Overview of the Monro MacCloskey papers

Finding aid prepared by Hoover Institution Library and Archives Staff

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Title: Monro MacCloskey papers

Date (inclusive): 1943-1946

Collection Number: 73003

Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives

Language of Material: English

Physical Description: 1 manuscript box (0.4 Linear Feet)

Abstract: Reports, memoranda, and minutes of meetings, relating to operational plans in the Mediterranean Theater during World War II, and to the Japanese chemical industry during the war.

Creator: MacCloskey, Monro

Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives

Access

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.

Use

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Acquisition Information

Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1973.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Monro MacCloskey papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Biographical/Historical Note

Brigadier general, United States Air Force; member, Joint Planning Staff, Allied Force Headquarters, Mediterranean Theater of Operations, 1943-1944.

Scope and Content of Collection

Reports, memoranda, and minutes of meetings, relating to operational plans in the Mediterranean Theater during World War II, and to the Japanese chemical industry during the war.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

World War, 1939-1945 -- Japan

World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Mediterranean Sea

United States. Army Air Forces

Unclassified material 1946

box 1

U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey, Oil and Chemical Division report, "Chemicals in Japan's War" February 1946

Declassified U.S. government records 1943-1944

Scope and Contents note

Formerly security-classified records of the U.S. government, with some interfiled unclassified material. Arranged chronologically by date of release by Hoover

box 1

2011 June release of records 1943-1944

Scope and Contents note

Consists of "Joint Planning Staff Algiers" volume with table of contents, containing memos with appended charts and maps, minutes of meetings, and other material. Most records were created by the Allied Forces Headquarters G-2 and G-3 sections, with some by the Headquarters, Northwest African Air Forces and other entities. Some records contain handwritten annotations