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CINCPAC report on Pearl Harbor attack Found in: U.S. Navy Action and Operational Reports from World War II, Pacific Theater, Part 1. CINCPAC: Commander-in-Chief Pacific Area. Date: Feb 15, 1942 - Feb 15, 1942. (Continuation of the chart reports made by the commanding officers of the ships of the Pacific Fleet stationed at PearlHarbor on the day of the attack . These charts include information on the positions of U.S. naval vessels at various times on the day of the attack , the amount of ammunition used by them during the attack , and an estimate of the number of Japanese warplanes destroyed by them during the course of U.S. defensive operations.)

Interrogation of Japanese prisoners of war from Battle of Midway Found in: U.S. Navy Action and Operational Reports from World War II, Pacific Theater, Part 1. CINCPAC: Commander-in-Chief Pacific Area. Date: Jun 21, 1942 - Jun 21, 1942.

Report of action in connection with U.S. bombing of Tokyo, April 18, 1942 (Doolittle Raid) Found in: U.S. Navy Action and Operational Reports from World War II, Pacific Theater, Part 1. CINCPAC: Commander-in-Chief Pacific AreaDate: May 04, 1942 - May 04, 1942

Adolf Hitler and Commander in Chief German Navy conferences on naval issues, 1947 Found in: Fuehrer Conferences on Matters Dealing with the German Navy, 1939-1945. Date: Jan 01, 1947 - Dec 31, 1947. (Includes a message from Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz to "Men of the Navy" concerning the July 20 attempted assassination of Hitler (pg. 73)

Technical intelligence report on German operations in the Battle of the Atlantic Found in: Top Secret Studies on U.S. Communications Intelligence during World War II, Part 2. The European Theater. Date: Jan 01, 1941 - Dec 31, 1945.

Secret Intelligence Branch: Volume 3, Sussex Operation, 1943 Found in: OSS-London: Special Operations Branch and Secret Intelligence Branch War Diaries. Date: Jan 01, 1944 - Sep 30, 1944. (Begin reading on p. 276)

Map room files, Normandy: French political intelligence reports, highlights of Operation OVERLORD, characteristics of U.S. naval forces in OVERLORD, propaganda guidance for OVERLORD, report on Allied operations in the Mediterranean theater, preparations and plans for Operation OVERLORD, Allied air operations in support of OVERLORD Found in: Map Room Files of President Roosevelt, 1939-1945: Map Room Ground Operations Files, 1941-1945. Date: Jan 01, 1944 - Dec 31, 1944.

Newspaper clippings Found in: Martial Law in Hawaii: The Papers of Major General Thomas H. Green, Judge Advocate General's Corps, U.S. Army Date: Jan 01, 1940 - Dec 31, 1970

Photostats of newspaper and periodical clippings and pamphlets, January 1-December 29, 1943 Found in: Evacuation of the Japanese from the West Coast: Final Report and Papers of the Adjutant General's Office. Date: Jan 01, 1943 - Dec 29, 1943

Iva Toguri D'Aquino treason case, including complaints for violation of code Found in: FBI Files on Tokyo Rose (Iva Toguri d'Aquino) Released under the Japanese Imperial Government Disclosure Act. Date: Jan 01, 1948 - Dec 31, 1948

Office of War Information subversive activities files on Los Angeles riots Found in: Information Control and Propaganda: Records of the Office Of War Information, Part 1: The Director's Central Files, 1942-1945. Date: Jan 01, 1943 - Dec 31, 1943

Eleanor Roosevelt's correspondence with Sumner Welles about the sinking of the SS Struma refugee ship Found in: Holocaust Refugees and the FDR White House. Date: Jan 01, 1942 - Dec 31, 1942.

War Refugee Board and World Jewish population estimates, Holocaust death estimates, press conference, minutes of meetings Found in: Papers of the War Refugee Board, Part 1: Correspondence and Reports Files, February 1944-September 1945. Date: Jan 20, 1944 - Feb 19, 1945.

Press releases concerning the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, including photographs Found in: Manhattan Project: Official History and Documents.
Date: Jan 01, 1939 - Dec 31, 1946.