772,255 Pages of WWII Documents on USB PEN Drive - World War II Historical Documents Archive

World War II Historical Documents Archive

772,255 pages of World War II related documents in 148 collections, archived on a USB Pen Drive

A curated documentary collection of material drawn from the hundreds of millions of pages of documents found in depositories world-wide related to World War II. The material provides coverage as wide as the war dating from the early 1930's.

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World War II (1939-1945) was the largest international event of the twentieth century and one of the major turning points in U.S. and world history. America directly entered the conflict on December 7, 1941, following the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor, the United States declared war on Japan. Three days later, after Germany and Italy declared war on it; the United States became fully engaged in the Second World War. In the six years between the invasion of Poland and the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the world was caught up in the most destructive war in history. Armed forces of more than seventeen million fought on the land, in the air, and on the sea. 

Material includes After Action Reports, Chronologies, All Level of Reporting, Official Histories, Oral Histories, Presidential Papers, Correspondences, Intelligence Files, Court Documents, Captured German Files, Field Manuals, Newsletters, FBI Files, Office of Strategic Services (OSS) Files, Political Cartoons, Photographs, Drawings, Posters and Audio Recordings.

Sources include: National Archives and Records Administration, British National Archives, Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library, Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), United States Department of State, United States Department of Justice, United States Marine Corps, United States Department of the Army. United States Department of the Navy, United States Department of the Air Force

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The 148 Collections Include:

ABWEHR (GERMAN) MILITARY INTELLIGENCE) OSS - CIA FILES
2,016 pages of documents created by or maintained by the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), or reports by other U.S. intelligence agencies derived from information gained by the OSS, covering the Abwehr. Documents date from 1944 to 2014.

ADOLF EICHMANN CIA FILES
1,365 pages of Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Files covering Adolf Eichmann.

ADOLF HITLER:  HITLER’S ESCORT UNIT HISTORY BY ITS COMMANDER
A 50-page history provided to United States Army historians of the Fuehrer Begleit Brigade (16 Dec 1944 - 26 Jan 1945), by its commander General Major Otto Remer. English Translation.

ADOLF HITLER:  FBI FILES
947 pages of files covering matters investigated in the United States by the Bureau related to Adolf Hitler. This collection contains two copies of the FBI Files. The first are 947 Pages of color scans from the National Archives & Records Administration in College Park, Maryland. The other is an older release from a reference copy made from FBI microfilm containing 746 pages of the Hitler files.

ADOLF HITLER: HITLER'S MOUNTAIN RETREAT "EAGLE'S NEST" US ARMY REPORT
The May 28, 1945 44-page report, "Hitler's mountain retreat," by the Headquarters XXI Corps, Office of the Assistant Army Chief of Staff.

ADOLF HITLER:  MILITARY DIRECTIVES AND NAVAL CONFERENCES
1,541 pages of U.S. Army Intelligence translations of top-level directives issued by Adolf Hitler and by the German Armed Forces High Command (0KW) from 1939 through 1945, conferences between Hitler and the Commander in Chief of the German Navy, and Battle Instructions for the German Navy.

ADOLF HITLER OSS - CIA FILES
1,866 pages of Office of Strategic Services (OSS) files related to Adolf Hitler. Files are composed of a biographical sketch, two analyses of Adolph Hitler's psychological profile, a collection of abstracts of source materials dealing with Adolf Hitler, and a set of assorted Adolf Hitler OSS files

ADOLF HITLER: SEARCH FOR HITLER BRITISH WAR OFFICE INTELLIGENCE FILES
1,078 pages of British War Office Intelligence Files covering the "investigation into whereabouts of Adolf Hitler" after the end of the war with Germany.

ADOLF HITLER: "THE LAST DAYS IN HITLER'S AIR RAID SHELTER" HANNA REITSCH INTERROGATION
A 30-page US Army Interrogation unit report on the interrogation of Hanna Reitsch. Reitsch was a famous female German test pilot. She was the only woman to win the German Iron Cross. She is believed to be the last person to leave Hitler's air raid shelter alive. The report gives her firsthand account of the last days in Hitler's bunker.

AIR CORPS NEWS LETTER - AIR FORCE NEWSLETTER 1940-1944
2,969 pages of Air Forces News Letter, 1940 - 1944, the monthly official service journal of the U.S. Army Air Forces, published by the U.S. Army Air Forces, Air Force Editorial Office.

AIR FORCE OFFICIAL HISTORY VOLUMES
12,400 pages of World War II Air Force History in 28 volumes. Official history compiled by United States Air Force historians. Maps, charts, and photos are used to help document the United States Air Force's role in World War II.

ALEUTIAN CAMPAIGN BATTLES OF ATTU, DUTCH ISLAND & KISKA DOCUMENTS: ONLY U.S. TERRITORY LOST TO JAPAN & BATTLES IN NORTH AMERICA
4,533 pages of documents covering the Aleutian Islands Campaign.  Attu Island is the site of the only World War II battle on the North American Continent. Includes documents held by the University of Alaska Anchorage Archives, United States Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Alaska State Library, Franklin Roosevelt Presidential Library, and the National Archives & Records Administration.

ALL THEATERS ENEMY SITUATION AND OPERATIONS, ENEMY CAPABILITIES INTELLIGENCE REPORTS
2,380 pages of War Department, Military Intelligence Service, Daily G-2 Reports dating from March 22, 1942 to August 15, 1944, covering all theaters of operations.

