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ACADEMIC FILE 1943-1945

Scope and Contents note

Assignments, correspondence, dispatches, drills, examinations, exercises, homework, invoices, lectures, memoranda, messages, notes, outlines, printed matter, reports, and syllabi, arranged alphabetically by physical form.
 

Course material 1943-1945

Scope and Contents note

Assignments, drills, examinations, exercises, homework, lectures, outlines, and syllabi.
reel 1

Box/Folder 1 : 1-2

reel 2

Box/Folder 1 : 3 - 2 : 2

reel 3

Box/Folder 2 : 3-5

reel 4

Box/Folder 3 : 1-3

reel 5

Box/Folder 3 : 4 - 4 : 2

reel 6

Box/Folder 4 : 3-5

reel 7

Binders 1 & 2

reel 8

Box/Folder 6 : 1-4

reel 9

Box/Folder 7 : 1-3

reel 10

Box/Folder 7 : 4 - Box 8 (Syllabi Term 1)

reel 11

Syllabi 2

reel 12

Term III

reel 13

Box/Folder 10 : 1-4

reel 14

Box/Folder 11 : 1-3

 

Subject file 1943-1945

Scope and Contents note

Correspondence, dispatches, invoices, memoranda, messages, notes, reports, and printed matter.
 

Civil Affairs Training School, Actual Demonstration Exercise (CATSADE)

Scope and Contents note

Material relating to exercises simulating the military occupation of German and Japanese cities.
reel 14

Cologne (Köln) exercise

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 11 : 4
reel 15

Cologne (Köln) exercise (cont.)

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 11 : 5
 

Nagasaki exercise

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 12 : 1-3
reel 16

Nagasaki exercise

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 12 : 4
 

Motion pictures

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 12 : 5 - 13 : 3
 

ADMINISTRATIVE FILE 1943-1947

Scope and Contents note

Announcements, balance sheets, budgets, bulletins, charts, clippings, contract, correspondence, directories, forms, memoranda, personnel records, printed matter, purchase orders, receipts, regulations, reports, requisitions, rules, and schedules, arranged alphabetically by physical form.
reel 16

General 1943-1945

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 13 : 4. Notes and miscellany.
reel 17

General (cont.) 1943-1945

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 13 : 5
 

Announcements and bulletins 1943-1944

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 13 : 6
 

Charts 1943-1944

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 13 : 7
 

Clippings 1943-1945

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 13 : 8
 

Directories 1943-1944

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 13 : 9
 

Financial records 1943-1946

 

Accounts 1943-1946

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 14 : 1-2. Balance sheets and ledger books.
reel 17A

Accounts (cont.) 1943-1946

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 14 : 2
 

Budgets 1943-1945

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 14 : 3-4. Includes some correspondence.
 

Contract 1943

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 14 : 5
 

Requisitions 1943-1945

Scope and Contents note

Includes purchase orders and receipts.
reel 17A

1943

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 14 : 6
reel 18

1943 (cont.)

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 14 : 7
 

1943

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 15 : 1-2
 

1943-1944

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 15 : 3
reel 19

1944

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 15 : 4 - 16 : 1-3
reel 20

1944 (cont.)

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 16 : 4
 

1945

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 16 : 5 - 17 : 1-2
reel 21

1945 (cont.)

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 17 : 3-5
 

Forms undated

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 18 : 1
 

Memoranda 1943-1944

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 18 : 2
 

Personnel records 1943-1947

Scope and Contents note

Correspondence, forms, and memoranda.
 

Faculty

 

General

reel 22

1943

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 18 : 3-5
 

1944

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 18 : 6-7
reel 23

1945

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 19 : 1
 

Language instructors

reel 23

A-F

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 19 : 2
 

H-I

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 19 : 3
 

K

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 19 : 4
 

M

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 19 : 5
reel 24

N-R

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 19 : 6
 

S

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 20 : 1
 

T-Y

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 20 : 2
 

Visiting lecturers

 

1944

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 20 : 3
 

1945

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 20 : 4
reel 25

Staff

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 20 : 5. Includes administrators, secretaries, and technical assistants.
 

Students

 

1943

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 21 : 1-4
reel 26

1943 (cont.)

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 21 : 5 - 22 : 1-3
reel 27

1944

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 22 : 4 - 23 : 2
reel 28

1944 (cont.)

