Washington: War Department, Public Relations Bureau, 1942. — 72 p. Prepared for use with the War Department Orientation Course "These maps and graphs were prepared from civilian sources of information".
Place of publication and publisher not identified, 1945. — 581 p. "The war in Italy required new techniques to deal with challenges imposed by topography, climate, road-net, the construction of its buildings and the location of its villages. Non-administrative portions of this document address those challenges. Contains information on the Terrain of Italy, a list of relevant...
Washington: National Defense Research Committee, 1946. — 193 p. This first phase of U-boat warfare was greatly influenced by the rapidly changing overall military situation. Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, and England and France declared war on Germany on September 3. Some U-boats had left Germany early in August and when the war began there were about six at sea,...
A paper submitted to the Faculty of the Naval War College in partial satisfaction of the requirements of the Department of Operations. — Neyport: US Naval War College, 1993. — 23 p. Assessing the contribution of intelligence to the outcome of military events is not an easy task. It is one thing to generally recognize and appreciate the crucial role that intelligence plays in the...
US Naval War College, 1957. — 926 p. Confidental. This analysis of the OOOO October 20th - 1042 October 23rd phase of the Battle for Leyte Gulf which embraces in general the operations wherein SOWESPAC forces, supported by POA forces, seized footholds in the Leyte Gulf area of the Philippines, and the Japanese reactions thereto, was prepared by the Naval War College. It is...
US Naval War College, 1957. — 926 p. Confidental. This analysis of the OOOO October 20th - 1042 October 23rd phase of the Battle for Leyte Gulf which embraces in general the operations wherein SOWESPAC forces, supported by POA forces, seized footholds in the Leyte Gulf area of the Philippines, and the Japanese reactions thereto, was prepared by the Naval War College. It is...
US Naval War College, 1957. — 1086 p. Confidental. This analysis of the October 20th - October 23rd phase of the Battle for Leyte Gulf which embraces in general the operations wherein SOWESPAC forces, supported by POA forces, seized footholds in the Leyte Gulf area of the Philippines, and the Japanese reactions thereto, was prepared by the Naval War College. It is based on...
The Research Department Air Command and Staff College, 1997. — 34 p. The United States war production capacity played a significant role in the Allied victory in World War II. The aircraft industry in particular rallied to mass produce thousands of aircraft to support the war efforts in both theaters. Mass production led to the dilemma of sacrificing quantity for quality. This...
Thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the School of Humanities in the University of Buckingham. Vol. 1, 2. — Buckingham, 2015. — 546 p. This thesis proposes major revisions to the history of the naval defence of Britain’s Eastern Empire during the critical period 1935 – 42 as the Royal Navy (RN) sought to manage the increasing risks posed by three potential...
Published by the National Archives and Records Administration, 2006. — 1717 p. This finding aid will help researchers interested in Japanese war crimes, war criminals, and war crimes trials to navigate the vast holdings of the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration at College Park (NARA). It will also be useful to anyone interested in military, intelligence, political,...
Stuttgart: Motorbuch Verlag Stuttgart, 1976. — 282 s. — ISBN 3-87943-433-6. The Junkers Ju 87 or Stuka (from Sturzkampfflugzeug, 'dive bomber') is a German dive bomber and ground-attack aircraft. Designed by Hermann Pohlmann, it first flew in 1935. The Ju 87 made its combat debut in 1937 with the Luftwaffe's Condor Legion during the Spanish Civil War and served the Axis forces...
Fort Leavenworth: Us Army Command and General Staff College, 1986. — 51 p. This study examines the nature of the defense at the operational level of war by analyzing the Battle of the Bulge in Dec. 1944 using the concepts of blitzkrieg and "web" defense. The monograph begins by discussing the influence of defensive theory on the operational concepts of blitzkrieg and "web"...
Rocklin: Prima Publishing, 1992. — 470 p.— ISBN: 1-55958-079-8 This book is based on the outstanding computer simulation products created by wrry Holland for Lucas.film Games. Those of you who are Jans of these products already know how much they strive to be accurate and to provide an experience drawn from the history of the greatest conflict in modern times. In this book,...
Rocklin: Prima Publishing, 1992. — 470 p.— ISBN: 1-55958-079-8 This book is based on the outstanding computer simulation products created by wrry Holland for Lucas.film Games. Those of you who are Jans of these products already know how much they strive to be accurate and to provide an experience drawn from the history of the greatest conflict in modern times. In this book,...
New Jersey: Castle Books, 2002. — 403 p. — ISBN: 0-7858-1624-0 On the night of January 11, 1945, fog, low clouds, and blizzards reduced visibility at times to literally zero along the Sandomierz bridgehead. So the German troops did not notice tanks, assault guns, and towed artillery pieces moving in position by the thousands along the east bank—the Russian side—of the Vistula...
2005. — 28 p. Alphabetically considered the most important battles of the Second World war, which took place in the African, Pacific, Western and Eastern theaters of War. World War II events from A to Z.
