Fifty-three scrapbooks of newspaper clippings predominantly from the Honolulu Advertiser and Honolulu Star-Bulletin, arranged by subject. While the definitive provenance of these scrapbooks is unknown, their similarities in formatting, structure, and naming suggest that they came from the same source, and call numbers in some of the scrapbook titles suggest that they were compiled in the library and not donated to the HWRD from an external source. Topics covered in the scrapbooks include medical topics; blackouts; propaganda; camouflage; the Businessmen’s Military Training Corps (BMTC); Hawaii Defense Volunteers (HDV); women in defense; the Office of Civilian Defense (OCD); bombs; air raids; bulletins; disaster relief; the draft; evacuation; gas attacks; gasoline and tire priorities; general orders from the Office of the Military Governor (OMG); articles from the Hilo Tribune; the Hawaii War Records Depository (HWRD) and its collecting efforts; the army and navy in Hawaii; the Hawaii Sugar Planters Association (HSPA); wartime articles specific to the islands of Hawaii, Kauai, Maui, and Niihau; martial law; the Pearl Harbor investigations; the Hawaii Defense Act; wartime storage and supplies; and the Office of Price Administration (OPA).