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S. Miller Collection
Material Relating to War Plan Orange 
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Overview of the Collection
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Repository: | United States Naval War College, Naval Historical
Collection | | Creator: | Edward S.
Miller (1930- ) | | Title: | Edward
S. Miller Collection of Material Relating to War Plan Orange | |
Dates: | 1870-2009 (inclusive) | |
Dates: | 1906-1945 (bulk) | | Quantity: |
22 standard archival boxes | |
Abstract: | Research Materials on the US Navy's Navy's
pre-World War II
plans for war with Japan accumulated by Edward Miller while for his award winning
book War Plan Orange: The U.S. Strategy to Defeat Japan, 1897-1945 published
by the Naval Institute Press in 1991 accompanied by his personal papers related
to the book's publication.. | | Language: |
The records are in English. | Return
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Biographical
Note
Edward S. Miller was born in New York City
on November 14, 1930. He grew up in Great Neck, Long Island, and attended Syracuse
University graduating Phi Beta Kappa
with honors and attended the Harvard Business School Advanced Management Program.
Mr. Miller embarked on a career in corporate finance where he developed a keen
interest corporate planning. During his business career, Mr. Miller served as
the chief financial officer of AMAX Inc., a Fortune 500
company. He was appointed by President Ronald Reagan to serve as Vice President
for Finance of the United States Synthetic Fuels Corporation,
a position he held from 1982-1984. After retiring from the business world in 1985,
Mr. Miller devoted much of his free time to researching, studying, and writing
about the United States Navy's war planning process spanning the years beginning
at the start if 20th Century through the United States entry in to World War II.
Mr. Miller's efforts culminated in the publication in 1991 of the book War
Plan Orange: the US Strategy to Defeat Japan 1897-1945, the seminal work on
the subject, published by the United States Naval
Institute and in Japanese by Shinchosa Ltd. The book
won five distinguished history awards including the Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt
Naval History Prize, best book, 1992; Society for Military History, best book
on a US subject, 1993; United States Naval Institute author of the yea, 1992,
North American Society for Oceanic History, best naval book, 1993, and the New
York Military Affairs Symposium, best book, [year?] . The papers he amassed during
the process of creating this work forms the basis of this collection. Return
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Scope
and Contents
The collection contains research
materials accumulated by Edward S. Miller while writing War Plan Orange,
the definitive work on the US Navy's war planning activities against Japan that
was published in 1991 by the Naval Institute Press (Orange was the code name for
Japan in US war plans). The bulk of the collection consists of copies of documents,
articles, and notes taken by Mr. Miller during a twenty-year period of study involving
investigations into the various the versions of War Plan Orange, the functioning
of the Navy's war planning branches and divisions, and the senior naval officers
involved in the process of developing the Navy's war plans. In addition to specific
materials on War Plan Orange and war planning in general, the collection includes
a biographical file containing information on the US Navy's war planners, a geographical
file containing information on various islands in the Pacific, and a subject file
containing information on such topics as aviation and logistics.
