World War II: Navy and Marine Corps Aircraft After Action Reports of Activity in the Pacific 1944-45

Description

A Meta-Analysis of WWII Pacific After-Action Reports

World War II: Navy and Marine Corps Aircraft After Action Reports of Activity in the Pacific 1944-45

39,083 pages of after-action reports covering United States Navy and Marine Corps aircraft land-based activity in the Pacific from 1944 and 1945. The reports were created by the United States War Department, U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey, Pacific Survey, Intelligence Branch. This collection is drawn from material held at the National Archives at College Park, MD 20740-6001.

Each Navy and Marine Corps aircraft action report is a combination narrative and statistical reports on five sheets divided into thirteen headings that give, among other information, the name of the unit reporting; its home base; the name, date, and time of the mission; number of aircraft employed; aircraft and personnel casualties; Japanese aircraft damaged or destroyed; antiaircraft encountered; attacks on Japanese ships or ground objectives; and a tactical and operational analysis of the mission.

The reports are arranged alphabetically by squadron and group acronym designations, thereunder by squadron or group number, and thereunder by report number. There is a small number of related miscellaneous records at the end of this series.