time military procurement, mobilization of material, and industrial organization. The college suspended operations December 24, 1941, to permit faculty and students to enter war mobilization and combat duty, and opened December 28, 1943, with special courses in cost and price analysis, property disposal, contract termination, and other war readjustment problems. On April 11, 1946, it was renamed the Industrial College of the Armed Forces, and in September it resumed its regular courses. Simultaneously, the college was raised to the highest level in the military educational system and was placed under joint Army-Navy control. The records consist of correspondence, 1924-55, "contract board" records, 1925-41, course problem directives, 1935-41, and recordings (11 items) of addresses made on Defense Test Day, September 12, 1924. Records consist of correspondence, messages, publications, organization tables, activity reports, mobilization planning and training files, historical files, and budget and fiscal records. RECORDS OF THE UNITED The U.S. Military Mission to Moscow was established October 1, 1943, to promote coordination of U.S. and U.S.S.R. military efforts. The Mission was closed October 31, 1945. The records include reports and messages, 1943-45, correspondence, memorandums, and records of the shuttle-bombing of Axis-controlled Europe (Operation Frantic), October 26, 1943-June 24, 1945. RECORDS OF THE NATIONAL After World War II the Joint Chiefs of Staff proposed establishment of an institution for closer integration of military and diplomatic policies on the national level. On February 1, 1946, after the Secretary of State agreed to State Department participation, the National War College was created. The records consist of correspondence, 194350, budget estimates, 1947-54, and published material, 1942-47, with indexes relating to strategic politico-military planning, operations, and intelligence (in WNRC). RECORDS OF THE OFFICE OF STRATEGIC SERVICES The Office of Strategic Services (OSS) was established under the Joint Chiefs of Staff on June 13, 1942, as successor to the Office of Coordinator of Information. An executive order of the same date transferred certain foreign propaganda activities of the Coordinator of Information, with related records, to the Office of War Information (see RG 208). The duties of the Office of Strategic Services were to collect and analyze information required by the Joint Chiefs of Staff and to plan and operate special services at their direction. The Office was terminated October 1, 1945, by an Executive order, and some remaining functions and its records were divided between the Department of State and the War Department. There are 935 cubic feet of records dated between 1919 and 1946 in this record group. RECORDS OF THE RESEARCH AND ANALYSIS BRANCH. 1941-46. 1,593 lin. ft. Included are minutes of the Board of Analysts, 1941-43; minutes and reports of the Projects Committee, 1942-46; records of the Office of the Branch Chief, consisting of orders, bulletins, and other issuances, 1942-45; general correspondence, 1942-46; cablegrams received and sent, 1941-46; studies and reports concerning political, sociological, and economic conditions in various countries, 1941-46; and biographic sketches and photographs of prominent Italians from the Italian newspaper Popolo d'Italia, 1929-43. There are also two typed manuscripts prepared by Consultant Walter C. Langer-"A Hitler Source Book," containing excerpts from published articles and books about Adolf Hitler, and "A Psychological Analysis of Adolph Hitler: His Life and Legend," both undated; and interoffice memorandums relating to OSS studies of Hitler, 194243. Records of divisions within the Branch include Central Information Division intelligence reports relating to enemy logistics, 1942-45, with name and subject indexes and descriptive lists, 1941-45; Economics Division reports and correspondence relating to manpower, military supplies, industrial resources, and economic and industrial conditions in Germany and the other Axis powers, 1941-45; Europe-Africa Division correspondence, 1941-45, "Civil Guides" and correspondence on conditions and institutions in Germany and Affairs German-occupied countries, and other records relating to outposts (Algiers, the Balkans, Cairo, France, Germany, Italy, and London), 1941-45; Far East Division correspondence with OSS outposts, 1942-46, and reports relating to China and Formosa, 1941-46; and reports by the Latin American Division, 1944-45. Also records of the Interdepartmental Committee for the Acquisition of Foreign Publications, including correspondence of the New Delhi outpost, 194445; intelligence reports relating to conditions in Southeast Asia, 1944-45; general records of the Stockholm outpost, 194245; and Swedish language newspaper clippings and related material, 1943-45. Field office records include correspondence of the European Theater of Operations, 1944-45, the Mediterranean Theater of Operations, 1943-45, and the China Theater of Operations, 1944-45. RECORDS OF OTHER BRANCHES. 1941-45. 14 lin. ft. Case files relating to maps, motion pictures, and other graphics prepared by the Visual Presentation Branch, 194245; and a small amount of correspondence of the Foreign Nationalities Branch with "hyphenated nationality groups," 1941-45. CARTOGRAPHIC AND AUDIOVISUAL RECORDS. 1919-45. 