What's New

16 March 2010

• Bureau of Ordnance: Guns and Mounts [UNITED STATES NAVAL ADMINISTRATION IN WORLD WAR II]

13 March 2010

• THE ARMY AIR FORCES IN WORLD WAR II, Vol. IV: The Pacific: Guadalcanal to Saipan, August 1942 to July 1944

4 March 2010

• Furer, Rear Admiral Julius A., Administration of the Navy Department in World War II (Washington, DC: GPO, 1959) xxxvi, 1042 p. illus., ports., map. 26 cm.

3 March 2010

• AntiSubmarine Warfare: Notes for the Use of Naval Armed Guards (ONI Publication No. 9, May 1917)

2 March 2010

• The Tactical Use of Radar in Aircraft (Radar Bulletin No. 2A--RADTWO A)

1 March 2010

• Appendices to the NSA "Battle of the Atlantic" (ULTRA) series:
  1. Graphic Representation of U-boat Activity
  2. Master List of U-boats
  3. Captured Documents
  4. North Atlantic Convoys and U-boat groups
  5. U-boat Group Operations Against U.S. and British Convoys Bound For or From North Africa
  6. Miscellaneous Operations
  7. U-boat Operations Summary
  8. England-Gibraltar Convoys and U-boat Groups
  9. U-boat Deployment Summary: January 1943 - May 1944
  10. Blocked Running Ships Between Europe and the Far East
  11. Blockade Running U-boat Operations
  12. Confirmed Cases of Allied Cipher Compromise in 1942
  13. Cases of Presumed and Confirmed Compromise 1943-1945
  14. Accuracy Studies of High Frequency Direction Finder Fixes
  15. German Weather Reporting Activities
  16. U-boats Sunk by U.S. Forces with Aid of Radio Intelligence
  17. Vichy French Navy 229
  18. The JOLLIE Operation

24 February 2010

• THE ARMY AIR FORCES IN WORLD WAR II: Vol. 5 -- The Pacific: MATTERHORN to Nagasaki, June 1944 to August 1945

23 February 2010

• Gun Sight Mark 14, Gunner's Operating Bulletin No. 2)

22 February 2010

• Always Out Front: The Bradley Story, (B-24 Bombardier in the Eighth Air Force--excellent mission details)

3 February 2010

• Edward S. Miller Collection of Material Relating to War Plan ORANGE,
  Naval Historical Collection, United States Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island.

1 February 2010

• General Instructions for Guided Missile Countermeasure Systems

30 January 2010

• RADFIVE: Surface Plotting Manual (Radar Bulletin No. 5)

20 December 2009

• ULTRA in the Atlantic, Vol. III: German Naval Communications Intelligence

17 December 2009

• RADFOUR: Air Plotting Manual (Radar Bulletin No. 4)

2 December 2009

• RADELEVEN: Shipborne Radar Countermeasures Operator's Manual
• The War in France and Flanders, 1939-1940 [HISTORY OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR: UNITED KINGDOM MILITARY SERIES]

30 November 2009

• The Ardennes: Battle of the Bulge [U.S. ARMY IN WORLD WAR II: EUROPEAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS]

27 November 2009

• Action Report, Destroyer Division Twelve: Sweep of Vella Gulf, 9-10 August 1943

26 November 2009

• Navy and Marine Corps Awards Manual [NAVPERS 15,790 (Rev. 1953)]

23 November 2009

• Fire Control Installations (Postgraduate School, US Naval Academy, 1934)

16 November 2009

• The Belgian Congo at War [Belgian Information Center]

13 November 2009

• Europe: ARGUMENT to V-E Day, January 1944 to May 1945,
  [THE ARMY AIR FORCES IN WORLD WAR II, Vol. III]

9 November 2009

• On the Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union, J.V. Stalin
• Anti-Suicide Action Summary (August 1945: Cominch P-0011)

7 November 2009

• Antiaircraft Action Summary · World War II (October 1945)

6 November 2009

• Battle Experience: Radar Pickets and Methods of Combating Suicide Attacks off Okinawa, March-May 1945

