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# Reference Information Paper 78	A Finding Aid to Records Relating to Personal Participation in World War II ("The American Soldier" Surveys)

**Contents**

- **Preface**  ****
- Part I: Introduction   
- Part II: The Creation of the Records   
- Part III: The Electronic Records   
- Part IV: The Textual Records 		   - RG 330 -  Records of the Office  of the Secretary of Defense  
  - RG 160 -  Records of Headquarters  Army Service Forces 
  - RG 165 -  Records of the War Department  General and Special Staffs  
-  **Part V:**  Other Records 		 
- Appendix A:  List of Electronic Records  Files from the surveys "The American Soldier in World War II," Record Group  330 		 
- Appendix B: Microfilm copies of answers  to selected "Free Comment" questions in surveys of "The American Soldier in  World War II," A List of Roll, Survey, and Question Numbers, Record Group  165 

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**Note:** Compiled by Ben DeWhitt and Heidi Ziemer. Published by the National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, DC, 1991 (Revised, 1997). 

Web version prepared 1999. Additions and changes incorporated in the Web version are between brackets [] and in italics.

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