Guide to the Charles B. Burdick Military History Collection
MSS.2010.03.01
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Language of Material:
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Contributing Institution:
SJSU Special Collections & Archives
Title: Charles B. Burdick Military History Collection
source:
Burdick, Charles B., 1927-1998
Identifier/Call Number: MSS.2010.03.01
Physical Description:
107 boxes
(111.94 linear feet)
Physical Description:
2 flat file drawers
(92 folders, 217 maps)
Date (inclusive): 1914-1984 (bulk 1939-1966)
Date (bulk): bulk
Abstract: The Charles B. Burdick Military History Collection, 1914-1984 (bulk 1939-1966), represents the research files and collections
amassed by military historian and SJSU history professor, Charles B. Burdick. The collection documents the history of World
War I and World War II.
Access
The collection is open for research.
Publication Rights
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or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Director of Special Collections. Permission for publication
is given on behalf of the Special Collections & Archives. Copyright restrictions may apply to digital reproductions of the
original materials. Use of digital files is restricted to research and educational purposes.
Preferred Citation
Charles B. Burdick Military History Collection, MSS-2010-03-01, San José State University Library Special Collections & Archives.
Processing Information
Collection processed by Robert Donahue. Finding aid EAD encoded by Robert Donahue. Reviewed by Danelle Moon and Erin Louthen.
Six boxes of accruals were added to Series I, eight boxes of accruals were added to Series II, and Series IV: Personal Materials
was created in April 2019 by Fiona DuBrock.
Project Information
This finding aid was created as part of the Survey and Cataloging Project, a two-year San José State University Library grant project funded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission. The project began in 2008. The Project Director is Danelle Moon. The Project Archivist is Erin Louthen.
Biography
Charles B. Burdick (1927-1998) grew up in San José, California where he attended Lincoln High School before enlisting in the
United States Army during World War II. After serving in the Army, Burdick enrolled at San José State College in 1946. He
graduated with a B.A. in History in 1949, and obtained his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1954. He joined SJSU's History
Department in 1957, and became department chair in 1976. Throughout his teaching career, Professor Burdick worked diligently
to create a program dedicated to military history. In addition, he donated several large private book collections on military
history to the University Library, significantly adding to the monographic holdings in this area. Professor Burdick also taught
for many years at the Sixth United Army Intelligence School located at the Presidio in Monterey, California. Over the course
of his distinguished career, Burdick published dozens of articles and book chapters, and wrote and edited over twenty books.
His research and writing on the history of the German High Command in World War II remains an important part of the historiography
of World War II. After an association with San José State University that spanned forty-five years, Professor Burdick retired
in 1988. He died in 1998.
Related Material
Charles B. Burdick War Poster Collection, MSS-2010-02-02, San José State University Special Collections & Archives.
The Burdick Military History Project, San José State University History Department. http://www.sjsu.edu/depts/history/ (accessed
March 25, 2010).
Hugh T. Carlisle Collection, MSS-2011-09-16, San José State University Library, Special Collections & Archives.
Scope and Content of Collection
The Charles B. Burdick Military History Collection, 1914-1984 (bulk 1939-1966), represents the research files and collections
amassed by military historian and SJSU history professor, Charles B. Burdick. The collection documents the history of World
War I and World War II. World War I subjects covered include the Paris Peace Conference and the Treaty of Versailles, which
formally ended World War I, and military operations. World War II materials include publications originating from the German
High Command, as well as reports and statistics from countries such as Italy, Germany, Japan, and the United States. The collection
also includes print copies of the legal proceedings from the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, nautical charts,
and maps of important World War II locations. The formats represented include correspondence, ephemera, maps, nautical charts,
newspaper clippings, reports, and scrapbooks.
Arrangement
This collection is arranged into four series: Series I: World War I & World War II Materials, 1914-1984 (bulk 1939-1958);
Series II. International Military Tribunal for the Far East (IMTFE) Materials, 1946-1948; Series III. Nautical Charts, 1919-1966
(bulk 1950-1966); and Series IV: Personal Materials.
