Jim Lankford
04-25-2001, 04:02 AM
The US Army Military History Institute website includes a considerable number of online documents in the Adobe Reader PDF format.
Among these online documents is a complete copy of the Guide to Foreign Military Studies (German Officer Reports), 1954. The FMS consists of well over 2,000 interviews and reports written by captured German officers under the auspices of the USAEUR. Among these are a sizeable number of interviews and reports dealing with specific Luftwaffe units as well as various aspects of the air war in Europe.
Unfortunately,the USAMHI staff is small, which greatly limits the availability of reproductions of these and other documents.
However, all of the FMS are available on microfiche from the National Archives, under Publication ID Number M1035.
There is no record group number associated with the publication. The ordering information for individual studies is:
Microfilm Publication: ID M1035
Microfilm Title: Foreign Military Studies
Medium: 105mm Microfiche
Storage Location: Room 2400
Ordering Address:
Modern Military Records Division
8601 Adelphi Road
College Park, MD 2504-6001
I hope this is of some help to other researchers.
(To access this document, go to the US Army Military History Insitute website at:
http://carlisle-www.army.mil/usamhi
Click on "Historic Documents Online".
Click on "MHI Digital Library".
Select to view alphabetically.
Scroll down to:
"Guide to Foreign Military Studies (German Officer Reports), 1954". The report is actually:
"Guide to Foreign Military Studies 1945-1954", Catalog & Index, Headquarters, United States Army, Europe, 1954.
The report runs 259 pages in Adobe Acrobat. I have a 500 mhz Pentium III micro-processor and a 56K modem, yet it takes me about a minute to load in each page of this document. It takes perhaps a half dozen preliminary pages before you see your first listing. If you want a look-see, I suggest clicking on the document and then find something else to do for 15 to 30 minutes. If you want to see it all, I suggest clicking on this just before bedtime and letting it download overnight.
The subjects do look interesting, so it may be worth the long load-in time.
Regards,
Richard)
[This message has been edited by Richard T Eger (edited 25 April 2001).]
Among these online documents is a complete copy of the Guide to Foreign Military Studies (German Officer Reports), 1954. The FMS consists of well over 2,000 interviews and reports written by captured German officers under the auspices of the USAEUR. Among these are a sizeable number of interviews and reports dealing with specific Luftwaffe units as well as various aspects of the air war in Europe.
Unfortunately,the USAMHI staff is small, which greatly limits the availability of reproductions of these and other documents.
However, all of the FMS are available on microfiche from the National Archives, under Publication ID Number M1035.
There is no record group number associated with the publication. The ordering information for individual studies is:
Microfilm Publication: ID M1035
Microfilm Title: Foreign Military Studies
Medium: 105mm Microfiche
Storage Location: Room 2400
Ordering Address:
Modern Military Records Division
8601 Adelphi Road
College Park, MD 2504-6001
I hope this is of some help to other researchers.
(To access this document, go to the US Army Military History Insitute website at:
http://carlisle-www.army.mil/usamhi
Click on "Historic Documents Online".
Click on "MHI Digital Library".
Select to view alphabetically.
Scroll down to:
"Guide to Foreign Military Studies (German Officer Reports), 1954". The report is actually:
"Guide to Foreign Military Studies 1945-1954", Catalog & Index, Headquarters, United States Army, Europe, 1954.
The report runs 259 pages in Adobe Acrobat. I have a 500 mhz Pentium III micro-processor and a 56K modem, yet it takes me about a minute to load in each page of this document. It takes perhaps a half dozen preliminary pages before you see your first listing. If you want a look-see, I suggest clicking on the document and then find something else to do for 15 to 30 minutes. If you want to see it all, I suggest clicking on this just before bedtime and letting it download overnight.
The subjects do look interesting, so it may be worth the long load-in time.
Regards,
Richard)
[This message has been edited by Richard T Eger (edited 25 April 2001).]