ALLIED AIR FORCE D-DAY/OPERATION OVERLORD PLANNING DOCUMENTS
3,608 pages of Royal Air Force copies of original source material, Allied Air Force messages, reports, directives, and other records related to the plans and operations of Allied Air Force Units for D-DAY - Operation Overlord - Normandy Invasion.

AMERICAN NAZI PROPAGANDIST DOUGLAS CHANDLER TREASON INVESTIGATION AND TRIAL DOCUMENTS
4,957 pages of court documents, trial transcripts, Justice Department files, newspapers and an audio recording related to the treason trial of Nazi Propagandist Douglas Chandler.

AMERICAN POWS IN GERMANY INTELLIGENCE REPORT
A 100-page November 1945 report by the Military Intelligence Service of the War Department, titled, "American Prisoners of War in Germany."

AMERICAN PROPAGANDA LEAFLETS & DOCUMENTS
1,220 pages of American World War II propaganda leaflets and documents concerning the use of psychological warfare propaganda leaflets in the Pacific theater during World War II, copied from material held at the United States Naval Academy Archives, the Marine Corps Training & Education Command Library, and the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College library.

AMERICAN VICTIMS OF THE ATOMIC BOMBING OF HIROSHIMA 1945
A 400-page vertical file compiled by the Department of Defense in 2009 of material covering American victims of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima 1945, mostly American POWs who were in Hiroshima when the Atomic bomb was dropped.

ANTI-NAZI DRAWINGS MADE IN GERMANY BY JEWISH ILLUSTRATOR LEON SCHLEIFER
181 illustrations and 57 description sheets of scenes from Germany, dating from 1929 to 1934, by Leon Schleifer, an Austrian-born Jew who pseudonymously satirized Hitler and his followers as they rose to power.

ARMY 82ND AIRBORNE DIVISION ACTION & AFTER-ACTION REPORTS
9,313 pages of after-action material including administration papers, administration orders, journals and messages, terrain studies and, records of combat, periodic reports, narrative histories, German POW interrogation reports, operation memoranda and maps.

AXIS SALLY - MILDRED GILLARS FBI & U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE FILES & AUDIO RECORDING
1,681 pages of FBI & U.S. Department of Justice files, and a 56-minute audio recording, covering American World War II propagandist broadcaster for Germany, Mildred Gillars, also known as "Axis Sally." She was convicted of treason by the United States and on 8 March 1949 was sentenced to ten to thirty years of imprisonment.

BATTLE OF THE BULGE - ARDENNES COUNTER-OFFENSIVE DOCUMENTS AND HISTORY
6,715 pages of documents, maps, newspaper coverage, after action reports, official histories, oral history interviews and military academic studies covering the Ardennes Offensive/Counter Offensive, also known as the Battle of the Bulge.

BATTLE OF THE BULGE (ARDENNES OFFENSIVE) GERMAN COMMANDERS INTERROGATORIES AND REPORTS
1,175 pages of manuscripts in the form of answers to U.S. Army questionnaires and reports from 19 German commanders, many who lead German forces during the Adriene’s Offensive, known to Americans as the Battle of the Bulge. They were completed between 1945 and 1947.

BERLIN/EAST GERMANY CIA & OSS FILES
552 pages of selected OSS and CIA files covering Berlin and East Germany from 1943 to 1961. Documents cover the destruction of Berlin during World War II, Soviet military actions and plans, intelligence operations, the 1948 March Crisis, the Berlin Airlift, suppression of revolt in East Germany, the Berlin Tunnel, and the Berlin Wall.

BOMBING OF U.S.S. FRANKLIN (CV-13) MARCH 19, 1945 FILM & NAVY DAMAGE REPORT
A 6 minute and 33 second film, filmed by U.S. Navy cameramen, edited by Castle Films for American homeland domestic theaters an excerpt from USS Franklin CV-13 War Damage Report No. 56.

BRITISH FOREIGN OFFICE & SECRET INTELLIGENCE SERVICE FILES
21,210 pages of British Foreign Office files related to World War II and the administration of the Special Operations Executive (SOE) and the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS).

BRITISH FOREIGN OFFICE FILE ON ASSASSINATION PRIORITIES FOR OPERATION OVERLORD
30 pages of documents dated twenty-one days before the D-Day launch of Operation OVERLORD, the first memo in a file designated as FO 1093/292, has the subject “Assassination Priorities for OVERLORD.”

BRITISH MI5 REPORT ON COUNTER ESPIONAGE METHODS
A 35-page report on the work of MI5's B1B in connection with the use of ISOS material and counter espionage methods in Gibraltar from 1939-1945

BRITISH WAR CABINET NOTEBOOKS
2,320 pages of notes and translations from British cabinet meetings, dating from April 13, 1942 to December 31, 1946, copied from material maintained at the British National Archives.

BUREAU OF AERONAUTICS NEWS & NAVAL AVIATION NEWS
4,035 pages of Bureau of Aeronautics Newsletter & Naval Aviation News, composed of 91 issues dating from January 1, 1943 to December 1947.

CAMPAIGNS ARMY OFFICAL HISORY VOLUMES
38 Volumes - 1,216 pages of United States Army official campaign histories, composed of text, 220 photos, 134 maps, and 35 hand-drawn illustrations.

CATALOG OF ENEMY MATERIEL
307 pages of photographs, diagrams, and details about German and Japanese Ordnance (Tanks, rockets, ammunition, mines, grenades, small arms, rifles, etc.) Volumes I and II are both contained in this document (German and Japanese). There is a practical reading and translation of Japanese characters, tables of basic key characters for Japanese ordnance, instructions for translating Japanese markings, an index to weapons by caliber for both forces, and an extensive index to both volumes.

