American Geographers and World War II: Spies, Teachers, and Occupiers

Trevor J. Barnes

Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 2016, vol. 106, issue 3, 543-550

Abstract: This article reviews the military duties of a number of U.S. geographers during World War II. It divides those duties into three kinds: spies, teachers, and occupiers. In each case, a specific form of geographical expertise was deployed—instrumental to achieving a particular military end. In particular, the article examines the roles of geographers: first, in the analysis of military intelligence at the Office of Strategic Services; second, in the provision of geographical courses for the university-based Civil Affairs Training School and the Army Specialized Training Program; and, finally, as agents of occupation in Japan once World War II ended.

Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1080/24694452.2016.1145513

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