The collection also includes Mr. Miller's personal papers relating to the pre
and post-publication of War Plan Orange including reviews and commentaries
on pre-publication manuscripts and a copy of the book itself. Return
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Arrangement
The collection is organized into eleven series as follows: War
Plan Orange Research File containing copies of primary source documents relating
to War Plan Orange and hand written notes taken by Mr. Miller during the course
of his research. The folders are arranged chronologically by years, subdivided
by subject matter where appropriate. Copies of documents and the notes are arranged
in separate folders. Of note is the Check List of US War Plans, 1905-1941,"
which can be found in the first folder of the series. This document provides a
reference list of all US war plans. Subject File containing information
on various aspects of naval warfare, military aviation, and war planning in general;
arranged alphabetically by subject.. Geographical File containing
information collected by Mr. Miller on approximately two dozen islands and atolls
in the Pacific; arranged alphabetically by name and subdivided by content where
appropriate. Biographical File containing notes on personalities
related to war planning and/or topics covered in War Plan Orange, arranged
alphabetically, along with various lists, tables, directories and additional information
on persons assigned to the General Board of the Navy and the Joint Army-Navy Board
and its Joint Planing Committee, the Naval War College, and the Naval War Plans
Division also known as OP-12. The file also includes materials copied from the
Charles M. "Savvy" Cooke, Jr.Papers. Bibliographic Notes the
bulk of which consists of an extensive list of primary source documents consulted
by Mr. Miller the majority of which can be found in his collection, arranged chronologically. Reference
Material composed of a selected group of articles, dissertations, books, drafts,
microfilm, and notes of interviews conducted by Mr. Miller. Arranged by media:
articles, other works, interviews, and microfilm. War Plan Orange
Publication Materials relating to the pre and post-publication of War
Plan Orange including proposals, critiques, a draft manuscript,
correspondence, book reviews, awards, etc., arranged by subject. Maps
and Photographs used to illustrate War Plan Orange, arranged by category. Draft
Manuscript for War Plan Orange dated March 1990. Digital Files
consisting of one compact disk containing the final draft versions of War
Plan Orange and one War Pan Orange data disk containing approximately 1,300
pages of digitized notes taken by Mr. Miller during the course of his research.
This data was originally placed on 5-1/4-inch floppy disks using 1980s era word
processing software. The files were converted to pdf format and placed on compact
disk media. Most of the data contained therein consists of notes taken on War
Plan Orange arranged chronologically. Each note file is accompanied by two supporting
files, a "bibliographic" file containing reference citations for the
notes taken in the file and a "tag" file that is used for cross reference
purposes. Because the original software limited entries to 2,000 characters, notes
from longer documents are divided into paragraphs. The first line of each paragraph
of notes, enclosed in angle brackets (< >), corresponds to an entry in the
tags list briefly describing the information. The final line of each paragraph
of notes, enclosed in double square brackets ([[ ]]), is a short designation of
the source document which corresponds to the full source entries in the bibliographical
file. Most entries in the three interrelated files are in chronological orders.
The series also contains a number of stand alone (no tags or bibliography) electronic
subject files as well as a number of stand alone reference files. A guide to the
arrangement and use of the data files and a list of abbreviations used is provided
in the folder containing the disk. Digital File Printouts consisting
of hard copy paper printouts of the electronic files. This series is broken into
three subseries for ease of access: chronological, subject, and reference. The
former are arranged in chronological order, the other two are arranged alphabetically
by subject. A guide to the arrangement and use of these files is provided in the
