Chief, Strategic Plans Section, Office of Military History, Department of the Army, Mr. Matloff is a graduate of Columbia College, and was a graduate fellow in history at Harvard University. While in the Army in World War II he was assigned to study Russian area and language at Yale, and served as instructor in intelligence and historian in the AAF. In 1946 he became a civilian member of the Operations Division historical project in the War Department General Staff. Since then he has been continuously engaged in research and writing on the Washington High Command in World War II. A volume, of which he is co-author with Mr. Edwin M. Snell, entitled Strategic Planning for Coalition Warfare, 1941-42, will be published this month in the official U. S. Army in World War II series.
Mr. Matloff wishes to acknowledge with gratitude his indebtedness to the work of Edwin M. Snell, Ray S. Cline, Mark S. Watson, Capt. Tracy B. Kittredge, USNR, and many others too numerous to mention. The opinions and conclusions herein presented are entirely his own. They are not to be construed as official views of the Department of the Army.
