A collection of directives for the Commander in Chief of the Pacific Ocean Area and the Supreme Commander in the Southwest Pacific Area. Includes numerous planning and logistical documents and joint Army and Navy conference reports.
Military operations are complex and chaotic phenomena. Current theoretical models inadequately deal with the increasing complexity and inherent uncertainty of modern warfare. Relying on mechanistic paradigms and reductionist methods of analysis,...
Headquarters, US Armed Forces Western Pacific Office of the Commanding General
This document contains official documents such as memorandums, letters, and communications to and from the Commanding General with respect to logistics, training and planning, supply operations, staff operations, organization and functions. Also...
War Department policy with respect to labor of prisoners of war, contracts for employment of prisoners of war, administrative and disciplinary measures, conduct of prisoner of war noncommissioned officers, and violations of prisoners' regulations....
Office of the Commanding General, Army Service Forces, War Department
The objective of this plan is to insure that the missions of the Control Division, Army Service Forces, are carried out in effecting redeployment, readjustment, and demobilization during period I. Sections include: Control Division plan; plans and...
This monograph presents the complex story of Army transportation in a theater environment for the use of the Transportation Corps in planning future operations, procurement, and training, and for the general information of military authorities. It...
Committee 8 Officers Advanced Course, The Armored School; Himes, Cecil; Krampitz, Charles T.; Heffelfinger, Hugo W.; Falls, Carroll M., Jr.; Stout, Morris C.; Boehmer, William J.; Plume, Stephen K.; Styer, George D.; Huddleston, James M.
This study covers the drive for, capture of, and withdrawal from Crailsheim by the 10th Armored Division during the period 4-10 April 1945. The main purpose in studying this particular action was to increase the knowledge of armored operations in...
The purpose of this monograph is to describe the duties of a base and intermediate section quartermaster and assistant theater quartermaster as actually experienced by the author from 14 December 1943 to 11 August 1946 in the Southwest Pacific...
Strategic Logistics Branch, Planning Division, Army Service Forces
This document contains official documents such as memorandums, letters, and communications to and from the Commanding General with respect to logistics, training and planning, supply operations, staff operations, organization and functions. Also...
This is a study on public works and utilities in French Indo-China. Electricity, gas, water, and sewage are discussed; subtopics include electric power (government policy, industrial and domestic consumption statistics, etc.), and gas plants, water...
This is a study on the transportation systems and communications in French Indo-China. Topics include railways, motor transport, street railways, internal waterways and canals, commercial air transport, shipping, telephone/telegraph/cable, postal...
This is a study on public health and sanitation in French Indo-China. Chapters include contents regarding the public health department (organization, water, sewage, insects and animals important to man- control of), medical facilities (hospitals,...
This is a study on the geographical and social background in French Indo-China. Subjects include information about the land (boundaries and frontier disputes, and territorial divisions), and the people (population statistics and cultural...
This is a study on natural resources in French Indo-China. Subjects include information on mining, forestry, fisheries and game, and water and water power.
This is a study on industry and commerce in French Indo-China. Industry subjects include legal regulations, effects of the war on industry, and items like textiles, alcohol, and chemicals. Commerce includes domestic and foreign trade (balance of...
This handbook deals with proclamations- and general orders- and instructions (general and special administrative instructions) of the allied military government in Italy; it was prepared in the theater of operation. Sections for imposition of...