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 23 : 3-4
 

1945

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 23 : 5 - 24 : 2
reel 29

1945 (cont.)

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 24 : 3-4
 

1946-1947

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 24 : 5
 

Reports 1944

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 25 : 1-2
reel 30

Rules and regulations 1943-1944

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 25 : 3
 

Schedules 1943-1945

 

1943-1944

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 25 : 4
 

1944

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 25 : 5-6
 

1945

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 25 : 7 - 26 : 1
 

Subject file 1943-1945

Scope and Contents note

Correspondence, memoranda, notes, printed matter, and reports.
reel 31

Complaints and suggestions

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 26 : 2
 

Conferences

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 26 : 3
 

Curriculum development

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 26 : 4-7
reel 32

Curriculum development

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 27 : 1-3
 

Draft deferments

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 27 : 4
 

Equipment

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 27 : 5
reel 33

Graduation exercises

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 27 : 6
 

Graduation exercises

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 28 : 1
 

Housing

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 28 : 2
 

Language instruction

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 28 : 3
 

Program origins

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 28 : 4
 

Public health

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 28 : 5
 

Room assignments

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 28 : 6
 

Reviews of materials

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 28 : 7
 

Sacramento project

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 28 : 8
reel 34

Salaries

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 28 : 9
 

Security clearances

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 28 : 10
 

Textbooks

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 29 : 1
 

Travel

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 29 : 2
 

United States Army, Western Defense Command

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 29 : 3
 

United States Army Service Forces, Army Specialized Training Division, 9-L

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 29 : 4
 

United States War Relocation Authority

 

Manzanar, California

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 29 : 5
 

Topaz, Utah

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 29 : 6
 

Telephone bills

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 29 : 7. Includes correspondence.
reel 35

Yearbook (three printed copies)

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 29 : 8
 

CORRESPONDENCE 1942-1945

Scope and Contents note

Letters and memoranda addressed to individuals, organized by name of school official sending or receiving correspondence. Arranged alphabetically by name of school official.
reel 35

Allen, Frank 1944

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 29 : 9
 

Anderson, Ronald 1944-1945

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 29 : 10
 

Eden, John 1943-1945

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 29 : 11
 

Fisher, Harold

 

1943

 

May-August

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 30 : 1
 

September

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 30 : 2
 

October-November

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 30 : 3
 

December

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 30 : 4
 

1944

reel 36

January-February

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 30 : 5
 

March-June

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 30 : 6
 

July-December

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 30 : 7
 

1945

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 31 : 1
 

Hanna, Paul 1942-1944

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 31 : 2
 

Lavrov, Sergey 1944

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 31 : 3
 

Lutz, Ralph 1943

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 31 : 4
 

Patten, Nathan van 1943-1945

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 31 : 5
 

Sokol, Anthony 1944-1945

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 31 : 6
 

Thomas, Lawrence

 

1943

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 31 : 7
 

1944

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 31 : 8
reel 37

1945 January-August

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 31 : 9-10
 

LIBRARY FILE 1943-1945

Scope and Contents note

Acquisition records, bibliographies, circulation records, correspondence, filing index, holdings records, loan records, memoranda, printed matter, and reports, arranged alphabetically by physical form. See also: CARD FILE.
reel 37

General 1943-1945

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 32 : 1-2. Correspondence and reports.
 

Acquisition records 1943-1945

Scope and Contents note

Consists largely of lists of materials received.
 

1943-1944

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 32 : 3
 

1944

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 32 : 4-5
reel 38

1945

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 32 : 6
 

1945

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 33 : 1-3
 

Bibliographies 1943-1945

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 33 : 4
reel 39

Circulation records 1943-1945

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 33 : 5
 

Filing index 1944

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 33 : 6
 

Holdings records 1943

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 33 : 7
 

Loan records

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 34 : 1
 

Memoranda

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 34 : 2
 

Subject file 1943-1945

Scope and Contents note

Correspondence, memoranda, and printed matter.
 

Book and map orders

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 34 : 3-5
 

Disposition of material

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 34 : 6
 

OFFICE OF THE PROVOST MARSHAL GENERAL FILE 1943-1945

Scope and Contents note

The U.S. Civil Affairs Training School program was under the adminstrative supervision of the Office of the Provost Marshal General of the U.S. Army, and the Stanford school reported directly to this office. Correspondence, memoranda, organizational charts, and reports, arranged alphabetically by physical form.
 

