What's New

6 September 2008

• Surrender of Italy, Germany and Japan, World War II [79th Congress, 1st Session--Senate Doc. No. 93]

26 August 2008

• Germany Surrenders Unconditionally: Facsimiles of the Documents

20 August 2008

• Handbook on German Military Forces (War Department Technical Manual TM-E 30-451)

29 July 2008

• War Damage Report No. 58: Submarine Report (Depth Charge, Bomb, Mine, Torpedo and Gunfire Damage, Including Losses in Action, 7 December 1941 to 15 August 1945)

23 July 2008

• Infantry Field Manual: Rifle Company, Rifle Regiment (FM 7-10)

16 July 2008

• A Chronology of the United States Marine Corps 1935-1946

8 July 2008

• Northwest Africa: Seizing the Initiative in the West [U.S. ARMY IN WORLD WAR II; MEDITERRANEAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS]

2-7 July 2008

• Aerology and Amphibious Warfare: The Invasion of Sicily [NAVAER 50-30T-1]
• Aerology and Amphibious Warfare: The Occupation of Kiska [NAVAER 50-30T-2]
• Aerology and Amphibious Warfare: Operations of the Seventh Amphibious Force, 30 June 1943-2 January 1944 [NAVAER 50-30T-3]
• Aerology and Amphibious Warfare: The Occupation of the Gilbert Islands [NAVAER 50-30T-4]
• Aerology and Amphibious Warfare: The Assault Landing on Leyte Island [NAVAER 50-30T-6]
• Aerology and Amphibious Warfare: The Invasion of Southern France [NAVAER 50-30T-8]
• Aerology and Amphibious Warfare: Amphibious Landing in Lingayen Gulf [NAVAER 50-30T-9]
• Aerology and Amphibious Warfare: The Battle of Midway [NAVAER 50-40T-1]
• Aerology and Amphibious Warfare: Fleet Air Wing Four Strikes [NAVAER 50-40T-2]
• Aerology and Amphibious Warfare: Carrier Strikes on the China Coast, January 1945 [NAVAER 50-40T-3]
• Aerology and Amphibious Warfare: The First Raid on Japan [NAVAER 50-40T-4]

26 June 2008

• Handbook on Japanese Military Forces [War Department Technical Manual TM-E 30-480]

27 May 2008

• The U-Boat War in the Caribbean: Opportunities Lost
• Community Government in Relocation Centers (War Relocation Authority: Evacuation & Internment of Japanese Americans)

20 May 2008

• Building the Navy's Bases in World War II; History of the Bureau of Yards and Docks and the Civil Engineer Corps, 1940-1946 (Vol. I: The War Program & The Continental Bases)

19 May 2008

• Historical Narrative of U.S. Naval Armed Guard Center Third Naval District, 20 May 1941 to June 1945
  (Volume II, Part 2 of the administrative history of Commandant, Third Naval District)

16 May 2008

• All for One; One for All: The Story of Lend-Lease
• Lend-Lease Shipments, World War II, Vol. II (War Dept., 31 December 1946)
  (Signal, Transportation, Army Air Forces)
  A complete list of materials--descriptions, quantities, and destination--of all items shipped by the War Department under Lend-Lease.

23 April 2008

• Lend-Lease Shipments, World War II, Vol. I (War Dept., 31 December 1946)
  (Chemical, Engineers, Ordnance, & Quartermaster)
  A complete list of materials--descriptions, quantities, and destination--of all items shipped by the War Department under Lend-Lease.

