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Journal of Government Information, Vol. 23, No. 2, pp. 109–117, 1999 Copyright © 1999 Elsevier Science Ltd Printed in the USA. All rights reserved 1352-0237/99 $–see front matter
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A PERIOD OF TRANSITION: FOUNDATION PUBLICATIONS OF THE U.S. NATIONAL MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT RODNEY A. ROSS* Center for Legislative Archives, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, DC 20408-0001, USA. Internet: [email protected]
Abstract — Through an examination of the scope and arrangement pattern of the federal government’s publications issued by the Army, Navy, and Air Force during the period of the so-called National Military Establishment, 1947–1949, one can gain an understanding of the workings of the Superintendent of Documents classification scheme. U.S. government depository libraries hold copies of many of the publications identified in the article. However, the article’s focus is on the record copies held by the National Archives within Record Group 287, Publications of the U.S. Government. An integral feature of the article is an appendix that lists more than 100 series with their respective SuDocs identification numbers. The author discusses the most significant of these series and introduces the lay reader to search methodologies for locating specific publications. © 1999 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved. Keywords — U.S. National Archives, U.S. National Military Establishment (1947–1949), U.S. Superintendent of Documents (SuDocs), U.S. Government Publications, U.S. Government Depository Libraries
INTRODUCTION The National Security Act of 1947 created the National Military Establishment—a short-lived federal executive branch agency for the Army, Navy, and Air Force that spanned the months between the demise of the separate War and Navy Departments in 1947 and the establishment of the Department of Defense in 1949. An often overlooked legacy of the National Military Establishment is its publications, many of which are available in U.S. government depository libraries across the nation. At the National Archives these publications are a part of the Archives holdings within Record Group 287, Publications of the U.S. Government. NATIONAL ARCHIVES COLLECTION OF PUBLICATIONS OF THE U.S. GOVERNMENT Although publications in this record group date from the very beginning of the federal government, the collection itself dates only from 1895 with the establishment of the *Since 1988, Rodney Ross has served as an archivist with the Center for Legislative Archives with the U.S. National Archives where he provides reference assistance for Record Group 287, Publications of the U.S. Government. His only other library-related publication was “Using the U.S. Congressional Serial Set for the Study of Western History,” Western Historical Quarterly (Summer 1994). Ross received a Ph.D. in American history from the University of Chicago in 1975. 109
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office of the Superintendent of Documents (SuDocs) within the U.S. Government Printing Office. The SuDocs office created a library classification system for U.S. government publications and assembled a library collection with copies obtained from both government and non-government sources. After 1895 the SuDocs office added works to this collection as a by-product of its cataloging and classification operations. The office identified items ultimately destined for its library collection both in the Document Catalog, published between 1893 and 1940, and in the Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications, published since 1895. In 1972 the U.S. Government Printing Office transferred the collection, then known as the Public Documents Library, to the National Archives, and over the years has augmented the collection with multi-year blocks of additional publications. The collection itself consists of nearly all forms of publications, including multi-volume sets of books and magazines, monographs, guides, manuals, circulars, bulletins, indexes, reports, regulations, maps, charts, and posters. The National Archives initially treated the collection as a part of Record Group 149, Records of the Government Printing Office. In 1976 the National Archives formally separated the collection from Record Group 149 and transformed it into Record Group 287. Since 1988 the Center for Legislative Archives, whose custodial responsibilities previously included records of the United States Senate, the United States House of Representatives, and the Government Printing Office, has had custodial responsibility for Record Group 287. Given that the Government Printing Office is a legislative agency, it follows that its products should be administered by that part of the National Archives which has responsibility for records of the legislative branch. USE OF NATIONAL MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT PUBLICATIONS The result is that reference archivists with the Center for Legislative Archives often receive inquiries from researchers searching for Army Technical Manuals for World War II-era radio equipment, Korean War-era generators, or Vietnam War-era trucks. Other researchers contact the Center in search of Tables of Organization and Equipment to be used in connection with unit reunions, or for Army Regulations cited on their discharge papers. SUDOCS CLASSIFICATION AND THE NATIONAL MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT Army Technical Manuals, Tables of Organization and Equipment, and Army Regulations are three series within the alphanumeric SuDocs classification system. The term “series” in this sense is that used by libraries, rather than by archives, and can be defined as a sequence of usually continuously numbered issues or volumes of a publication. The SuDocs system serves as a classification scheme for federal government publications in much the same way as the Dewey Decimal classification scheme or the Library of Congress classification scheme provides library arrangement patterns for most other publications. The SuDocs system groups together publications by government corporate authors, with the initial identifier—at least for executive branch agencies—as an alphabetical designation for the cabinet-level entities, such as “A” for the Agriculture Department, “C” for the Commerce Department, “D” for the Defense Department, and “W” for the War Department (1789–1947). This article focuses on “M” publications of the National Military Establishment (1947–1949).
