Records of the United States Strategic Bombing Survey [USSBS] (Record Group 243)

REPORTS FILE, 1945-1947

Box 1

• Index to Records of the United States Strategic Bombing Survey (0)
• Summary Report (1)
• Over-all Report (2)
• Statistical Report to Over-all Report (2a)
• The Effects of Strategic Bombing on the German War Economy (3)
• Aircraft Division Aircraft Report (4)
• Inspection Visits to Various Target (Special Report) (5)
• Junkers Aircraft and Aero Engine Works, Dessau, Germany (6)
• Erla Maschinenwerke GmbH, Heiterblick, Germany (7)
• ATG Maschinenbau, GmbH Leipzig, (Mochua), Germany (8)

Box 2

• Gothaer Wggonfabrik, AG Gotha, Germany (9)
• Focke Wulf Aircraft Plant, Bremen, Germany (10)
• Messerschmitt AG, Augsburg, Germany, Over-All-Report (11)
• Messerschmitt AG, Augsburg, Germany, Part A (11A)
• Messerschmitt AG, Augsburg, Germany, Part A (11B)
• Messerschmitt AG, Augsburg, Germany, Appendices I, II, III (11 Appendices)
• Dornier Works, Friedrichshafen & Munich, Germany (12)
• Gerhard Fieseler Werke GmbH, Kassel, Germany (13)
• Wiener Neustaedter Flugzeugwerke, Wiener Neustadt, Austria (14)
• Bussing Nag Flugmotorenwerke GmbH, Brunswick, Germany (15)
• Mittel-Deutsche Motorenwerke GmbH, Taucha, Germany (16)
• Bavarian Motor Works, Inc., Eisenach & Durerhof (17)
• Bayerische Motorenwerke AG (BMW), Munich, Germany (18)

Box 3

• Henschel Flugmotorenwerke, Kassel, Germany (19)
• Light Metals Industry of Germany (20A)
• Vereinigte Deutsche Metallwerke, Hildesheim, Germany (21)
• Metallgussgesell-Schaft GmbH, Leipzig, Germany (22)
• Aluminiumwerk GmbH, Plant No. 2, Bitterfeld, Gemany (23)
• Gebrueder Guilini GmbH, Ludwigshafen, Germany (24)
• Luftschiffbua Zeppenlin GmbH, Friedrichshafen-on-Bodensee, Germany (25)
• Wieland Werke AG, Ulm, Germany (26)
• Rudolph Rautenbach Leichmetallgiessereien, Solingen, Germany (27)
• Lippewerke, Vereinigte Aluminiumwerke AG, Lunen, Germany (28)
• Vereinigte Deutsche Metallwerke, Hedernheim, Germany (29)
• Duerener Metallwerke AG Duren Wittenau-Berlin & Waren, Germany (30)
• Area Studies Division Report (31A)
• A Detailed Study of the Effects of Area Bombing on Hamburg (32A)
• A Detailed Study of the Effects of Area Bombing on Wuppertal (33A)

Box 4

• A Detailed Study of the Effects of Area Bombing on Dusseldorf (34A)
• A Detailed Study of the Effects of Area Bombing on Solingen (35A)
• A Detailed Study of the Effects of Area Bombing on Remscheid (36A)
• A Detailed Study of the Effects of Area Bombing on Darmstadt (37A)
• A Detailed Study of the Effects of Area Bombing on Lubeck (38A)
• A Brief Study on the Effects of Area Bombing on Berlin, Augsburg, Bochum, Leipzig, Hagen, Dortmund, Oberhausen, Schweinfurt, and Bremen (39A)
• Civilian Defense Division Final Report (40)
• Cologne Field Report (41)
• Bonn Field Report (42A)
• Hanover Field Report (43)

Box 5

• Hamburg Field Report, Volume I-Text (44A, V1)
• Hamburg Field Report, Volume II-Exhibits (44A, V2)
• Bad Oldesloe Field Report (45)
• Augsburg Field Report (46A)
• Reception Areas in Bavaria, Germany (47A)
• German Electrical Equipment Industry Report (48A)
• Brown Boveri Et Cie Mannheim Kafertal, Germany (49)
• Optical and Precision Instrument Industry Report (50A)
• The German Abrasive Industry (51A)
• Mayer and Schmidt Offenbach on Main, Germany (52)

