5, 314, 365-66, 373-74.

Nimitz, Admiral Chester W., 94, 166-67.

Nkrumah, Kwame, 509.

Noble, Maj. Gen. Alfred H., 334.

Norfolk, Va., 73, 77, 483, 485, 498.

Norfolk _Journal and Guide_, 163, 258.

_Northland_, 118.

Nugent, Maj. Gen. Richard E., 287-88, 405.

Nunn, William G., 302_n_.

Nurse Corps, U.S. Navy, 72, 74-75, 96, 247-48.

Occupational distribution of assignments, 523-27, 572-73.

Occupational specialties, 177, 194-95, 201, 354-55, 377, 524-27, 572-73.

Off-base equal opportunity inventories, 583-85, 592.

Off-limits sanctions by Department of Defense
and housing, 580, 604-05, 608, 621;
and question of using, 532-33;
recommended by Gesell Committee, 543-44, 547-48, 556, 581;
and requested by NAACP, 556.

Office of War Information, 40.

Officer training schools, integration of
in the Air Force, 286;
in the Army, 30, 47-51;
in the Marine Corps, 266;
in the Navy, 82, 87.

Officers, black
in the Air Force, 278, 282-83, 398, 406;
in the armed forces, 568-71;
in the Army, 30, 36-37, 47-51, 194, 219-23, 226;
in the Coast Guard, 119, 121-22;
in the Marine Corps, 111, 266-67, 461, 471-72;
in the Navy, 79-82, 86-87, 243-48, 332, 414-15, 417-18, 426.

Officers, white, attitudes of
in the Army, 37, 133-34;
in the Navy, 82-84, 89-90.

Ohly, John H., 299, 327.

OIR Notice CP75 (1952), 483-84.

Okinawa Base Command, 190.

Old, Maj. Gen. William D., 282, 284.

O'Meara, Joseph, 537.

Operations Research Office, 441-42.

_Opportunity_, 67.

Osthagen, Clarence H., 398.

Overhead spaces
in the Air Force, 279;
in the Army, 177, 195-97.

Overseas employment of black servicemen
by the Army, 37-38;
and the Gesell Committee, 552-53;
by the Marine Corps, 109-11;
restrictions on, 38, 179, 385-89.

Overton, John H., 11.

Oxford, Miss., 476, 505.

Pace, Frank, Jr., 224, 376, 377_n_, 395, 443-44, 447.

Padover, Saul K., 294.

Palmer, Dwight, 314.

Panama Canal Zone, 38, 179, 386.

Parachute Battalion, 555th, 190-92.

Parks, Maj. Gen. Floyd L., 186-87.

Parks, Rosa, 124, 478.

Parris Island, S. C., 334.

Parrish, Col. Noel F., 273, 279.

Passman, Otto E., 550.

Pastore, John, 392_n_.

Patch, Lt. Gen. Alexander M., 53.

Patterson, Robert P., 21-22, 28, 46, 225;
and conduct of black troops in E