Source Documents Online

[Jan7]

WWII Reports in PDF: Submarine War and Missing Air Crew Reports


WWII Submarine War Patrol Reports US Navy Submarines, 1941-45
US Submarine War Patrol Reports, 1941-1945. Records of the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, Record Group 38, Publication Number M1752; National Archives, Washington.
WWII Submarine War Patrol Reports by footnote_catalog - Footnote

WWII Missing Air Crew Reports (MACRs) of the US Army Air Forces, 1942-1947, M1380
The images in this series reproduce more than 16,605 case files of Missing Air Crew Reports (MACRs) and related records of the US Army Air Forces, 1941-1948. In 1943, the Army Air Force recommended the adoption of a special form for reporting the last known circumstances of missing air crews. These reports had to be filed within 48 hours of an aircraft or its occupants being declared either destroyed or missing in action.
http://www.footnote.com/page/1918/wwii-missing-air-crew-reports

[Christos]

I have a small theory about US submarines....i believe they had access to much better intelligence than we have been lead to believe.....they sank 214 Japanese warships and over 5 million tons of merchant shipping, and they lost just 52 boats....Why do I say "just 52?"...well, look at the German figures....more U-boats operational at any one time....nowhere NEAR 214 warships sunk, under 5 million tons of merchants......OVER 1000 uboats lost, and 22,000 personel....these figures speak for themselves....in between all the other missions and types of operations that these subs performed, and the VERY long time they spent simply moving to and from patrol areas, you wonder just how they managed to sink so many ships with the resources they had....230 subs at the peek....

All adds up to a whopping great LIE about their own operational and intelligence knowledge of Japanese shipping movements of all kinds....remember, Pacific ops were conducted on a logistical'shoestring'....there was simply no other way of getting such wonderful results.....great intelligence, all of it British.....code breaking, very early on (before Pearl Harbor)...this is more than enough proof that Allied knowledge of JN-25 was EXTENSIVE...

[gazrh]

BBC - WW2 People's War


basically peoples own stories from world war 2, a lot of background info

[PsyWar.Org]

I've reproduced various government documents regarding psychological warfare here:

Psychological Warfare, Psychological Operations

And the propaganda leaflet database here:
Propaganda Leaflets

[4th wilts]

that post is very interesting chris.i have never thought about the u.s submarine war.all that is generally talked about is the torpedo problems at the beginning of that particular campaign.yours,lee.

[Compo]

Just read this thread for the first time and I do not see the following:

United States Naval Administration in WWII operation Neptune - also contains good stuff on British d-day landings.
HyperWar: Administrative History of U.S. Naval Forces in Europe, 1940-1946 [Chapter IX, Part I]

The parent site also leads to other theaters of WWII
and a whole host of interesting links
HyperWar: World War II on the World Wide Web

[Jan7]

Originally Posted by 4th wilts

that post is very interesting chris.i have never thought about the u.s submarine war.all that is generally talked about is the torpedo problems at the beginning of that particular campaign.yours,lee.

The problems of the Torpedo's pistols are commons at all the Navies. For example, read this article: Torpedo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia And is also a spionage war for all the Navies.....



Jan

[Jan7]

Aircraft Designations and Popular Names Designations

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Aircraft Designations and Popular Names
Background on the Evolution of Aircraft Designations

Today, searching with a technical search machine, I found an article very interesting. As you seen means his tittle, its very outil.

I think that it is the subforum adecuate. It is not, please move it.


http://www.history.navy.mil/avh-1910/APP05.PDF