United States Army Forces, Pacific

USAFPOA United States Army Forces, Pacific Ocean Areas... 

The CWS technical reports, along with many evaluations of munitions and plans, both for the United States and its Allies, were deposited in the Technical Library, Army Chemical Center, Md., and have been identified and described in From Laboratory to Fields The best World War I source, pending the preparation of an official volume on gas warfare in World War I, is the draft History of the Chemical Warfare Service, American Expeditionary Forces. Copies of this study are available in the Technical Library and in the Office of the Historian, U.S. Army Edgewood Arsenal. Finally, as regards monographs and studies, special note should be made of the excellent Marine Corps series on operations in the Pacific. Also worthy of special note is the American Forces in Action series, which has been useful although documented and more complete accounts have in most instances appeared in the series UNITED STATES ARMY IN WORLD WAR II. The volumes published in this series have proved invaluable, and the following have been particularly important ... 

For the part played by the CWS in developing flame throwing tanks in the Pacific see (1) History of Chemical Section, U.S. Army Forces Middle Pacific, 7 Dec 41-2 Sep 45, vols. II and III, in OCMH (2) Col George H. Unmacht, "Flame Throwing Seabees, Armed Forces Chemical Journal, III (July 1948), 48-50, reprinted from United States Naval Institute Proceedings (April 1948). 

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