United States Army Air Forces, Air Matériel Command T-2, Air Documents Division Translation Section, 1933-1949

Collection context

Summary

Creators:
United States. Army Air Forces. Air Matériel Command. T-2. Air Documents Division. Translation Section. and Lockheed Aircraft Corporation
Abstract:
Abstracts and translations of captured German military and industrial technical reports, 1937-1945, relating to aeronautics. Includes German texts of reports in many cases. Translations made by the Air Matériel Command and by various American aeronautical companies, especially the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation. Includes Air Matériel Command reports, 1946, listing translated documents.
Extent:
63 manuscript boxes (30.1 Linear Feet)
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], United States Army Air Forces, Air Matériel Command T-2, Air Documents Division Translation Section translations, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives

Background

Scope and content:

Acquired in 1946, abstracts and translations of captured German military and industrial technical reports, tests, and statistical analysis between 1937-1945, relating to aeronautics. Includes untranslated German texts of reports, tests, and statistical analysis in many cases, on aviation and aeronautic technology. Translations and photocopies of translations made by the Air Matériel Command and by various American aeronautical companies, especially the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation. Includes Air Matériel Command reports, 1946, listing translated documents.

Materials within the collection have been maintained in the original order. Original covers have been photocopied and discarded.

Boxes (13-15, 26, 28-30, 43-45, 53, 54, 59, and 60) are translated and photocopied materials that remain in original form, as scrolls. Refer to each box's respective container list, which are enclosed, with corresponding identification numbers as listed.

Biographical / historical:

Air Material Command was a United States Army Air Forces command, between 1944 and 1946, and United States Air Force command, between 1946 and 1961. Its headquarters were located at Write-Patterson Air Force Base, east of Dayton Ohio in Greene and Montgomery counties. The materiel division's primary role and responsibility was procurement and research & development. The functions of research and development and logistics were operated separately during World War II until they were reunited for several years in the late 1940's under Air Materiel Command.

Acquisition information:
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library Archives in 1946.
Physical location:
Hoover Institution Library & Archives
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

The collection is open for research; materials must be requested in advance via our reservation system. If there are audiovisual or digital media material in the collection, they must be reformatted before providing access.

Terms of access:

For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], United States Army Air Forces, Air Matériel Command T-2, Air Documents Division Translation Section translations, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives

Location of this collection:
Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-6003, US
Contact:
(650) 723-3563