Office of War Information

To control the content and imagery of war messages
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Leadership & Staff

Elmer Davis Director of the United States Office of War Information during World War II
• Director ('42→?)
Milton S Eisenhower President of three major American universities: Kansas State, Penn State University, and Johns Hopkins University
• Assistant chief ('42)
John M. Maki Professor emeritus of Political Science at University of Massachusetts Amherst
• psychological warfare planner (past)
Robert E. Sherwood Playwright, editor, and screenwriter; one of President Franklin D Roosevelt's speech writers
• Director ('41→?)
David Stone Martin Graphic artist
• Artist (past)
Francis E Brennan Art director and cartoonist
• Graphics chief (past)
Arthur M Schlesinger Jr Historian
• Position ('42→'43)

Child Organizations

Overseas Operations Branch Part of the OWI
• branch
Domestic Operations Branch US government's domestic political propaganda office during World War II
• subordinate office
Bureau of Intelligence
• bureau

Parents

Office for Emergency Management
• parent agency ('42→?)*

Services & Transactions

Foreign Broadcast Information Service Monitors Cuba and other places
• collaborator (past)
Office of War Information
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Basic Info

Types Organization, Government Body
Start date 1941
End date Aug 31 '45
Aliases FIS, Foreign Information Service, OWI

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