Charles R. Anderson is an Asian specialist and former Marine Corps officer who has published personal accounts of the Vietnam War and, for the U.S. Army Center of Military History, has written narratives on Army operations in World War II. He has an M.A. in Asian studies from Western Michigan University and is currently employed as a historian in the Histories Division at the Center.
Judith L. Bellafaire holds a Ph.D. in American history from the University of Delaware. She has taught history at a number of colleges and is now a historian with the Field and International Division of the U.S. Army Center of Military History. Her areas of specialization include World War II and women in the military.
Christopher N. Choppelas is an Army reservist at the Presidio of San Francisco. As a journalist for the 51st Military History Detachment, he participated in the writing of the history of Department of Defense involvement in the 1989 Loma Prieta (California) earthquake. He is a full-time student at San Francisco State University and a microcomputer network specialist working for Hitachi America, Limited.
Charles A. Endress is professor and head of the Department of History at Angelo State University, San Angelo, Texas. He has taught at the United States Military Academy, West Point, and as a Visiting Professor of Military History and Strategy at the Air War College. He holds a Ph.D. in history from Tulane University and retired as a colonel in the United States Army Reserve.
William W. Epley, now retired from the United States Army, was a historian in the Research and Analysis Division at the U.S. Army Center of Military History. He has an M.A. in history from the University of Michigan and has taught European history at the United States Military Academy. In August 1990 he served briefly in the history office of U.S. Central Command at MacDill Air Force Base, Florida. During February-April 1991 he was a historian for the 22d Support Command in Saudi Arabia.
Glen R. Hawkins has an M.A. in international relations from the University of Southern California and an M.A. in history from Harvard University. He retired from the U.S. Army in 1993. He worked as a historian in the Research and Analysis Division of the U.S. Army Center of Military History. During December 1990-March 1991 he was a historian for the 22d Support Command in Saudi Arabia.
Mary L. Haynes is a historian in the Research and Analysis Division of the U.S. Army Center of Military History. She holds an M.A. degree in history from Georgetown University and has been an Army historian for twenty years.
David W. Hogan is a historian in the Histories Division at the U.S. Army Center of Military History. He has a Ph.D. in history from Duke University and has taught American military history at Elon College. His book, U.S. Army Special Operations in World War II, was published in 1992.
John H. King, a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve, commanded the 51st Military History Detachment from 1987 to 1992. His detachment was mobilized in 1991 for duty at the U.S. Army Center of Military History during the war in the Persian Gulf. He has an M.B.A. from Golden Gate University. As a civilian he specializes in economic development marketing for Loudoun County, Virginia.
Charles E. Kirkpatrick was a historian in the Histories Division of the U.S. Army Center of Military History. He holds a Ph.D. in history from Emory University. He retired from the U.S. Army in the summer of 1991 and as a civilian is now command historian at V Corps in Frankfurt, Germany. His books include An Unknown Future and a Doubtful Present: Writing the Victory Plan of 1941 (1991).
Theresa L. Kraus is a historian with the Federal Aviation Administration and holds a Ph.D. in history from the University of Maryland. During preparation of this volume she was a historian in the Research and Analysis Division of the U.S. Army Center of Military History. She has written on a variety of military topics.
J. Britt McCarley is the command historian for the U.S. Army Test and Evaluation Command at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland. He has a Ph.D. in history from Temple University and served as the Air Defense Artillery branch historian at Fort Bliss, Texas, during preparation of this book.
Thomas A. Popa was a historian in the Research and Analysis Division at the U.S. Army Center of Military History until he retired from the Army in 1993. He has an M.A. in history from Kansas State University and is an honor graduate of the Army's Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.
Frank N. Schubert was chief of the Military Studies Branch of the Research and Analysis Division at the U.S. Army Center of Military History. He has a Ph.D. in history from the University of Toledo. His most recent books are Building Air Bases in the Negev: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Israel, 1979-1982 (1992) and Buffalo Soldiers, Braves and the Brass: The Story of Fort Robinson, Nebraska (1993).
James A. Speraw, Jr., is a museum specialist in the Museum Division at the U.S. Army Center of Military History. He has a B.A. in history from the University of Maryland and serves as a staff sergeant in the 158th Cavalry, Maryland National Guard. He was deployed to Southwest Asia as a member of the Special Property Recovery Team, the first unit in the history of the Army to systematically recover materiel from the battlefield for historical documentation.