| Pacific War Reports of the USSBS |
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| OFFICE OF THE CHAIRMAN | ||
| 1 Summary Report (Pacific War) | ||
| In the Pacific War series this is the capstone report. Not as extensive as the European "Over-All Report" but more substance than the European "Summary Report." iii+32 pages of text + 2 large color foldout maps. | ||
| 2 Japan’s Struggle to End the War | ||
| Much has been discovered since this was written and it can no longer be considered as definitive. v+36pp. | ||
| 3 The Effects of Atomic Bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. | ||
| v+43pp. | ||
| CIVILIAN DEFENSE DIVISION | ||
| 4 Field Reports Covering Air-Raid Protection and Allied Subjects, Tokyo, Japan | ||
| 5 Field Reports Covering Air-Raid Protection and Allied Subjects in Nagasaki, Japan | ||
| 6 Field Reports Covering Air-Raid Protection and Allied Subjects in Kyoto, Japan | ||
| 7 Field Reports Covering Air-Raid Protection and Allied Subjects in Kobe, Japan | ||
| 8 Field Reports Covering Air-Raid Protection and Allied Subjects in Osaka, Japan | ||
| 9 Civilian Defense Report No. 1: Hiroshima, Japan Field Report | ||
| 10 Summary Report Covering Air-Raid Protection and Allied Subjects in Japan | ||
| 11 Final Report Covering Air-Raid Protection and Allied Subjects in Japan Medical Division | ||
| 12 The Effects of Bombing on Health and Medical Services in Japan | ||
| 13 The Effects of Atomic Bombs on Health and Medical Services in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. | ||
| MORALE DIVISION | ||
| 14 The Effects of Strategic Bombing on Japanese Morale | ||
| AIRCRAFT DIVISION | ||
| 15 The Japanese Aircraft Industry | ||
| Full details of industry, production, and bombing effects. Extensive statistical tables. v+168 pages of text, tables and graphics. | ||
| 16 Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (Mitsubishi Jukogyo KK) Corporation Report No. I (Airframes and Engines) | ||
| 17 Nakajima Aircraft Co., Ltd. (Nakajima Hikoki KK) Corporation Report No. II (Airframes and Engines) | ||
| 18 Kawanishi Aircraft Co. (Kawanishi Kokuki Kabushiki Kaisha) Corporation Report No. III (Airframes) | ||
| 19 Kawasaki Aircraft Industries Co., Inc (Kawasaki Kokuki Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha) Corporation Report No. IV (Airframes and Engines) | ||
| 20 Aichi Aircraft Co. (Aichi Kokuki KK) Corporation Report No. V (Airframes and Engines) | ||
| 21 Sumitomo Metal Industries, Propeller Division (Sumitomo Kinzoku Kogyo KK, Puropera Seizosho) Corporation Report No. VI (Propellers) | ||
| 22 Hitachi Aircraft Co. (Hitachi Kokuki KK) Corporation Reports No. VII (Airframes and Engines) | ||
| 23 Japan International Air Industries, Ltd. (Nippon Kokusai Koku Kogyo KK) Corporation Report No. VIII (Airframes) | ||
| 24 Japan Musical Instrument Manufacturing Co. (Nippon Gakki Seizo KK) Corporation Report No. IX (Propellers) | ||
| 25 Tachikawa Aircraft Co. (Tachikawa Hikoki KK) Corporation Report No. X (Airframes) | ||
| 26 Fuji Airplane Co., (Fuji Hikoki KK) Corporation Report No. XI (Airframes) | ||
| 27 Showa Airplane Co. (Showa Hikoki Kogyo KK) Corporation Report No. XII (Airframes) | ||
| 28 Ishikawajima Aircraft Industries Co., Ltd. (Ishikawajima Koku Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha) Corporation Report No. XIII (Engines) | ||
| 29 Nippon Airplane Co. (Nippon Hikoki KK) Corporation Report No. XIV (Airframes) | ||
| 30 Kyushu Airplane Co. (Kyushu Hikoki KK) Corporation Report No. XV | ||
| 31 Shoda Engineering Co. (Shoda Seisakujo) Corporation Report No. XVI (Components) | ||
| 32 Mitaka Aircraft Industries (Mitaka Koku Kogyo Kabushiski Kaisha) Corporation Report No. XVII (Components) | ||
| 33 Nissan Automobile Co. (Nissan Jidosha KK) Corporation Report No. XVIII (Engines) | ||
| 34 Army Air Arsenal and Navy Air Depots Corporation Reports No. XIX (Airframes and Engines) | ||
| 35 Underground Production of Japanese Aircraft Report No. XX | ||
| BASIC MATERIALS DIVISION | ||
| 36 Coals and Metals in Japan’s War Economy | ||
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v+210pp |
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| CAPITAL GOODS, EQUIPMENT, AND CONSTRUCTION DIVISION | ||
| 37 The Japanese Construction Industry | ||
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vi+43pp |
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| 38 Japanese Electrical Equipment | ||
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iv+47pp |
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| 39 The Japanese Machine Building Industry | ||
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vii+37pp |
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| ELECTRIC POWER DIVISION | ||
| 40 The Electric Power Industry of Japan | ||
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vii+152pp |
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| 41 The Electric Power Industry of Japan (plant reports) | ||
