and real estate planning reports, reports of visits, regional airfield correspondence, and reports of the USAF Installations Representative Office, 1948-55. Records of the Director of Manpower and Organization, 1941-55 (199 lin. ft.), consist of general decimal correspondence, 1948-53; "Air Force base" files, 1948-49; incoming and outgoing messages, 1952; a historical file, 1951-53; tables of organization and equipment, 1941-53, and distribution, 1941-53; troop program records, 1943-48; vouchers and supporting documents, 1950-54; Air Force Organization military order letters, 1953; personnel allotment vouchers, 1948-53; and strength reports, September 1944-July 1955. RECORDS OF THE OFFICE OF Included are general correspondence, 1939-52; records relating to policies and procedures of the Air Force atomic ener gy materiel program, 1951-53, and the mutual security program, 1950-56; records relating to design, development, and testing of ordnance materiel, 194151; logistics planning records, including Project Redhead, with index, July 1952January 1953; case files and correspondence relating to mortuary and grave registration activities during the Korean conflict, 1946-56; traffic management and transportation service records, 1947-54; and correspondence relating to aircraft development, production, and industrial planning, 1941-54. CARTOGRAPHIC RECORDS. 194763. 4,458 items. These include published aeronautical charts and special maps issued by the Aeronautical Chart and Information Center, showing political boundaries, time zones, climate, vegetation, population density, economic activities, transportation routes, and radar and navigational information; and photographs and charts of the moon. RECORDS OF UNITED STATES AIR FORCE COMMANDS, ACTIVITIES, AND ORGANIZATIONS (RECORD GROUP 342) The U.S. Air Force (USAF) was established in 1947 as the successor of the Army Air Forces (AAF), which had developed from a series of military air services dating back to 1907. This record group consists of the records of the field organization of the USAF and its predecessors. The USAF field organization is currently composed of 15 major commands and additional separate operating agencies. The commands are organized on a functional basis in the United States and on an area basis overseas. Each is responsible for certain phases of the worldwide activities of the USAF and for organizing, administering, equipping, and training its subordinate elements. The following are examples of current USAF commands, activities, and organizations that illustrate the general pattern of past years: the Aerospace Defense Command, a major command whose primary mission is the aerospace defense of the United States; the Air Training Command, which performs most of the training missions of the USAF; the Air University, which is primarily concerned with the higher education of Air Force officers; the Headquarters Command, which provides administrative and logistic support for Headquarters, USAF, and other units in the Washington, D.C., area; the Strategic Air Command and the Tactical Air Command, which prepare for and conduct strategic operations and tactical operations, respectively; the Overseas Command, which is composed of the U.S. Air Forces in Europe, Pacific Air Forces, Alaskan Air Command, and the U.S. Air Forces Southern Command; and the separate operating agencies, which are the Air Force Accounting and Finance Center, the Aeronautical Chart and Information Center, the Office of Aerospace Research, the Air Force Academy, the Air Force Data Systems Design Center, the Air Reserve Personnel Center, and the Air Force Reserve. There are 1,276 cubic feet of records dated between 1900 and 1964 in this record group. RECORDS. 1934-55. 1 lin. ft. and 4,759 rolls of microfilm. Microfilm (in WNRC) of the Historical Collection of the Historical Division, Air University, Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala., 1935-52, consisting of histories of some units of the USAF and its predecessors, the AAF and the Air Corps, in the Zone of Interior and overseas. The histories are accompanied by mission movement directives; general and orders; and operational plans, tables, charts, and photographs. Also on microfilm are monographs, studies, and reports. Original records and other materials dating from 1907 to the present are in the custody of the Historical Division of the Air University. In the Center for Polar Archives are selected official records and personal papers from the Arctic, Desert, and Tropic Information Center at the Air University, concerning polar explorations and related activities, 1934, 194345, and 1953-55. AUDIOVISUAL RECORDS. 19001964. 