Tag: Office of War Information
From time to time while working in the records, NARA staff find documents that provide new perspectives on events through which they lived. I recently had that experience. I remember well the terrible humanitarian disaster that befell local populations as Yugoslavia ripped itself apart during the 1990s. I remember, too, how many commentators expressed surprise [...]
Posted by David Langbart on January 23, 2013, under Archives II, Civil Records, History, The Process.
Tags: Belgrade, Columbia University, Counselor for Public Affairs, David Langbart, Department of State, Frank Shakespeare, Marshal Tito, National Security Adviser, Office of War Information, Policy Planning Council, President Jimmy Carter, RG 306, United States Information Agency, Walter R. Roberts, World War II, Yugoslavia, Zbigniew Brzezinski Comments: 1
“This is an American soldier – he is your friend.” So read the leaflet prepared by the United States for use in Vietnam. Underneath that caption, it pictured several American infantrymen advancing into combat. The time, however, was not the 1960s; it was mid-1945 and World War II in the Pacific was drawing to a [...]
Posted by David Langbart on July 6, 2012, under Archives II, Military Records.
Tags: China Theater, Indochina, Office of War Information, Psychological Warfare Office, RG 493, U.S. Army, Vietnam, World War II Comments: 1
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