Subject Files, 1940–1958

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Subject Files, 1940–1958

1940-1958

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/2655147

This series consists of press releases, newspaper clippings, magazine clippings, photographs, reports, publications, correspondence, memorandums, maps, media/press transcripts, press kits, publications from congressional hearings, and field manuals. Press releases comprise a significant portion of the records. The records cover a wide variety of military and civilian subject areas, including: military operations; foreign policy; treaties; foreign military and country profiles; training and education, including the Naval Academy; the naval Women's Reserve; minority groups; social conditions; naval customs and courtesies; uniform regulations; medicine and surgery; and naval history. Organizational charts are found within files relating to the Chief of Naval Operations and ship organization. This series also contains a topographic map of the former Japanese puppet state Manchoukuo in China. The 1932 edition map was compiled, printed and published by M. Kobayashi and Company, Tokyo, Japan.

77 linear feet, 10 linear inches

eng, Latn

National Archives at College Park

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National Archives at College Park

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