CHRONOLOGIES: ARMY, AIR FORCE, NAVY, MILITARY INTELLIGENCE CHRONOLOGIES
5,227 pages constituting 12 sets of chronologies, produced from 1940 to 1991, providing day by day coverage of World War II.

CLIFFORD BERRYMAN POLITICAL CARTOONS
310 original pen-and-ink illustrations dealing with World War II drawn by Pulitzer Prize winning political cartoonist Clifford K. Berryman.

COLD WAR BEGINNINGS CIA FILES
416 pages of selected CIA files covering the beginning of the Cold War from 1946 to 1950. Files comprised from pages of daily and weekly summaries and interpretations provided to President Truman.

COURTS MARTIAL CASES: REVIEW BOARD DOCUMENTS
24,257 pages of reviews of court martial cases from the European Theater of Operations, Mediterranean Theater of Operations, North African Theater of Operations, Pacific Ocean Areas, South West Pacific Area, China-Burma-India and the holdings and opinions of the Board of Review, Branch Office of The Judge Advocate General. Plus, additional material related to World War II courts martial.

D-DAY - NORMANDY INVASION - ARTWORK
186 paintings, drawings and sketches created by U.S. Navy combat artists before, during, and after the D-Day invasion,

D-DAY - NORMANDY INVASION - DOCUMENTS & PHOTOS
192 pages of documents and 158 photographs covering D-Day, Operation Overlord.

D-DAY- PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT AND WAR DEPARTMENT PLANNING AND OPERATIONAL DOCUMENTS
6,143 pages of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Roosevelt Administration’s War Department and Joint Chiefs of Staff files related to Operation Overlord, the invasion of Northwestern Europe entering through Northern France. The invasion is commonly known today as D-Day. The material also includes information about Operation Anvil. Anvil was the code name for the landing operation of the Allied invasion of Provence (Southern France) on 15 August 1944. The operation was initially planned to be executed in conjunction with Operation Overlord, the Allied landing in Normandy, but the lack of available resources led to a postponement of the second landing.

DACHAU - OFFICE OF STRATEGIC SERVICE, 7TH ARMY OSS SECTION REPORT
This 72-page report presents some of the facts and photographs of Dachau to emphasize the type of crimes the SS committed daily. A history, composition, the organization, and groupings of prisoners are given for the concentration camp. Another segment addresses the camp and town/townspeople. There is a diary, statements, special case reports, and some information is given at the time of the liberation.

DESTRUCTION OF THE GERMAN ATOMIC PROGRAM BRITISH INTELLIGENCE MI5, U.S. DEFENSE & CIA FILES AND HISTORIES
620 pages of documents and histories dealing with the German nuclear program and its destruction through Operation Gunnerside. Includes intelligence after Gunnerside to gauge the possibility of a residual German atomic program.

DOCUMENTS SUBMITTED BY JAPAN DURING SURRENDER
131 pages of Documents Submitted to The Supreme Commander for the Allied Forces by the Japanese Mission to Negotiate Surrender. Manila, 19 August 1945.

DUQUESNE NAZI GERMANY SPY RING FBI FILES
2,646 pages of FBI files covering the Duquesne Spy Ring. On January 2, 1942, 33 members of a Nazi spy ring headed by Frederick Joubert Duquesne were sentenced to serve a total of over 300 years in prison. William Sebold, who had been recruited as a spy for Germany, was a major factor in the FBI's successful resolution of this case through his work as a double agent for the United States.

EDDIE SLOVIK COURT MARTIAL & EXECUTION DOCUMENTS
1,102 pages of records from the War Department/Department of Defense Office of the Judge Advocate General, consisting of transcripts and other records of the court-martial (CM 290498) for desertion by and the execution of Private Edward Donald Slovik (1920-1945).

ESCAPE & EVAISON - AIRCREWMEN BEHIND ENEMY LINES
45,000 pages composed of 2950 Escape & Evasion reports.

EVA BRAUN DIARY WITH MILITARY INTELLIGENCE TRANSLATION
The diary of Eva Braun with entries from February 6, 1935 to May 28, 1935. Part of the collection of captured documents gathered by the War Department's Intelligence Division after World War II. Contains a photostat copy of the manuscript of a diary of Eva Braun, 22 diary pages, along with the Intelligence Division's English translation of the diary. This diary is an account of the relationship between Eva Braun and Adolf Hitler.

FDR, TRUMAN, CHURCHILL, STALIN CONFERENCES DOCUMENTS
3,550 pages of minutes of the World War II inter-Allied conferences and supporting documents, reports, and directives. Conferences involving, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, President Harry S. Truman, Prime Minister Winston S. Churchill, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, French leader Charles de Gaulle, French leader Henri Giraud, and Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek.

FRANZ HALDER CHIEF OF STAFF GERMAN DIARIES AND REPORTS OF INTERROGATIONS OF HALDER
1,592 pages of Halder dairies and reports on Halder and results of interrogation of Halder.

FUHRERGEBIET - GERMAN NATIONAL REDOUBT DECEPTION BRITISH GOVERNMENT FILES
149 pages of British Foreign Office files containing intelligence reports, which reveal the full extent of the Allies' belief in a Nazi National Redoubt in the Austrian Alps.