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NATIONAL ARCHIVES HOLDINGS OF NATIONAL MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT PUBLICATIONS An essential feature of this article is the Appendix, a selective listing of holdings in Record Group 287 for National Military Establishment publication series arranged by SuDocs class stems. Class stems combine the alphanumeric designations for an agency with the series designation for particular publications. An example of a class stem is M 101.14 for General Court-Martial Orders with the “M 101” alpha-numeric designation for the issuing agency (the Department of the Army within the National Military Establishment) followed by the series designation of “14” for General Court-Martial Orders. Publications in Record Group 287 are record copies. They are identical to thousands of other copies printed and distributed by the Government Printing Office and other government agencies, but they are cared for as permanently valuable archives of the United States. They are stored in an archival controlled environment to retard deterioration; and they cannot be loaned. Should a researcher fail in locating the particular publication he or she seeks in a depository library and the National Archives holds the publication in Record Group 287, the researcher can view the record copy in the central research room in the National Archives Building and/or in most cases for a fee obtain a reproduction of the publication. Researchers should be aware that only one-half to twothirds of all U.S. government publications get “captured” within the SuDocs system. Although it has no direct bearing on a discussion of SuDocs M class publications, for 19th and early 20th century government publications, researchers should know that the Congressional Information Service, Inc. (CIS) has recently published a CIS Index to U.S. Executive Branch Documents, 1789–1909 [1], and accompanying microfiche. CIS currently is filming U.S. government publications for the period 1910–1932. Anyone interested in congressional publications that relate to the National Military Establishment may be interested in either congressional printed hearings or Senate and House of Representatives reports and documents as identified in the CIS Congressional Committee Hearings Index [2] and the CIS U.S. Serial Set Index [3]. Information in the Appendix utilizes the format of the Guide to U.S. Government Publications [4], published annually by the Documents Index of McLean, Virginia. The arrangement pattern for the Appendix is by administrative unit within the M SuDocs category, beginning with publications from the secretary’s office, and continuing with publications from the now-defunct Munitions Board, the Department of the Army as a whole, and specific subdivisions within the Army, such as the Medical Department, the Historical Division, the Civil Affairs Division, and the Engineering Department. Following Army publications are publications of the Department of the Navy and its component parts, and following these are publications of the Department of the Air Force. ORGANIZATION OF NATIONAL MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT PUBLICATIONS Those class stems listed in the Appendix represent a summary of the beginning and end publications to be found in the various archives boxes held by the National Archives for Record Group 287 publications. Eliminated from the listing in the Appendix are class stems of publications that take up less than a full box, and are neither the first nor the last publication within a box. Thus the reader may wonder why there are citations for annual reports for the Secretary of Defense (M 1.1) and the Secretary of the
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Navy (M 201.1), but no citations for annual reports for the Secretary of the Army (M 101.1) or the Secretary of the Air Force (M 301.1). In point of fact, the Record Group 287 collection includes the M 1.1 annual reports for the Secretary of Defense for both fiscal years 1948 and 1949 (with the latter composed not only of the annual report of the Secretary of Defense, but also the annual reports of the Secretary of the Army, the Secretary of the Navy, and the Secretary of the Air Force). For fiscal year 1948 the annual reports for the three subordinate secretaries are to be found under M 101:948, M 201.948, and M 301.1:948. In terms of a basic overview of agency operations, nothing equals annual reports, especially those annual reports published in the last quarter of the 19th century. Whereas the Second Report of the Secretary of Defense and the Annual Reports of the Secretary of the Army, Secretary of the Navy, Secretary, Secretary of the Air Force for the Fiscal Year 1949 (M 1.1:949) is an inch thick, the annual report from the Secretary of War for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1898, as it appears in the Serial Set, is reproduced in nine volumes, which on a library shelf takes up nearly 23 linear inches. Of those nine volumes, six are devoted to activities of the Corps of Engineers. PREDECESSOR AND SUCCESSOR PUBLICATIONS OF THE NATIONAL MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT In turning to the Appendix, one notes that the great majority of series for the National Military Establishment are not unique to that government corporate author. Rather, most of the series have their origin as War Department or Navy Department publications and are continued as Defense Department publications. Thus within the Appendix there are a plethora of “earlier” Ws and Ns. With but few exceptions all of the “later” designations are for publications of the Department of Defense. The exceptions relate to three series of publications of the Civil Affairs Division which were continued as publications of the State Department, rather than the Defense Department: the Military Government Weekly Information Bulletin (M 105.8), the Report of United States Commissioner of Austria Military Government (M 105.10), and the Visiting Expert Series (M 105.19). Within publications of the Department of the Army proper, researchers will find the basic trinity of Army publications: Army Regulations (M 101.9), Field Manuals (M 101.17), and Technical Manuals (M 101.18). Other core Army publication series include General Orders (M 101.7), Special Orders (M 101.8), Supply Catalogs (M 101.12), Official Army and Air Force Register (M 101.19), Tables of Organization and Equipment (M 101.21), and Pamphlets (M 101.25). Since the Record Group 287 collection for the Army publications referred to in this paragraph have been augmented by accessions of publications from several non-SuDocs sources, the holdings of the National Archives for these specific series are more comprehensive than those held by any depository library. For a number of the series of the National Military Establishment listed in the paragraph above, the identification of individual publications can best be accomplished through the use of Department of the Army Field Manual FM 21-6: List and Index of Department of Army Publications (M 101.17:21-6). This publication, which during World War II was issued monthly and later was issued quarterly, enumerates Army technical and administrative publications in stock at the date of the issuance of the particular edition of FM 21-6. The back half of each of these FM 21-6 issuances is a subject index to the publications enumerated in the first half of the book. Due to the usefulness
