Edward S. Miller collection of research material relating to War Plan Orange

The collection is organized into eleven series:

Series I: 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.

Series II: Subject File containing information on various aspects of naval warfare, military aviation, and war planning in general; arranged alphabetically by subject.

Series III: 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.

Series IV: 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, 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.

Series V.: 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.

Series VI.: 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.

Series VII: 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.

Series VIII: Maps and Photographs used to illustrate War Plan Orange, arranged by category.

Series IX: Draft Manuscript for War Plan Orange dated March 1990.

Series X: 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 a list of abbreviations is provided in the folder containing the disk.

Series XI: 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.