Box 6

• The German Anti-Friction Bearings Industry (53A)
• Machine Tools and Machinery as Capital Equipment (54A)
• Machine Tool Industry in Germany (55A)
• Herman Kolb Co., Cologne, Germany (56)
• Collet and Engelhard, Offenbach, Germany (57)
• Naxos Union, Frankfort on Main, Germany (58A)
• The Defeat of the German Air Force (59A)
• V-Weapons (Crossbow) Campaign (60)
• Air Force Rate of Operation (61)
• Weather Factors in Combat Bombardment Operations in the European Theater (62)
• Bombing Accuracy, USAAF Heavy and Medium Bombers in the ETO (63)
• Description of R.A.F. Bombing (64)
• The Impact of the Allied Air Effort on German Logistics (64A)

Box 7

• The Effects of Strategic Bombing on German Morale (64B, Vol. 1 & 2)
• The Effect of Bombing on Health and Medical Care in Germany (65)
• The Coking Industry Report on Germany (66A)
• Coking Plant Report No. 1, Sections A, B, C & D (67A)
• Gutehoffnungs-Huette, Oberhausen, Germany (68)
• Friedrich-Alfred Huette, Rheinhausen, Germany (69)
• Reichswerke, Hermann Goering AG, Hallendorf, Germany (71)
• August Thyssen Huette AG, Hamborn, Germany (72)
• Friedrich Krupp AG, Borbeck Plant, Essen, Germany (73)
• Dortmund Hoerder Huettenverein, AG, Dortmund, Germany (74)

Box 8

• Hoesch AG, Dortmund, Germany (75)
• Bochumer Verein Fuer Gusstahlfabrikation AG, Bochum, Germany (76)
• German Motor Vehicles Industry Report (77A)
• Tank Industry Report (78)
• Daimler Benz AG, Unterturkheim, Germany (79)
• Renault Motor Vehicles Plant, Billancourt, Paris (80)
• Adam Opel, Russelsheim, Germany (81)
• Daimler-Bens Gaggenau Works, Gaggenau, Germany (82)
• Maschinenfabrik Augsburg-Nurnberg, Nurnberg, Germany (83)
• Auto Union AG, Chemnitz and Zwickau, Germany (84)
• Henschel & Sohn, Kassel, Germany (85)
• Maybach Motor Works, Friedrichshafen, Germany (86A)
• Voigtlander Maschinenfabrik, Plauen, Germany (87)
• Volkswagen-Werke, Fallersleben, Germany (88)
• Bussing Nag, Brunswick, Germany (89)
• Muehlenbau Industrie AG (MIAG), Brunswick, Germany (90)
• Friedrich Krupp Grusonwerke, Magdeburg, Germany (91)

Box 9

• German Submarine Industry Report (92)
• Machinenfabrik Augsburg-Nurnberg, Augsburg, Germany (93)
• Blohm & Voss Shipyards, Hamburg, Germany (94)
• Deutschewerke AG, Kiel, Germany (95)
• Deutsche Schiff Und Maschinenbau, Bremen, Germany (96)
• Friedrich Krupp Germaniawerft, Kiel, Germany (97)
• Howaldtswerke AG, Hamburg, Germany (98)
• Submarine Assembly Shelter, Farge, Germany (99)
• Bremer Vulkan, Vegesack, Germany (100)
• Ordnance Industry Report (101A)
• Friedrich Krupp Grusonwerke AG, Magdeburg, Germany (102)
• Bochumer Verein Fuer Gusstahl-Fabrikation AG, Bochum, Germany (103)
• Henschel & Sohn, Kassel, Germany (104)

Box 10

• Rheinmetall-Borsig, Dusseldorf, Germany (105)
• Hermann Goering Werke, Braunschweig, Hallendorf, Germany (106)
• Hannoverische Maschinenbau AG, Hanover, Germany (107)
• Gusstahlfabrik Friedrich Krupp, Essen, Germany (108)
• Oil Division Final Report (109A)
• Oil Division Final Report Appendix (110)
• Powder, Explosives, Special Rockets and Jet Propellants, War Gases and Smoke Acid (111A)

Box 11

• Underground and Dispersal Plants in Greater Germany (112A)
• The German Oil Industry Ministerial Report Team 78 (113A)
• Ammoniakwerke Merseburg GMBH, Leuna, Germany (115)
• Braunkohle Benzin AG, Zeitz and Bohlen Germany Wintershall AG, Luetzhendorf, Germany (116)
• Ludwigshafen-Oppau Works of IG Farbenindustrie AG, Ludwigshafen, Germany (117)
• Ruhroel Hydrogenation Plant, Bottrop-Boy, Germany (118, Vol. 1)

