London Blitz: The City Ablaze. December 29. 1940. Chelsea, Mich.:
Scarborough House, 1990.
Kahn, David. Seizing the Enigma: The Race to Break the German U-Boat Code. Boston:
Houghton Mifflin, 1991.
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Kesselman, Amy. Fleetin~ Opportunities: Women Ship,yard Workers in Portland and
Vancouver Durin~ World War II and Reconversion. Albany, N.Y.: State University of
New York Press, 1990.
Kessler, Leo. The Battle of the Ruhr Pocket. April 1945. Chelsea, Mich.: Scarborough
House, 1990.
Lacouture, Jean. De Gaulle: The Rebel, 1890-1944. Trans. by Patrick O'Brian. New
York: Norton, 1990.
Langer, Lawrence L. Holocaust Testimonies: The Ruins of Memory. New Haven, Conn.:
Yale, 1991.
Lankford, Nelson D., ed. OSS Aiainst the Reich. Kent, 0.: Kent State University Press,
1991.
Laqueur, Walter. Stalin: The Glasnost Revelations. New York: Scribner, 1990.
Lattimore, Owen. China Memoirs: Chiani Kai-shek and the War Against Japan. Compo
by Fujiko Isono. Tokyo: Tokyo, 1991.
Lees, Michael. The Rape of Serbia: The British Role in Tho's Grab for Power. 1943-1944.
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1990.
Lukacs, John. The Duel, 10 May-31 July 1940: The Eighty-Day Struggle Between
Churchill and Hitler. New York: Ticknor and Fields, 1990.
McCue, Brian. U-Boats in the Bay of Biscay: An Essay in Operations Analysis.
Washington: National Defense University Press, 1990.
MacMaster, Neil. Spanish Fighters: An Oral History of Civil War and Exile. New York:
St. Martin's Press, 1991.
Manson, Janet M. Diplomatic Ramifications of Unrestricted Submarine Warfare. 1939­
1941. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1990.
Marder, Arthur 1, Mark Jacobsen, and John Horsfield. Old Friends. New Enemies: The
Royal Navy and the Imperial Japanese Navy. Vol. 2, The Pacific War. 1942-1945. New
York: Oxford University Press, 1990.
Matalon Lagnado, Lucette, and Sheila Cohn Dekel. Children of the Flames: Dr. Josef
Mengele and the Untold Story of the Twins of Auschwitz. New York: Morrow, 1991.
Maung, U Maung. Burmese Nationalist Movements: 1940-1948. Honolulu: University
of Hawaii Press, 1990.
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Melchior, Ib, and Frank Brandenburg. Ouest: Searchin~ for Germany's Nazi Past: A
Youni Man's Story. Novato, Calif.: Presidio Press, 1990.
Mendenhall, Corwin. Submarine Diary. Chapel Hill, N.C.: Algonquin Books, 1991.
Messenger, Charles. The Art of
Blitzkrie~.
London: Ian Allan, 1991.
Messenger, Charles. The Last Prussian: A Bio~aphy of Field Marshal Gerd Von
Rundstedt. 1875-1953. London: Brassey's, 1991.
Michta, Andrew A Red Ea~le: The Army in Polish Politics. 1944-1988. Stanford, Calif.:
Hoover Institution, 1990.
Miihlberger, Detlef. Hitler's Followers: Studies in the Sociology of the Nazi Movement.
London: Routledge, 1991.
Miiller, Ingo. Hitler's Justice: The Courts of the Third Reich. Trans. by Deborah Lucas
Schneider. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1991.
Nadeau, Remi. Stalin. Churchill. and Roosevelt Divide Europe. New York: Praeger, 1990.
Newland, Samuel J. Cossacks in the German Army. 1941-1945. London: Frank Cass, 1990.
Ofer, Dalia. Escaping the Holocaust: Illegal Immi~ation to the Land of Israel. 1939­
1944. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.
Onorato, Michael P. For~otten Heroes: Japan's Imprisonment of American Civilians in
the Philippines. 1942-1943: An Oral History. Westport, Conn.: Meckler, 1990.
