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U.S. Operations Research in World War II

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  • Joseph F. McCloskey

    (California State University, Dominguez Hills, Carson, California)

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This article, the third in a series on the early history of operations research, offers an overview of American military operations research during World War II. The first and second articles ( Operations Research 35 , pp. 143–152 and 453–470) traced the scattered beginnings of operations research from World War I through the British experience of World War II.

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  • Joseph F. McCloskey, 1987. "U.S. Operations Research in World War II," Operations Research, INFORMS, vol. 35(6), pages 910-925, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:inm:oropre:v:35:y:1987:i:6:p:910-925
    DOI: 10.1287/opre.35.6.910
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    1. Luss, Hanan & Rosenwein, Moshe B., 1997. "Operations Research applications: Opportunities and accomplishments," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 97(2), pages 220-244, March.
    2. Maurice W. Kirby, 2000. "Operations Research Trajectories: The Anglo-American Experience from the 1940s to the 1990s," Operations Research, INFORMS, vol. 48(5), pages 661-670, October.
    3. Alex E. S. Green & Deborah S. Green & Richard L. Francis, 2015. "OR Forum—A Glimpse at an Operation Analyst’s World War II: “Report on the Combat Performance of the Remote Control Turrets of B-29 Aircraft”," Operations Research, INFORMS, vol. 63(2), pages 262-268, April.
    4. David C. Lane, 2010. "OR FORUM---High Leverage Interventions: Three Cases of Defensive Action and Their Lessons for OR/MS Today," Operations Research, INFORMS, vol. 58(6), pages 1535-1547, December.

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