New Online at Hyperwar:

I hope you don't mind if I post these here.

Some catch-up first.

What's New

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]

 

Great stuff - any more plans to add volumes of the British official history?

 

Great stuff - any more plans to add volumes of the British official history?
If we had the time, and the proof readers, I'd love to. I have five volumes of the Indian Army and Navy on the shelf, waiting for people who have an interest. (And one volume on the South African Air Forces as well.)

 

I have five volumes of the Indian Army and Navy on the shelf, waiting for people who have an interest.

Well I definitely have interest for Indian Army. That will be great.

 

Well I definitely have interest for Indian Army. That will be great.
I can send you a converted file in HTML or Word, with a PDF version to check against. It takes me two days to a week to get a file ready to ship. The work on your end is simply to read the document and spot any translation error that crept into the text as it was converted. Ones can be "l"s, capital "o" becomes zeros, etc.

 

I'll be glad to help you. Just sent it and I will do my best.

 

I'll be glad to help you. Just sent it and I will do my best.
Thanks. I'm back up on a book on the Afghan War of 1839-1840 right now, then a major domestic thing early in January. I'll try to work it in somewhere in there. I have a site where they will be available for download.

Nudge me if you don't hear anything by 15 January, please. DOD keeps popping up with "favors" needed.

 

Good result all round!

 

We do get some rather strange requests. A certain South American navy is apparently still using WW2 radar equipment, but their manuals have disappeared. We're helping with correcting that as well. (And I'd better get an SCR-270B operators manual out of the deal.)

 

20 December 2009

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

 

Opana
Any further plans to publish more of the monographs written by the German Generals after the war by the Foreign Military studies office??

 

Opana
Any further plans to publish more of the monographs written by the German Generals after the war by the Foreign Military studies office??
No idea. If anybody has a digital copy, I could put them in the queue.

For those of you who have copies that you would never, ever let out of your sight, consider imaging the document for us. I do that with documents at the National Archives. I made a PVC stand to hold the camera and just turn the pages and shoot. (I have pictures of the stand if anybody wants to see it.)

 

Pinned the thread.
More power to you OP, great stuff.
~A
I'll second that. Utterly useful resource and great reading too. Thanks OP!

 

I'll second that. Utterly useful resource and great reading too. Thanks OP!
Thanks, troops. We do try. And we're getting some very exciting sources coming in with items that are very, very hard to find, like items that only have one known copy existing. We change that, making unlimited copies available. I imagine it to be like wandering through the WWII section of every library in the English-speaking world. The only thing limiting us right now is the number of proofers.

 

By the way, if you haven't found this page, it might be of interest.

HyperWar: United Kingdom Official Histories

The linked items are, obviously, ones we have done HTML version of. The non-linked ones in bold are the ones we have hardcopies for and waiting for time or volunteers.

And, I am looking at the first two "War At Sea" volumes as I type (which explains the poor typing, doesn't it?)

 

I've found your copy of Poston to be invaluable since I found it there some time ago - particularly his "inside track" accounts of various odd-seeming decisions....like British tank production, and the delayed 6-pdr gun issue....or rather, decisions that LOOK odd from the outside looking in so many years later.

 

We always try to find things people can use.

On an note folks on this forum may find particularly interesting, we have recently added
A Journal of the Disasters in Afghanistan, 1941-2 by Lady Sale
and
The Afghan Wars: 1839-42 and 1878-80, by Archibald Forbes (1892)

And I am about 75% done with

A NARRATIVE OF THE MARCH AND OPERATIONS OF THE ARMY OF THE INDUS, IN THE EXPEDITION TO AFFGHANISTAN IN THE YEARS 1838-1839.
ILLUSTRATED BY A MAP, VIEWS OF CANDAHAR, GHUZNEE, AND CABOOL, and VARIOUS TABLES.
COMPRISING ALSO
THE HISTORY OF THE DOORANEE EMPIRE FROM ITS FOUNDATION TO THE PRESENT TIME.
By MAJOR W. HOUGH,
48th Regiment, Bengal Native Infantry.
LATE DEPUTY JUDGE ADVOCATE GENERAL OF THE "BENGAL COLUMN, ARMY OF THE INDUS;" AND AUTHOR OF PRACTICE OF COURTS MARTIAL, AND SEVERAL OTHER WORKS ON MILITARY LAW.

 

Great info on the squadrons in France.

Appendix A
British Forces Engaged

Cheers

Geoff

 

Another item some of you might find interesting.

HyperWar: Statistical Digest of the War (UK Civil Series)