4,384 items. Motion pictures, 1900-1964 (4,370 reels), made or collected by the USAF, ing to the history of the develop ment of flight, including activities of the Wright brothers beginning in 1900, such as demonstration flights in France, Italy, and the United States; to the development of airplanes, gliders, balloons, dirigibles, autogiros, helicopters, rockets, jets, satellites, aeronautical oddities, parachutes from 1495 to modern times, ballistic cameras, and radar; to early air races, air shows, distance and altitude records, the flight by Richard E. Byrd and Floyd Bennett to the North Pole, 1926, the Hindenburg crash, 1937, and Finn Ronne's antarctic expedition, 194648; to the dedication of the New York International Airport, 1948; and to people in the history of aviation, including Wilbur and Orville Wright, Edward V. Rickenbacker, William Mitchell, Charles A. Lindbergh, Richard E. Byrd, Floyd Bennett, Igor Sikorsky, and Wiley Post. Included are films concerning noncombat activities of the USAF and its predecessors, 1920's-64, including the airmail service; rescue and assistance missions in natural disaster areas at home and abroad; hurricane hunting; the Berlin airlift; training and maneuvers; airbase construction; the opening of the Air Force Academy, 1955; participation in the preparations for and activities of the International Geophysical Year, 195359; atomic bomb tests in the Pacific and elsewhere; and research and development work in the fields of guided missiles, remote control weapons, supersonic flight, and space technology. World War I films illustrate the activities of the Army Air Service in France. There are World War II films concerning AAF activities abroad and at home; women in the AAF; Axis concentration and prisoner-of-war camps and atrocities; Allied bombing missions over Europe and Africa and in the Pacific theater; the defense of Britain and Moscow; the effects of bombing raids on Japan, including the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki; the surrender of Germany and Japan; and the customs, religion, and industry of Japan, the black market, and the Allied occupation. There are films on the Korean conflict and the truce-signing ceremonies and a few of Vietnam combat. Included are films of inaugurations of Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman; of the Presidency of John F. Kennedy, his inaugural, many of his activities, and worldwide memorial services for and tributes to him; of the funeral of Gen. John J. Pershing, 1948; and of the 1952 Olympic games. There are also captured German films depicting the war in Poland and covering research and development of planes, gliders, helicopters, jets, rockets, and ballistic missiles, 1912-44; captured Japanese films relating to preparations for the Pearl Harbor attack and World War II combat; and a Russian film of the 1949 May Day celebration. Many military and civilian leaders appear in these films, including Theodore Roosevelt, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Fiorello La Guardia, Winston Churchill, Richard M. Nixon, Chiang Kai-shek, Syngman Rhee, Paul von Hindenburg, Josef Stalin, and V. M. Molotov. Sound recordings, 1961 (14 items), of two radio broadcast series on aerospace technology. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE GENERAL RECORDS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE (RECORD GROUP 60) The Department of Justice was established by an act of June 22, 1870, which continued and expanded the legal and administrative duties of the Attorney General, provided for by an act of September 24, 1789, to conduct suits in the Supreme Court, give opinions on questions of law at the request of the President or heads of Departments, and make recommendations to the President on appointments and pardons. The new Department, with the Attorney General at its head, was given general supervision of U.S. attorneys and marshals, and to it were transferred the Solicitor of the Treasury, law officers of the State and Navy Departments and Bureau of Internal Revenue, and, from the Interior Department, supervision of the accounts of U.S. attorneys and marshals and other officers of the courts and the control of the judiciary fund from which court expenses and the safekeeping of prisoners were paid. The duties of the Department include providing means for the enforcement of Federal laws, representing the Government in any court, supervising Federal penal institutions, detecting violations of Federal laws except those assigned to other agencies, and administering immigration and naturalization laws and registration of aliens. See Annual Reports of the Attorneys General, 1870-; Registers of the Department of Justice and the Federal Courts, 1871-; Homer Cummings and Carl McFarland, Federal Justice (New York, 1937); Albert Langeluttig, The Department of Justice of the United States (Baltimore, 1927); and James S. Easby-Smith, Department of Justice, Its History and Functions (1904). There are 18,107 cubic feet of records dated between 1790 and 1970 in this cord group. ATTORNEY GENERAL'S RECORDS. 1790-1870. 