first folder. Return to the Table of Contents
Detailed Description of the
Collection
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| War Plan Orange
Research File | | Box 1 | Check
List of US War Plans, 1905-1941 | | | WPO
1870-1920: Cable in Pacific | | | WPO
1897-1945: Chronology | |
| WPO 1890s - c. 1920s: Coaling | | WPO
1898-1919: Midway | | WPO
1898-1919: Wake Is. | | WPO
Pre-1918: Midway | | WPO
Pre-1918: Spanish-American War | | WPO
Pre-1918: US In the Pacific | | Box
2 | WPO Pre-1918: Wake Is. | |
WPO 1918: US In the Pacific | |
WPO Pre-1906: War Plans | |
WPO 1906-10 | | WPO
1910 | |
WPO 1910: General Board | |
WPO 1911: Naval War College | |
WPO 1911-1914 | |
WPO 1913-1914: General Board | |
WPO 1915-1918 | | Box 3 |
WPO 1919 | |
WPO 1920 | |
WPO 1920-1923: Midway | | WPO
1920-32: Midway including Johnston & Leeward atolls | |
WPO 1921 | |
WPO 1922 | |
WPO 1921-1932: Wake Is. | |
WPO 1921: Ellis Document Advanced Base Operations Micronesia | |
WPO 1923 | |
WPO 1924 | |
WPO 1925 | | Box 4 |
WPO 1926 | | WPO
1928: JPC Estimate of Situation | |
WPO 1929 | |
WPO 1930-31 | |
WPO 1930s: Johnston, Leeward, and other atolls | | Box
5 | WPO 1932 | |
WPO 1933 | | WPO
1933-35: Wake Is. | | WPO:
1933-37: Midway | |
WPO 1934: Royal Road | | | WPO
1935 | | Box 6 |
WPO 1936 | |
WPO 1936-37: Dry Dock | |
WPO 1936-38: Wake Is. | |
WPO 1937 | |
WPO 1938 | |
WPO 1938-39: Hepburn Board& related (see also Wake, Midway and other Islands) |
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WPO 1938-41: Midway | | Box
7 | WPO 1939 | |
WPO 1939: JPC "Momentum" study | |
WPO 1939: Wake Is. | |
WPO 1940 | |
WPO 1940-41: Wake Is. | | Box
8 | WPO 1941 and earlier: AAF, South Pacific
Air Route | |
WPO 1941 | | WPO
1941-46 Pearl Harbor Hearings | | Box
9 | WPO 1942-45 |
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Subject File | |
Aviation, civil in the Pacific | |
Aviation, military | |
Aviation, VPs and tenders | | Articles,
Naval & Military | |
Bases & Logistics | | | Color
Plans other than Orange | |
| Japanese War Plans | |
Box 10 | Miscellaneous: war, future, political |
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Naval History, prewar | | Naval
Logistics | |
Naval Ships and Forces | | Post
WWII History - naval & others | | Quotations | | Ship
Operations, prewar | | War
& Business Plans | | War
Relics, survivors | | World
War I in Pacific | | World
War II, misc. | | WPO
Criticisms |
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Geographical File | |
American Polynesia, misc. items | |
Baker & Equatorial Island Groups | |
Canton & Enderbury | | Christmas
Is. | | Eniwetok | | French
Frigate Shoals | | Guam | | Howland
Is. | | Jarvis
Is. | | Johnston
Is. | | Kingman
Reef | | Kure | | Laysan | | Leeward
Hawaiian Chain | | Mandated
Islands | | Lisianski | | Box
11 | Marcus Is. | | Maro
Reef | | Micronesia | | Midway:
Articles & History | | Midway:
Clippings | | Midway:
Clippings, postwar | | Necker | | Pacific
Islands, misc. | | Palmyra | | Pearl
& Hermes Reef | | Wake:
Articles & History | | Wake:
Postwar Clippings | | Wake:
Postwar Observer Clippings |
| Biographical
File | | Box 12 |
Biographies: A thru H | |
Biographies: I thru R | |
| Biographies: S thru Z |
| | Lists
and Miscellaneous | |
Tables of War Planners, 1900-1942 | |
Navy Department Directories, War Planners | |
General Board Personnel | |
Joint Army-Navy Board Personnel | | Box
13 | Cooke, Charles M., Jr., Selected
Papers of |
| Bibliographic
Notes | | | Chronological
List of Prime Source Materials | | Misc.
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| Reference Material | | Articles | | Articles:
British and Other Allied Plans | | Articles:
Other Color Plans | | Box 14 | Articles:
WPO | | Articles:
WPO and Related Subjects, US Navy | |
Articles: WPO and Related Subjects, US Army, Air Force, Marine Corps |
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Articles: War Gaming at Naval War College | | Articles:
War Planning and Strategy | | Box
15 | Articles: Pacific War Plans during World
War II | |
Articles: US Maritime Strategy, 1980s | | Articles:
War Planning and Strategy | | Other
Works | | "Planning
the Defeat of Japan: A Study of Total War Strategy," by Henry G. Morgan.
Jr. (Office of Chf. Of Military Hist., 1961) | | "US
Navy War Plans Before World War II," draft of thesis prepared by Carlos R.
