The earliest document on US Army leadership doctrine I could find dates to 1948 (Department of the Army Pamphlet No. 22-1 "Leadership"; DAPAM22-1). Are there any manuals or other US Army documents informing combat leaders on how to fulfil their leadership responsibilities from before 1941? If not, are there any scholarly works analysing what leadership expectations were placed on US army officers during World War II?
The Combined Arms Research Library (CARL) Digital Library, available at http://cdm16040.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/, contains "Obsolete Military Manuals". The pdf at http://cdm16040.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/p4013coll9/id/882/rec/2 dates from 1948 but on pp. 5-6 makes reference to numerous earlier material on military psychology and leadership, some of which from the late 1930s. Surely relevant, if it can somehow be tracked.
You should contact the National WWII museum here in New Orleans. They have a massive archive and the archivists are very helpful. If they don't have what you're looking for, they might know how to locate it. The archivist I spoke to was named Taylor.
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