Bibliography
Roth, Jonathan.
Burdick Military History Project. Pamphlet. San José, CA: San José State University History Department, undated.
Walsh, James P., and Wheeler, Gerald E.
Charles B. Burdick and San José State. (From War, Revolution and Peace: Essays in Honor of Charles B. Burdick. Pp. 1-8. Remak, Joachim, ed. Lanham, MD: University
Press of America, Inc., 1987.)
Subjects and Indexing Terms
World War, 1939-1945
World War, 1914-1918
Nautical charts
War crime trials -- Japan
Tokyo Trial, Tokyo, Japan, 1946-1948
Military history, Modern -- 20th century
International Military Tribunal for the Far East
Burdick, Charles B., 1927-1998
Series I: World War I and World War II Materials
1914-1984 (bulk 1939-1958)
bulk
Series Scope and Content Summary
This series documents the history of World War I and World War II.
World War I materials include several volumes of the Treaty of Versailles, as well as numerous pamphlets published by groups
such as the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the Community Pulpit Series, promoting the concepts of peace, labor,
and morality.
World War II materials include documents printed in English, German, Italian, and Japanese. Formats include hand-written notes
concerning Italy during the war and post-war years, the German High Command, United States military reports and summations
detailing U.S. bombings on Japan and Germany, and twelve bound volumes from the Japanese navy.
Arrangement
This series is arranged chronologically by date range.
Box 1
World War 1 Pamphlets
1914-1918
Box 2
Burdick Research Notes, 1914-1918; European Maps, 1947
Box 3
German Language Newspapers & Research
1915-1947
Box 4
Treaty of Versailles, World War II Materials, Operation Barbarossa, Environment and Equipment Study
1919-1954
Box 5-6
World War II Materials, German Military, German Language Materials
1938-1978
Box 102 - 106
Japanese Naval Secretary Shigeharu Enomoto's Analyses of the European War
1939-1941
Scope and Contents
Twelve volumes published by the Japanese navy containing text in English, Japanese, and several European languages. They consist
of U.S. and European news releases pertaining to international laws and policies during the first part of World War II alongside
Enomoto's analysis.
Box 7-8
World War II Newspaper Clippings
1939-1946
Box 9
World War II German Military Information
1939-1955
Box 10
Wartime Fire & Hazardous War Gases Safety
1943-1947
Box 11
World War II Germany, German Army
1943-1947
Box 12
World War II, Bombings of Japan and Germany
1944-1953
Box 13
German High Command (OKH) and German Military Structure
1945-1958
Box 14
Reports: U.S. Military Government in Axis Countries After WW II
1946-1984
Box 16
U.S. Army Dept of Military History Studies on East Asia
1950-1966
Box 17
Burdick Research Notes & Reports: Italy, Russia, WW I
1950-1953
Box 107
Nuremberg Trials Documents
Undated
Series II: International Military Tribunal for the Far East (IMTFE)
1946-1948
Series Scope and Content Summary
This series documents the International Military Tribunal for the Far East (IMTFE), also known as the Tokyo Trials and Tokyo
War Crimes Tribunal. Supreme Commander of the Allied forces, General Douglas MacArthur, ordered the establishment of the IMTFE
and approved the charter, which was modeled on the Nuremberg Trials Charter of 1945-1946. The tribunal convened on May 5th,
1946, to prosecute the leaders of the Empire of Japan for three specific crimes: Class A: crimes against peace; Class B: war
crimes; and Class C: crimes against humanity, committed during World War II. Twenty-eight political and military leaders were
charged with Class A crimes and more than 5,700 Japanese nationals were accused of Class B and C crimes, mostly related to
prisoner abuse; Emperor Hirohito and the Imperial Family were not prosecuted. The International Military Tribunal for the
Far East adjourned on November 12th, 1948. Materials in this series are inscribed with the name Rear Admiral John D. Murphy.
Murphy was a naval lawyer who served as the director of the war crimes trials in Guam.
