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Documents of WWII
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Allied Agreements
Destroyers
for Bases Agreement, 2 September 1940
The
Quebec Agreement; August 19, 1943
British Empire
British
Offer of Anglo-French Union; June 16, 1940
Pathfinder
Force Badge Award Document; 1944
A.T.
Harris' Final Order of the Day to Bomber Command, 1945
Soviet Union
Order of the
People's Commissar of Defense of the USSR Number 299; August 19, 1941
Supreme Command, Allied Expeditionary Forces (SHAEF)
SHAEF (44)
22: Operation ‘Overlord’ (10 March 1944) (870~ kb
PDF)
Press
Release in case OVERLORD fails (5 June 1944)
Early
Draft for Order of the Day for D-Day (172
kb PDF)
SHAEF Order
of the Day (6 June 1944) (600
kb B/W PDF) (1.34
MB Color PDF)
German
Surrender Documents (8 May 1945) (500~
kb PDF)
Office of the President / White House / Memorandum for President
Memorandum
to FDR listing ground forces equipment for 1942 and 1943 Programs
(Unknown Date) (40 kb PDF)
Characteristics
of Ships in the 1,799 Vessel Program (24 January 1942)
(PDF)
Basis
for preparation of attached outlined plan for Invasion of Western
Europe (“Marshall Memorandum”) (1 April 1942) (1.9 MB
PDF)
Memo
to FDR on the Doolittle Raid (3 May 1942) (PDF)
Memo
to FDR on Landing Craft for BOLERO (14 May 1942) (PDF)
FDR
Memorandum to SecTreas on Counterfeiting Japanese Money (19 May
1942) (PDF)
Instructions
[from FDR] to Marshall/King/Hopkins for London Conference (15
July 1942) (340~ kb PDF)
White
House Meeting (Invasion of Japan) (18 June 1945) (PDF)
U.S. Office of Strategic Services
Opium
– A Japanese technique of occupation (1945)
(9.8 MB)
U.S./U.K. Combined Chiefs of Staff (CCS)
CCS
691: British Participation in VLR Bombing of Japan (18 September
1944) (700 KB PDF)
CCS
691/2: British Participation in VLR Bombing of Japan (29 March
1945) (367 KB PDF)
CCS
691/3: British Participation in VLR Bombing of Japan (2 May 1945)
(942 KB PDF)
CCS
691/5: British Participation in VLR Bombing of Japan (5 June
1945) (336 KB PDF)
CCS
691/6: British Participation in VLR Bombing of Japan (4 July
1945) (622 KB PDF)
CCS
691/7: British Participation in VLR Bombing of Japan (9 July
1945) (295 KB PDF)
U.S. Joint Logistics Plans Committee (JLPC)
JPLC 31/18: Comparative
Logistical Efficiency of Bombing Type Airplanes (11 August 1945)
(6.4 MB PDF)
U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS)
JCS 290/1 Conduct of the War
in 1943-44 (8 May 1943) (600 KB
PDF)
JCS 304 Operations in the
Pacific and Far East in 1943-44 (12 May 1943) (4.89
MB PDF)
JCS 311 Mobility and
Utilization of Amphibious Assault Craft (15 May 1943) (4
MB PDF)
JCS 742/6: VLR
Bombers in the War Against Japan – EXCERPT (6 April 1944)
(705 KB PDF)
JCS
742/12: Directive on the Establishment of U.S. Army Strategic Air
Forces (USASTAF) (11 July 1945) (1.25
MB PDF)
JCS 1120: British
Participation in VLR Bombing of Japan (19 October 1944) (2~
MB PDF)
JCS 1120/1: British
Participation in VLR Bombing of Japan (30 May 1945) (4.15
MB PDF)
JCS 1120/2: British
Participation in VLR Bombing of Japan (10 July 1945) (500~
KB PDF)
JCS 1120/3: British
Participation in VLR Bombing of Japan (13 July 1945) (950~
KB PDF)
JCS 1120/4: British
Participation in VLR Bombing of Japan (4 August 1945) (3~
MB PDF)
JCS 1388/4: Details of
the Campaign against Japan (11 July 1945) (16.6
MB PDF)
JCS 1424: British
Participation in the War Against Japan (16 July 1945) (768
KB PDF)
JCS 1455: Requirements for
Land-Based and Carrier-Based Aircraft to Accomplish the Defeat of
Japan (9 August 1945) (15.7 MB PDF)
U.S./U.K. Joint War Plans Committee (JWPC)
JWPC 10/1 Global Estimate of
the Situation 1943-44 (5 May 1943) (3.2
MB PDF)
JWPC 388/1 Employment of
Airborne Units in Operations against Japan (13 July 1945) (1.5
MB PDF)
U.S. War Department
General Board
Study
Number 17: Types of Divisions - Post-War Army (1945ish)
(3~ MB)
U.S. War Department Information Bulletins
No.
