United States Army in World War II Reader's Guide

This pamphlet contains a brief analytical description of each volume in the United States Army in World War II series published to date or to be published in the near future. These sketches have, in most cases, been prepared by the author at the request of the Chief Historian in his capacity as General Editor of the series. Each synopsis is followed by a list of "key topics" found in the volume and in most cases their chapter location.

The War Department:

• Chief of Staff: Prewar Plans and Preparations
• Washington Command Post: The Operations Division
• Strategic Planning for Coalition Warfare, 1941-1942
• Strategic Planning for Coalition Warfare, 1943-1944
• Global Logistics and Strategy: 1940-1943
• Global Logistics and Strategy: 1943-1945
• The Army and Economic Mobilization
• The Army and Industrial Manpower

The Army Ground Forces:

• The Organization of Ground Combat Troops
• The Procurement and Training of Ground Combat Troops

The Army Service Forces:

• The Organization and Role of the Army Service Forces
• [Also: Statistical Review, World War II: A Summary of ASF Activities]

The Western Hemisphere:

• The Framework of Hemisphere Defense
• Guarding the United States and Its Outposts

The War in the Pacific:

• Strategy and Command: The First Two Years
• The Fall of the Philippines
• Guadalcanal: The First Offensive
• Victory in Papua
• CARTWHEEL: The Reduction of Rabaul
• Seizure of the Gilberts and Marshalls
• Campaign in the Marianas
• The Approach to the Philippines
• Leyte: The Return to the Philippines
• Triumph in the Philippines
• Okinawa: The Last Battle

The Mediterranean Theater of Operations:

• Northwest Africa: Seizing the Initiative in the West
• Sicily and the Surrender of Italy
• Salerno to Cassino
• Cassino to the Alps

The European Theater of Operations:

• The Supreme Command
• Cross-Channel Attack
• Breakout and Pursuit
• Riviera to the Rhine
• The Ardennes: Battle of the Bulge
• The Lorraine Campaign
• The Siegfried Line Campaign
• The Last Offensive
• Logistical Support of the Armies, Volume I: May 1941-September 1944
• Logistical Support of the Armies, Volume II: September 1944-May 1945

The Middle East Theater:

• The Persian Corridor and Aid to Russia [CMH]

The China-Burma-India Theater:

• Stilwell's Mission to China
• Stilwell's Command Problems
• Time Runs Out in CBI

The Technical Services:

• The Chemical Warfare Service: Organizing for War
• The Chemical Warfare Service: From Laboratory to Field
• The Chemical Warfare Service: Chemicals in Combat
• The Corps of Engineers: Troops and Equipment
• The Corps of Engineers: Construction in the United States
• The Corps of Engineers: The War Against Japan
• The Corps of Engineers: The War Against Germany
• The Ordnance Department: Planning Munitions for War
• The Ordnance Department: Procurement and Supply
• The Ordnance Department: On Beachhead and Battlefront
• The Medical Department: Hospitalization and Evacuation, Zone of the Interior
• The Medical Department: Medical Service in the Mediterranean and Minor Theaters
• The Medical Department: Medical Service in the European Theater of Operations
• The Medical Department: Medical Service in the War Against Japan

[Additional Medical Department histories (not part of the "US Army in World War II" series):]

• Administrative Series:
  • Organization and Administration in World War II
  • Medical Training in World War II
  • Medical Supply in World War II
  • Medical Statistics in World War II
  • Personnel in World War II

• Miscellaneous:
  • Blood Program in World War II
  • Cold Injury, Ground Type
  • Radiology in World War II
  • Physical Standards in World War II
  • Combat Psychiatry
  • Developments in Military Medicine During the Administration of Surgeon General Norman T. Kirk
  • A History of the United States Army Dental Service in World War II
  • A History of the United States Army Veterinary Service in World War II
  • Wound Ballistics

• Neuropsychiatry in World War II:
  • Volume I: Zone of the Interior
  • Volume II: Overseas Theaters

• Internal Medicine:
  • Volume I: Actions of Medical Consultants
  • Volume II: Infectious Diseases
  • Volume III: Infectious Diseases and General Medicine

• Preventive Medicine in World War II Series:
  • Volume I was never published
  • Volume II: Environmental Hygeine
  • Volume III: Personal Health Measures and Immunizations
  • Volume IV: Communicable Diseases Transmitted Chiefly Through Respiratory and Alimentary Tracts
  • Volume V: Communicable Diseases Transmitted Through Contact or by Unknown Means
  • Volume VI: Communicable Diseases: Malaria
  • Volume VII: Communicable Diseases: Arthopodborne Diseases Other Than Malaria
  • Volume VIII: Civil Affairs/Military Government Public Health Activities
  • Volume IX: Special Fields

• Surgery in World War II Series:
  • Activities of Surgical Consultants, Volume I
  • Activities of Surgical Consultants, Volume II
  • General Surgery, Volume I
  • General Surgery, Volume II
  • Hand Surgery
  • Neurosurgery, Volume I
  • Neurosurgery, Volume II
  • Opthamology and Otolaryngology
  • Orthopedic Surgery in the Mediterranean Theater of Operations
  • Orthopedic Surgery in the European Theater of Operations
  • Orthopedic Surgery in the Zone of the Interior
  • The Physiologic Effects of Wounds
  • Thoracic Surgery, Volume I
  • Thoracic Surgery, Volume II
  • Vascular Surgery

• Theaters:
  • China-Burma-India Theater:
    • Crisis Fleeting
  • European Theater of Operations:
  • From the Roer to the Elbe with the 1st Medical Group
  • 643d Medical Clearing Company, 1944--D Day
  • Interview with Major Albert J. Crandall, M.C., 3d Auxiliary Surgical Group
  • North African-Mediterranean Theater of Operations:
  • Pacific Ocean Area:
  • Interview with COL Paul H. Streit, M.C., Surgeon, Central Pacific Base Command
  • Southwest Pacific Area (SWPA) Theater:
  • Papuan Campaign
  • Portable Surgical Hospitals
  • 3d Portable Surgical Hospital
  • Interview with LTC William J. Shaw, M.C., Division Surgeon, 41st Infantry Division
• The Quartermaster Corps: Organization, Supply, and Services, Volume I
• The Quartermaster Corps: Organization, Supply, and Services, Volume II
• The Quartermaster Corps: Operations in the War Against Japan
• The Quartermaster Corps: Operations in the War Against Germany

• The Signal Corps: The Emergency (To December 1941)
• The Signal Corps: The Test (December 1941 to July 1943)
• The Signal Corps: The Outcome (Mid-1943 Through 1945)

• The Transportation Corps: Responsibilities, Organization, and Operations
• The Transportation Corps: Movements, Training, and Supply
• The Transportation Corps: Operations Overseas

Special Studies:

• Chronology, 1941-1945
• Buying Aircraft: Materiel Procurement for the Army Air Forces
• Civil Affairs: Soldiers Become Governors [CMH]
  (Also The U.S. Army in the Occupation of Germany, 1944-1946)
• The Employment of Negro Troops [CMH]
• Military Relations Between the United States and Canada: 1939-1945
• Rearming the French
• Three Battles: Arnaville, Altuzzo, and Schmidt
• Manhattan: The Army and the Atomic Bomb
• The Women's Army Corps [CMH]

Pictorial Record:

• The War Against Germany and Italy: Mediterranean and Adjacent Areas
• The War Against Germany: Europe and Adjacent Areas
• The War Against Japan