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World War II |
Military Terminology and Translations
Practical Standard Japanese – 1943 (1.3 MB PDF)
Unternehmen Seelöwe (Germany, 1940; invasion of UK)
Primary Sources
OKH
Operational Instruction for Sea Lion, 30 August 1940
Army
Group A's Initial Forecast of Events
Weather/Sea
Conditions during September 1940
Anti-Invasion
Poster issued by the Birmingham Invasion Committee
Secondary Sources
R.A.F.
Spitfire/Hurricane Losses (August-September 1940)
Luftwaffe
Losses in the Battle of Britain (July-October 1940)
Unternehmen Tannenbaum (Germany, 1940, invasion of Switzerland)
Primary Sources
1st
Presentation of Sketch of Attack, June 25, 1940
Third
Updated Version of the Attack Draft
The Victory Plan (USA, 1941, early plan to defeat Nazi Germany)
NOTES: Some of the pages below are best read on a monitor with a horizontal resolution greater than 1024 pixels, due to some especially wide tables.
Victory Plan Segments (Primary Sources)
Joint
Board Estimate of United States Overall Production Requirements
(10.9 MB)
Appendix I:
Navy Requirements
(1.12 MB)
Appendix II
Part I and II: Ground Forces Requirements
(8.67 MB)
Appendix
II Part III: Air Forces Requirements (AWPD-1)
(35.8 MB)
Secondary Sources
An Unknown Future and A Doubtful Present: Writing the Victory Plan of 1941 (CMH, 1992; external link)
Operation Downfall (USA, 1945, invasion of Japan)
Primary Sources
Operation
Downfall
The
Japanese Plans for the Defense of Kyushu
JCS
742/12: Directive on the Establishment of U.S. Army Strategic Air
Forces (USASTAF) (11 July 1945) (1.25 MB PDF)
JWPC
388/1: Employment of Airborne Units in Operations Against Japan
(13 July 1945) (1.5 MB PDF)
JCS
1120/4: British Participation in VLR Bombing of Japan (4 August
1945) (3~ MB PDF)
JCS
1455: Requirements for Land-Based and Carrier-Based Aircraft to
Accomplish the Defeat of Japan (9 August 1945) (16.2 MB PDF)
JPLC
31/18: Comparative Logistical Efficiency of Bombing Type Airplanes
(11 August 1945) (6.4 MB PDF)
Secondary Sources
Allied
Order of Battle (Work in Progress) by Ryan Crierie
Pastel:
Deception in the Invasion of Japan
Operation Round-Up (UK/USA, 1941-1943, plans for early invasion of Europe)
Primary Sources
The
“Marshall Memorandum”, April 1942
“Comments
on General Marshall's Memorandum”, British Chiefs of Staff, 13
April 1942
Statistics of World War II
Naval
Imperial
Japanese Navy Production Plans of World War II
Amphibious
Operation Statistics
(Ships needed, etc)
Aviation
U.S.
Monthly Fighter Acceptances (1940-1945)
U.K.
Bomber Production
RAF/USAAF
Monthly Bomb Tonnages (1939-1945)
RAF
Development Timeline for Aircraft in Peacetime
Land
German
Divisions by Type (1939-1945) by Ron Klages & John
Mulholland
German
Divisions by Theater (1939-1945)
Economic Production
American
Production Costs (Man Hours and Money)
British
Production Costs (Man Hours and Money)
Canadian
Production Costs (Man Hours and Money)
German
Production Costs (Man Hours and Money)
Soviet
Production Costs (Man Hours and Money)
World
War II Factory Statistics (Employees)
Equipment
Orders canceled by the US in World War II
Secondary Articles
Military Operations
Planned
Operations
Ultra and the
Campaign against the U-Boats in World War II (SRH-142, Studies in
Cryptology)
Airborne
Operations: A German Appraisal (CMH Publication 104-13)
Seek,
Strike, and Destroy: U.S. Army Tank Destroyer Doctrine in World War
II (Leavenworth Papers No. 12)
Aircraft
North
American's Lightweight Mustangs
US
Attack Aircraft (1918-1948)
Locations
of U.S. Numbered Air Forces in 1945
