Kantor Informasi Perang Amerika Serikat

United States Office of War Information (OWI) adalah sebuah agensi pemerintah Amerika Serikat yang dibentuk pada Perang Dunia II untuk mengatur jasa-jasa informasi pemerintah yang telah ada dan mengirimkan propaganda ke dalam negeri dan luar negeri. OWI beroperasi dari Juni 1942 sampai September 1945. Melalui penyiaran radio, surat kabar, poster, fotografi, film dan bentuk-bentuk media lainnya, OWI merupakan penghubung antara pasukan tempur dan masyarakat sipil. Agensi tersebut juga mendirikan beberapa cabang luar negeri, yang meluncurkan kampanye propaganda dan informasi berskala besar di luar negeri.

Referensi

• Allan Winkler, The Politics of Propaganda: The Office of War Information, 1942-1945 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1978).
• Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black-and-White Negatives." Library of Congress. http://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/fsa/
• Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Color Photographs." Library of Congress. http://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/fsac/
• Howard Blue, Words at War: World War II Radio Drama and the Postwar Broadcast Industry Blacklist (Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press, 2002).
• Jack L. Hammersmith, "THE U.S. OFFICE OF WAR INFORMATION (OWI) AND THE POLISH QUESTION, 1943-1945" (The Polish Review 19, no. 1 (1974)). http://www.jstor.org/stable/25777179
• Matthew D. Johnson, "Propaganda and Sovereignty in Wartime China: Morale Operations and Psychological Warfare under the Office of War Information" (Modern Asian Studies 45, no. 2 (2011)). http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S0026749X11000023
• Sydney Weinberg, "What to Tell America: The Writers' Quarrel in the Office of War Information" (The Journal of American History 55, no. 1 (1968)). http://www.jstor.org/stable/1894252

Arsip

• "Records of the Office of War Information (OWI) in the National Archives".

Pranala luar

Wikimedia Commons memiliki media mengenai United States Office of War Information.

• OWI images at the Museum of the City of New York
• OWI recordings at the Library of Congress
• Images from the Farm Security Administration-Office of War Information Collection (Library of Congress)
• World War II OWI posters
• World War Poster Collection hosted by the University of North Texas Libraries' Digital Collections
• The Papers of Edward P. Lilly, special assistant to the director of OWI 1944-1945, Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library Diarsipkan 2019-04-11 di Wayback Machine.
• Papers of Paul Sturman, Foreign Language Division of OWI, Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library Diarsipkan 2018-12-21 di Wayback Machine.