4 November 2009

• Antiaircraft Action Summary: Suicide Attacks (Cominch P-009, April 1945)

3 November 2009

• The Belgian Campaign in Ethiopia

31 October 2009

• Belgium: The Official Account of What Happened, 1939-1940

21 October 2009

• Canada's Battle in Normandy: 6 June-1 September 1944 [THE CANADIAN ARMY AT WAR]

19 October 2009

• A brief diversion to an item of topical interest:
  A Journal of the Disasters in Afghanistan, 1941-2 by Lady Sale

9 October 2009

• Destroyers: Enlisted Billet Descriptions [NAVPERS 16,486]
  ["Job descriptions" for regular duties and General Quarters duties of all personnel on a destroyer]

1 October 2009

• The Second World War as a National Experience, Sidney Aster, ed.

29 September 2009

• The Canadian Army, 1939-1945: An Official Historical Summary
  [OFFICIAL HISTORY OF THE CANADIAN ARMY]

24 September 2009

The Canadian Participation in the Defence of Hong Kong, December 1941
[Report No. 163, Historical Section, Canadian Military Headquarters]

21 September 2009

A digression for something different, but highly relevant to current events:

• The Afghan Wars: 1839-42 and 1878-80, by Archibald Forbes (1892)

12 September 2009

• Office of Strategic Services (OSS) Organization and Functions
• Loss of H.M. Ships Prince of Wales and Repulse (Naval Staff History · Second World War: Battle Summary No. 14 (revised))

10 September 2009

• The Brazilian Participation in World War II

9 September 2009

• Saturday Evening Post War Correspondent's account of attack on "Task Force X", en route to Guadalcanal in February 1943

7 September 2009

• Negro Women War Workers (Bulletin No. 205, Women's Bureau, U.S. Department of Labor)

30 August 2009

• The War Against Japan [UNITED STATES ARMY IN WORLD WAR II: PICTORIAL RECORD]

30 August 2009

• The Conduct of the War at Sea, an essay by Grossadmiral Karl Dönitz

30 August 2009

• Battle Stations (Commander Cruisers' directions regarding which personnel are stationed where, performing what duties, under various watch conditions)

25 August 2009

• How to Abandon Ship, by Phil Richards, & John J.Banigan

19 August 2009

• Riviera to the Rhine [US ARMY IN WORLD WAR II: EUROPEAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS]

12 August 2009

• Report of Operations of Task Force FIFTY-EIGHT in Support of Landings at OKINAWA, 14 March through 28 May (including sinking of IJN Yamato)

11 August 2009

• Wartime Instructions for United States Merchant Vessels (U.S. Fleet, Hq of Commander in Chief, 1942)

7 August 2009

• Memo from General Marshall to the Secretary of War, re: "Unconditional Surrender"
• First leaflet dropped on Japanese cities in conjunction with the Atomic Bomb
• Summary of Ranks and Rates of the U.S. Navy, Together With Designations and Insignia (NAVPERS--15004)

5 August 2009

• Japanese Midget Submarine, No. 19., Description of (Grounded on Oahu during Pearl Harbor attack)

1 August 2009

• Japanese Monograph No. 45: History of Imperial GHQ--Army Section

27 July 2009

• To Benghazi [AUSTRALIA IN THE WAR OF 1939-1945]
• OVERLORD: The Unnecessary Invasion

25 July 2009

• Small Unit Actions (2d Ranger Battalion at Pointe du Hoe; 27th Division on Tanapag Plain; 351st Infantry at Santa Maria Infante; 4th Armored Division at Singling) [AMERICAN FORCES IN ACTION]

22 July 2009

• Neutrality Instructions--U.S. Navy--1940

21 July 2009

• Radio War Guide (Office of War Information)
• Royal Air Force, 1939-1945, Vol. II: The Fight Avails [HISTORY OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR: UNITED KINGDOM MILITARY SERIES]