Overy, Richard, with Andrew Wheatcroft. The Road to War: The Origins of World War
II. New York: Random House, 1990.
Pinchuk, Ben-Cion. Shtetl Jews Under Soviet Rule: Eastern Poland on the Eve of the
Holocaust. Cambridge, Mass.: Basil Blackwell, 1990.
Polonsky, Antony, ed. liMy Brother's Keeper?" Recent Polish Debates on the Holocaust.
New York: Routledge, 1990.
Ross, Bill D. Peleliu: Tragic Triumph. New York: Random House, 1991.
Roy, Patricia E., et al. Mutual Hostages: Canadians and Japanese During the Second
World War. Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, 1990.
Rust, Eric C. Naval Officers Under Hitler: The Story of Crew 34. Westport, Conn.:
Praeger, 1991.
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Sadaranada, Dana V. Beyond Stalingrad: Manstein and the Operations of Army Group
Don. New York: Praeger, 1990.
Scott, Mark, and Semyon Krasilshcick, eds. Yanks Meet Reds: Recollections of U.S. and
Soviet Vets from the Linkup in World War II. New York: Foundation Publications, 1990.
Smith, Jean Edward. Lucius D. Clay: An American Life. New York: Henry Holt, 1990.
Smith, Dale O. Screamini Eaile: Memoirs of a B-17 Group Commander. Chapel Hill,
N.C.: Algonquin Books, 1990.
Snoke, Elizabeth R. Dwight D. Eisenhower: A Centennial Bibliography.
Leavenworth, Kans.: U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, 1990.
Fort
Suvorov, Viktor. Icebreaker: Who Started the Second World War? New York: Viking
Penguin, 1990.
Thomas, Gordon, and Max Morgan Witts. Guernica: The Crucible of World War II.
Chelsea, Mich.: Scarborough House, 1991.
Topas, George. The Iron Furnace:
University Press of Kentucky, 1990.
A Holocaust Survivor's StOIy.
Lexington, Ky.:
Trotter, William R. A Frozen Hell: The Russo-Finnish Winter War of 1939-40. Chapel
Hill, N.C.: Algonquin Books, 1991.
Vause, Jordan. U-Boat Ace:
Institute Press, 1990.
The StOIY of Wolfgang Luth.
Annapolis, Md.:
Naval
Verney, G. L. The Desert Rats: Histozy of the 7th Armored Division. Novato, Calif.:
Presidio Press, 1990.
Vizulis, Izidors. The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact of 1939: The Baltic Case. New York:
Praeger, 1990.
Warner, Philip. Secret Forces of World War II. Fredericksburg, Va.: Scarborough House,
1991.
Weatherford, Doris. American Women and World War II. New York: Facts on File,
1990.
Weintraub, Stanley.
Duffyffalley, 1991.
Long Day's Journey Into War:
December 7. 1941.
New York:
Whiting, Charles. The Other Battle of the Bulge: Operation Northwind. Chelsea, Mich.:
Scarborough House, 1990.
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Whitley, M. J. German Capital Ships of World War Two. New York: Sterling, 1990.
Willis, Donald J. The Incredible Year [1944-1945; Europe].
University Press, 1990.
Ames, la.:
Iowa State
Willis, John. Churchill's Few: The Battle of Britain Remembered. New York: Paragon,
1990.
Yahil, Leni. The Holocaust: The Fate of European Jewry. 1932-1945. Trans. by Ina
Friedman and Haya Galai. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.
Yerxa, Donald A Admirals and Empire: The United States Nayy and the Caribbean.
1898-1945. Columbia, S.c.: University of South Carolina Press, 1991.
Young, John W. France. the Cold War. and the Western Alliance. 1944-49:
Foreign Policy and Post-War Europe. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1990.
French
Ziegler, Herbert F. Nazi Germany's New Aristocracy: The SS Leadership. 1925-1939.
Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1990.
ARTICLES:
Akers, Regina T. "Female Naval Reservists During World War II: A Historiographical
Essay." Minerva 8 (Summer 1990): 55-61.