Box 12

• Ruhroel Hydrogenation Plant, Bottrop-Boy, Germany (118, Vol. 2)
• Rhenania Ossag Mineraloelwerke AG, Harburg Refinery, Hamburg, Germany (119)
• Rhenania Ossag Mineraloelwerke AG, Grasbrook Refinery, Hamburg, Germany (120)
• Rhenania Ossag Mineraloelwerke AG, Wilhelmsburg Refinery, Hamburg, Germany (121)
• Gewerkschaft Victor, Castrop-Rauxel, Germany (122, Vol. 1)
• Gewerkschaft Victor, Castrop-Rauxel, Germany (122, Vol. 2)
• Europaeische Tanklager Und Transport AG, Hamburg, Germany (123)
• Ebano Asphalt Werke AG, Harburg Refinery, Hamburg, Germany (124)
• Meerbeck Rheinpreussen Synthetic Oil Plant (125A, Vol. 1)

Box 13

• Meerbeck Rheinpreussen Synthetic Oil Plant (125A, Vol. 2)
• Deutsche Dunlop Gummi Company, Hanau on Main, Germany (126)
• Continental Gummiwerke, Hanover, Germany (127)
• Huels Synthetic Rubber Plant (128)
• Elektrochemischewerke, Munich, Germany (130)
• Schoenebeck Explosives Plant, Lignose Sprengstoff Werke GMBH, Bad Salzemen, Germany (131)
• Plants of Dymanit AG, Vormal, Alfred Nobel & Co., Troisdorf, Clausthal, Drummel, and Duneberg, Germany (132)
• Deutsche Sprengchemie GMBH, Kraiburg, Germany (133)
• Overall Economic Effects Division Report (134, Vol. 1-4)

Box 14

• Industrial Sales, Output and Productivity Prewar Area of Germany, 1939-1944 (134, Vol. 8)
• Physical Damage Division Report (ETO) (134B)
• Villacoublay Airdrome, Paris, France (135)
• Railroad Repair Yards, Malines, Belgium (136)
• Railroad Repair Yards, Louvain, Belgium (137)
• Railroad Repair Yards, Hasselt, Belgium (138)
• Submarine Pens, Brest, France (140)
• Powder Plant, Angouleme, France (141)
• Powder Plant, Bergerac, France (142)
• Coking Plants, Montigny and Liege, France (143)
• Fort St. Blaise, Verdun Group, Metz, France (144)
• Gnome Et Rhone, Limoges, France (145)
• Michelin Tire Factory, Clermont-Ferrand, France (146)

Box 15

• Gnome Et Rhone Aero Engine Factory, Le Mans, France (147)
• Kugelfischer Bearing Ball Plant, Ebelsbach, Germany (148)
• Louis Breguet Aircraft Plant, Toulouse, France (149)
• S.N.C.A.S.E. Aircraft Plant, Toulouse, France (150)
• A.I.A. Aircraft Plant, Toulouse, France (151)
• V Weapons in London (152)
• City Area of Krefeld (153)
• Public Air Raid Shelters in Germany (154)
• Goldenberg Thermal Electric Power Station, Knapsack Germany (155)
• Brauweiler Transformer & Switching Station, Brauweiler, Germany (156)
• Storage Depot Nahbollenbach, Germany (157)
• Railway and Road Bridge, Bad Munster, Germany (158)
• Railway Bridge, Eller, Germany (159)

Box 16

• Gustloff-Werke Weimar, Weimar, Germany (160)
• Henschell & Sohn GMBH, Kassel, Germany (161)
• Area Survey at Pirmasens, Germany (162)
• Hanomag, Hanover, Germany (163)
• MAN Werke, Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany (164)
• Erla Maschinenwerke GMBH, Heiterblick, Germany (166)
• A.T.G. Maschinenbau GMBH, Mockau, Germany (167)
• Erla Maschinenwerke GMBH, Mockau, Germany (168)
• Bayerische Motorenwerke, Durrerhof, Germany (169)

