Records of Allied Forces Headquarters (RG 331) [Theaters of Operations Records]


Allied Forces Headquarters (AFHQ) was established September 12, 1942, as an allied command to plan and direct operations and military government activities in the North African Theater of Operations (later expanded and renamed Mediterranean Theater of Operations). General Dwight D. Eisenhower, General Sir Henry Maitland Wilson, Field Marshal Sir Harold R.L.G. Alexander, General Joseph T. McNary (Acting), Lieutenant General Sir William D. Morgan, and Lieutenant General John C. H. Lee (Acting) were successively Allied Commander-in-Chief (or Supreme Allied Commander).

Under AFHQ operational control were a number of subordinate allied commands, including the Allied Armies in Italy (also known as the Fifteenth Army Group); the Mediterranean Allied Air Forces; the Naval Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean; Military Headquarters (Balkans), which directed relief and rehabilitation measures in Albania, Greece, and Yugoslavia; and the Allied Military Government/Allied Commission (Italy), which administered military government and civil affairs in occupied Italy. AFHQ ceased functioning effective September 17, 1947.

The AFHQ records described below have been microfilmed and their location is 290/24/25/01 (Boxes 1-355). Please contact the Archives II Textual Reference Branch staff for assistance in identifying specific rolls of microfilm.

Records of the General Staff Section

Records of the G-5 (Military Government and Civil Affairs) Section

Records of the Policy and Control Division

    Microfilm Copy of a Modified Decimal Correspondence File 1943-1946 (Entry 56)
Microfilm of a Restricted Decimal Correspondence File (900 Block Only) 1946-1947  (Entry 57)

Microfilm Copies of Records Concerning Occupation, Civil Administration, Courts and  Laws, De-Nazification, Military Government, and Other Matters in Connection With  Planning and Effectuating the Civil Administration of Austria ca. 1943-1947 (Entry 59)

Records of the Office of the Financial Adviser

Microfilm Copies of Records Relating to the Formulation of Financial Plans and Policies  for the Allied Military Government and the Allied Commission (Italy), Military  Headquarters (Balkans), the Allied Financial Agency, and the Allied Supply Accounting  Agency 1943-1946 (Entry 82)

Records of the Allied Military Government and Allied Commission (Italy)

For pertinent records please consult the finding aids and reference staff in the consultation area in Room 2400.


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