Reports of General MacArthur: Japanese Operations in the Southwest Pacific Area Volume 2 Part 2 - Softcover

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The Reports of General MacArthur include two volumes being published by theDepartment of the Army in four books reproduced exactly as they were printed byGeneral MacArthur's Tokyo headquarters in 1950, except for the addition of thisforeword and indexes. Since they were Government property, the general turned overto the Department in 1953 these volumes and related source materials. In Army andNational Archives custody these materials have been available for research althoughthey have not been easily accessible. While he lived, General MacArthur was unwillingto approve the reproduction and dissemination of the reports, because he believedthey needed further editing and correction of some inaccuracies. His passingpermits publication but not the correction he deemed desirable. In publishing them,the Department of the Army must therefore disclaim any responsibility for their accuracy.But the Army also recognizes that these volumes have substantial and enduringvalue, and it believes the American people are entitled to have them made widelyavailable through government publication.The preliminary work for compiling the MacArthur volumes began in 1943within the G-3 Section of his General Staff, and was carried forward after the war bymembers of the G--2 Section, headed by Maj. Gen. Charles A. Willoughby with ProfessorGordon W. Prange, on leave from the University of Maryland, as his principalprofessional assistant. Volume II of the reports represents the contributions of Japaneseofficers employed to tell their story of operations against MacArthur's forces.

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