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Investigations of the National War Effort:
Report of the Committee on Military Affairs
House of Representatives, Seventy-Ninth Congress
2nd Session, Pursuant to H. Res. 2, A Resolution Authorizing
the Committee on Military Affairs to Study the Progress of
the National War Effort
June 1946 |
In June 1946
the House Committee on Military Affairs, Chairman Congressman Andrew
J. May, issued the report, Investigations of the National War Effort,
for member’s use only. 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. (Library of Congress Call Number KF32
.M5 1946 and OCLC Number 5096208)
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