GENERAL BOARD EUROPEAN THEATHER FACTUAL REPORTS
8,131 pages of reports by the General Board, United States Forces, European Theater of Operations created at the very end of World War II. Report sections include: General Documents, G-1, G-2, G-3, G-4, G-5, Antiaircraft Artillery, Adjutant General, Armored, Air, Artillery, Chaplain, Chemical Warfare Service, Engineers, Finance, Information and Education, Inspector General, Judge Advocate, Medical, Ordnance, Provost Marshal, Quartermaster, Signal, Special Service, Transportation, Theater Service Forces, Publicity and Psychological Warfare

GENERAL DOUGLAS MACARTHUR MILITARY RECORDS, ACADEMIC STUDIES, FBI FILES, TRUMAN PAPERS AND HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS.
6,931 pages of Military Records, Academic Records, FBI Files, Truman Papers and Historical Documents related to Douglas MacArthur.

GENERAL GEORGE S. PATTON DIARIES 1910-1945: PANCHO VILLA EXPEDITION, WORLD WAR I & II
3,282 pages of George S. Patton Diaries dating from 1910, 1914, 1916-1919, 1932-1935 and 1942-1945. Handwritten diary entries and annotated typed transcriptions. The first entry was made on June 3, 1910, as the 25-year-old Patton begins his honeymoon in Plymouth, England. The last entry was made on December 4, 1945, four days before the car accident which took his life.

GENERAL GEORGE S. PATTON MILITARY PERSONNEL FILE
1,572-page Official Military Personnel File

GERMAN SS FOURTH REICH PLANS - BRITISH INTELLIGENCE FILES
168 pages of British intelligence files covering plans by the German intelligence agency, Sicherheitsdienst des Reichsführers-SS, also known as the SD, to install a "stay-behind" organization in Europe for use after the end of World War II combat, to work behind Allied controls to build a Fourth Reich.

GERMAN U-BOAT CAPTAINS' WAR DIARIES
4,962 pages of translations of U-Boat logs and diaries kept by the captains (leaders) of German U-boats for Norway/Arctic Ocean and Italy/Mediterranean, translated by the United States Office of Naval Intelligence.

GERMAN U-BOAT CAPTURED CREW INTERROGATION & INTELLIGENCE REPORTS (1941-1945)
4,905 pages of documents produced and collected by the Department of the Navy, Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, Intelligence Division. Files centered on interrogations of German U-Boat crew members and documents related to obtaining and coordinating intelligence from captured German U-boat crews.

GERMAN U-BOAT CAPTURED DOCUMENTS
375 pages of documents and their translations captured from German Unterseeboot 505 (U-505), copied from material held at the United States Navy Department Library.

HEINRICH HIMMLER'S FILES FROM HALLEIN
A 37-page November 8, 1945 report from the Office of Military Government for Germany (US), Office of the Director of Intelligence, consisting of extracts and excerpts of correspondence, speeches, orders, and miscellaneous items from Heinrich Himmler.

HITLER YOUTH - HITLER JUGEND U.S. & BRITISH INTELLIGENCE FILES AND HISTORICAL MATERIAL
700 pages of U.S. and British intelligence and military files, photographs, and related material dealing with the Hitler Youth (Hitler Jugend).

HOLOCAUST SHAEF (SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE) FILES
505 pages of documents covering allied forces directly encountering the structures, organization, and systems of mass murder employed during the Holocaust and its degree.

HORTEN HO 229 GERMAN "STEALTHY" FIGHTER/BOMBER INTEL FILES
468 pages of United States and British intelligence documents, and other material related to the development of aircraft designed by the brothers Reimar and Walter Horten, including the Horten HO 229

INFANTRY COMMANDING OFFICER EXPERIENCES REPORTS
4,905 pages of reports covering personal experiences of commanding officers during combat in World War II. The Infantry School at Fort Benning began collecting academic monographs from company commanders soon after the end of World War II, to record their personal combat experiences. Reports include lessons learned, analysis, and criticisms. Covers operations in all theaters of operations. Interviewees include company commanders, platoon leaders, squad leaders, captains, rifle platoon leaders, and mortar platoon leaders.

INTERROGATIONS OF HERMANN GOERING BY THE U.S. STRATEGIC AIR FORCES IN EUROPE
41-pages, two reports of interrogations of Reich Marshal Hermann Goering.

INTERROGATIONS OF MEMBERS OF HITLER'S INNER-CIRCLE
1,852 pages of English language documentation of interviews of 66 individuals who were interrogated as part of the U.S. investigation, led by Captain Michael Musmanno, to determine if Adolf Hitler died at the end of the war.

JACKIE ROBINSON "JIM CROW" COURT MARTIAL & MILITARY PERSONNEL RECORDS
371 pages of Jackie Robinson's military personnel file, including documents related to his court martial stemming from his refusing to move to the back of a bus.

JAPAN OCCUPATION BY THE U.S.  PLANS
1,467 pages of documents concerning plans before the occupation of Japan to take place after the end of hostiles, and reports on the occupation of Japan, including maps and charts.

JAPANESE GENERAL TOMOYUKI YAMASHITA WAR CRIME TRIAL DOCUMENTS
5,742 pages of documents covering the war crimes trial of General Tomoyuki Yamashita. Tomoyuki Yamashita (1885 – 1946) was a Japanese general of the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. Yamashita led Japanese forces during the invasion of Malaya and Battle of Singapore, conquering Malaya, and Singapore in 70 days. Yamashita was assigned to defend the Philippines from the advancing Allied forces later in the war, and while unable to stop the Allied advance, he was able to hold on to part of Luzon until after the formal Surrender of Japan in August 1945

JAPANESE NAVY HISTORY GRAPHICS
A 305-page report, Imperial Japanese Navy in A Graphic Presentation of the Japanese Naval Organization and List of Combatant and Non-Combatant Vessels Lost or Damaged in the War.