Arrangement
This series is primarily chronological by date.
Box 24
Transcript of Proceedings April 29 - June 17, 1946 Box 24
Box 25
Transcript of Proceedings June 18 - 27, 1946
Box 26
Transcript of Proceedings June 28 - July 22, 1946
Box 27
Transcript of Proceedings July 23 - August 5, 1946
Box 28
Transcript of Proceedings August 6 - 27, 1946
Box 29
Transcript of Proceedings August 28 - September 6, 1946
Box 32
Transcript of Proceedings September 9 - 17, 1946
Box 30
Transcript of Proceedings September 18 - 26, 1946
Box 31
Transcript of Proceedings September 27 - October 8, 1946
Box 33
Transcript of Proceedings October 9 - 17, 1946
Box 34
Transcript of Proceedings October 18 - 30, 1946
Box 36
Transcript of Proceedings November 1 - 8, 1946
Box 35
Transcript of Proceedings November 12 - 22, 1946
Box 37
Transcript of Proceedings November 25 - December 4, 1946
Box 38
Transcript of Proceedings December 5 - December 10, 1946
Box 39
Transcript of Proceedings December 11 - 19, 1946
Box 40
Transcript of Proceedings December 20, 1946 - January 2, 1947
Box 41
Transcript of Proceedings January 3 - 9, 1947
Box 42
Transcript of Proceedings January 14 - 23, 1947
Box 43
Transcript of Proceedings January 24 - 31, 1947
Box 44
Transcript of Proceedings February 24 - March 6, 1947
Box 45
Transcript of Proceedings March 7 - 19, 1947
Box 46
Transcript of Proceedings March 21 - April 8, 1947
Box 47
Transcript of Proceedings April 9 - 18, 1947
Box 48
Transcript of Proceedings, April 21 - 30, 1947
Box 49
Transcript of Proceedings, May 1 - 8, 1947
Box 50
Transcript of Proceedings, May 12 - 21, 1947
Box 79
Transcript of Proceedings, May 22 - 29, 1947
Box 52
Transcript of Proceedings, June 2 - 10, 1947
Box 51
Transcript of Proceedings, June 11 - 19, 1947
Box 54
Transcript of Proceedings, August 4 - 12, 1947
Box 55
Transcript of Proceedings, August 13 - 18, 1947
Box 53
Transcript of Proceedings, August 19 - 26, 1947
Box 56
Transcript of Proceedings, August 27 - September 4, 1947
Box 57
Transcript of Proceedings, September 5 - 12, 1947
Box 58
Transcript of Proceedings, September 15 - 22, 1947
Box 59
Transcript of Proceedings, September 23 - 30, 1947
Box 60
Transcript of Proceedings, October 1 - 10, 1947
Box 61
Transcript of Proceedings, October 13 - 21, 1947
Box 62
Transcript of Proceedings, October 22 - 31, 1947
Box 63
Transcript of Proceedings, November 3 - 10, 1947
Box 64
Transcript of Proceedings, November 12 - 20, 1947
Box 93
Transcript of Proceedings November 21 - December 2, 1947
Box 65
Transcript of Proceedings, December 3 - 10, 1947
Box 67
Transcript of Proceedings, December 11 - 18, 1947
Box 68
Transcript of Proceedings, December 19 - 30, 1947
Box 69
Transcript of Proceedings, December 31, 1947 - January 13, 1948
Box 70
Transcript of Proceedings, January 14 - 21, 1948
Box 71
Transcript of Proceedings, January 22 - 29, 1948
Box 73
Transcript of Proceedings, February 2 - 11, 1948
Box 72
Transcript of Proceedings, February 13 - 18, 1948
Box 74
Transcript of Proceedings, February 19 - 20, 1948
Box 75
Transcript of Proceedings, February 24 - March 2, 1948
Box 76
Transcript of Proceedings, March 3 - 10, 1948
Box 77
Transcript of Proceedings, March 11 - 16, 1948
Box 78
Transcript of Proceedings, March 17 - 26, 1948
Box 66
Transcript of Proceedings, March 31 - April 5, 1948
Box 87
Transcript of Proceedings, November 4 - 8, 1948
Box 23
Transcript of Proceedings November 9 - 12, 1948
Box 99
Transcripts of Proceedings in Chambers, 1946, 1947
Scope and Contents
Proceedings in Chambers Binder 1: June 13, 1946; January 3, 1947 - May 28, 1947; July 10, 1947.