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of these indices the National Archives has microfilmed its entire collection of FM 21-6 volumes and successor publications (SR 310-20-5, DA PAM 310-1, and DA PAM 3104) for the period 1940–1979. For details on these 29 rolls of microfilm, see National Archives Microfilm Publications Pamphlet describing M1641, Indexes and Lists to Army Technical and Administrative Publications, 1940–1979. SUBJECT MATTER OF NATIONAL MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT PUBLICATIONS It could well be that most readers of this article have little interest in basic Army technical and administrative issuances. However, the M class of publications also includes traditional histories, including works from the Army’s Historical Division, a predecessor of today’s Center of Military History. Within the SuDocs system the earliest volumes of the green-colored books which make up the series entitled United States Army in World War II can be found under M 103.7. Later volumes of this series can be found under D 114.7. Within each of these two series, Cutter numbers identify specific volumes. Researchers interested in the early years of the Cold War may find useful Army publications for the post-World War II occupation of Germany, Austria, Japan, and Korea. If one wished to examine each and every publication within RG 287 for the relevant M class occupation publications, the amount would be readily manageable. The Monthly Report of the Military Governor for Germany (M 105.7), comprises four archives boxes. Similarly, the Report of United States Commissioner of Austria Military Government (M 105.10) also comprises four archives boxes. For both Summation of Non-Military Activities in Japan (M 105.11) and South Korea Interim Government Activities (M 105.13), the National Archives holds less than three archives boxes for each. LOCATING NATIONAL MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT PUBLICATIONS Since the research strategy of examining everything within a given SuDocs series has limited applicability for most researchers, another approach—whatever one’s topic relating to federal publications—would be to consult the appropriate volume in the 15volume set Cumulative Subject Index to the Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications, 1900–1971. Under the listing for one’s topic, the researcher will see to the right of the succinct subject identifier a two-digit number in parentheses followed by a space and then a second number, usually of three, four, or five digits. The first number will be for the year of the Government Printing Office-issued Monthly Catalog of United States Publications. The second number will be to the sequential identification number for the item in question within that particular year’s Monthly Catalog volume (or for publications for the first third of the 20th century that identification number will be for the page on which the publication will be described for the particular year’s Monthly Catalog). The next step would be to go to the bound volume for the Monthly Catalog for the item or page number where one will find a full bibliographic description of the publication sought, including the publication’s SuDocs classification number. Take for example a researcher interested in publications relating to Korea during the period of the National Military Establishment. In turning to “Korea” within the Cumulative Subject Index to the Monthly Catalog of the United States Government Publications, 1900–1971 one finds a number of items with “48” and “49” in parentheses, includ-
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ing “aluminum metallurgy,” “books for re-education,” “child welfare report,” and “motion picture industry.” If one then looks up the items in the 1948 and 1949 volumes of the Monthly Catalog, one finds basic information about the four publications. “Aluminum metallurgy” is a 1947 work entitled Aluminum Metallurgy in the Japanese Empire with a SuDocs number from the Bureau of Mines within the Department of the Interior (I 28.39/2:19). “Books for re-education” is a several page handout of May 20, 1948, entitled “Printed Materials for Occupied Areas” from the Civil Affairs Division of the Army (M 105.2:P 93). “Child welfare report” is a brief mimeographed July 9, 1947, report by the Right Reverend Monsignor Edward Joseph Flanigan entitled Child Welfare Report (Japan and Korea) issued by the War Department with a SuDocs number of W 1.2:C 43. “Motion picture industry” is a four-page January 1949 publication entitled Motion Picture Industry in South Korea, part of the series entitled “Industrial Reference Service” of the now-defunct Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce within the Commerce Department with a SuDocs number of C 18.220:7/4-1. In addition to highlighting publications of the National Military Establishment, this article has attempted to clarify military publications in general and to provide an introduction to finding information about and access to SuDocs catalogued publications. For the National Archives the publications in Record Group 287 are unusual in that for this record group the National Archives has item-level control to the collection—thanks to the SuDocs classification system. That the National Archives holds the publications that comprise Record Group 287 underscores yet another reason why the agency is one of the federal government’s foremost cultural entities. NOTES 1. Congressional Information Service, CIS Index to U.S. Executive Branch Documents, 1789–1909 (Bethesda, MD: Congressional Information Service, 1990–). 2. Congressional Information Service, CIS Congressional Committee Hearings Index (Bethesda, MD: Congressional Information Service, 1981–). 3. Congressional Information Service, CIS U.S. Serial Set Index (Bethesda, MD: Congressional Information Service, 1975–). 4. Donna Andriot, ed., Guide to U.S. Government Publications (McLean, VA: Documents Index, Inc., 1973–).
APPENDIX SELECTED LISTINGS FOR PUBLICATIONS OF THE NATIONAL MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT (1947–1949) M 1.1:date Annual Reports M 1.2:CT General Publications (later D 1.2) M 1.6:CT Regulations, Rules, and Instructions M 1.7:date Telephone Directory, National Defense (earlier W 1.19; later D 1.7) M 1.8/2:nos. Armed Services Procurement Regulation Revisions (later D 1.13/2) Munitions Board M 5.2:CT General Publications (earlier M 401.2, later D 3.2) M 5.7:nos. Joint Army-Navy Standards (earlier N 20.28, later M 5.8, and later D 3.7) Department of the Army M 101.3:date&nos. Bulletins (earlier W 1.3, later D 101.3) M 101.4:date&nos. Circulars (earlier W 1.4/2, later D 101.4) M 101.7:date&nos. General Orders (earlier W 1.46, later D 101.7) M 101.8:date&nos. Special Orders (earlier W 1.48, later D 101.8)