| MANPOWER, FOOD, AND CIVILIAN SUPPLIES DIVISION | ||
| 42 The Japanese Wartime Standard of Living and Utilization of Manpower | ||
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xi+141pp |
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| MILITARY SUPPLIES DIVISION | ||
| 43 Japanese War Production Industries | ||
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Summarizes all war production industries at top level. Many statistical tables. iv+17 pages of text and tables. 15,700 words. |
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| 44 Japanese Naval Ordnance | ||
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Full details of industry, production, and bombing effects. All naval ordnance and equipment except ships themselves. Extensive statistical tables. v+24 pages of text, tables and graphics. 18,000 words. |
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| 45 Japanese Army Ordnance | ||
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Full details of industry, production, and bombing effects. All army ordnance and equipment including tanks and trucks. Extensive statistical tables. iv+26 pages of text, tables and graphics. 23,000 words. |
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| 46 Japanese Naval Shipbuilding | ||
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Full details of industry, production, and bombing effects. iv+18 pages of text, tables and graphics. 16,500 words. |
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| 47 Japanese Motor Vehicle Industry | ||
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Full details of industry, production, and bombing effects. Much information on both prewar and wartime development of what was to become one of the world's greatest automotive industries. Extensive statistical tables. iv+10 pages of text and tables. 11,200 words. |
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| 48 Japanese Merchant Shipbuilding | ||
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Full details of industry, production, and bombing effects. Much information on both prewar and wartime development of what was to become for some years the world's greatest shipbuilding industry. Extensive statistical tables. iv+47 pages of text and tables. 31,100 words. |
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| OIL AND CHEMICAL DIVISION | ||
| 49 Chemicals in Japan’s War | ||
| 50 Chemicals in Japan’s War, appendix to the report of the Oil and Chemical Division | ||
| 51 Oil in Japan’s War | ||
| 52 Oil in Japan’s War, appendix to the report of the Oil and Chemical Division | ||
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Full story of the industry, damage, oil stocks, and production. ii+283 pages of text, tables and graphics. 113,500 words. |
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| OVERALL ECONOMIC EFFECTS DIVISION | ||
| 53 The Effects of Strategic Bombing on Japan’s War Economy, with appendixes A, B, and C | ||
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Comprehensive analysis of all aspects of Japan's war economy, drawing on the findings of many lower-level reports. The appendixes cover (A) an analysis of the extent to which U.S. intelligence did and did not accurately assess the economy, (B) the first estimates of Japan's GNP (since superseded by later work) and (C) 205 detailed statistical tables. ix+231 pages of text, tables and graphics. 137,500 words. |
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| TRANSPORTATION DIVISION | ||
| 54 The War Against Japanese Transportation, 1941-45 | ||
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Covers all aspects of transportation -- including rail as well as seaborne -- and all means of attack. In-depth description of pre-war history of transportation and its economic significance (since Meiji times) with extensive statistics. Sequence of 16 color foldout maps shows progress of anti-shipping campaign, with location and cause of every sinking. v+139pages of text, tables and graphics + 27 large foldout charts. 91,200 words. |
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| URBAN AREAS DIVISION | ||
| 55 Effects of Air Attack on Japanese Urban Economy, summary report | ||
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ix+79pp |
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| 56 Effects of Air Attack on Urban Complex Tokyo-Kawasaki-Yokohama | ||
| 57 Effects of Air Attack on the City of Nagoya | ||
| 58 Effects of Air Attack on Osaka-Kobe-Kyoto | ||
| 59 Effects of Air Attack on the City of Nagasaki | ||
| 60 Effects of Air Attack on the City of Hiroshima | ||
| MILITARY ANALYSIS DIVISION | ||
| 61 Air Forces Allied with the United States in the War Against Japan | ||
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Includes operational statistics on all allied air forces against Japan as well as brief narratives. iv+13 pages of text and tables. 9,100 words. |