11 July 2009

• 7 December 1941 -- The Air Force Story

7 July 2009

• Report by the Supreme Commander to the Combined Chiefs of Staff on the Operations in Europe of the Allied Expeditionary Force, 6 June 1944 to 8 May 1945
• The Machine Gun: History, Evolution, and Development of Manual, Automatic, and Airborne Repeating Weapons

2 June 2009

• At Close Quarters: PT Boats in the United States Navy

23 May 2009

• Cassino to the Alps
  [US ARMY IN WORLD WAR II: MEDITERRANEAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS]

21 May 2009

• The Capabilities and Limitations of Shipborne Radar [Radar Bulletin No. 1(a) (RADONE)]

19 May 2009

• The Pacific Landings
  [THE COAST GUARD AT WAR: Vol. VI]

16 May 2009

• Military Relations Between the United States and Canada, 1939-1945
  [US ARMY IN WORLD WAR II: SPECIAL STUDIES]

6 May 2009

• The Supreme Command
  [US ARMY IN WORLD WAR II: EUROPEAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS]
• History of COSSAC (Chief of Staff to the Supreme Allied Commander) 1943-1944

30 April 2009

• THE ARMY AIR FORCES IN WORLD WAR II, Volume II: Europe: TORCH to POINTBLANK (Craven and Cate)

27 April 2009

• Disaster at Savo Island, 1942 by Lt. Col. David E. Quantock, USA (Army War College: 2002)

21 April 2009

• Gray Steel and Black Oil: Fast Tankers and Replenishment at Sea in the U.S. Navy, 1912-1992, by Thomas Wildenberg

10 April 2009

• The Royal Air Force, 1939-1945, Volume 3: Fight is Won
  [HISTORY OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR: UNITED KINGDOM MILITARY SERIES]

6 April 2009

• A Statistical Summary of Japanese Naval Matériel (Rev. 2)
• War Service Fuel Consumption of U.S. Naval Surface Vessels (FTP 218)

31 March 2009

• Operation TORCH: Observer's Report

24 March 2009

• 1st Infantry Division: Field Order No. 1 -- Operation TORCH

23 March 2009

• US Army Field Manual FM 23-25: Bayonet

20 March 2009

• Tentative Lessons from the Recent Active Campaign in Europe (Norway, 1940 -- Military Intelligence Division, War Department)
• The Coast Guard at War, Vol. X: Sicily--Italy Landings

18 March 2009

• Federal Records of World War II, Volume II: Military Agencies

13 March 2009

• Conquering the Night: Army Air Forces Night Fighters at War [THE U. S. ARMY AIR FORCES IN WORLD WAR II]

11 March 2009

• Design and Operation of United States Combat Aircraft (Office of War Information)

9 March 2009

• Pearl Harbor: Why, How, Fleet Salvage and Final Appraisal
  by Vice Admiral Homer N. Wallin, USN (Ret.)

5 March 2009

• Motor Torpedo Boat Manual, February 1943 (USN)

26 February 2009

• The Victory Campaign: The Operations in North-West Europe, 1944-1945
  (OFFICIAL HISTORY OF THE CANADIAN ARMY IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR, Vol. III)

23 February 2009

• Procedure for Military Executions
  (War Department Pamphlet No. 27-4)

21 February 2009

• UNITED STATES ARMY IN WORLD WAR II: MEDITERRANEAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS
  Salerno to Cassino

31 January 2009

• The Chrysler-Dodge "Burma" Truck--Introduction and Maintenance Manual

26 January 2009

• History of the Eastern Sea Frontier (Organizational and Operational) [U.S. NAVAL ADMINISTRATION IN WORLD WAR II]

9 January 2009

• Basic Gunnery Doctrine and Instructions for Ships of Air Force, Pacific Fleet (Tentative) (1944)
• Report of Night Action in Surigao Strait, Philippine Islands, 24-25 October 1944. (Commander Task Group 79.11 (ComDesRon 54))

8 January 2009

• Army Battle Casualties and Nonbattle Deaths in World War II--Final Report: 7 December 1941--31 December 1946

3 January 2009

• Radar: A Report on Science at War [Joint Board on Scientific Information Policy]

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