12 April 2008

• The Relocation Program (War Relocation Authority: Evacuation & Internment of Japanese Americans)

7 April 2008

• General Instructions for Commanding Officers of Naval Armed Guards on Merchant Ships, 1944 (OpNav 23L-2)

2 April 2008

• "Know Your Enemy!" CinCPac-CinCPOA Bulletins:
  • The Development of Japanese Sea Power (CinCPac-CinCPOA Bulletin 93-45)
  • Japanese Naval Shipbuilding (CinCPac-CinCPOA Bulletin 142-45)
  • Japanese Naval Ground Forces (CinCPac-CinCPOA Bulletin 11-45)
  • Japanese Operational Aircraft (CinCPac-CinCPOA Bulletin 105-45)
  • Japanese Radio Communications and Radio Intelligence (CinCPac-CinCPOA Bulletin 5-45)

15 March 2008

• The United States Marine Corps in the World War
  (Note: FIRST World War)

6 March 2008

• Operation ECLIPSE: Appreciation and Outline Plan
  (Planning for the German Surrender)

27 February 2008

• Japanese Naval and Merchant Shipping Losses During World War II by All Causes
  [Joint Army-Navy Assessment Committee (JANAC)]

19 February 2008

• The Soviet History of World War II
  [CIA Current Intelligence Staff Study: Historiography rather than History]
• The Soviet-Finnish War, 1939-1940
  [Department of Military Art and Engineering, U.S. Military Academy]

18 February 2008

• The German Campaign in Poland: September 1 to October 5, 1939
  [Chief of Staff, US Army: Digests and Lessons of Recent Military Operations]

14 February 2008

• The Soviet-Finnish War, 1939-1940: Getting the Doctrine Right

2 February 2008

• The Axis In Defeat: A Collection of Documents on American Policy Toward Germany and Japan
  (Includes section on General Policy, Surrender, and Occupation)

26 January 2008

• Strategic Planning for Coalition Warfare, 1943-1944 [UNITED STATES ARMY IN WORLD WAR II: THE WAR DEPARTMENT]

21 January 2008

• Building the Navy's Bases in World War II; History of the Bureau of Yards and Docks and the Civil Engineer Corps, 1940-1946 (Vol. II: The Advance Bases)

31 December 2007

• United States Fleet Anti-Submarine and Escort of Convoy Instructions (Fleet Training Publication 223A, 1945) -- including British-United States Escort of Convoy Instructions (BUSCI)

27 December 2007

• Stilwell's Command Problems [UNITED STATES ARMY IN WORLD WAR II: THE CHINA-BURMA-INDIA THEATER]

15 December 2007

• Strategic Planning for Coalition Warfare, 1941-1942 [UNITED STATES ARMY IN WORLD WAR II: THE WAR DEPARTMENT]

4 December 2007

• Bicycle Blitzkrieg: The Malayan Campaign and the Fall of Singapore

17 November 2007

• US Military Justice in World War II:
  • Articles for the Government of the United States Navy, 1930 ["Rocks & Shoals"]
  • The Articles of War Approved June 4, 1920

  • Military Justice Procedure (War Dept. Technical Manual 27-255)
  • A Manual for Courts-Martial, U.S. Army -- 1928 (Corrected to April 20, 1943)

  • Court of Inquiry Appointed by the Commandant of the Twelfth Naval District To Investigate the Facts Surrounding the Explosion of 17 July 1944 (Port Chicago N.A.D.)

5 November 2007

• Guide to Foreign Military Studies 1945-54: Catalog & Index (The "German monographs")
  Monographs written by German officers following the war. Many were begun while the officers were still Prisoners of War.

15 October 2007

• History of Convoy and Routing (Headquarters of the Commander in Chief, United States Fleet and Commander, Tenth Fleet) [UNITED STATES NAVAL ADMINISTRATION IN WORLD WAR II]

30 September 2007

• Stilwell's Mission to China [UNITED STATES ARMY IN WORLD WAR II: CHINA-BURMA-INDIA THEATER]

13 September 2007

• The Coast Guard At War, Vol. XIX--Auxiliary

3 September 2007

• The Articles of War, Approved June 4, 1920

30 July 2007

• Okinawa: Victory in the Pacific, [USMC Historical Monograph]

25 July 2007

• Coral and Brass, by General Holland M. Smith, USMC (Ret.) and Percy Finch

23 July 2007

• SHAEF Directive to C-in-C's, Ground, Air, and Naval Forces: OVERLORD

3 July 2007

• Alligators, Buffaloes, and Bushmasters The History of the Development of the LVT Through World War II

2 July 2007

• Miracle Harbor -- British Information Services pamphlet describing the MULLBERRY Harbors for the Normandy invasion.