JAPANESE PROPAGANDA BROADCASTING WITHIN JAPAN AND JAPANESE CONTROLLED AREAS UNITED STATES MILITARY REPORTS
2,567 pages of reporting and analysis, published by the Propaganda Analysis Section of the United States Office of War Information, covering Japanese propaganda broadcasting within Japan and to Japanese Controlled Area. The reports date from May 1, 1944 to September 17, 1945.

JOINT INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE DAILY SUMMARY REPORTS
1,587 pages of the U.S. Joint Intelligence Committee Daily Summaries. The daily summaries date from December 28, 1941 to January 6, 1943. The Joint Intelligence Committee Daily Summary was discontinued on January 7, 1943.

JOSEF MENGELE "DR. MENGELE" CIA FILES
574 pages of CIA files on the infamous Auschwitz selector and experimenter Dr. Josef Mengele.

JOSEF MENGELE "DR. MEGELE" FBI - DOJ - SS FILES
647 pages of FBI/Department of Justice files relating to Josef Mengele, "Dr. Mengele." Material is composed of a 202-page 1992 Department of Justice report and 445 pages of copies of documents and exhibits used in the Department of Justice investigation. The report is the culmination of the DOJ investigation, commenced in 1985, into the whereabouts and postwar activities of this infamous Nazi criminal.

KAMIKAZE DOCUMENTS, BULLETINS, HISTORIES & FILMS
2,550 pages of textual material and 30 minutes of film covering the Japanese kamikaze corps.

KATYN MASSACRE U.S. MILITARY INTELLIGENCE REPORTS
1,817 pages of U.S. military reports and related material covering the Katyn Massacre.

KLAUS BARBIE CIA FILES
1,481 pages of CIA created and/or maintained documents concerning Klaus Barbie the Nazi war criminal, also known as the Butcher of Lyon

KLAUS BARBIE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, FBI, STATE DEPARTMENT, DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE FILES
955 pages of DOJ, FBI, Department of State, and CIC files covering Klaus Barbie.

LAST MONTHS OF THE PACIFIC WAR DAILY ENEMY INTELLIGENCE SUMMARIES
1,488 pages of Daily Summary of Enemy Intelligence, Estimates of the Enemy Situation and Periodic Summary of Enemy Trends.  Reports produced during the final months of the war in the Pacific. Reports produced by the General Headquarters, Southwest Pacific Area, Military Intelligence Section, General Staff. Reports dating from February 28, 1945 to May 15, 1945; May 31, 1945 to July 15, 1945 and July 31, 1945 to August 31, 1945.

MALMEDY MASSACRE - MURDER OF AMERICAN POWS INVESTIGATION & TRIAL DOCUMENTS
6,842 pages of documents related to The Malmedy Massacre, a war crime committed by members of Kampfgruppe Peiper (part of the 1st SS Panzer Division), a German combat unit led by Joachim Peiper, at Baugnez crossroads near Malmedy, Belgium, on December 17, 1944, during the Battle of the Bulge.

MALMEDY MASSACRE - MURDER OF AMERICAN POWS TRIAL FILMS
53 minutes of film of the Malmedy Massacre trial at Dachau. The Malmedy Massacre was a war crime committed by members of Kampfgruppe Peiper (part of the 1st SS Panzer Division), a German combat unit led by Joachim Peiper, at Baugnez crossroads near Malmedy, Belgium, on December 17, 1944, during the Battle of the Bulge.

MANHATTAN PROJECT: MANHATTAN DISTRICT OFFICIAL CONTEMPORARY HISTORY
The Department of Energy, Manhattan Engineer District official 79-volume, 14,238-page contemporary, written in the 1940’s, history of the Manhattan Project.

MANHATTAN PROJECT:  OFFICE OF SCIENTIFIC R&D ATOMIC BOMB BUSH-CONANT PAPERS
12,700 pages of the Vannevar Bush and James Conant Files relating to the development of the atomic bomb, copied from materials held at the National Archives and Records Administration.

MANHATTAN PROJECT: MANHATTAN PROJECT SPY FOR THE SOVIET UNION GEORGE KOVAL FBI FILES
1,892 pages of FBI files covering George Koval, the American born Soviet Spy code named "DELMAR" who infiltrated the Manhattan Project.

MANHATTAN PROJECT: PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE FIRST ATOMIC BOMBS BEING PREPARED ON TINIAN ISLAND
This series consists of 44 photographs documenting the preparation and loading of the first two atomic bombs, "Little Boy" and "Fat Man" at the base of the 509th Composite Group at Tinian Island in the Marianas. Included are views of the bomb loading pits, personnel writing messages on the bombs, and views of the B-29 "Enola Gay" landing at the base after dropping the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan.

MANHATTAN PROJECT:  WAR DEPARTMENT ATOMIC BOMB HARRISON-BUNDY FILES
9,038 pages of the Harrison-Bundy Files relating to the development of the atomic bomb, copied from material held at the National Archives.

MARINA LEE NAZI SPY - FALL OF NORWAY TO NAZI GERMANY BRITISH MI5 FILES
39 pages of British Intelligence MI5 files covering Marina Lee who was spying for Germany. The files date from 1941 to 1960.

MARINE CORPS AVIATION 1912-2001 OFFICIAL HISTORY VOLUMES
1,090 pages of official Marine Corps history covering Marine Corps aviation from 1912 to 2001, composed of 14 volumes.

