Important primary sources, offering insight into government policy, the war in the Pacific, and the war in Europe. Sources include the records of the Special Operations Executive - the secret British organisation whose mission was to conduct espionage, sabotage and subversion behind enemy lines in Europe; private papers of American General Robert L Eichelberger, commander of the Amphibious Eighth during the Pacific War, in charge of all ground occupation troops in Japan (1945-1948), and second in command to General Douglas MacArthur in the Pacific; Diaries of James V Forrestal, US Secretary of the Navy, 1944-1947, and first Secretary of Defense, 1947-1949.