Box 17

• Mittel-Deutsche Motorenwerke GMBH, Taucha, Germany (170)
• Submarine Pens Deutsche-Werft, Hamburg, Germany (171)
• Multi-Storied Structures, Hamburg, Germany (172)
• Continental Gummiwerke, Hannover, Germany (173)
• Kassel Marshalling Yards, Kassel, Germany (174)
• Ammonia Merseberg-Leuna, Germany (175)
• Brown, Boveri Et Cie Mannheim, Kaffertal, Germany (176)
• Adam Opel AG, Russelheim, Germany (177)

Box 18

• Daimler-Benz AG, Unterturkheim, Germany (178)
• Valentin Submarine Assembly, Farge, Germany (179)
• Volkswaggonwerke, Fallersleben, Germany (180)
• Railway Viaduct at Bielefeld, Germany (181)
• Ship Yards Howaldtswerke, Hamburg, Germany (182)
• Blohm and Voss Shipyards, Hamburg, Germany (183)
• Daimler-Benz AG, Mannheim, Germany (184)
• Synthetic Oil Plant, Meerbeck-Hamburg, Germany (185)
• Gewerkschaft Victor, Castrop-Rauxel, Germany (186)
• Klockner Humboldt Deutz, Ulm, Germany (187)

Box 19

• Ruhroel Hydrogenation Plant, Bottrop-Boy, Germany (188)
• Neukirchen Eisenwerke AG, Neukirchen, Germany (189)
• Railway Viaduct at Altenbeken, Germany (190)
• Railway Viaduct at Arnsburg, Germany (191)
• Deurag-Nerag Refineries, Misburg, Germany (192)
• Fire Raids on German Cities (193)
• IG Farbenindustrie, Ludwigshafen, Germany (194, Vol. 1)
• IG Farbenindustrie, Ludwigshafen, Germany (194, Vol. 2)

Box 20

• Roundhouse in Marshalling Yard, Ulm, Germany (195)
• IG Farbendustrie, Leverkusen, Germany (196)
• Chemische-Werke, Huels, Germany (197)
• Gremberg Marshalling Yard, Gremberg, Germany (198)
• Locomotive Shops and Bridges at Hamm, Germany (199)
• The Effects of Strategic Bombing on German Transportation (200)
• Rail Operations Over the Brenner Pass (201A)
• Effects of Bombing on Railroad Installations in Regensburg, Nuremberg and Munich Divisions (202A)
• German Locomotive Industry During the War (203A)
• German Electric Utilities Industry Report (205A)

Box 21

• Utilities Division Plant Reports (206, Vol. 1)
• Utilities Division Plant Reports (207, Vol. 2)
• 21 Rheinische-Westfalische Elektriziaetswerk AG (209)
• Summary Report (Pacific War) (1)
• Japan’s Struggle to End the War (2)
• The Effects of Atomic Bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki (3)
• Field Report Covering Air Raid Protection and Allied Subjects, Tokyo, Japan (4)
• Field Report Covering Air-Raid Protection and Allied Subjects in Nagasaki, Japan (5)
• Field Report Covering Air-Raid Protection and Allied Subjects in Kyoto, Japan (6)
• Field Report Covering Air-Raid Protection and Allied Subjects in Kobe, Japan (7)
• Field Report Covering Air-Raid Protection and Allied Subjects in Osaka, Japan (8)
• Hiroshima, Japan Field Report (9)
• Summary Report Covering Air-Raid Protection and Allied Subjects in Japan (10)

Box 22

• Final Report Covering Air-Raid Protection and Allied Subjects in Japan (11)
• The Effects of Bombing on Health and Medical Services in Japan (12)
• The Effects of Bombing on Health and Medical Services in Hiroshima and Nagasaki (13)
• The Effects of Strategic Bombing on Japanese Morale (14)
• The Japanese Aircraft Industry (15)
• Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, LTD (16)
• Nakajima Aircraft Company, LTD (17)
• Kawanishi Aircraft Co. (18)
• Kawasaki Aircraft Industries Company, Inc. (19)
• Aichi Aircraft Company (20)
• Sumitomo Metal Industries, Propeller Division (21)