Pointer, Journal of the Singapore Armed Forces. — Vol. 40. — No. 3. — p. 48 - 60. During the Second World War (WWII ), many nations from all over the world were divided into two major alliances – Germany, Japan and Italy forming the Axis Powers and the Allied forces led by the ‘Big Three’, i.e. Great Britain, the Soviet Union and the United States. Firstly, this essay will...
War Department USA, Washington, 1944. — 332 p. "Полевое руководство 7-35. Пехотная противотанковая рота, пехотный полк и противотанковый взвод, пехотный батальон"
Field manual. — War Department, United States Government Printing Washington , November 1944. — 172 p. This manual covers the tactical employment of the armored infantry battalion, both as part of a larger force, and when acting independently. It is designed as a guide and does not prescribe a set of inflexible rules. Each tactical situation must be solved on its own merits and...
Field manual. — Washington: US Goverment Printing Office, 1942. — 144 p. This manual, containing illustrations with explanatory data relative to foreign armored vehicles, German, Japanese, Russian, and Italian, is published for limited distribution. When illustrations are not given, blank spaces have been left so that they may be added when provided. The manual will be used for...
Basic Field Manual. — Washington: US Goverment Printing Office of War Departament, 1941. — 171 p. The purpose of this manual is to serve as a guide in the identification and classification of foreign armored vehicles. Armies include those from Germany, Japan, Russia, Italy, and France.
Submitted in accordance with the requirements for the degree of Ph.D. The University of Leeds School of History, 2010. — 271 p. This thesis considers armour and infantry unit organization and structure in the British Army during the Second World War, specifically in Montgomery‟s 21st Army Group in North-West Europe. The strengths and weaknesses of how corps and divisions responded...
Darmstadt: Bei Franz Schneekluth, 1953. — 392 p. In der Liste deutscher Jagdflieger im Zweiten Weltkrieg ist eine Auswahl von hoch dekorierten Jagdfliegern der deutschen Luftwaffe während des Zweiten Weltkrieges aufgeführt.
Revised Edition. — New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1989. — 846 p. — ISBN: 0-8050-0534-X, ISBN: 0-8050-1788-7 (An Owl Book: pbk.). In the hands of master historian Martin Gilbert, the complex and compelling story of the Second World War comes to life. This narrative captures the perspectives of leading politicians and war commanders, journalists, civilians, and ordinary...
Fort Leaveworth: Soviet Army Studies Office US Army Combined Arms Center, 1987. — 36 p. One's view of historical reality is inevitably flawed,. While most historians strive to preserve or recreate an objective picture of historical forces and events, a variety of factors affect their work all of which tend to warp objective reality and produce a subjective view of history. This...
Fort Leavenworth: US Army Command and General Staff College, 1983. — 237 p. Shortly after midnight on 9 August 1945, assault parties of Soviet troops crossed the Soviet-Manchurian border and attacked Japanese positions in Manchuria. This was the vanguard of a force of more than 1.5 million men that was to advance along multiple axes on a frontage of more than 4,400 kilometers,...
London, Portland: Frank Cass Publishers, 2003. — 402 p. The Soviet Far East Command’s strategic offensive of August 1945 against the Kwantung Army shattered Japanese defenses around the periphery of Manchuria in seven days and achieved total victory in less than two weeks, ending Japanese domination of northeastern Asia (see Map 1). The command commenced its strategic envelopment...
A thesis submitted to the Department of Economic History of the London School of Economics for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, London, 15 June 2011. — 500 p. Neutrality has long been seen as impartiality in war (Grotius, 1925), and is codified as such in The Hague and Geneva Conventions. This dissertation empirically investigates the activities of three neutral states in the...
This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Master's Theses and Graduate Research at SJSU Scholar Works. — SJSU ScholarWorks, 2003. — 152 p. During the Second World War, many women of the USA and the USSR served in aviation units as gunsmiths, navigators and pilots. Taking on the difficult duties of men, they helped to achieve Victory in the most terrible and...
The Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2010. — 937 p. — ISBN: 978-1-933550-33-6 The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory, on the morning of December 7, 1941. The attack, also known as the Battle of Pearl Harbor, led to the United States' entry into World...
A Monograph. — Fort Leavenworth: School of Advanced Military Studies United States Army Command and General Staff College, 2010. — 93 c. The U.S. Navy is building Virginia class submarines, and recently completed the conversion of four Ohio class submarines from Trident Ballistic Missile Submarines (SSBN’s) to Guided Missile Submarines (SSGN’s). The Virginia class is the first...
München: R. Oldenbourg Verlag, 2009. — 928 s. — (Quellen und Darstellungen zur Zeitgeschichte Herausgegeben vom Institut für Zeitgeschichte Band 75). — ISBN 978-3-486-58064-8. „Das Jahrhundert geht zu Ende, und mit ihm lösen sich die Landschaften auf, die es in seiner Sturm-und-Drang Zeit hervorgebracht hat. So müssen wir mit der Hin terlassenschaft des Jahrhunderts leben. Sie...