Rivera | | Blue
Sword: The Naval War College and the American Mission, 1919-1941, by Michael
Vlahos (Naval War College 1980) | | "The
Origins of American National Security Policy," by Lester H. Brune (Sunflower
1981) | | "War
Planning at the US Army War College, 1934-1940," by Henry G. Cole (AHD Diss.,
Temple 1991) | | Box 16 | "Planning
for War: A History of the General Board of the Navy, 1900-1914," by Daniel
J. Costello (Ph.D. Diss., Tufts 1968) | | "Interwar
US and Japanese National Product and Defense Expenditure," by William D.
O'Neil (CNA, 2003) | | "Military
Transformation as a Competitive Systemic Process," by William D. O'Neil (CNA,
2003) | | "United
States Peacetime Strategic Planning, 1920-1941," by Dana G. Mead (Ph.D. Diss.,
MIT 1967) | | Interviews
Conducted | | Box 17 | Notes
on Interviews Conducted by E.S. Miller, 1985-1987 | | Microfilm | | Guide
to the Microfilm of Strategic Planning in the US Navy: Its Evolution and Execution
1891-1945 (printed matter) | | Strategic
Planning in the US Navy: Its Evolution and Execution 1891-1945, reel nos.
1 - 9 |
| War Plan
Orange Publication Materials | | Box
18 | War Plan Orange
(published copy) | | | Book
Proposals and Critiques, 1984-1986 | |
| Negative Critiques of
1988 | | | Final
Critiques of Revised Manuscript, 1990 | | | Correspondence,
Editing and Production 1987-1991 | | Box
19 | Cover Art | | | Cartography | | | Blurbs
for Book Jacket | | | Ads,
Catalogs, Lists | | | Promotion | | | Book
Reviews | | | Awards
and Prizes | | | Correspondence,
Post-publications | | Maps
and Photographs | |
| Maps, Draft |
| | Maps,
Final | | Box 20 | Photographs | | Draft
Manuscript for War Plan Orange dated March 1990 |
| Digital
Files | | Box 21 | War
Plan Orange (book) Final Draft Data Disk (.pdf). | | | War
Pan Orange Data Disk (.pdf ) |
| Digital File
Printouts | | | Guide
to Digital Printouts | | | Files
Arranged by Date | | | Pre-1907
Notes: WPO & Related | | | 1907-1912
Notes: WPO & Related | | | 1913-1918
Notes: WPO & Related | | | 1919-23
Notes: WPO & Related | | | 1921-25
Notes: WPO & Related | | | 1926-1929
Notes: WPO & Related | | | 1929-35
Notes: WPO & Related | | | 1931-41
Notes: WPO & Flying Boats | | | Jun
'35 - Oct '37 Notes: WPO & Related | | | Late
'37 - Sept '39 Notes: WPO & Related | | Box
22 | Late '38 - Jan '41
Notes: WPO & Related | | | Late
'38 - Jan '41 Notes: Alaska & Aleutians | | | 1939-41
Notes: Rainbow & Joint Plans | | | 1940-41
Notes: WPO & Related | | | Late
1941 Notes: WPO & Related | | | 1941
Notes : Final Prewar Plans | | | 1942-45
Notes: WPO | | | Files
Arranged by Subject | | | Aviation,
Misc. | | | Dewey,
George, biographical data | | | Flying
Boats and Tenders (drafts) | | | Roosevelt,
T.R. & WPO | | | U.
S. Atolls, History to 1938 (drafts) | | | WPO
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Restrictions
With
the exception of all drafts and published editions of War Plan Orange,
all other material in this collection (text, maps, or artwork) commissioned, written,
or produced by Edward S. Miller has been placed in the public domain. Other materials
in the collection maybe subject to copyright by the originator. Return
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Index
Terms
This record series is indexed under
the following controlled access subject terms. Miller, Edward S. Return
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Administrative
Information
Preferred
Citation Cite as: Edward S. Miller Collection
of Material Relating to War Plan Orange, Naval HIstorical Collection, United
States Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island. Processing
Information The collection was processed and
a finding aid prepared by Thomas Wildenberg in October 2009. Return
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