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Summary

The Smithsonian publishes twenty-one "War Background Studies," a new series of illustrated booklets on the peoples, geography, history, natural history, and other features of the areas reached by World War II, especially in the Pacific. Another project undertaken for the Navy is a manual titled "Survival on Land and Sea."

Category

Chronology of Smithsonian History

Notes

  • Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution for the year 1943. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1944, p. 4.
  • Oehser, Paul H. The Smithsonian Institution. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1970, p. 62.

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

Date

1941

Topic

  • Geography
  • Wartime Activities
  • Natural History
  • Anthropology
  • Museums
  • History
  • Natural history
  • Museum publications

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