4 – MID 461: Employment of German Antitank Regiment on Non-Tank
Missions (26 December 1941) (200~ kb PDF)
U.S. War Department Miscellaneous Memorandums
Aircraft
Obsolescence and Attrition Rates of Postwar Air Force (2 August
1944)
Memorandum
on A-26 Conversion (26 November 1944)
Second
Set of Memorandums on A-26 Conversions (26 November 1944)
(1 MB)
U.S. War Department – Manhattan Engineer District
Notes
on Initial Meeting of Target Committee (27 April 1945)
Notes
on Second Series of Target Committee Meetings (12 May 1945)
Notes
on Third Target Committee Meeting (28 May 1945)
Memo
to XXI Bomber Command on 509th Composite Group's Special Functions
(29 May 1945)
Coded
Message to Secretary of War regarding TRINITY (17 July 1945)
Directives
issued to Theater Commanders regarding Special Bomb use (24 July
1945)
Memorandum
for GEN Arnold regarding A-Bomb Attacks (24 July 1945)
Memorandum
to Chief of Staff from GEN Groves (30 July 1945)
Letter
from Norman Ramsey to Oppenheimer (August 1945)
Delay
of Hiroshima Bombing (3 August 1945)
Delay
of Hiroshima Bombing (4 August 1945)
Groves
Memorandum on Hiroshima Bombing to JCS (6
August 1945)
Telephone
conversation between GEN Hull and COL Seaman regarding A-Bomb use in
OLYMPIC (13 August 1945)
Telephone
conversation between GEN Groves and LCOL Rea (25 August 1945)
History
of Project A by N.F. Ramsey (27 September 1945)
U.S. War Department – Ordnance Manuals
Recoilless
Weapons (February 1945) (1.38
MB PDF)
Mobile
Artillery vs. Jap Fortifications (May 1945) (2.18 MB PDF)
U.S. Navy Department
Attache's
Report – Japanese Capital Shipbuilding Program (11 October
1939) (PDF)
New
Battleships (BB67-71) – Characteristics (16 May 1942)
(PDF)
Rumors
Concerning 2200 Ton Destroyers (October 1944) (PDF)
Letter
of Appreciation from USS Gambier
Bay (CVE-73)
to LCI-337 (25
November 1944) (PDF)
Presidential
Unit Citation Letter for USS Santee
(PDF)
U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey
Munitions
Division, Motor Vehicles and Tanks Branch Plant Report #11,
Bussig-NAG, Brunswick, Germany
(44 MB PDF)
Light
Metals Plant Report #4, Gebruder Giulini GmbH, Ludiwgshafen-am-Rhein,
Germany
(7.35 MB PDF)
Aircraft
Division, Airframes Plant Report #5: Focke-Wulf Complex, Bremen,
Germany
Miscellaneous
Grumman Memo on a
lightweight carrier fighter (F8F) (28 July 1943)
WWII
is officially named by the United States; September 11, 1945
Engineer
Estimating Data - Office of the Chief Engineer, GHQ SWPA – 1
June 1945
Nazi Germany – Führer-Directives
FD 01 – Case
White (Poland)
FD 16 -
Operation Sea Lion (July 16)
FD
17 - Battle of Britain (August 1)
FD
18 - Felix (November 12)
FD
19 - Attila (December 10)
FD
20 - Marita (December 13)
FD
21 – Barbarossa (December 18) (alternate
version)
FD 28 -
Mercury
FD 29
FD
32
FD 32a
FD
40 (Transcribed by Patrick Clancey)
FD
42
FD
51 (Transcribed by Patrick Clancey)
NOTE: Führer
Directive 51 (or 52) was the last official directive released. From
thence on, all orders promulgated by Hitler would be Führer
Orders.
Nazi Germany – Führer-Orders
FO 74 - Order of
the Day 15th April 1945
Nazi Germany – Operational Orders
Op
Order No.8 - Instructions for the further conduct of operations by
Army Group Center
Hitler
assumes command of the Wehrmacht, 1938
Hitler's
explanation to Mussolini as to the Soviet Invasion; June 21, 1941