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| 62 Japanese Air Power | ||
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Comprehensive account with extensive statistics on all aspects of Japanese air forces and their operations. The only attempt to reconcile scattered available data on Japanese aircraft inventory, production, and losses. Extensive data on pilot training and losses. vii+80 pages of text, tables and graphics + 3 foldout charts. 47,800 words. |
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| 63 Japanese Air Weapons and Tactics | ||
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Topics: Japanese technology, army-navy cooperation, technical aid from Germany, aircraft, jet and rocket propulsion, special attack weapons, ramming tactics against B–29s, Jap fighter vs. the B–29, machine guns and cannon, offset-firing fighter armament, specialized bombs and bombing, torpedoes, air-launched rockets, guided missiles and proximity fuzes, aircraft armor, electronics, the paper balloons, and "death ray". vi+71 pages of text, tables and graphics. 26,800 words. |
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| 64 The Effect of Air Action on Japanese Ground Army Logistics | ||
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Unique comprehensive study of all aspects of Japanese Army logistics, with extensive data and interviews with key Japanese officers. vii+186 pages of text, tables and graphics + 5 foldout charts. 80,200 words. |
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| 65 Employment of Forces Under the Southwest Pacific Command | ||
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Essentially a command history narrative of MacArthur's Southwest Pacific Area (SWPA) Command from first to last. v+60 pages of text. 46,700 words. |
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| 66 The Strategic Air Operations of Very Heavy Bombardment in the War Against Japan | ||
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Comprehensive account of B-29 operations with extensive statistics. vi+36 pages of text, tables, and graphics. vi+36 pages of text, tables, and graphics. 22,400 words. |
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| 67 Air Operations in China, Burma, India, World War II | ||
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Command history of General Claire Chennault's forces, including American Volunteer Group ("Flying Tigers"), with statistics and maps. v+102 pages of text, tables, and graphics. 66,900 words. |
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| 68 The Air Transport Command in the War Against Japan | ||
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Story of the first large-scale long-distance airlift network. v+13 pages of text, tables and graphics. v+13 pages. 6,800 words. |
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| 69 The 13th Air Force in the War Against Japan | ||
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MacArthur's "other air force," command history with maps & statistics. v+19 pages of text, tables and graphics + 5 foldout charts. 15,900 words. |
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| 70 The 7th and 11th Air Forces in the War Against Japan | ||
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The Central Pacific and Aleutian air forces.vii+50 pages of text, tables and graphics. |
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| 71 The 5th Air Force in the War Against Japan | ||
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MacArthur's main air arm under the amazingly resourceful General George Kenney. Many maps including series of 5 color foldouts tracing the history of the air war in SWPA. vi+106 pages of text, tables and graphics + 9 foldout charts. 29,700 words. |
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| 71a Air Campaigns of the Pacific War | ||
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Argues dominant role of Army air power in Pacific War, with series of 4 foldout color maps tracing course of the war. vi+70 pages of text and tables + 4 foldout charts. 45,700 words. |
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| NAVAL ANALYSIS DIVISION | ||
| 72 Interrogations of Japanese Officials, vols I and II. | ||
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Transcripts of 108 interrogations, most of Japanese naval officers, about naval war in Pacific, with many maps, diagrams, and tables. Includes bio sketches of those interrogated. xv+286+v+290 pages of text, tables, and graphics + 5 foldout charts. 340,500 words. |
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| 73 The Campaigns of the Pacific War | ||
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Somewhat uneven coverage of naval (only) campaigns. xv+389 pages of text, tables, and graphics + charts. |
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| xxx The Air Effort Against Japan (Withdrawn; not officially issued) | ||