96 lin. ft. These records, few of which antedate 1818, consist chiefly of incoming correspondence but include some drafts of outgoing letters and opinions of the Attorney General; records relating to requests for opinions of the Attorney General; records of cases appealed from lower courts; notes and briefs of arguments before the Supreme Court and other courts; drafts of legislation; records relating to land titles (including transcripts of proceedings before a commission for settling private claims in California, 1851-56), pardons, claims, and appointments to office; office accounts and payrolls; and some personal papers of Attorneys General. The records relate, among other matters, to the powers and duties of Government officers; establishment of the Department; treaty interpretations; courts, including courtsmartial; claims against the United States; territorial government; banks, including Banks of the United States; neutrality laws, including violations during the Napoleonic wars, Latin American struggles for independence, the Crimean War, and the Fenian disturbances; nonintercourse legislation of the Jefferson-Madison period; the War of 1812; public land problems, including validity of prior titles to land in Louisiana, Florida, and California; pardons; customs-law violations; piracy; slavery and the slave trade; and the Civil War and Reconstruction. OPINIONS ON QUESTIONS OF Copies of official opinions on questions of law rendered to the President, Department heads, and chairmen of congressional committees. No existing collection of opinions is complete. See Justice Department, Official Opinions of the Attorneys General (1852- ). OPINIONS ON TITLE QUESTIONS. 1841-43 and 1853-1904. 3 lin. ft. Copies of opinions rendered in compliance with a joint congressional resolution directing the Attorney General to give his opinion as to the validity of title to land or sites purchased or proposed for purchase by the United States. Title opinions after 1904 are in the Department's central files. LETTERS SENT. 1818-1918. Letters sent were generally preserved in bound form until 1904. Since then copies of letters sent have been filed with the related correspondence in subject or case files, but letters sent were recorded in press copy books until 1912. The practice that prevailed from 1867 to 1904 of segregating letters to different classes of persons in different series of letter books resulted in the distribution of letters on the same subject among several series. The letters sent books are grouped as follows. General and Miscellaneous Letters. 1818-1912. 87 lin. ft. Included are letters to the President, Members and officers of Congress, Department heads, judges, district attorneys, marshals, and clerks of courts. Letter books contain all the Attorney General's outgoing correspondence other than opinions, 181867, letters sent to the Solicitor of the Treasury, 1830-42, and those for which there are drafts or copies among the Attorney General's records, chiefly for the period between October 1, 1850, and May 25, 1857, when letters sent were not contained in letter books. The special series of letter books initiated between 1867 and 1874 narrowed the coverage of the parent series to letters to miscellaneous persons. The letter books were discontinued in 1904, except that a particular series of letters, 1871-1904, was succeeded by a general series of letterpress books in which outgoing letters of the Department of Justice were copied, 1904-12. Letters Concerning Judiciary Expenses. 1849-84. 5 lin. ft. Included are letters sent by the Departments of the Interior, 1849-70, and Justice, 1870-84, concerning administration of the judiciary fund and supervision of accounts of U.S. attorneys, marshals, clerks, and other officers of U.S. courts. The Interior series includes replies to all letters relating to this function, but the Department of Justice series is limited almost entirely to letters sent to officers whose accounts were involved. These letters show the effort of the central authorities to require exact accounting from field officers in such matters as the care and conveyance of prisoners, employment of deputy U.S. marshals, payment of witness fees, and the rental and equipment of buildings for U.S. courts, attorneys, and marshals. They relate to such matters as the enforcement of the laws prohibiting the slave trade, the return of blacks to Africa, and the suppression of counterfeiting. After 1884 such letters were included with instructions to district attorneys and marshals, letters to judges and clerks, and in Accounts Division letter books. Instructions to U.S. Attorneys and Marshals. 1867-1904. 72 lin. ft. These are letters regarding general policy and action to be taken in particular cases; they may authorize expenditures or the leasing of quarters. Many of the letters to marshals concern prisoners. Between 1861, when the power to direct district attorneys and marshals was conferred upon the Attorney General, and 1867, when instructions were segregated in a separate series, similar letters are recorded in the general letter book series. Letters to Executive Officers and Members of Congress. 1871-190 |