World War II - References

Analysis

• "EXPLAINING HITLER" Voice of America 07 October 1998
• A War That Was Not Left to the Generals Eliot A. Cohen Joint Forces Quarterly Summer 1995 [203 kb PDF] -- Roosevelt, and to an even greater measure Churchill, exercised a directive, forceful control of a kind that most members of the defense establishment today would find unusual - and perhaps improper.
• The Meaning of World War II Williamson Murray Joint Forces Quarterly Summer 1995 [405 kb PDF]
• Deflating British Radar Myths of World War II Gregory C. Clark; Richard M. Muller (Faculty Advisor) Air Command and Staff College 1997 - England's Chain Home radar was a dead end technology with serious shortcomings, but was skillfully melded to an innovative command and control system.
• The Military Utility of German Rocketry During World War II Kirk M Kloeppel Maj; Richard Muller (Faculty Advisor) Air Command and Staff College 1997 -- During the period from August 1943 to August 1944, CROSSBOW sorties comprised 14% of sorties flown and 16% of total tonnage dropped.
• TESTIMONY - THE REICH'S EX-LEADERS EXPLAIN WHY THEY WERE BEATEN 62-66 of July 1945 IMPACT [a CONFIDENTIAL wartime publication of the Office of the Assistant Chief of Air Staff, Intelligence] "Germany lost the war the day it started. Your bombers destroyed German production, and Allied production made the defeat of Germany certain."
• ULTRA and the Myth of the German "National Redoubt" Marvin Meek, ARMY COMMAND AND GENERAL STAFF COLLEGE - 04 JUN 1999 -- This study investigates the creation of a mythical fortifications system called the German National Redoubt and the use of ULTRA to confirm its existence. The work includes a brief background of the Redoubt and examines how the state of intelligence at Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force helped turn enemy propaganda into reality.

Web Sites

• HyperWar HyperText History of the Second World War,
• Alphabetical List of Sites
• World War II
• Places of World War II
• WWII @ TheHistoryNet
• Marshall University FTP Archive
• World War II Texts and Archives @ Hanover College
• Secrets of War
• World War II Documents
• USAAF Combat Chronology

• WORLD WAR II [email protected]

Army Documents

• World War II - American Theater @ US Army Center for Military History
• World War II - Asiatic-Pacific Theater @ US Army Center for Military History
• World War II - European-African-Middle Eastern Theater @ US Army Center for Military History
• A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE U.S. ARMY IN WORLD WAR II, Center of Military History United States Army Washington, D.C., 1992
• COMMAND DECISIONS
• THE WOMEN'S ARMY CORPS: A COMMEMORATION OF WORLD WAR II SERVICE
• U.S. ARMY SPECIAL FORCES IN WORLD WAR II
• The Army Nurse Corps: A Commemoration of World War II Service 
• AIRBORNE OPERATIONS: A GERMAN APPRAISAL
• THE ARDENNES: BATTLE OF THE BULGE
• CROSS-CHANNEL ATTACK
• GERMAN ANTIGUERRILLA OPERATIONS IN THE BALKANS (1941-1944)
• OMAHA BEACHHEAD (6 June-13 June 1944)
• OPERATIONS OF ENCIRCLED FORCES
• REAR AREA SECURITY IN RUSSIA: THE SOVIET SECOND FRONT BEHIND THE GERMAN LINES
• ST-LO (7 July - 19 July 1944)
• THE GERMAN CAMPAIGNS IN THE BALKANS
• TRAINING FOR MOUNTAIN AND WINTER WARFARE
• US ARMY IN NORTHERN IRELAND, 1941-1945
• UTAH BEACH TO CHERBOURG
• GUADALCANAL
• CENTRAL PACIFIC  
• CHINA DEFENSIVE 

Navy Documents

• U.S. Navy and Marine Corps Aces
• Bureau of Medicine and Surgery chronology from Navy Medicine
• Casualties, World War II
• Code Talkers, World War II
• Cruise Books of the United States Navy in World War II
• Fleet Admirals
• Indianapolis, USS, Loss of
• Operation Tiger
• Pearl Harbor, Ships Present at 0800 on 7 December 1941
• Presidents who served in the U.S. Navy in World War II
• Prisoners of War, World War II
• Information on PT 109 and Patrol Torpedo Boats
• Ships Present during Japanese Surrender Ceremony, 2 September 1945
• Battle Streamer: American Theater 1941-1946
• Battle Streamer: Asiatic-Pacific Theater 1941-1946
• Battle Streamer: European-African-Middle Eastern Theater 1941-1946
• Bibliography: World War II General Works
• Bibliography: World War II-Atlantic Theater
• Bibliography: World War II-Pacific Theater
• Bibliography: World War II-Biography
• The submerged wreckage of U-1105

Air Force Documents

• THE UNITED STATES STRATEGIC BOMBING SURVEY Summary Report (European War)