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M 101.9:nos. Army Regulations (earlier W 1.6, later D 101.9) M 101.11:date Army Procurement Regulations (earlier W 109.8) M 101.12:sec.nos. Supply Catalogs (earlier W 1.67, later D 101.16) M 101.13:letters-nos. Technical Bulletins (earlier W 1.58, later D 101.25) M 101.14:date&nos. General Court-Martial Orders (earlier W 1 .51, later D 101.14) M 101.15:nos. Joint Army and Air Force Regulations M 101.17:nos. Field Manuals (earlier W 1.33, later D 101.20) M 101.18:nos. Technical Manuals (earlier W 1.35, later D 101.12) M 101.19:nos. Official Army and Air Force Register (later D 101.13) M 101.21:nos. Tables of Organization and Equipment (earlier W 1.44, later D 101.24) M 101.25:nos. Pamphlets (earlier W 1.43, later D 101.22) M 101.27:nos. Supply Bulletins (earlier W 1.61, later D 101.15) M 101.31:nos. Reduction Tables (later D 101.18) M 101.32:nos. Special Regulations (later D 101.10) Medical Department M 102.7:v.nos. Current List of Medical Literature (earlier W 44.30, later D 104.7) M 102.9:nos. Medical Department Equipment List (D 104.9) Historical Division M 103.2:CT General Publications (earlier W 110.2) M 103.7:CT United States Army in World War II (later D 114.7) M 103.9:nos. United States Army in World War, 1917–1919 Troop Information and Education Division M 104.2:CT General Publications (earlier W 111.2, later D 107.2) Civil Affairs Division M 105.2:CT General Publications M 105.7:nos. Monthly Report of the Military Governor for Germany (U.S.) M 105.8:nos. Military Government Weekly Information Bulletin (earlier W 1.72/5, later S 1.85) M 105.9:nos. Official Gazette of Control Council for Germany (earlier W 1.73) M 105.10:nos. Report of United States Commissioner of Austria Military Government—monthly (earlier W 1.73, later S 1.89 and S 1.89/2) M 105.11:nos. Summation of Non-Military Activities in Japan—monthly (earlier W 1.75) M 105.12:nos. Summation of United States Army Military Government Activity in Ryukyu—bimonthly (earlier W 1.78) M 105.13:nos. South Korea Interim Government Activities—monthly (replaces W 1.76) M 105.18:nos. European Recovery Program, Joint Report of United States and United Kingdom Military Governors—quarterly M 105.19:nos. Visiting Expert Series (later S 1.87) M 105.28:nos. Japanese Economic Statistics (later D 102.18) Intelligence Division M 106.2:CT General Publications (earlier W 100.2) Judge Advocate General of the Army M 107.3:v.nos. Bulletin of Judge Advocate General of Army (earlier W 10.3, later D 108.3) Adjutant General’s Office M 108.2:CT General Publications (earlier W 3.2, later D 102.2) M 108.80:v.nos. Recruiting Journal (later D 102.76) Military Academy M 109.2:CT General Publications (earlier W 12.2, later D 109.2) Engineer Department M 110.1:date Annual Reports (earlier W 7.1/1, later D 103.1) M 110.2:CT General Publications (earlier W 7.2, later D 103.2) M 110.9:date Index of Specifications used by Corps of Engineers (earlier W 7.18/4, later D 103.12) M 110.11:nos. Port Series (earlier W 7.21/2, later D 103.8) M 110.13:pt.nos&chap.nos. Engineering Manual Military Construction (earlier W 7.36, later D 103.9): nos. M 110.14:dt.&nos. General Orders (earlier W 7.8, later D 103.7) M 110.103:nos. Lake Survey Office Bulletins (earlier W 31.3, later D 103.203) M 110.201:date Mississippi River Commission Annual Reports (earlier W 31.1, later D 103.301) Quartermaster General of the Army M 112.6:CT Regulations, Rules, and Instructions (earlier W 77.10/2, later D 106.6)
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M 112.8:nos. Quartermaster Corps Manual (earlier W 77.15/1, later D 106.6/2) National Guard Bureau M 114.6:nos. National Guard Regulations (earlier W 70.7/4, later D 112.6) M 114.7:nos. Army Field Forces Subject Schedule Finance Department M 116.2:CT General Publications (earlier W 97.2) Special Services Division M 117.7:date Army Navy Hit Kit of Popular Songs—monthly (earlier W 109.10, later D 102.10, still later D 1.14) Command and General Staff College M 119.7:nos. Military Review—monthly (earlier W 28.10, later D 110.7) Department of the Navy M 201.1:date Annual Reports (earlier N 1.1, later D 201.1) Hydrographic Office N 202.2:CT General Publications (earlier N 1.2, later D 203.2) N 202.3:nos. Hydrographic Bulletins—weekly (earlier N 6.3, later D 203.3) N 202.4:nos. Circulars (earlier N 6.4, later D 203.4) M 202.8:nos. Notice to Mariners—weekly (earlier N 6.11, later D 203.8) M 202.10:dt.&nos. Notice to Mariners, North American-Caribbean edition—weekly (earlier N 6.11/5, later D 203.10) M 202.23:nos. Hydrographic Office Publications (earlier N 6.8, later D 203.22) Bureau of Medicine and Surgery M 203.2:CT General Publications (N 10.2, later D 206.2) M 203.3/2:v.nos. Hospital Corps Quarterly (N 10.11/2) N 203.6:CTR Regulations, Rules, and Instructions (earlier N 10.13, later D 206.6) M 203.7:v.nos. BUMED News Letter—biweekly (earlier N 10.18, later D 106.7) M 203.8:project nos.&rep.nos. Naval Medical Research Institute Reports (later D 206.9) M 203.10:date Statistics of Diseases and Injuries in Navy (earlier N 10.15, later D 206.11) M 203.12:chap.nos. Manual of Medical Department, Navy (earlier N 10.5/1, later D 206.8) M 203.13:nos. Medical Research Laboratory Report (earlier N 10.22, later D 206.10) Office of Industrial Relations M 204.7:v.nos. Safety Review—monthly (earlier N 1.33, later D 204.7) M 204.8:v.nos.&nos. Civilian Personnel of Naval Shore Establishment—quarterly (later D 204.8) Bureau of Yards and Docks M 205.2:CT General Publications (earlier N 21.1, later D 209.2) M 205.8:nos. Technical Digest (later D 209.8) Bureau of Naval Personnel M 206.2: CT General Publications (earlier N 17.2, later D 208.2) M 206.3:nos. All Hands, Bureau of Naval Personnel Information Bulletin—monthly (earlier N 17.27, later D 208.3) M 206.6:CT Regulations, Rules, and Instructions (earlier N 17.16/1 and N 17.16/4, later D 208.6) M 206.7:nos. Naval Training Bulletins—monthly (earlier N 17.33, later D 208.7) M 206.8:nos. Sea Clipper—weekly (earlier N 17.39, later D 208.8) M 206.9:date Naval Reservist—monthly (earlier N 17.37, later D 208.10) Naval War College M 206.207:v.nos. International Law Documents (earlier N 15.7/1) Office of Naval Operations M 207.2:CT General Publications (earlier N 27.2, later D 207.2) M 207.7:nos. Naval Aviation News—monthly (earlier N 27.16/2, later D 207.7) Bureau of Aeronautics M 208.6:CT Regulations, Rules, and Instructions (earlier N 28.13, later D 202.6) Marine Corps M 209.2:CT General Publications (earlier N 9.2, later D 214.2) M 209.6:CT Regulations, Rules, and Instructions (earlier N 9.16) M 209.8:nos. Marine Corps Orders (earlier N 9.9/3) M 209.9:date Marine Corps Manual (earlier N 9.15, later D 214.9) Bureau of Ships M 210.6:CT Regulations, Rules, and Instructions
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Bureau of Ordnance M 211.2:CT General Publications (earlier N 18.2, later D 215.2) Naval Observatory M 212.7:date American Air Almanac (earlier N 11.6/3, later D 213.7) M 212.8:date American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac (earlier N 11.5, later D 213.8) Bureau of Supplies and Accounts M 213.2:CT General Publications (earlier N 20.2, later D 212.2) M 213.7:nos. Navy Department Specifications (earlier N 20.6/2, later D 212.9) M 213.8:nos. Joint Army-Navy Specifications (earlier N 20.23, later D 1.12) M 213.9:dt.&pt.nos. Index of Specifications Used by the Navy Department—quarterly (earlier N 20.6/3, later D 212.7) M 213.10:date Naval Expenditures (earlier N 20.21, later D 212.8) Judge Advocate General M 214.2:CT General Publications (earlier N 7.2, later D 205.1) M 214.8:date Laws Relating to Navy, Annotated (earlier N 7.7) Office of Naval Research M 216.2:CT General Publications (earlier N 32.2, later D 210.2) Department of the Air Force M 301.2:CT General Publications (earlier W 108.2, later D 301.2) M 301.6:CT Regulations, Rules, and Instructions (earlier W 108.6) M 301.7:nos. Tables of Organization and Equipment M 301.9:v.nos.&nos. Air Technical Intelligence Technical Data Digest—monthly (earlier W 108.18, later D 301.14) M 301.10:date Index of Specifications and Bulletins Approved for U.S. Air Force Procurement—semiannual (earlier W 108.13/3, later D 301.18) M 301.11:date Alphabetical List Covering Army Air Forces and Army-Navy Aeronautical Standard Drawings—semiannual (earlier W 108.15/2, later D 301.16) M 301.13:date Numerical Index of Technical Publications (earlier W 108.8, later D 301.17) M 301.15:date U.S. Air Force Radio Facility Charts, Atlantic and Caribbean Area–monthly (earlier W 108.27, later D 301.11) M 301.16:v.nos. Joint Air Force & Navy Radio Facility Charts–monthly (earlier W 108.29, later D 301.12) M 301.17:date Radio Facility Charts, Europe, Africa, Middle East (earlier W 109.2:R 11/947, later D 301.12) M 301.18:nos. Air Force Manual (earlier W 108.19 and W 108.22, later D 301.7) Air Adjutant General’s Office M 302.7:date Air Force Register (D 303.7)