1,953 items. Included are maps, 1941-45 (1,701 items-most of them security classified), prepared or acquired in the Office of the Coordinator of Information and the Division of Map Intelligence and Cartography of the Research and Analysis Branch by or for Dr. J. A. Morrison. Still pictures, 1919-40 (228 items), include photographs of industrial development in China, Japan, and the Philippine Islands before World War II. Motion pictures, 1942-45 (24 reels), relate to the people and industry of Pearl Harbor before World War II; the Japanese attack on December 7, 1941; Japanese geography, natural resources, and social structure and behavior patterns; and the Allied landing in Sicily, 1943. RECORDS OF THE UNITED STATES STRATEGIC BOMBING SURVEY The U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey See USSBS, Index to Records of the United States Strategic Bombing Survey (1947), which contains detailed lists of the contents of nearly all record series of the European and Pacific Survey spondence, and correspondence relating to distribution of USSBS reports. RECORDS OF THE EUROPEAN AND PACIFIC SURVEYS. 1937-47. 466 lin. ft. and 411 rolls of microfilm. These comprise reports, drafts of reports, drawings, and photographs relating to the effects of Allied air attacks on Germany and Japan and areas they occupied, 1937-47, arranged according to a numerical list in the USSBS Inder; records of the Intelligence Branch Library, comprising Survey intelligence bulletins, memorandums, and studies, 1939-45, with card indexes, and the microfilm collection (411 rolls) of the library; reports relating to bombing targets; and damage assessment reports, 1942-45. AUDIOVISUAL RECORDS. 1944-45. 12,873 items. Included are photographs, 1945 (12,500 items), of bombing effects in Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, and Japan, and of atomic bomb effects on Hiroshima and Nagasaki; captured German films, ca. 1944 (7 reels), relating to American incendiary bombs and bombing methods and German war industry; and sound recordings, 1945 (366 items), of interviews with Japanese civilians concerning American bombing effects on several cities, including an eyewitness of the bombing of Hiroshima. Department of the Army Headquarters and Staff RECORDS OF THE OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR (RECORD GROUP 107) The act of August 7, 1789, that created the Department of War entrusted to the Secretary of War the responsibility for recruiting, provisioning, and regulating U.S. military and naval forces; administering pensions and bounty lands granted for military service; and overseeing Indian affairs. Naval matters were removed from the Secretary's jurisdiction when the Department of the Navy was established April 30, 1798. Administration of Indian affairs, pensions, and bounty lands were assigned to various bureaus and staff departments, and finally were transferred in 1849 to the Department of the Interior. Additional bureaus were established in the War Department to assume other functions of the Secretary's Office, which by the middle of the 19th century was almost exclusively concerned with matters of policy and general administration. By the outbreak of World War II the Secretary had responsibility for supervision of all activities of the War Department, including finances, equipment, training, and operations; protection of seacoast harbors and cities; execution of the National Defense Act of 1920; policy control of the U.S. Military Academy; and certain civil functions, among which were administration of the Panama Canal and civil works projects of the Corps of Engineers, supervision of land controlled by the Department, and handling the Army's interest in the Civilian Conservation Corps before it was disbanded in 1943. On February 28, 1942, an Executive order reorganized the administration of the Department and many operational and transferred administrative duties to Army commands for wartime control. The Secretary's wartime duties included determining policy for the military establishment as a whole, supervising materiel procurement, and serving on major departmental boards. Under the National Security Act of 1947, the War Department. became the Department of the Army within the National Military Establishment (after 1949, the Department of Defense) and lost jurisdiction over aviation matters to the newly created Department of the Air Force. The records reflect the changing scope of the Office of the Secretary. Files of the earlier period contain most of the correspondence for the entire War Department, although most of the records dated before 1800 were destroyed by a fire in the War Department. After 1890 much of the correspondence of the Secretary remained with records of the bureaus to which it had been referred. Shortly after the establishment of central files for the War Department in the Adjutant General's Office, correspondence files of the Office of the Secretary of War were suspended, and from March 1921 to February 1942 almost all correspondence of the Office was interfiled with records of the Department in the Adjutant General's Office (see RG 407). Records relating to Indian affairs before 1849 are among records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs (see RG 75), and records relating to military pension and land bounty matters under the Secretary of War's jurisdiction are among records of the Veterans Administration (see RG 15). Records dated after 1947 are among records of |