Correspondence 1943-1945

reel 40

General 1944-1945

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 34 : 7
 

Fielding, William 1944

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 34 : 8
 

Gorman, Robert 1944-1945

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 34 : 9
 

Gullion, Allen 1943-1944

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 34 : 10
 

Heffner, Hubert 1943-1944

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 35 : 1
 

Hyneman, Charles 1943

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 35 : 2
 

Lerch, Archer 1944-1945

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 35 : 3
 

Miller, Jesse 1944-1945

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 35 : 4
 

Moulton, William 1944-1945

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 35 : 5
 

Robison, H. E. 1943-1945

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 35 : 6
 

Shoemaker, James 1943-1944

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 35 : 7
reel 41

Storer, Morris 1944

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 35 : 8
 

Van Wagenen, Richard 1943-1944

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 35 : 9
 

Memoranda 1943-1945

 

1943

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 35 : 10
 

1944

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 36 : 1
 

1945

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 36 : 2
 

Organizational charts 1943-1945

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 36 : 3
 

Reports 1944-1945

 

1944

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 36 : 4
 

1945

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 36 : 5-6
 

Subject file 1943-1945

Scope and Contents note

Correspondence and memoranda.
reel 42

Book orders

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 36 : 7
 

Lecturers

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 37 : 1
 

Translations

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 37 : 2
 

PUBLICATIONS FILE 1944-1945

Scope and Contents note

Material relating to publications produced by the U.S. Civil Affairs Training School, Stanford University. Correspondence, drafts, outlines, printed matter, and questionnaires, arranged chronologically and by degree of completion.
reel 42

Special Reports on Germany Prepared by Officer Students of the Civil Affairs Training School at Stanford Unversity, printed copies undated

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 37 : 3-4
 

Civil Affairs Handbook on Japan (1944) 1944-1945

Scope and Contents note

Sections 1, 6, and 16 of this handbook were produced at Stanford.
 

Correspondence 1944-1945

 

A-F

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 37 : 5
 

G-M

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 37 : 6
reel 43

O-Z

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 37 : 7
 

Questionnaires 1944

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 38 : 1-3. Includes responses.
reel 44

Questionnaires (cont.) 1944

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 38 : 4-5
 

Outlines 1944

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 39 : 1
 

Preliminary drafts 1944

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 39 : 2-3
reel 45

Preliminary drafts (cont.) 1944

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 39 : 4 - 40 : 1
reel 46

Final draft 1944

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 40 : 2-5
 

Printed copy (provisional edition) 1944

 

Section 1, Geographical and social background

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 40 : 6
reel 47

Section 1, Geographical and social background

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 41 : 1-2
 

Section 6, Natural resources

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 41 : 3-5
 

Section 16, Public welfare

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 41 : 6
reel 48

Section 16, Public welfare (cont.)

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 42 : 1-2
 

RESEARCH MATERIAL 1943-1945

Scope and Contents note

Printed material, much of it orginally classified or otherwise restricted, used by students and faculty of the U.S. Civil Affairs Training School at Stanford University. Intelligence digests and estimates, reports, and translations, arranged by physical form. See also: DECLASSIFIED U.S. GOVERNMENT RECORDS.
 

Intelligence digests and estimates 1943-1945

reel 48

General

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 42 : 3
 

Counterintelligence

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 42 : 4
 

Germany

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 42 : 5
 

Italy

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 42 : 6
 

Japan and the Pacific Theater

 

General

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 42 : 7-8
reel 49

General (cont.)

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 43 : 1-2
 

Far East Intelligence Notes

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 43 : 3-5. Material prepared by the Office of Strategic Services.
 

Reports 1943-1946

Scope and Contents note

Includes material prepared by various intelligence agencies.
 

General

 

General

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 43 : 6
reel 50

General (cont.)

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 44 : 1-3
 

Military Government Field Reports

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 44 : 4. Issued by the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, U.S. Navy Department.
reel 51

Military Government Field Reports (cont.)

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 44 : 5
 

Albania

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 45 : 1
 

China

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 45 : 2
 

France

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 45 : 3
 

Germany

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 45 : 5
reel 52

Germany (cont.)