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A PERIOD OF TRANSITION: FOUNDATION PUBLICATIONS OF THE U.S. NATIONAL MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT RODNEY A. ROSS* Center for Legislative Archives, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, DC 20408-0001, USA. Internet: [email protected]
Abstract — Through an examination of the scope and arrangement pattern of the federal government’s publications issued by the Army, Navy, and Air Force during the period of the so-called National Military Establishment, 1947–1949, one can gain an understanding of the workings of the Superintendent of Documents classification scheme. U.S. government depository libraries hold copies of many of the publications identified in the article. However, the article’s focus is on the record copies held by the National Archives within Record Group 287, Publications of the U.S. Government. An integral feature of the article is an appendix that lists more than 100 series with their respective SuDocs identification numbers. The author discusses the most significant of these series and introduces the lay reader to search methodologies for locating specific publications. © 1999 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved. Keywords — U.S. National Archives, U.S. National Military Establishment (1947–1949), U.S. Superintendent of Documents (SuDocs), U.S. Government Publications, U.S. Government Depository Libraries
INTRODUCTION The National Security Act of 1947 created the National Military Establishment—a short-lived federal executive branch agency for the Army, Navy, and Air Force that spanned the months between the demise of the separate War and Navy Departments in 1947 and the establishment of the Department of Defense in 1949. An often overlooked legacy of the National Military Establishment is its publications, many of which are available in U.S. government depository libraries across the nation. At the National Archives these publications are a part of the Archives holdings within Record Group 287, Publications of the U.S. Government. NATIONAL ARCHIVES COLLECTION OF PUBLICATIONS OF THE U.S. GOVERNMENT Although publications in this record group date from the very beginning of the federal government, the collection itself dates only from 1895 with the establishment of the *Since 1988, Rodney Ross has served as an archivist with the Center for Legislative Archives with the U.S. National Archives where he provides reference assistance for Record Group 287, Publications of the U.S. Government. His only other library-related publication was “Using the U.S. Congressional Serial Set for the Study of Western History,” Western Historical Quarterly (Summer 1994). Ross received a Ph.D. in American history from the University of Chicago in 1975. 109
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office of the Superintendent of Documents (SuDocs) within the U.S. Government Printing Office. The SuDocs office created a library classification system for U.S. government publications and assembled a library collection with copies obtained from both government and non-government sources. After 1895 the SuDocs office added works to this collection as a by-product of its cataloging and classification operations. The office identified items ultimately destined for its library collection both in the Document Catalog, published between 1893 and 1940, and in the Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications, published since 1895. In 1972 the U.S. Government Printing Office transferred the collection, then known as the Public Documents Library, to the National Archives, and over the years has augmented the collection with multi-year blocks of additional publications. The collection itself consists of nearly all forms of publications, including multi-volume sets of books and magazines, monographs, guides, manuals, circulars, bulletins, indexes, reports, regulations, maps, charts, and posters. The National Archives initially treated the collection as a part of Record Group 149, Records of the Government Printing Office. In 1976 the National Archives formally separated the collection from Record Group 149 and transformed it into Record Group 287. Since 1988 the Center for Legislative Archives, whose custodial responsibilities previously included records of the United States Senate, the United States House of Representatives, and the Government Printing Office, has had custodial responsibility for Record Group 287. Given that the Government Printing Office is a legislative agency, it follows that its products should be administered by that part of the National Archives which has responsibility for records of the legislative branch. USE OF NATIONAL MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT PUBLICATIONS The result is that reference archivists with the Center for Legislative Archives often receive inquiries from researchers searching for Army Technical Manuals for World War II-era radio equipment, Korean War-era generators, or Vietnam War-era trucks. Other researchers contact the Center in search of Tables of Organization and Equipment to be used in connection with unit reunions, or for Army Regulations cited on their discharge papers. SUDOCS CLASSIFICATION AND THE NATIONAL MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT Army Technical Manuals, Tables of Organization and Equipment, and Army Regulations are three series within the alphanumeric SuDocs classification system. The term “series” in this sense is that used by libraries, rather than by archives, and can be defined as a sequence of usually continuously numbered issues or volumes of a publication. The SuDocs system serves as a classification scheme for federal government publications in much the same way as the Dewey Decimal classification scheme or the Library of Congress classification scheme provides library arrangement patterns for most other publications. The SuDocs system groups together publications by government corporate authors, with the initial identifier—at least for executive branch agencies—as an alphabetical designation for the cabinet-level entities, such as “A” for the Agriculture Department, “C” for the Commerce Department, “D” for the Defense Department, and “W” for the War Department (1789–1947). This article focuses on “M” publications of the National Military Establishment (1947–1949).