Proceedings in Chambers Binder 2: October 2, 1946 - December 30, 1946.
Box 100
Indexes of Witnesses and Exhibits
Undated
Scope and Contents
In addition to the Index of Witnesses and Index of Exhibits, this box also contains a duplicate transcript of proceedings
from September 25 and 26, 1946.
Box 21
Analysis of Documentary Evidence, IMTFE
1946
Scope and Contents
Books 1 - 4: January - March 1946
Box 22
Analysis of Documentary Evidence, IMTFE
1946
Scope and Contents
Books 5 - 8: March - June 1946
Box 92
Prosecution Documents
Undated
Scope and Contents
Summation of the Prosecution: Table of Contents and Introductory Statement; Part I, The Indictment; Part II, Crimes Against
Peace; Part IV, The Liability of the Defendants. Summary of Evidence Against Sadao Araki, Kenji Dohihara, Kingoro Hashimoto,
Shunroku Hata, Kiichiro Hiranuma, Koki Hirota, Naoki Hoshino, Seishiro Itagaki, Okinori Kaya, Koichi Kido, Hritaro Kimura,
Kuniaki Koiso, Iwane Matsui.
Box 96
Prosecution Documents
Undated
Scope and Contents
Summation of the Prosecution: Table of Contents and Introductory Statement; Part I, The Indictment; Part II, Crimes Against
Peace. Summary of Evidence Against Jiro Minami, Akira Muto, Takazumi Oka, Hiroshi Oshima, Kenryo Sato, Hideki Tojo, Yoshijiro
Umezu.
Box 88
Prosecution Documents
Undated
Scope and Contents
Summation of the Prosecution Part III, Conventional War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity: Aggression Against the Soviet
Union and Prisoner of War Summation.
Box 94
Prosecution Documents
Undated
Scope and Contents
Summation of the Prosecution, Crimes Against Peace: Internal and External Preparation for War in Asia and the Pacific; Expansion
of Aggression to the Rest of East Asia and the Southwest Pacific; Aggression Against the Soviet Union. Reply of Prosecution
to Defense Summation.
Box 95
Prosecution Documents
Undated
Scope and Contents
The Liability of the Defendants. Summaries of Evidence Against Sadao Araki, Kenji Dohihara, Kingoro Hashimoto, Shunroku Hata,
Kiichiro Hiranuma, Koki Hirota, Hideki Tojo, Yoshijiro Umezu, Mamoru Shigemitsu, Shigetaro Shimada, Toshio Shiratori, Teiichi
Suzuki, Shigenori Togo.
Box 19
Prosecution Documents
Undated
Scope and Contents
Summaries of Evidence Against Jiro Mimami, Akira Muto, Takazumi Oka, Hiroshi Oshima, Kenryo Sato, Mamoru Shigemitsu, Shigetaro
Shimada, Toshio Shratori, Teiichi Suzuki, Shigenori Togo, Naoki Hoshino, Seishiro Itagaki, Okinori Kaya, Koichi Kido, Heitaro
Kimura, Kuniaki Koiso, Iwane Matsui.
Box 81
Defense Summations
Undated
Scope and Contents
Defense Summation: Introduction, The Charter and International Law, Substantive Counts of Indictment, Conspiracy Under Indictment.
Summation for the Defense: Russian Phase. Defense Summations for Shunroku Hata, Kiichiro Hiranuma.