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 45 : 6 - 46 : 1
 

Indochina

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 46 : 2
 

Italy

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 46 : 3
 

Japan

reel 53

General

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 46 : 4
 

Airfields

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 46 : 5
 

Economic conditions

 

General

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 47 : 1-3
reel 54

General (cont.)

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 47 : 4 - 48 : 4
reel 55

General (cont.)

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 48 : 5 - 49 : 2
reel 56

Fishing industry

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 49 : 3
 

Iron and steel industries

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 49 : 4-5
 

Power industry (volume I-II)

Scope and Contents note

Box 50. Material produced by the Office of Strategic Services (incomplete).
reel 57

Power industry (volume III)

 

Power industry

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 51 : 1-2
 

Politics and government

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 51 : 3
reel 58

Politics and government (cont.)

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 51 : 4
 

Ports

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 52 : 1-4
reel 59

Ports (cont.)

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 53 : 1-3
reel 60

Ports (cont.)

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 53 : 4
 

Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905)

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 54 : 1
 

Transportation

 

General

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 54 : 2
 

Railroads

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 54 : 3-4
 

Netherlands

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 54 : 5
reel 61

Philippines

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 54 : 6
reel 60, reel 53

Russia (see: Japan/Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905))

reel 61

Translations 1943-1945

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 55 : 1-3. Articles translated into English from the Japanese press and government publications.
reel 62

Translations (cont.) 1943-1945

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 55 : 4 - 56 : 3
reel 63

Translations (cont.) 1943-1945

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 56 : 4
 

SUBJECT FILE 1943-1945

Scope and Contents note

Correspondence, instructional material, notes, printed matter, reports, and serial issue, arranged alphabetically subject.
reel 63

Captured German documents

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 57 : 1-2. Target lists of documents captured or sought by the American military (not the documents themselves).
 

Japanese Americans

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 57 : 3
 

United States Army, School of Military Government, Charlottesville, Virginia

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 57 : 4
reel 64

United States Civil Affairs Holding and Staging Area, Presidio of Monterey

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 57 : 5 - 58 : 1 Map case
 

United States Civil Affairs Training School

 

Harvard University

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 58 : 2
 

Northwestern University

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 58 : 3 Map case
 

University of Chicago

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 58 : 4-5 Map case
reel 65

University of Michigan

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 59 : 1-3
 

Yale University

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 59 : 4
 

CARD FILE 1943-1945

Scope and Contents note

Box 60. Card catalog listing holdings in the Hoover Library used by the U.S. Civil Affairs Training School, Stanford University.
 

AUDIOVISUAL FILE 1945, undated

reel 65

Photograph of class trip to Yosemite National Park 1945

Scope and Contents note

Box/Folder 59 : 5
 

Colonel Diller commencement speech at the School of Military Government 1945?

Access

Use copy reference number: xx413_a_0005704

Scope and Contents note

Diller speaks to military students about to enter World War II as planners for the military government in the Far East. He begins by explaining to the audience what they can expect at the CASA (Civil Affairs Training Area) at the Presidio of Monterey in California. He says comparing Charlottesville, the location of the School of Military Government, and CASA is analogous to comparing Athens and Sparta. He also speaks about the war. Three sound discs.
 

DECLASSIFIED U.S. GOVERNMENT RECORDS 1944-1945

Scope and Contents note

Formerly security-classified records of the U.S. government, released in full or in part. Includes some interfield, unclassified government records. Arranged chronologically by date of release by Hoover, thereunder chronologically by date of creation.
 

2010 release of records 1944-1945, undated

Scope and Contents note

Includes preliminary drafts of the Civil Affairs Handbook on Italy, Sections 1, 3, 8, 10, 13-16 (undated); memoranda (undated); and reports produced by the Office of Strategic Services, particularly the Research and Analysis Branch (1944-1945). Available as PDF files.
box 59, folder 6

2016 February release of records 1944-1945

Scope and Contents note

Memoranda from the War Department, Adjutant General's Office, to Command Generals enclosing Counter Intelligence Corps Information Bulletins. Includes Bulletin No. 9 (sent 8 December 1944), Bulletin No. 10 (sent 12 February 1945), and Bulletin No. 11 (24 June 1945).
 

2018 release of records 1944-1951

 

Incremental Material 2022

Scope and Contents

This increment contains material used for the Japanese language training at Civil Affairs Training School Far Eastern Area, Harvard University.
box 62

Material not yet described

box 63

Material not yet described