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NATIONAL ARCHIVES HOLDINGS OF NATIONAL MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT PUBLICATIONS An essential feature of this article is the Appendix, a selective listing of holdings in Record Group 287 for National Military Establishment publication series arranged by SuDocs class stems. Class stems combine the alphanumeric designations for an agency with the series designation for particular publications. An example of a class stem is M 101.14 for General Court-Martial Orders with the “M 101” alpha-numeric designation for the issuing agency (the Department of the Army within the National Military Establishment) followed by the series designation of “14” for General Court-Martial Orders. Publications in Record Group 287 are record copies. They are identical to thousands of other copies printed and distributed by the Government Printing Office and other government agencies, but they are cared for as permanently valuable archives of the United States. They are stored in an archival controlled environment to retard deterioration; and they cannot be loaned. Should a researcher fail in locating the particular publication he or she seeks in a depository library and the National Archives holds the publication in Record Group 287, the researcher can view the record copy in the central research room in the National Archives Building and/or in most cases for a fee obtain a reproduction of the publication. Researchers should be aware that only one-half to twothirds of all U.S. government publications get “captured” within the SuDocs system. Although it has no direct bearing on a discussion of SuDocs M class publications, for 19th and early 20th century government publications, researchers should know that the Congressional Information Service, Inc. (CIS) has recently published a CIS Index to U.S. Executive Branch Documents, 1789–1909 [1], and accompanying microfiche. CIS currently is filming U.S. government publications for the period 1910–1932. Anyone interested in congressional publications that relate to the National Military Establishment may be interested in either congressional printed hearings or Senate and House of Representatives reports and documents as identified in the CIS Congressional Committee Hearings Index [2] and the CIS U.S. Serial Set Index [3]. Information in the Appendix utilizes the format of the Guide to U.S. Government Publications [4], published annually by the Documents Index of McLean, Virginia. The arrangement pattern for the Appendix is by administrative unit within the M SuDocs category, beginning with publications from the secretary’s office, and continuing with publications from the now-defunct Munitions Board, the Department of the Army as a whole, and specific subdivisions within the Army, such as the Medical Department, the Historical Division, the Civil Affairs Division, and the Engineering Department. Following Army publications are publications of the Department of the Navy and its component parts, and following these are publications of the Department of the Air Force. ORGANIZATION OF NATIONAL MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT PUBLICATIONS Those class stems listed in the Appendix represent a summary of the beginning and end publications to be found in the various archives boxes held by the National Archives for Record Group 287 publications. Eliminated from the listing in the Appendix are class stems of publications that take up less than a full box, and are neither the first nor the last publication within a box. Thus the reader may wonder why there are citations for annual reports for the Secretary of Defense (M 1.1) and the Secretary of the
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Navy (M 201.1), but no citations for annual reports for the Secretary of the Army (M 101.1) or the Secretary of the Air Force (M 301.1). In point of fact, the Record Group 287 collection includes the M 1.1 annual reports for the Secretary of Defense for both fiscal years 1948 and 1949 (with the latter composed not only of the annual report of the Secretary of Defense, but also the annual reports of the Secretary of the Army, the Secretary of the Navy, and the Secretary of the Air Force). For fiscal year 1948 the annual reports for the three subordinate secretaries are to be found under M 101:948, M 201.948, and M 301.1:948. In terms of a basic overview of agency operations, nothing equals annual reports, especially those annual reports published in the last quarter of the 19th century. Whereas the Second Report of the Secretary of Defense and the Annual Reports of the Secretary of the Army, Secretary of the Navy, Secretary, Secretary of the Air Force for the Fiscal Year 1949 (M 1.1:949) is an inch thick, the annual report from the Secretary of War for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1898, as it appears in the Serial Set, is reproduced in nine volumes, which on a library shelf takes up nearly 23 linear inches. Of those nine volumes, six are devoted to activities of the Corps of Engineers. PREDECESSOR AND SUCCESSOR PUBLICATIONS OF THE NATIONAL MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT In turning to the Appendix, one notes that the great majority of series for the National Military Establishment are not unique to that government corporate author. Rather, most of the series have their origin as War Department or Navy Department publications and are continued as Defense Department publications. Thus within the Appendix there are a plethora of “earlier” Ws and Ns. With but few exceptions all of the “later” designations are for publications of the Department of Defense. The exceptions relate to three series of publications of the Civil Affairs Division which were continued as publications of the State Department, rather than the Defense Department: the Military Government Weekly Information Bulletin (M 105.8), the Report of United States Commissioner of Austria Military Government (M 105.10), and the Visiting Expert Series (M 105.19). Within publications of the Department of the Army proper, researchers will find the basic trinity of Army publications: Army Regulations (M 101.9), Field Manuals (M 101.17), and Technical Manuals (M 101.18). Other core Army publication series include General Orders (M 101.7), Special Orders (M 101.8), Supply Catalogs (M 101.12), Official Army and Air Force Register (M 101.19), Tables of Organization and Equipment (M 101.21), and Pamphlets (M 101.25). Since the Record Group 287 collection for the Army publications referred to in this paragraph have been augmented by accessions of publications from several non-SuDocs sources, the holdings of the National Archives for these specific series are more comprehensive than those held by any depository library. For a number of the series of the National Military Establishment listed in the paragraph above, the identification of individual publications can best be accomplished through the use of Department of the Army Field Manual FM 21-6: List and Index of Department of Army Publications (M 101.17:21-6). This publication, which during World War II was issued monthly and later was issued quarterly, enumerates Army technical and administrative publications in stock at the date of the issuance of the particular edition of FM 21-6. The back half of each of these FM 21-6 issuances is a subject index to the publications enumerated in the first half of the book. Due to the usefulness
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of these indices the National Archives has microfilmed its entire collection of FM 21-6 volumes and successor publications (SR 310-20-5, DA PAM 310-1, and DA PAM 3104) for the period 1940–1979. For details on these 29 rolls of microfilm, see National Archives Microfilm Publications Pamphlet describing M1641, Indexes and Lists to Army Technical and Administrative Publications, 1940–1979. SUBJECT MATTER OF NATIONAL MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT PUBLICATIONS It could well be that most readers of this article have little interest in basic Army technical and administrative issuances. However, the M class of publications also includes traditional histories, including works from the Army’s Historical Division, a predecessor of today’s Center of Military History. Within the SuDocs system the earliest volumes of the green-colored books which make up the series entitled United States Army in World War II can be found under M 103.7. Later volumes of this series can be found under D 114.7. Within each of these two series, Cutter numbers identify specific volumes. Researchers interested in the early years of the Cold War may find useful Army publications for the post-World War II occupation of Germany, Austria, Japan, and Korea. If one wished to examine each and every publication within RG 287 for the relevant M class occupation publications, the amount would be readily manageable. The Monthly Report of the Military Governor for Germany (M 105.7), comprises four archives boxes. Similarly, the Report of United States Commissioner of Austria Military Government (M 105.10) also comprises four archives boxes. For both Summation of Non-Military Activities in Japan (M 105.11) and South Korea Interim Government Activities (M 105.13), the National Archives holds less than three archives boxes for each. LOCATING NATIONAL MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT PUBLICATIONS Since the research strategy of examining everything within a given SuDocs series has limited applicability for most researchers, another approach—whatever one’s topic relating to federal publications—would be to consult the appropriate volume in the 15volume set Cumulative Subject Index to the Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications, 1900–1971. Under the listing for one’s topic, the researcher will see to the right of the succinct subject identifier a two-digit number in parentheses followed by a space and then a second number, usually of three, four, or five digits. The first number will be for the year of the Government Printing Office-issued Monthly Catalog of United States Publications. The second number will be to the sequential identification number for the item in question within that particular year’s Monthly Catalog volume (or for publications for the first third of the 20th century that identification number will be for the page on which the publication will be described for the particular year’s Monthly Catalog). The next step would be to go to the bound volume for the Monthly Catalog for the item or page number where one will find a full bibliographic description of the publication sought, including the publication’s SuDocs classification number. Take for example a researcher interested in publications relating to Korea during the period of the National Military Establishment. In turning to “Korea” within the Cumulative Subject Index to the Monthly Catalog of the United States Government Publications, 1900–1971 one finds a number of items with “48” and “49” in parentheses, includ-
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ing “aluminum metallurgy,” “books for re-education,” “child welfare report,” and “motion picture industry.” If one then looks up the items in the 1948 and 1949 volumes of the Monthly Catalog, one finds basic information about the four publications. “Aluminum metallurgy” is a 1947 work entitled Aluminum Metallurgy in the Japanese Empire with a SuDocs number from the Bureau of Mines within the Department of the Interior (I 28.39/2:19). “Books for re-education” is a several page handout of May 20, 1948, entitled “Printed Materials for Occupied Areas” from the Civil Affairs Division of the Army (M 105.2:P 93). “Child welfare report” is a brief mimeographed July 9, 1947, report by the Right Reverend Monsignor Edward Joseph Flanigan entitled Child Welfare Report (Japan and Korea) issued by the War Department with a SuDocs number of W 1.2:C 43. “Motion picture industry” is a four-page January 1949 publication entitled Motion Picture Industry in South Korea, part of the series entitled “Industrial Reference Service” of the now-defunct Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce within the Commerce Department with a SuDocs number of C 18.220:7/4-1. In addition to highlighting publications of the National Military Establishment, this article has attempted to clarify military publications in general and to provide an introduction to finding information about and access to SuDocs catalogued publications. For the National Archives the publications in Record Group 287 are unusual in that for this record group the National Archives has item-level control to the collection—thanks to the SuDocs classification system. That the National Archives holds the publications that comprise Record Group 287 underscores yet another reason why the agency is one of the federal government’s foremost cultural entities. NOTES 1. Congressional Information Service, CIS Index to U.S. Executive Branch Documents, 1789–1909 (Bethesda, MD: Congressional Information Service, 1990–). 2. Congressional Information Service, CIS Congressional Committee Hearings Index (Bethesda, MD: Congressional Information Service, 1981–). 3. Congressional Information Service, CIS U.S. Serial Set Index (Bethesda, MD: Congressional Information Service, 1975–). 4. Donna Andriot, ed., Guide to U.S. Government Publications (McLean, VA: Documents Index, Inc., 1973–).