Aldgate, Tony. "Mr. Capra Goes to War: Frank Capra, the British Army Film Unit, and
Anglo-American Travails in the Production of 'Tunisian Victory.''' Historical Journal of
Film. Radio and Television 11, no. 1 (1991): 21-39.
Ambrose, Stephen E. "Eisenhower's Legacy." Prologue 22 (Fall 1990): 227-36.
Andrews, Hal. "Naval Aviation's Aircraft and Ships on the Eve of Pearl Harbor." Naval
Aviation News 72 (January-February 1990): 18-23.
Austra, Keven R. "The Battle of the Bulge: The Secret Offensive." Military Intelligence
17 (January-March 1991): 26-33.
Baird, Nancy Disher. '''To Lend You My Eyes .. .': The World War II Letters of Special
Services Officer Harry Jackson." Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 88 (Summer
1990): 287-317.
Ball, Reg. "The Defence of the Torres Straits--World War II." Sabretache 31 (April-June
1990): 30-31.
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Ben-Arie, Katriel. "Czechoslovakia at the Time of 'Munich':
Journal of Contemporary History 25 (October 1990): 431-46.
The Military Situation."
Bentley, Geoffrey. ''They Flew for Britain [Royal New Zealand Air Force J." Defence
Force Journal 85 (November-December 1990): 34-42.
Bernstein, Barton J. "Eclipsed by Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Early Thinking About Tactical
Nuclear Weapons." International Security 15 (Spring 1991): 149-73.
Bigelow, Michael E. "Eisenhower and Intelligence." Militaty Intelligence 17 (January­
March 1991): 19-25.
Bittner, Eric. '''Loyalty ... is a Covenant': Japanese-American Internees and the Selective
Service Act." Prolo~ue 23 (Fall 1991): 248-52.
Blanton, DeAnne, and Jennifer Davis Heaps.
Prologue 23 (Fall 1991): 288-95.
''The Home Front:
Letters Received."
Blumenson, Martin. "Eisenhower Then and Now: Fireside Reflections." Parameters 21
(Summer 1991): 22-34.
Boyden, Richard. "'Where Outsized Paychecks Grow on Trees': War Workers in San
Francisco Shipyards." Prolo~e 23 (Fall 1991): 253-59.
Brinker, William J. "Harold 'Mose' Sims: World War II Consul in Natal." Tennessee
Historical Quarterly 49 (Spring 1990): 28-39.
Burton, Shirley J., and Kellee Green. "Oaths of Allegiance, Acts of Treason: The
Disloyalty Prosecutions of Max Stephan and Hans Haupt." Prologue 23 (Fall 1991): 236­
47.
Bustard, Bruce I. "The World in Flames: World War II Documents from the National
Archives." Prolo~e 23 (Fall 1991): 315-21.
Butler, Howard K. "The Army Ground Forces and the Helicopter, 1941-1945." United
States Army Aviation Digest 3 (May-June 1990): 8-13.
Carter, Kent. ''Total War: The Federal Government and the Home Front." Prologue 23
(Fall 1991): 224-29.
Celardo, John. "Shifting Seas: Racial Integration in the United States Navy, 1941-1945."
Prologue 23 (Fall 1991): 230-35.
Davis, Joan. "SALT: the Journal of the Australian Army Education Service in the Second
World WaL" Journal of the Australian War Memorial 17 (October 1990): 20-29.
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Dewberry, Suzanne. "Perils at Sea: The Sinking of the SS Montebello." Prologue 23 (Fall
1991): 260-65.
Doerr, Paul W. ''The Changkufeng-Lake Khasan Incident of 1938: British Intelligence on
Soviet and Japanese Military Performance." Intelligence and National Security 5 (July
1990): 184-99.
Dovey, H. O. "Cheese [British Deception in Middle East]." Intelligence and National
Security 5 (July 1990): 176-83.
Falls, Donald R. "American POWs in Romania." Air Power History 37 (Spring 1990):
37-44.
Feagin, Joe R. ''The State, Capitalism, and World War II: The U.S. Case." Armed Forces
and Society 17 (Fall 1990): 53-79.