2013. — 49 p. At their height, the battles for Normandy and Brittany included 14 American infantry divisions. These arrived between D-Day on 6 June 1944 through the end of August, just as the battles for northern France were coming to a close. Obviously there are too many divisions for each to be featured in Overlord, however as luck and American efficiency would have it, you can...
Washington: Historical Division, US Marine Corps, 1950. — 286 p. With illustrations. Saipan was one of the key operations in the Pacific War; key because it unlocked vast potentialities to the United States in projecting its might against the Japanese homeland; key because it opened the door of distance which had meant security to the Empire. Invasion of Saipan provided the...
Second Edition. — Washington: Center of Military History United States Army, 2006. — 480 p. — ISBN: 0-16-076546-3 Before 7 December 1941, while war was actively being waged in Europe and the Far East, the United States, still a neutral, was expanding its manufacturing facilities to meet the demands for additional war materials, both for the growing U.S. forces and those of the...
Second Edition. — Washington: Center of Military History United States Army, 2001. — 473 p. — ISBN: 0-16-076546-3 Before 7 December 1941, while war was actively being waged in Europe and the Far East, the United States, still a neutral, was expanding its manufacturing facilities to meet the demands for additional war materials, both for the growing U.S. forces and those of the...
A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of The Masters of Liberal Studies. — The University of Toledo, 2009. — 94 p. The old adage of hindsight being 20/20 is so true. Today we know the truth of Stalin and his regime. We know that he was a bigger monster than Hitler, only without the need for ‘Lebensraum’ (added territory deemed necessary to...
New York: Telpic Sales Inc, 1945. — 310 p. 400 Autentic Battle photos. Japs Attack Pearl Harbor U. S. Marines Invade the Solomon Islands U. S. Army Invasion of the Aleutian Islands U. S. Invasion of New Guinea Gen. Doolittle's Surprise Bombing of Tokyo Invasion of Tarawa U. S. Troops Invade the Marshall Islands Invasion of Peleliu Island U. S. Conquest of Guam U. S. Invasion of...
Carlisle Barracks: US Army War College, 1999. — 38 p. Attaining air superiority over the German Air Force in 1944 did not in and by itself win the war in Europe, but it did make possible those operations that did. Had the Luftwaffe been able to maintain air superiority over the Continent from 1943-1944, the successful ground invasion at Normandy never would have taken place....
Department of Army, India, 1945. — 85 p. This Section is intended to cover all Japanese Small Arms Ammunition and Aircraft Cannon cartridges up to 25-mm. calibre. Cartridges of calibres above 25-mm. will be dealt with in Section E, under Gun Ammunition.
Washington: Department of The Army, 1956. — 77 p. The German attack on Poland precipitated World War II, making the Polish campaign one of particular significance to the student of the 1939 s conflict. The lessons learned by the German Army in its operations in Poland were put to use in the later campaigns against the western Allies, the Balkan states, and the Soviet Union. Poland...
April 19, 2006. — 110 p. There are many different types of infantry troops. And different types of infantry units. Grenades and Explosives. Explosive charges – generally with melenite. Mine Warfare Equipment. Anti-personnel mines. Flamethrowers. Mortars. Infantry guns. Anti-tank guns. Mountain Artillery. AA Artillery. Field artillery. Characteristics of several guns.
US War Department, 1950. Halder F. - Chief of the General Staff of the Supreme Command of the German Army (OKH). This journal comprises seven volumes covering the dates 14 August 1939 to 24 September 1942, the date of Halder's dismissal by Hitler. Kept by Halder personally in shorthand it contains notes on conferences, memoranda, staff talks, lectures, reports, etc., as they...
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co, 1951. — 416 p. FOR this factually accurate and technically correct account of operations of United States submarines in the Pacific in World War II no more appropriate tide could have been chosen than Sink 'Em All, a statement easily confirmed by the record. As British airmen are credited with saving Britain in those critical days after Dunkirk, so...
Washington: Office of Air Force History, 1983. — 506 p. — ISBN: 0-912799-02-1 At the peak of its strength in World War 11, the United States Army Air Forces (AAF) had more than 2,400,000 men and women in uniform. There were pilots, navigators, bombardiers, gunners, and radio operators, clerks and typists, artists and flautists, teachers, mechanics, statisticians, and...
Monography. — Fort Leavenworth: General Staf College, 2014. — 39 p. Over the course of thirty-eight days, the Allies successfully took possession of Sicily and claimed a tactical victory. However, the Axis forces won a moral victory by opposing a numerically superior foe while preserving a significant portion of their fighting force. Military historians lament the Axis evacuation...
2014. — 25 slides. The presentation briefly describes the successive events of the Second World war taking place in three military theaters (on the African, Pacific, Western and Eastern fronts) from 1939 to 1943. Description finished on the results of the battle of Stalingrad.
Alabama, Air University-Air University Press- Maxwell Air Force Base, 1983. — 392 p. — ISBN: 1-58566-010-8 As with all military thought, a wide variety of political, historical, and economic factors guided the development of air doctrines in the period between the First and Second World Wars. Yet standing above all other influences was a revulsion against the mud and despair of...