APPENDIX SELECTED LISTINGS FOR PUBLICATIONS OF THE NATIONAL MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT (1947–1949) M 1.1:date Annual Reports M 1.2:CT General Publications (later D 1.2) M 1.6:CT Regulations, Rules, and Instructions M 1.7:date Telephone Directory, National Defense (earlier W 1.19; later D 1.7) M 1.8/2:nos. Armed Services Procurement Regulation Revisions (later D 1.13/2) Munitions Board M 5.2:CT General Publications (earlier M 401.2, later D 3.2) M 5.7:nos. Joint Army-Navy Standards (earlier N 20.28, later M 5.8, and later D 3.7) Department of the Army M 101.3:date&nos. Bulletins (earlier W 1.3, later D 101.3) M 101.4:date&nos. Circulars (earlier W 1.4/2, later D 101.4) M 101.7:date&nos. General Orders (earlier W 1.46, later D 101.7) M 101.8:date&nos. Special Orders (earlier W 1.48, later D 101.8)
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M 101.9:nos. Army Regulations (earlier W 1.6, later D 101.9) M 101.11:date Army Procurement Regulations (earlier W 109.8) M 101.12:sec.nos. Supply Catalogs (earlier W 1.67, later D 101.16) M 101.13:letters-nos. Technical Bulletins (earlier W 1.58, later D 101.25) M 101.14:date&nos. General Court-Martial Orders (earlier W 1 .51, later D 101.14) M 101.15:nos. Joint Army and Air Force Regulations M 101.17:nos. Field Manuals (earlier W 1.33, later D 101.20) M 101.18:nos. Technical Manuals (earlier W 1.35, later D 101.12) M 101.19:nos. Official Army and Air Force Register (later D 101.13) M 101.21:nos. Tables of Organization and Equipment (earlier W 1.44, later D 101.24) M 101.25:nos. Pamphlets (earlier W 1.43, later D 101.22) M 101.27:nos. Supply Bulletins (earlier W 1.61, later D 101.15) M 101.31:nos. Reduction Tables (later D 101.18) M 101.32:nos. Special Regulations (later D 101.10) Medical Department M 102.7:v.nos. Current List of Medical Literature (earlier W 44.30, later D 104.7) M 102.9:nos. Medical Department Equipment List (D 104.9) Historical Division M 103.2:CT General Publications (earlier W 110.2) M 103.7:CT United States Army in World War II (later D 114.7) M 103.9:nos. United States Army in World War, 1917–1919 Troop Information and Education Division M 104.2:CT General Publications (earlier W 111.2, later D 107.2) Civil Affairs Division M 105.2:CT General Publications M 105.7:nos. Monthly Report of the Military Governor for Germany (U.S.) M 105.8:nos. Military Government Weekly Information Bulletin (earlier W 1.72/5, later S 1.85) M 105.9:nos. Official Gazette of Control Council for Germany (earlier W 1.73) M 105.10:nos. Report of United States Commissioner of Austria Military Government—monthly (earlier W 1.73, later S 1.89 and S 1.89/2) M 105.11:nos. Summation of Non-Military Activities in Japan—monthly (earlier W 1.75) M 105.12:nos. Summation of United States Army Military Government Activity in Ryukyu—bimonthly (earlier W 1.78) M 105.13:nos. South Korea Interim Government Activities—monthly (replaces W 1.76) M 105.18:nos. European Recovery Program, Joint Report of United States and United Kingdom Military Governors—quarterly M 105.19:nos. Visiting Expert Series (later S 1.87) M 105.28:nos. Japanese Economic Statistics (later D 102.18) Intelligence Division M 106.2:CT General Publications (earlier W 100.2) Judge Advocate General of the Army M 107.3:v.nos. Bulletin of Judge Advocate General of Army (earlier W 10.3, later D 108.3) Adjutant General’s Office M 108.2:CT General Publications (earlier W 3.2, later D 102.2) M 108.80:v.nos. Recruiting Journal (later D 102.76) Military Academy M 109.2:CT General Publications (earlier W 12.2, later D 109.2) Engineer Department M 110.1:date Annual Reports (earlier W 7.1/1, later D 103.1) M 110.2:CT General Publications (earlier W 7.2, later D 103.2) M 110.9:date Index of Specifications used by Corps of Engineers (earlier W 7.18/4, later D 103.12) M 110.11:nos. Port Series (earlier W 7.21/2, later D 103.8) M 110.13:pt.nos&chap.nos. Engineering Manual Military Construction (earlier W 7.36, later D 103.9): nos. M 110.14:dt.&nos. General Orders (earlier W 7.8, later D 103.7) M 110.103:nos. Lake Survey Office Bulletins (earlier W 31.3, later D 103.203) M 110.201:date Mississippi River Commission Annual Reports (earlier W 31.1, later D 103.301) Quartermaster General of the Army M 112.6:CT Regulations, Rules, and Instructions (earlier W 77.10/2, later D 106.6)
