Investigations of the national war effort
Subtitle: report, Seventy-ninth Congress, second session, pursuant to H. Res. 20, a resolution authorizing the Committee on Military Affairs to study the progress of the national war effort
Series: Military legal resources
Publisher: U.S. G.P.O.
Published: 1946
Place of publication: Washington
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Number of pages: 57
Subjects: Courts-martial and courts of inquiry
Description: In addition to an overview of the history of the articles of war and a brief description of the system of courts martial, the report devotes the largest section of the report to a discussion of the defects of the military justice system as it existed and was implemented during the Second World War. Twelve specific defects are listed, with several cases cited in detail. The report concludes with sixteen recommendations, the first two and most important, pertaining to the functions of the Judge Advocate General's Department and the creation of a tribunal to correct injustices.
Notes: At head of title: Committee Print.

"Exclusively for members' use, not to be released, June 1946."

"88045".

Electronic reproduction. [Washington, D.C. : Federal Research Division, Library of Congress, 2005] (Military legal resources). Digitized image of the original.