MARINE CORPS PACIFIC OPERATIONS HISTORY
3,616 pages of history of U.S. Marine Corps Pacific operations in World War II, in five volumes produced by the U.S. Marine Corps, Historical Branch, G-3 Division. All photos, charts, maps, illustrations and diagrams produced for the volumes are reproduced. The volumes were completed by Marine Corps historians between 1965 and 1972.

MEDICAL EFFECTS OF THE ATOMIC BOMBINGS OF HIROSHIMA & NAGASAKI DOCUMENTS & FILMS
3,928 pages of reports and 3 hours and 40 minutes of film, covering the medical effects of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima & Nagasaki.

MILITARY FIELD MANUALS
World War II Military Field Manuals - 18,810 pages of World War II military field manuals.

NAVAL DAMAGE REPORTS
1,014 pages of reports and photographs of damage done to U.S. Navy vessel during World War II. Much of this material was classified until 1994. The War Damage Reports classification was cancelled by authority of OPNAVINST S5513.16 on 12 September 1994. During World War II, when a ship sustained battle damage or any other type of mishap occurred (e.g., collision, running aground, explosion, fire, heavy weather damage), a War Damage Report was required. At the first opportunity, a follow-up, detailed, preliminary shipboard inspection/damage assessment at sea of the affected space(s) was conducted for a required, descriptive War Damage Report.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE POSSIBILITY OF WAR - BERLIN WAR DIARY REPORTS
3,241 pages of selected naval attaché reports relating to the world crisis, 1937-1943, from six major European capitals and Tokyo, relating to diplomatic, political, and military conditions.

NAVY TRAINING BULLETINS - THE TRADIV LETTER
1,797 pages of U.S. Navy training bulletins, December 1942 to December 1945. First called the Tradiv Letter, it was produced by the training division Bureau of Naval Personnel with the stated purpose of proving information and aids or better training. It was later renamed the Bureau of Naval Personnel Bulletin.

NUREMBERG TRIALS: INDICTMENTS, TRIAL TRANSCRIPTS, DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCE

62,033 pages of documents concerning the Nuremberg Trials of perpetrators of the Holocaust and other war crimes.

NUREMBERG TRIALS: KATHERINE FITE, THE ONLY SENIOR FEMALE LAWYER AT NUREMBURG, PAPERS & CORRESPONDENCES
This collection contains a total of 379 pages. Katherine Boardman Fite (later Katherine Fite Lincoln) was an assistant to Justice Robert H. Jackson, the Chief United States Prosecutor of the Office of the United States Chief of Counsel for the Prosecution of Axis Criminality, at the Nuremberg trials.

OFFICIAL ARMY HISTORY 177 VOLUMES - 61,596 PAGES
61,596 pages, in 177 volumes of official histories of World War II created by the Historical Division of the United States Army

OFFICIAL ARMY HISTORY VOLUMES EUROPEAN, MEDITERRANEAN, MIDDLE EAST, AND AFRICAN THEATERS
9,560 pages of official World War II Army history including 254 maps, 1,143 photographs, and 33 charts in 15 volumes written by Army historians covering the United States Army in the European, Mediterranean, Middle East, and African Theaters of operation during World War II.

OFFICIAL ARMY HISTORY VOLUMES  JAPAN/ASIA-PACIFIC/CBI
7,420 pages of official World War II Army history including 384 maps, 966 photographs, and 154 charts and tables, in 14 volumes written by Army historians covering the United States Army in the Asiatic-Pacific theaters of operation, during World War II.

OPERATION EPSILON CAPTURE OF GERMAN NUCLEAR SCIENTISTS
225 pages of British War Office intelligence files, reports and transcripts, covering the detention and monitoring of German nuclear scientists, captured and detained at the end of the war with Germany

OPERATION FOXLEY BRITISH PLANNING TO ASSASSINATE HITLER
122-page British SOE (Special Operations Executive) report on Operation Foxley, The British plan for the assassination of Adolf Hitler.

OPERATIONAL DOCUMENTS
3,492 pages of World War II operational documents. These documents focus on World War II operations at the tactical and operational levels of warfare. Documents produced by field units composed of operation orders, after action reports, intelligence analyses, logistics appraisals, and similar analytics.

OSS (OFFICE OF STRATEGIC SERVICES) NUMBERED INTELLIGENCE BULLETINS
1,297 pages of Office of Strategic Services, OSS, intelligence bulletins dating from March 1943 to April 1945.

OSS (OFFICE OF STRATEGIC SERVICES) REPORT - OPIUM: A JAPANESE TECHNIQUE OF OCCUPATION
A 26-page 1945 Office of Strategic Services (OSS) Report.

OSS (OFFICE OF STRATEGIC STUDIES) REPORT ON PRE-THIRD REICH (1918-1933) NATIONALIST AND RACIAL GROUPS
A 36-page brief account of nationalist and racial groups which developed in Germany after the first World War; the relation of these groups to the development of Nazi ideology and practice; the methods by which the Nazi Party coordinated and dominated these groups.

OSS (OFFICE OF STRATEGIC SERVICES) REPORTS - DONOVAN REPORTS
6,692 pages of OSS intelligence in the form of memoranda and reports created by the Office of Strategic Services, OSS, and sent by Major General William Donovan to President Roosevelt.

OSS (OFFICE OF STRATEGIC SERVICES) WHO'S WHO IN NAZI GERMANY
The 158-page fourth edition of the OSS' confidential "Who's Who in Nazi Germany," published in 1944, and declassified by the CIA in 2007.