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M 112.8:nos. Quartermaster Corps Manual (earlier W 77.15/1, later D 106.6/2) National Guard Bureau M 114.6:nos. National Guard Regulations (earlier W 70.7/4, later D 112.6) M 114.7:nos. Army Field Forces Subject Schedule Finance Department M 116.2:CT General Publications (earlier W 97.2) Special Services Division M 117.7:date Army Navy Hit Kit of Popular Songs—monthly (earlier W 109.10, later D 102.10, still later D 1.14) Command and General Staff College M 119.7:nos. Military Review—monthly (earlier W 28.10, later D 110.7) Department of the Navy M 201.1:date Annual Reports (earlier N 1.1, later D 201.1) Hydrographic Office N 202.2:CT General Publications (earlier N 1.2, later D 203.2) N 202.3:nos. Hydrographic Bulletins—weekly (earlier N 6.3, later D 203.3) N 202.4:nos. Circulars (earlier N 6.4, later D 203.4) M 202.8:nos. Notice to Mariners—weekly (earlier N 6.11, later D 203.8) M 202.10:dt.&nos. Notice to Mariners, North American-Caribbean edition—weekly (earlier N 6.11/5, later D 203.10) M 202.23:nos. Hydrographic Office Publications (earlier N 6.8, later D 203.22) Bureau of Medicine and Surgery M 203.2:CT General Publications (N 10.2, later D 206.2) M 203.3/2:v.nos. Hospital Corps Quarterly (N 10.11/2) N 203.6:CTR Regulations, Rules, and Instructions (earlier N 10.13, later D 206.6) M 203.7:v.nos. BUMED News Letter—biweekly (earlier N 10.18, later D 106.7) M 203.8:project nos.&rep.nos. Naval Medical Research Institute Reports (later D 206.9) M 203.10:date Statistics of Diseases and Injuries in Navy (earlier N 10.15, later D 206.11) M 203.12:chap.nos. Manual of Medical Department, Navy (earlier N 10.5/1, later D 206.8) M 203.13:nos. Medical Research Laboratory Report (earlier N 10.22, later D 206.10) Office of Industrial Relations M 204.7:v.nos. Safety Review—monthly (earlier N 1.33, later D 204.7) M 204.8:v.nos.&nos. Civilian Personnel of Naval Shore Establishment—quarterly (later D 204.8) Bureau of Yards and Docks M 205.2:CT General Publications (earlier N 21.1, later D 209.2) M 205.8:nos. Technical Digest (later D 209.8) Bureau of Naval Personnel M 206.2: CT General Publications (earlier N 17.2, later D 208.2) M 206.3:nos. All Hands, Bureau of Naval Personnel Information Bulletin—monthly (earlier N 17.27, later D 208.3) M 206.6:CT Regulations, Rules, and Instructions (earlier N 17.16/1 and N 17.16/4, later D 208.6) M 206.7:nos. Naval Training Bulletins—monthly (earlier N 17.33, later D 208.7) M 206.8:nos. Sea Clipper—weekly (earlier N 17.39, later D 208.8) M 206.9:date Naval Reservist—monthly (earlier N 17.37, later D 208.10) Naval War College M 206.207:v.nos. International Law Documents (earlier N 15.7/1) Office of Naval Operations M 207.2:CT General Publications (earlier N 27.2, later D 207.2) M 207.7:nos. Naval Aviation News—monthly (earlier N 27.16/2, later D 207.7) Bureau of Aeronautics M 208.6:CT Regulations, Rules, and Instructions (earlier N 28.13, later D 202.6) Marine Corps M 209.2:CT General Publications (earlier N 9.2, later D 214.2) M 209.6:CT Regulations, Rules, and Instructions (earlier N 9.16) M 209.8:nos. Marine Corps Orders (earlier N 9.9/3) M 209.9:date Marine Corps Manual (earlier N 9.15, later D 214.9) Bureau of Ships M 210.6:CT Regulations, Rules, and Instructions
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Bureau of Ordnance M 211.2:CT General Publications (earlier N 18.2, later D 215.2) Naval Observatory M 212.7:date American Air Almanac (earlier N 11.6/3, later D 213.7) M 212.8:date American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac (earlier N 11.5, later D 213.8) Bureau of Supplies and Accounts M 213.2:CT General Publications (earlier N 20.2, later D 212.2) M 213.7:nos. Navy Department Specifications (earlier N 20.6/2, later D 212.9) M 213.8:nos. Joint Army-Navy Specifications (earlier N 20.23, later D 1.12) M 213.9:dt.&pt.nos. Index of Specifications Used by the Navy Department—quarterly (earlier N 20.6/3, later D 212.7) M 213.10:date Naval Expenditures (earlier N 20.21, later D 212.8) Judge Advocate General M 214.2:CT General Publications (earlier N 7.2, later D 205.1) M 214.8:date Laws Relating to Navy, Annotated (earlier N 7.7) Office of Naval Research M 216.2:CT General Publications (earlier N 32.2, later D 210.2) Department of the Air Force M 301.2:CT General Publications (earlier W 108.2, later D 301.2) M 301.6:CT Regulations, Rules, and Instructions (earlier W 108.6) M 301.7:nos. Tables of Organization and Equipment M 301.9:v.nos.&nos. Air Technical Intelligence Technical Data Digest—monthly (earlier W 108.18, later D 301.14) M 301.10:date Index of Specifications and Bulletins Approved for U.S. Air Force Procurement—semiannual (earlier W 108.13/3, later D 301.18) M 301.11:date Alphabetical List Covering Army Air Forces and Army-Navy Aeronautical Standard Drawings—semiannual (earlier W 108.15/2, later D 301.16) M 301.13:date Numerical Index of Technical Publications (earlier W 108.8, later D 301.17) M 301.15:date U.S. Air Force Radio Facility Charts, Atlantic and Caribbean Area–monthly (earlier W 108.27, later D 301.11) M 301.16:v.nos. Joint Air Force & Navy Radio Facility Charts–monthly (earlier W 108.29, later D 301.12) M 301.17:date Radio Facility Charts, Europe, Africa, Middle East (earlier W 109.2:R 11/947, later D 301.12) M 301.18:nos. Air Force Manual (earlier W 108.19 and W 108.22, later D 301.7) Air Adjutant General’s Office M 302.7:date Air Force Register (D 303.7)