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United States Strategic Bombing Survey.
United States Strategic Bombing Survey records, 1928-1947 (bulk 1944-1946).
Record Group 243 includes: General Records, 1944-1947 (52 lin. ft.): General correspondence of Chairman Franklin D'Olier, 1944-1947. Copies of the final published reports of the European and Pacific Surveys, 1945-1947. Cablegrams and other messages sent and received, 1944-1946. Record copy of the published Index to Records of the United States Strategic Bombing Survey, June 1947 (microfilm no. M1013). Photographs (370 images): USSBS directors and staff; military officials in Japan and England; and USSBS installations in England, Germany, and Japan, 1945-1946. Records of the European Survey, 1934-1947 (603 lin. ft. and 371 rolls of microfilm): General records: Published reports of the European Survey, 1945-1947. Unpublished field team reports and industrial plant reports, 1945. Transcripts and reports of interrogations, 1945. Interviews of German citizens and displaced persons, 1945. German dictionaries, telephone directories, railroad timetables, and industrial plant catalogs, 1937-1944. Drawings and sketches of German industrial plants, airfields, and hospitals, 1942-1945. Motion pictures (7 reels): Captured German films, produced 1934-1942, relating to American incendiary bombs and bombing methods and to German war industries, 1944. Records of the Intelligence Branch: Narrative and statistical operational reports of the U.S. 8th, 9th, 12th, and 15th Army Air Forces, and of the British Royal Air Force Bomber and Fighter Commands in Europe, 1941-1945. Damage assessment reports, 1942-1945. British Air Ministry target information lists, dossiers, and reports, 1941-1945. Transcripts and reports of interrogations, 1945. Microfilm collection, 1940-1945, (371 rolls), and published and unpublished records, 1939-1945, of the Intelligence Library. Motion pictures (4 reels): Captured German films (4 reels) dealing with British incendiary bombs and countermeasures, produced by Krupp AG for training of air raid protection crews and civilian defense teams, 1943. Records of the Physical Damage Division: Photographs (8,000 images): Effects of bombings on industry, utilities, transportation, and social services in Germany, France, and Belgium, 1944-1945; Records of the Pacific Survey, 1928-1947 (445 lin. ft.): General records: Published reports of the Pacific Survey, 1946-1947. Reports of interrogations and interviews of Japanese citizens, 1945. Japanese maps, manuals, and other publications, 1928-1945. Records of the Intelligence Branch: Transcripts and reports of interrogations, 1945-1946. Operational reports and statistical summaries of the U.S. 5th, 7th, and 20th Army Air Forces and the 20th and 21st Bomber Commands, 1944-1945. Damage assessment reports, 1945. Joint Army-Navy Intelligence Studies, 1944-1945 (microfilms: M1159, M1169). Aerial photogaphs (2,340 items): Targets in Japan and Korea, produced by the Joint Target Group and the 21st Bomber Command, 1944-1945. Records of the Morale Division: Sound recordings (366 items). Interviews with Japanese civilians concerning the effects of U.S. bombing on various cities, including an eyewitness account of the bombing of Hiroshima, 1945. Records of the Physical Damage Division: Photographs (7,541 images): Used in the report entitled Effects of Incendiary Bomb Attacks on Japan, 1945-1947 (39 images). Atomic bomb damage to Hiroshima and Nagasaki, including injuries to civilians, 1945-1947 (7,502 images). Still Pictures (General), 1944 (38 images). Photographs: Effects of Operation Strangle, a U.S. bombing operation; and a survey of a Noball installation, a German rocket launching site in France, 1944.
Established in the War Department as a civilian activity, November 3, 1944, pursuant to Presidential directive, September 9, 1944. Functions: Studied the effects of Allied aerial attacks on Germany and German-occupied Europe (European Survey) and on Japan (Pacific Survey), to establish a basis for evaluating the importance and potential of air power as an instrument of military strategy and for planning the future development of the armed forces. Abolished: October 8, 1947, with the discontinuance of operataions. Predecessor Agencies: Combined Bomber Offensive Survey (Apr.-July 1944); Strategic Bombing Effects Survey (July-Sept. 1944); U.S. Bombing Research Mission (Sept.-Nov. 1944).