PEARL HARBOR ATTACK ARMY SECURITY AGENCY FILES - NSA PEARL HARBOR STUDY
672 pages of documents and reports from the Army Security Agency and other military intelligence agencies’ files used by William Friedman in preparation in his 1957 report on the Pearl Harbor Attack. Some material in this collection was not declassified until 2015.

PEARL HARBOR ATTACK CINCPAC REPORT & COMMANDING OFFICERS' NARRATIVES
850 pages, February 1942 Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Pacific Command (CINCPAC) report and commanding officers' narratives covering the Japanese raid on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941.

PEARL HARBOR ATTACK CONGRESSIONAL HEARINGS
22,555 pages of hearings, exhibits and the final report of the Congressional Joint Committee on the Investigation of the Pearl Harbor Attack.

PEARL HARBOR ATTACK DAMAGE REPORTS & PHOTOS
165 pages of reports and photographs of damage done during the December 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor. Much of this material was classified until 1994. The War Damage Reports classification was cancelled by authority of OPNAVINST S5513.16 on 12 September 1994.

PEARL HARBOR ATTACK MAGIC JAPANESE COMMUNICATIONS INTERCEPTS
The 3,110-page, 8 volume Department of Defense study, "The MAGIC Background of Pearl Harbor.

PEARL HARBOR ATTACK NSA HISTORY OF PEARL HARBOR INTELLIGENCE
664 pages of NSA monographs related to the Pearl Harbor attack

PEARL HARBOR ATTACK PHOTOGRAPHY
165 pages of reports and photographs of damage done during the December 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor.

PEARL HARBOR ATTACK RADIO NEWS AND "MAN ON THE STREET" INTERVIEWS
Twenty-two minutes of Pearl Harbor attack news and Five hours on "Man on the Street" interviews

PEARL ATTACK PEARL HARBOR SPY BERNARD KUEHN FBI FILES
777 pages of FBI Files covering the convicted Pearl Harbor spy Bernard Julius Otto Kuehn.

PEARL HARBOR ATTACK WHITE HOUSE WAR ROOM MILITARY FILES
2,455 pages of military files sent to and maintained in the White House war room, related to the December 7, 1941 Pearl Harbor attack, copied from materials held by the National Archives and Records Administration.

POLAND UNDER GERMAN RULE REPORTS
A collection of 1,110 pages of reporting on German occupation of Poland.

PORT CHICAGO DISASTER/PORT CHICAGO MUTINY DOCUMENTS COURT MARTIAL FILES & FILMS
2,653 pages of documents and 40 minutes of films covering the Port Chicago Explosion and the Court Martial of the Port Chicago 50.

PRESIDENT FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT ADMINISTRATION FOREIGN RELATIONS AND DIPLOMATIC PAPERS (1931-1945)
147,876 pages of transcription of documentary records of President Franklin D. Roosevelt Administration's foreign policy decisions and diplomatic activity. Documents included date from 1931 to 1945, from before FDR took office until the time of his death in April 1945.

PRESIDENT FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT AND THE ATOMIC BOMB
347 pages of Letters, reports, official memorandum, clippings, and publication excerpts, dating between 1939 and 1945. Documents reference matters related to the development and use of the atomic bomb during World War II, including correspondence and writings about the Manhattan Project, general nuclear research, and the potential for enriching uranium.

PRESIDENT FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT "LOST FILES" AND FDR SECRETARY PAPERS
7,455 pages of President Franklin D. Roosevelt papers unavailable to the public until 2011 and the papers of FDR secretaries Grace Tully and Marguerite A. LeHand.

PRESIDENT FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT & THE HOLOCAUST DOCUMENTS
2,840 pages of documents related to President Roosevelt and his Administration’s response to the Holocaust.

PRESIDENT FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT PRESIDENTIAL PAPERS
35,923 pages of Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Papers.

Sections include:

FDR - IMPORTANT DOCUMENTS COLLECTION
DOMESTIC AND POLITICAL SUBJECTS
SOCIAL SECURITY ACT KEY DOCUMENTS
LAST PRESS CONFERENCES
FDR SPEECHES
MORGENTHAU PRESIDENTIAL DIARIES
GERMAN DIPLOMATIC FILES
FDR - CHURCHILL CORRESPONDENCES
PEARL HARBOR FDR PAPERS
FDR - STALIN CORRESPONDENCES
SAFE FILESVATICAN DIPLOMATIC FILES

PRESIDENT HARRY S. TRUMAN PRESIDENTIAL PAPERS - ATOMIC BOMB DECISION
578 pages of files dating from 1945 to 1953. Documents include coverage of the Groves Project AKA the Manhattan Project, minutes of the meeting held at the White House on Monday, 18 June 1945, evaluation of situation regarding the War in the Pacific against the Japanese, strategic bombing survey, study of war-time use of the atomic bomb by the Interim Committee chaired by Robert Oppenheimer, Truman diary entries, and Truman's reaction to the historical response to his decision to drop the bomb.

PRISONER OF WAR CAMPS IN AREAS OTHER THAN THE FOUR PRINCIPAL ISLANDS OF JAPAN.
An 84-page report - Abstract: Contains fifteen reports on Japanese prisoner of war camps in areas other than the four islands of Japan proper as compiled from the written statements of Americans who were interned in them. Discusses camps in China, Manchuria, Korea, Malay States, Thailand, Burma, and French Indochina.

SCOTLAND YARD WAR DIARY 1939 TO 1945
2,753 pages of handwritten recording of basic war related events within the London Metropolitan Police District (Scotland Yard is a metonym for the headquarters of the Metropolitan Police).

