Databases

Published here are proceedings of the 8 major conferences of the Combined Chiefs of Staff (CCS) during World War II. Each conference was composed of a series of meetings attended by high-ranking military officials, most generally of the U.S. and Great Britain, joined on occasion by military officers of the USSR. At these sessions, topics ranged from strategy for particular campaigns to debate over postwar occupation. The volumes contained here are divided into two sections, the minutes of the meetings and the approved documents created at the meetings. The CCS records are critical for research on the formation of Allied strategy and the dynamics of the wartime alliance.