Box 23

• Hitachi Aircraft Company (22)
• Japan International Air Industries, LTD (23)
• Japan Musical Instrument Manufacturing Company (24)
• Tachikawa Aircraft Company (25)
• Fuji Airplane Company (26)
• Showa Airplane Company (27)
• Ishikawajima Aircraft Industries Company, LTD (28)
• Nippon Airplane Co. (29)
• Kyushu Airplane Company (30)
• Shoda Engineering Company (31)
• Mitaka Aircraft Industries (32)
• Nissan Automobile Corporation (33)
• Army Air Arsenal and Navy Air Depots (34)
• Underground Production of Japanese Aircraft (35)
• Coals and Metals in Japan War Economy (36)
• The Japanese Construction Industry (37)
• Japanese Electrical Equipment (38)
• The Japanese Machine Building Industry (39)
• The Electric Power Industry of Japan (40)
• The Electric Power Industry of Japan (Plant Reports) (41)
• Japanese Naval Ordnance (44)
• Japanese Army Ordnance (45)
• Japanese Naval Shipbuilding (46)
• Japanese Motor Vehicle Industry (47)
• Japanese Merchant Shipbuilding (48)

Box 24

• Chemicals in Japan’s War (49)
• Chemicals in Japan’s War Appendix (50)
• Oil in Japan’s War (51)
• Oil in Japan’s War Appendix (52)
• The Effects of Strategic Bombing on Japan’s War Economy (53)
• The War Against Japanese Transportation (54)
• The Effects of Air Attack on Japanese Urban Economy (55)
• Effects of Air Attack on Urban Complex Tokyo-Kawasaki-Yokohama (56)

Box 25

• The Effects of Air Attack on the City of Nagoya (57)
• Effects of Air Attack on Osaka-Kobe-Kyoto (58)
• The Effects of Air Attack on the City of Nagasaki (59)
• Effects of Air Attack on the City of Hiroshima (60)
• Air Forces Allied with the United States in the War Against Japan (61)
• Japanese Air Power (62)
• Japanese Air Weapons and Tactics (63)
• The Effect of Air Action on Japanese Ground Army Logistics (64)
• Employment of Forces Under the Southwest Pacific Command (65)
• The Strategic Air Operation of Very Heavy Bombardment in the War Against Japan (66)
• Air Operations in China, Burma, India, World War II (67)
• The Air Transport Command in the War Against Japan (68)
• The Thirteenth Air Force in the War Against Japan (69)
• The Seventh and Eleventh Air Forces in the War Against Japan (70)
• The Fifth Air Force in the War Against Japan (71)
• Air Campaigns of the Pacific War (71A)
• Interrogations of Japanese Officials (72, Vol. 1)

Box 26

• Interrogations of Japanese Officials (72, Vol. 2)
• The Campaigns of the Pacific War (73)
• The Reduction of Wake Island (74)
• The Allied Campaign Against Rabaul (75)
• The American Campaign Against Wotje, Maloelap, Mille and Jaluit (76)
• The Reduction of Truk (77)
• The Offensive Mine Laying Campaign Against Japan (78)
• Ships Bombardment of Japan (79)

Box 27

• Kamaishi (80)
• Hamamatsu (81)
• Hitachi (82)
• Hakodate (83)
• Muroran (84)
• Shimizu (85)
• Shionomisaki and Nojimasaki (86)
• Effectiveness of Ammunition and Accuracy of Firings (87 & 88)

Box 28

• Effects of Surface Bombardment on Japanese War Potential (89)
• Effects of Incendiary Bomb Attacks on Japan (90)
• The Effects of the Ten Thousand-Pound Bomb on Japanese Targets (91)
• The Effects of the Four-Thousand-Pound Bomb on Japanese Targets (94)

Box 29

• Effects of Two Thousand, One Thousand and Five Hundred Pound Bombs on Japanese Targets (95)
• A Report on Physical Damage in Japan (96)
• Japanese Military and Naval Intelligence Division (97)
• Evaluation of Photographic Intelligence in the Japanese Homeland (98, Part 1)
• Evaluation of Photographic Intelligence in the Japanese Homeland (99, Part 2)
• Evaluation of Photographic Intelligence in the Japanese Homeland (100, Part 3)
• Evaluation of Photographic Intelligence in the Japanese Homeland (101, Part 4)
• Evaluation of Photographic Intelligence in the Japanese Homeland (102, Part 5)
• Evaluation of Photographic Intelligence in the Japanese Homeland (103, Part 6)
• Evaluation of Photographic Intelligence in the Japanese Homeland (104, Part 7)
• Evaluation of Photographic Intelligence in the Japanese Homeland (105, Part 8)
• Evaluation of Photographic Intelligence in the Japanese Homeland (106, Part 9)
• Evaluation of Photographic Intelligence in the Japanese Homeland (107, Part 10)
• Evaluation of Photographic Intelligence in the Japanese Homeland (108, Part 11)