SOVIET RED ARMY INFANTRY TACTICAL MANUAL OF THE RED ARMY (1942) (TRANSLATION) A 256-page translation of the Soviet Red Army Infantry Tactical Manual of the Red Army (1942)

SS WARSAW POLICE CHIEF REPORT ON WARSAW GHETTO UPRISING & DESTRUCTION OF THE GHETTO
A copy of the original 123-page report often called the "Stroop Report" and a 102-page English translation by the United States’ Office of the U.S. Chief of Counsel for the Prosecution of Axis Criminality, of the 16 May 1943 report by Jürgen Stroop, SS Police Leader, Warsaw, titled, ""Es gibt keinen judischen Wohnbezirk in Warschau mehr!" ("THERE IS NO JEWISH GHETTO IN ANYMORE.")  The report includes daily operational reports on the suppression of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising and photographs, it has become one of the most prominent documents of the Holocaust.

SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED EXPITIONARY FORCE COMMUNIQUES
600 pages of communiqués by the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force lead by General Dwight D. Eisenhower. Communiqués from D-Day June 6, 1944, to the Germany's surrender, May 8, 1945, copied from material held at the Modern Military Records Division of the National Archives and Records Administration.

TECHNICAL MANUALS
10,440 pages of World War II technical manuals. The 57 technical manuals date from 1941 to 1945. Some of the material was not officially declassified until February of 2005.

THIRD ARMY AFTER ACTION REPORTS
8,227 pages of U.S. Army Third Army after action reports covering activity from July 1944 to May 1945. The Third United States Army was first activated as a formation during the First World War on November 7, 1918, at Chaumont, France, when the General Headquarters of the American Expeditionary Forces issued General Order 198 organizing the Third Army and announcing its headquarters staff.

TOKYO ROSE FBI FILES
280 pages of files copied from FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C. covering the Bureaus' 1948 espionage investigation of Iva Ikuko Toguri D'Aquino, AKA "Tokyo Rose". She was accused of being the Japanese American woman World War II radio personality whose program the "Zero Hour" broadcast Japanese propaganda over Radio Tokyo to Allied troops in the South Pacific.

TOKYO ROSE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT FILES
700 pages of administrative files, dating from June 1946 to February 1967, covering the Tokyo Rose Case, United States v. Iva Toguri D'Aquino.

UNITED NATIONS WAR CRIMES COMMISSION LAW REPORTS OF TRIALS OF WAR CRIMINALS
2,201 pages, in 15 volumes, covering of 89 World War II era war crime cases.

UNITED STATES ARMY EUROPEAN COMMAND POST-WAR OCCUPATION OF EUROPE REPORTS (1945-1966)
12,247 pages, composed of 54 studies, monographs, and narratives of the history of the occupation of Europe and post-occupation deployment in Europe, produced by the United States War Department Office of the Chief of Military History covering and composed during 1945 to 1966. When created the volumes were classified as SECRET.

UNITED STATES ARMY NEWSMAPS (1942-1946)
419 images of World War II Newsmaps, the front and if there is an image, the obverse of each map.

UNITED STATES ARMY PICTORIALS AND NATIONAL ARCHIVES PHOTOGRAPHIC HOLDINGS
1,736 World War II photographs combined by United States Army historians of the Office of the Chief of Military History of the United States Army, into three pictorial volumes and a collection of selected highlights from the holdings of the National Archives & Records Administration.

UNITED STATES INVASION OF JAPAN OPERATION OLYMPIC, X-DAY INVASION OF JAPAN & A-BOMB DECISION DOCUMENTS
1,589 pages of documents and historical studies concerning Operation Olympic, the planned invasion of Japan and the decision to use the atomic bomb against Japan.

UNITED STATES - JAPAN FOREIGN RELATIONS 1931- 1941 DOCUMENT TRANSCRIPTS
3,010 pages of transcriptions of diplomatic papers comprised of three volumes of the Department of State's Foreign Relations of the United States series.

UNITED STATES NAVY NORTHERN GROUP MONTHLY WAR DIARIES/JOURNALS
4,632 pages of monthly war diaries dating from March 1942 to August 1945.

USE OF POISONS BY THE GERMAN SABOTAGE SERVICE BRITISH MI5 FILES
51 pages of British MI5 files dating from November 22, 1944 to August 26, 1945, covering the use of poisons by the German Sabotage Service. Interrogation of captured German sabotage agents produced reports which showed that as part of their training they had been lectured to by the SD about the use of poisons for various purposes, which included suicide, assassination, poisoning wells and contaminating food.

WAR DEPARTMENT INTELLIGENCE SERVICES TACTICAL AND TECHINICAL TRENDS
2,032 pages of Tactical and Technical Trends bulletins produced during World War II by the War Department's Military Intelligence Service

WINSTON CHURCHILL CORRESPONDENCES/FBI FILES
 220 pages of files copied from FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C., covering Winston Churchill. Files. 700 pages of correspondences between Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt.

WORLD WAR I & II AMERICAN POSTERS
 3,900 American World War I & II posters archived, World War I (200) and World War II (3,700).

WORLD WAR I & II CANADIAN POSTERS
629 Canadian war posters, in English and French, created during the First World War and the Second World War.

WORLD WAR II MARINE CORPS HISTORY PUBLICATIONS
1,370 pages of World War II Marine Corps official history composed in 29 volumes published by the United States Marine Corps' History and Museums Division, created from 1969 to 1999.

WORLD WAR II MILITARY REVIEW
10,850 pages, 89 issues of the journal Military Review dating from March 1938 to December 1948, published by The Command and General Staff School at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.