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US STRATEGIC BOMBING SURVEY: report on the civil defences in Hamburg, Germany, 1945

  • MISC34
  • Collection
  • 1945

US Strategic Bombing Survey, Civil Defense Division, report entitled Target Report of Civilian Defense Division Field Team No 82, covering air-raid protection facilities and allied subjects in the city of Hamburg, Germany, 1945. The report is in two volumes. The first volume contains the field report of the US Strategic Bombing Survey, Civil Defense Division, and includes information on the organisation and operation of German civil defence, including fire control and incident control precautions; German passive defence installations and precautions, including gas protection and camouflage; information on German evacuation techniques and civil defence training measures. The second volume contains photographic, manuscript, and typescript exhibits for the first volume. Included in the second volume are population figures of Hamburg, 1940-1945; damage statistics for dwellings, cultural buildings, and industrial buildings, 1940-1945; statistics on those killed during the bombing of Hamburg, 1940-1945; organisation of German anti-aircraft divisions; organisational chart of German air raid personnel; photographs of oil refinery and storage fires caused during Allied bombing raids in Jul 1943; photographs of civilians killed during Allied bombing raid in Jul 1943; translation of German instructional regulations on how to handle the dead; report on the activities of German medical and emergency personnel; statistics on the heavy raids on Hamburg, 24 Jul-3 Aug 1943; reports of interviews with German civil servants, police and fire personnel, and air defence personnel.

US STATE DEPARTMENT SPECIAL FILES: Korea, 1950-1957

  • MF441-MF451
  • Collection
  • 1950-1957

A themed microfilm collection containing copies of messages, telegrams, and reports sent from US Department of State personnel to the United States Executive Branch relating to civil, military, and political events in Korea, 1950-1957.

US STATE DEPARTMENT INTELLIGENCE REPORTS ON EAST AND SOUTH EAST ASIA, 1950-1961

  • MF516-MF522
  • Collection
  • 1950-1961

OSS/State Department Intelligence and Research Reports: Japan, Korea, Southeast Asia, and the Far East Generally: 1950-1961 Supplement is a themed microfilm collection relating to US State Department evaluations of the Far East, 1950-1961. The documents in the collection are copies of official State Department reports sent to the Executive Branch of the US government concerning the social, economic, and political stability of nations in the Far East, including Burma, Cambodia, Indo-China, Indonesia, Japan, North Korea, South Korea, Laos, Malaya, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, North Vietnam, South Vietnam, and the Far East region generally. Regional reports include estimate of the political, economic, and military position of the Mutual Defense Assistance Program in the Far East, 1950; the economic importance of trade with the Soviet Bloc and the non-communist Far East, 1952; developments in the Asian Socialist Movement, 1952; economic conditions and short-term prospects for Japan and the Far East generally, 1952; Sino- Soviet economic efforts to penetrate non-communist Asia, 1955; prospects for US and British bases in the Far East, 1955; attitudes of Asian and Australasian countries towards the South East Asia Treaty Organisation (SEATO); the Asian People's Anti-Communist League, 1957. Nation reports include psychological factors involved in US informational activities in Burma, 1951; the Burma Communist Party efforts to form an insurgent united front, 1952; Burma's rice marketing dilemma, 1953; Burmese economic relations with the Soviet bloc, 1956; the Cambodian political crisis, 1953; Cambodia's recognition of the People's Republic of China, 1958; prospects for a negotiated settlement of the Indo- China War, 1953; US oil interests in Indonesia, 1950; analysis of Communist propaganda in Indonesia, 1952; the Indonesian Army revolt in Sumatra, 1957; summaries of trade agreements with Indonesia and the Soviet bloc, 1957; Indonesian territorial claims, 1958; the rebellion in Indonesia, 1958; Japanese public attitude towards its Peace Treaty obligations, 1950; Japanese public attitudes towards the rearmament of Japan, 1950; increased vulnerability of Japan to Soviet overtures, 1953; trends in Japan's Self Defence Program, 1955; domestic political developments in Japan, 1956- 1960; the North Korean political system, 1950; the effect of the bacteriological warfare campaign in North Korea, 1952; the North Korean economy, 1952-1960; North Korea and its 'Great Leap Forward', its self- proclaimed political, social, and economic revolution, 1958; international recognition of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, 1961; political trends in South Korea, 1950- 1960; land reform in South Korea, 1953; the political leadership in South Korea after Syngman Rhee, 1960; communist prospects in Malaya and British Borneo, 1955; estimate of Hukbalahap rebel strengths in the Philippines, 1950; the resurgence of anti-American sentiments in the Philippines, 1955; the attempted coup d-état in Thailand, 1951; rumours of forthcoming political crises in Thailand, 1956-1960; political and economic prospects for North Vietnam under the leadership of Nguyen Van Tam, 1952; the status of the South Vietnamese economy, 1951-1960; probable political and social developments in South Vietnam 1955-1956; increased communist strength in South Vietnam, 1961.

US NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL: minutes of meetings, with special advisory reports

  • MF82-MF84; MF283-MF285
  • Collection
  • 1947-1960

Minutes of Meetings of the National Security Council, with Special Advisory Reports are microfilmed copies of meeting minutes and Special Advisory Reports undertaken by the US National Security Council, 1947-1960. Material in the collection relates to US strategic nuclear forces capabilities, 1947-60; US policy with respect to Japan, the Soviet Union, China, 1948-49; military assistance to non-communist nations, 1948-49; US policy on atomic warfare, 1948; the Berlin Blockade; the United Nations decision to introduce military forces to Palestine, 1948; US policy towards Soviet satellite states in Eastern Europe, 1949; US courses of action with respect to the Republic of Korea, 1950-1953; responsibilities of the Central Intelligence Agency with respect to guerrilla warfare, 1952; US policy and courses of action to counter possible Soviet or satellite action against Berlin, 1952; US objectives and actions to exploit the unrest in the Soviet satellite states, 1953; US courses of action with respect to Latin America, Iran and South Asia, 1953-85; covert operations, 1954-75; nuclear attack warning channel and procedures for civilians, 1955-65; the political implications of Afro-Asian military take-overs, 1959; and US policy towards Cuba, 1959-60. Special Advisory Reports concern Europe, the Soviet Union and its satellites, Latin America, Japan, The Middle East, the People's Republic of China, South East Asia, Angola, North Africa, 1947-1960.

HAMILTON, Gen Sir Ian Standish Monteith (1853-1947)

  • HAMILTON, ISM
  • Collection
  • 1814-2015

Papers, 1814-2015, relating to Hamilton's life, military career and activities. The collection specifically includes correspondence, 1852-1899; diaries and notebooks, 1870-1899; printed correspondence and speeches of FM Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts of Kandahar, Waterford and Pretoria, 1878-1893; diaries kept during the siege of Ladysmith, South Africa, 1899-1900; personal and official correspondence during the Second Boer War, 1899-1902, including Hamilton's letters to FM Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts of Kandahar, Waterford and Pretoria, 1901-1902, and operational correspondence of 10 Div and Hamilton's Force, 1900; Hamilton's diaries of the Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905 and related correspondence, 1902-1905; publications of the Royal Commissions on the war in South Africa and on the Militia and Volunteers, 1903-1904; correspondence as General Officer Commanding Southern Command, 1905-1909, and related official papers; correspondence as General Officer Commanding Mediterranean Command and Inspector General of Overseas Forces, 1910-1914, including papers relating to compulsory and voluntary military service, official reports on overseas forces, and correspondence relating to Hamilton's tours of the West Indies, South Africa, the Far East, Canada, Australia and New Zealand; correspondence as Commander-in-Chief Central Force, Home Defence, 1914-1915; papers as General Officer Commanding Mediterranean Expeditionary Force on Gallipoli, 1915, including correspondence with FM Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum and Broome, and the War Office, Rt Hon Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill MP, Lt Gen Sir John Grenfell Maxwell and Lt Gen Sir William Riddell Birdwood; papers relating to Ellis Ashmead Bartlett and Keith Arthur Murdoch, war correspondents on Gallipoli; papers relating to operations at Suvla Bay and Sari Bair, Aug-Sep 1915, and to the efficiency of commanding officers; papers relating to Hamilton's despatches from Gallipoli, and to recommendations for decorations; official despatches, 1914-1919; force orders, intelligence bulletins and other papers of General Headquarters, Mediterranean Expeditionary Force; papers relating to Hamilton's Gallipoli diary; maps and official photographs of the Gallipoli Campaign; depositions of witnesses given to the Dardanelles Commission, with related correspondence, 1916-1919; correspondence with the War Office, 1917-1938; correspondence as Colonel of the Gordon Highlanders, 1912-1949; correspondence relating to ex-servicemen, the British Legion, and to war memorials, 1916-1949; correspondence and papers as Lord Rector of Edinburgh University, 1932-1936; correspondence with major military, political and literary acquaintances, including Rt Hon Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill MP, Rt Hon Richard Burdon Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane of Cloan, Capt Sir Basil Henry Liddell Hart, John Masefield, FM Sir William Robert Robertson, and senior officers associated with the Gallipoli Campaign, 1916-1949; correspondence relating to the Anglo-German Association and to Anglo-German relations, 1928-1947; correspondence with members of the public and relatives, 1908-1948; business and financial correspondence, 1913-1947; correspondence relating to Hamilton's estate and his literary executors, 1948-1969; papers relating to Hamilton's publications, 1872-1948; speeches, articles and letters to the press, 1918-1947; scrapbooks and press cuttings, 1883-1971; photographs, 1855-1947; publications and other printed material, 1814-1966; diaries, correspondence and publications of Hamilton's wife, Jean Miller Hamilton, Lady Hamilton, 1869-1940; correspondence of Eleanor Charlotte Sellar, 1896-1934, including correspondence with Hamilton, FM Sir George Stuart White and FM Sir Neville Bowles Chamberlain.

Hamilton, Sir Ian Standish Monteith, 1853-1947, Knight, General