Box 89
Defense Summations
1948
Scope and Contents
Summation for Defense on Questions of International Law. Summation for Defense on Manchurian General Phase. Defense Summation
on China Phase. Defense Summation for Sadao Araki.
Box 90
Defense Summations
Undated
Scope and Contents
POW Summation; Defense Summation Section J, Japan Was Provoked into a War of Self Defense; Individual Defense Summation on
Personal Responsibility; Defense Summation for Yoshijiro Umezu.
Box 15
Defense Summations
Undated
Scope and Contents
Defense Summations for Koki Hirota, Heitaro Kimura, Kuniaki Koiso, Toshio Shiratori.
Box 80
Defense Summations
1948
Scope and Contents
Argument on Behalf of Seishiro Itagaki.
Box 91
Defense Summations
Undated
Scope and Contents
Defense Summations for Kenji Doihara, Kingoro Hashimoto, Teiichi Suzuki, Shigenori Togo.
Box 97
Defense Summations
Undated
Scope and Contents
Defense Summations for Hideki Tojo, Koichi Kido, Akira Muto.
Box 98
Defense Summations
Undated
Scope and Contents
Defense Summations for Kenryo Sato, Iwane Matsui, Hiroshi Oshima.
Box 83
Judgments, November 1948
Scope and Contents
Judgment Part A, Chapter I: Establishment and Proceedings of the Tribunal; Part A, Chapter II: The Law; Part A, Chapter III:
Obligations Assumed and Rights Acquired by Japan. Judgment Part B, Chapter IV (Volumes I and II): The Military Domination
of Japan and Preparation for War.
Box 84
Judgments, November 1948
Scope and Contents
Judgment Part B, Chapter IV (Volume II cont): The Military Domination of Japan; Part B Chapter V (Volume I): Japanese Aggression
Against China, Sections I and II. Judgment Part B, Chapter V (Volume II): Japanese Aggression Against China, Sections III
to VII; Part B Chapter VI: Japanese Aggression Against The USSR.
Box 85
Judgments, November 1948
Scope and Contents
Judgment Part B, Chapter VII: The Pacific War. Judgment Part B, Chapter VIII: Conventional War Crimes (Atrocities). Judgment
Annex A. Judgment Annex B.
Box 101
Judgments, November 1948
Scope and Contents
Judgment Part B, Chapter IV (Volume II): The Military Domination of Japan and Preparation for War. Judgment Part B, Chapter
VII: The Pacific War. Judgment Part B, Chapter VIII: Conventional War Crimes (Atrocities). Part C, Chapter IX: Findings on
Counts of the Indictments. Judgment Part C, Chapter X: Verdicts.
Box 82
Judgments, November 1948
Scope and Contents
Justice Pal (India) Opinion. Justice Roling (Netherlands) Opinion.
Box 86
Judgments, November 1948
Scope and Contents
Separate Opinion of the President (Justice Webb, Australia). Concurring Opinion of Justice Jaranilla (Philippines). Dissenting
Judgment of Justice Bernard (France). Judgment Annex B.
Series III: Nautical Charts
1919-1966
Series Scope and Content Summary
This series includes charts of various locations in the Far East as well as some Pacific Islands. Many of the charts are based
on information from the World War II period, but were revised in the 1960s with information gathered since their original
publication in the 1940s.
Arrangement
This series is arranged alphabetically by country. Charts are located in the flat file drawers 05-09 and 05-10 labeled "Burdick
Charts" in Vault 1.
California - Undated - 2 Charts
China 1946-1964 - 10 Charts (one undated)
Farallon Islands - Undated - 1 Chart
French Indochina - 1950-1965 - 1 Chart
Guam - 1963 - 2 Charts
Japan - 1919-1965 - 52 Charts
Korea - 1964 - 2 Charts
Mariana Islands - 1960-1964 - 4 Charts
Philippine Islands - 1921-1986 - 114 Charts
Singapore - Undated - 17 Charts
Taiwan - 1950-1965 - 17 Charts
Vietnam - 1950-1965 - 10 Charts
Series IV: Personal Materials