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Covers all aspects of naval air operations, with extensive statistics. Never published due to Air Force opposition. iii+121 pages of text, tables and graphics + 17 charts.29,200 words. |
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| 74 The Reduction of Wake Island | ||
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Includes interrogations, maps (some poorly reproduced), photos, and diagrams. iii+126 pages. |
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| 75 The Allied Campaign Against Rabaul | ||
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Includes interrogations, maps (some poorly reproduced), photos, and diagrams. ix+128 pages of text, tables, and graphics. 94,000 words. |
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| 76 The American Campaign Against Wotje, Maloelap, Mille, and Jaluit | ||
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Includes interrogations, maps (some poorly reproduced), photos, and diagrams. iv+370 pages. |
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| 77 The Reduction of Truk | ||
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v+21 pages. |
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| 78 The Offensive Mine Laying Campaign Against Japan | ||
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vi+123 pages. |
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| 79 Ships’ bombardment of Japan, 1945 Report of Ships’ Bombardment Survey Party, contents, introduction, conclusions, general summary | ||
| 80 Kamaishi, Naval Bombardments, 14 July and 9 August 1945 Report of Ships’ Bombardment Survey Party, enclosure (A) | ||
| 81 Hamamatsu, Naval Bombardment, 29-30 July 1945 Report of Ships’ Bombardment Survey Party, enclosure (B) | ||
| 82 Hitachi, Naval Bombardment, 17-18 July 1945 Report of Ships’ Bombardment Survey Party, enclosure (C) | ||
| 83 Hakodate, Naval Air Strikes, 14-15 July 1945 Report of Ships’ Bombardment Survey Party, enclosure (D) | ||
| 84 Muroran, Naval Bombardment Survey Party, enclosure (E) | ||
| 85 Shimizu, Naval Bombardment, 31July 1945 Report of Ships’ Bombardment Survey party, enclosure (F) | ||
| 86 Shionomisaki, Naval Bombardment, 24-25 July 1945 Nojima Saki, Naval Bombardment, 18-19 July 1945 Report of Ships’ Bombardment Survey Party, enclosures (G) and (H) | ||
| 87-88 Comments and Data on Effectiveness of Ammunition and Accuracy of Firings Ships’ Bombardments, July-Aug 1945 Report of Ships’ Bombardment Survey Party, enclosures (I) and (J) | ||
| 89 Effects of Surface Bombardments on Japanese War Potential Ships’ Bombardments, July-Aug 1945 Report of Ships’ Bombardment Survey Party, enclosure (K). | ||
| PHYSICAL DAMAGE DIVISION | ||
| 90 Effects of Incendiary Bomb Attacks on Japan (a report on eight cities) | ||
| 91 The Effects of the Ten-Thousand-Pound Bomb on Japanese Targets ( a report on nine incidents) | ||
| 92 Effects of the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. | ||
| 93 Effects of the Atomic Bomb on Nagasaki, Japan | ||
| 94 Effects of the Four-Thousand-Pound Bomb on Japanese Targets (a report on nine incidents) | ||
| 95 Effects of Two-Thousand-, One-Thousand-, and Five-Hundred-Pound Bombs on Japanese Targets (a report on eight incidents) | ||
| 96 A Report on Physical Damage in Japan (summary report) | ||
| G-2 (INTELLIGENCE) | ||
| 97 Japanese Military and Naval Intelligence Division, Japanese Intelligence Section, G-2 | ||
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Describes and analyzes all aspects of Japanese military and naval intelligence. vi+124 pages of text, tables and graphics. 77,000 words. |
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| 98 Evaluation of Photographic Intelligence in the Japanese Homeland Part I: Comprehensive Report | ||
| 99 Evaluation of Photographic Intelligence in the Japanese Homeland Part II: Airfields | ||
| 100 Evaluation of Photographic Intelligence in the Japanese Homeland Part III: Computed Bomb Plotting | ||
| 101 Evaluation of Photographic Intelligence in the Japanese Homeland Part IV: Urban Area Analysis | ||
| 102 Evaluation of Photographic Intelligence in the Japanese Homeland Part V: Camouflage, Concealment, and Deception | ||
| 103 Evaluation of Photographic Intelligence in the Japanese Homeland Part VI: Shipping | ||
| 104 Evaluation of Photographic Intelligence in the Japanese Homeland Part VII: Electronics | ||
| 105 Evaluation of Photographic Intelligence in the Japanese Homeland Part VIII: Beach Intelligence | ||
| 106 Evaluation of Photographic Intelligence in the Japanese Homeland Part IX: Coast and Antiaircraft Artillery | ||
| 107 Evaluation of Photographic Intelligence in the Japanese Homeland Part X: Roads and Railroads | ||
| 108 Evaluation of Photographic Intelligence in the Japanese Homeland. Part XI: Industrial Analysis. | ||
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| Updated July 2008 |