Great Britain. Royal Air Force. Fighter Command.
United States. Army Air Forces. Air Force, 8th.
United States Strategic Bombing Survey -- Archives.
United States Strategic Bombing Survey. Intelligence Branch.
United States Strategic Bombing Survey. -- Officials and employees -- Photographs.
United States Strategic Bombing Survey. Physical Damage Division -- Records.
United States Strategic Bombing Survey. Morale Division -- Records.
Index to records of the United States Strategic Bombing Survey.
Air raid wardens -- Training of -- Germany -- 20th century.
Airports -- Germany -- Pictorial works -- 20th century.
Atomic bomb -- Blast effect -- Japan.
Atomic bomb -- Physiological effect -- Hiroshima-shi (Japan).
Bombing, aerial -- Belgium -- 20th century.
Bombing, aerial -- Europe -- 20th century.
Bombing, aerial -- Germany -- 20th century.
Bombing, aerial -- Japan -- 20th century.
Bombing, aerial -- Pacific Area -- 20th century.
Booty (International law).
Civil defense -- Germany -- 20th century.
Effects of incendiary bomb attacks on Japan, 1945-1947.
Enemy property -- Germany.
Factories -- Germany -- Catalogs -- 20th century.
Factories -- Germany -- Pictorial works -- 20th century.
Hospitals -- Germany -- Pictorial works -- 20th century.
Incendiary bombs -- Methodology.
Industrial sites -- Effect of bombing, aerial on -- Belgium.
Industrial sites -- Effect of bombing, aerial on -- France.
Industrial sites -- Effect of bombing, aerial on -- Germany.
Industries -- Germany -- Destruction and pillage -- 20th century.
Japan -- History -- Bombardment, 1945.
Military-industrial complex -- Germany -- 20th century.
Photographic interpretation (Military science) -- 20th century.
Public utilities -- Effect of bombing, aerial on -- Belgium.
Public utilities -- Effect of bombing, aerial on -- France.
Public utilities -- Effect of bombing, aerial on -- Germany.
Railroads -- Timetables -- Germany.
Refugees -- Europe -- Interviews.
Reprisals -- Germany -- 20th century.
Rockets (Aeronautics) -- Launching -- France.
Rockets (Ordnance) -- France -- 20th century.
Social service -- Effect of bombing, aerial on -- Belgium.
Telephone -- Directories -- Germany -- 20th century.
Transportation -- Timetables -- Germany.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, American. -- Germany.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, American -- Japan.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Bomb reconnaissance.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Italy.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Europe.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Japan -- Personnal narratives, Japanese.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Pacific Area.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Displaced persons -- Germany -- Interviews.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Destruction and pillage.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Equipment and supplies.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, German.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Japanese.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Reconnaissance operations -- Europe.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Reconnaissance operations -- Germany.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Reconnaissance operations -- Japan.
Europe -- Effect of World War, 1939-1945 on
Germany -- Aerial bombardment -- 20th century.
Germany -- Effect of World War, 1939-1945 on
Japan -- Aerial bombardment -- 20th century.
Japan -- Effect of World War, 1939-1945 on
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Drawings. aat aat
Government records. aat
German language -- Dictionaries. lcsh
Interviews. aat
Lists. aat
Motion picture film footage. aat
Photographs. aat
Reports. aat
Telegrams. aat
Telephone directories. aat
Transcripts. aat aat
Hiroshima-shi (Japan) -- History -- Bombardment -- August 6, 1945.
Nagasaki-shi (Japan) -- History -- Bombardment -- August 9, 1945.
D'Olier, Franklin.
Great Britain. Royal Air Force. Bomber Command.
Joint Target Group.
United States. Army Air Forces. Air Force, 5th.
United States. Army Air Forces. Air Force, 7th.
United States. Army Air Forces. Air Force, 9th.
United States. Army Air Forces. Air Force, 12th.
United States. Army Air Forces. Air Force, 15th.
United States. Army Air Forces. Air Force, 20th.
AIP-ICOS
Krupp AG.
Operation Strangle.
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