Fickle, James E., and Donald W. Ellis. "POWs in the Piney Woods: German Prisoners
of War in the Southern Lumber Industry, 1943-1945." Journal of Southern History 56
(November 1990): 695-724.
Frank, Willard c., Jr. "Misperception and Incidents at Sea: The Deutschland and Leipzig
Crisis, 1937." Naval War College Review 43 (Spring 1990): 31-46.
Funigiello, Philip J. "Managing Armageddon: The Truman Administration, Atomic War,
and the National Security Resources Board." Journal of PoliCS History 2, no. 4 (1990):
403-24.
Gallicchio, Marc. ''The Kuriles Controversy: U.S. Diplomacy in the Soviet-Japan Border
Dispute, 1941-1956." Pacific Historical Review 60 (February 1991): 69-101.
Gimbel, John. "German Scientists, United States Denazification Policy, and the 'Paperclip
Conspiracy.''' International History Review 12 (August 1990): 441-65.
Gray, Paul D. "The Human Record of Conflict: Individual Military Service and Medical
Records." Prologue 23 (Fall 1991): 306-13.
Grover, David H. "The Panay Revisited: A Maritime Perspective." American Neptune
50 (Fall 1990): 260-69.
Guttman, Jon S. "The 29th 'Blue and Gray' Infantry Division: Fighting Through the
Hedgerows to Saint-La." National Guard 44 (September 1990): 48-51.
Hallanan, George H., Jr. ''The Go-Anywhere Tank Company [603rd Medium Tank
Company]." Army 41 (January 1991): 42-47.
Heaps, Jennifer Davis. "World War II Prisoner-of-War Records." Prologue 23 (Fall 1991):
324-28.
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Holt, Daniel D. "An Unlikely Partnership and Service: Dwight D. Eisenhower, Mark
Clark, and the Philippines." Kansas History 13 (Autumn 1990): 149-65.
_Honan, William H. "Bywater's Pacific War Prophecy." MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of
Military History 3 (Spring 1991): 82-91.
Justice, Joyce. "World War II Civilian Public Service: Conscientious Objector Camps in
Oregon." Proloi\le 23 (Fall 1991): 266-73.
Kaufmann, J. E. ''The Maginot Line Works at Fermont and Hackenberg." Fort 18 (1990):
95-112.
Keefer, Louis E. "From Captive to Ally: Italian Prisoners of War in Virginia, 1943-1945."
Virginia Cavalcade 39 (Spring 1990): 182-91.
Keen, Lisa. "Wider Australian Involvement in the Air War 1939-40." Defence Force
Journal 85 (November-December 1990): 25-29.
Kelley, Leo. "Bamboo Bombers Over Oklahoma: USAAF Pilot Training During World
War IL" Chronicles of Oklahoma 68 (Winter 1990-91): 360-75.
Kingseed, Cole C. "Eisenhower's Prewar AnonYmity: Myth or Reality?" Parameters 21
(Autumn 1991): 87-98.
Kirkpatrick, Charles E. "Joint Planning for Operation Torch." Parameters 21 (Summer
1991): 73-85.
Kirkpatrick, Charles E. "Lesley J. McNair: Training Philosophy for a New Army." Army
History 17 (Winter 1990-91): 11-17.
Klimow, Matthew S. "Lying to the Troops: American Leaders and the Defense of
Bataan." Parameters 20 (December 1990): 48-60.
Kohn, Richard H., ed. ''The Scholarship on World War II: Its Present Condition and
Future Possibilities." Journal of Military History 55 (July 1991): 365-93.
Kraus, Theresa L. "Clipping Axis Wings." Air Power History 37 (Spring 1990): 19-26.
Le Pore, Herbert P. "Eyes in the Sky: A History of Liaison Aircraft and Their Use in
World War II." Army History 17 (Winter 1990-91): 30-39.
Leahy, Stephen M. "Even the Irish Kept Quiet: The British Foreign Office and the 1939
Royal Visit to the United States." New York History 62 (October 1990): 435-50.
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