26 June 2007

• Herringbone Cloak--GI Dagger: Marines of the OSS

20 June 2007

• "Advanced Base Operations in Micronesia"
  [The seminal 1921 study by Major Earl H. Ellis, USMC which presaged amphibious operations in the Pacific in World War II]

15 June 2007

• Victory and Occupation
  [HISTORY OF U.S. MARINE CORPS OPERATIONS IN WORLD WAR II: Vol. V]

5 June 2007

• Manual of Organization Charts of Bureaus and Offices of the Navy Department

18 May 2007

• Joint Action of the Army and the Navy, 1935
  (Including Change Notices, bringing it up to date for WWII)

6 May 2007

• Arming of Merchant Ships and Naval Armed Guard Service
  [UNITED STATES NAVAL ADMINISTRATION IN WORLD WAR II]

23 April 2007

• Marine Aviation In the Philippines
  [MARINE CORPS HISTORICAL MONOGRAPH]

18 April 2007

• U.S. Navy Radio Call Sign Book
  [Incomplete, but showing all ships as of 1944]

8 April 2007

• The Amphibians Came to Conquer: The Story of Admiral Richmond Kelly Turner,
  George C. Dyer, Vice Admiral, USN (Ret.)

25 March 2007

• Biennial Reports of the Chief of Staff of the United States Army to the Secretary of War
  [General Marshal's official reports on the mobilization of the Army and the progress of the war.]

9 March 2007

• The Final Campaign: Marines in the Victory on Okinawa
  [USMC 50th ANNIVERSARY COMMEMORATIVE HISTORY]
• Bloody Beaches: The Marines at Peleliu
  [USMC 50th ANNIVERSARY COMMEMORATIVE HISTORY]
• And a Few Good Marines: Marines in the Liberation of the Philippines
  [USMC 50th ANNIVERSARY COMMEMORATIVE HISTORY]
• From Makin to Bougainville: Marine Raiders in the Pacific War
  [USMC 50th ANNIVERSARY COMMEMORATIVE HISTORY]

28 February 2007

• Japan's Struggle to End the War [United States Strategic Bombing Survey report]

24 February 2007

• The Negro in the Navy
  [United States Naval Administration in World War II, vol. 84]

20 February 2007

• Office of Production Management: Duties and Functions
• Executive Order 8629 on the Office of Production Management and the Office for Emergency Management.

• Although HyperWar is primarily concerned with the history of the Second World War, we occasionally give way to the impulse to include other material of interest. In the first of a series on the lessons of imperialism, we offer the following on the "joys" of dependence on native troops:
  The Indian Mutiny of 1857, by Colonel G.B. Malleson, C.S.I.

17 February 2007

• Western Pacific Operations [HISTORY OF U.S. MARINE CORPS OPERATIONS IN WORLD WAR II--VOL. IV]
  (FMFPac, Palaus, Philippines, Iwo Jima, and Marine Aviation)

12 February 2007

• United States Submarine Losses--World War II (Includes appendices listing German, Italian and Japanese submarine losses)

15 January 2007

• US Army Field Manual FM 27-5: United States Army and Navy Manual of Military Government and Civil Affairs

12 January 2007

• Triumph in the Philippines [US ARMY IN WORLD WAR II--WAR IN THE PACIFIC]

11 January 2007

• The War in France and Flanders, 1939-1940 [UK MILITARY SERIES: HISTORY OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR]
• Action Report: Western Naval Task Force--The Sicilian Campaign
  Commander, U.S. Naval Forces, Northwest Africa Waters, "Naval Forces, Northwest African Waters and the Eighth Fleet," vol. 3.