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  1. Jan7

    Jan7 Senior Member

    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.
    [​IMG] 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.
    [​IMG]http://www.footnote.com/page/1918/wwii-missing-air-crew-reports
     
  2. Christos

    Christos Discharged

    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...
     
  3. gazrh

    gazrh Junior Member

  4. PsyWar.Org

    PsyWar.Org Archive monkey

  5. 4th wilts

    4th wilts Discharged

    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.
     
  6. Compo

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  7. Jan7

    Jan7 Senior Member

    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.....



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  8. Jan7

    Jan7 Senior Member

    Aircraft Designations and Popular Names DesignationsAircraft 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
     
  9. Jan7

    Jan7 Senior Member

    Official Report of debates in Parliament 1803–2005

    I think that this link is very interesting for all you: HANSARD 1803–2005

    Read the presentation......
    .................This site is generated from information from Hansard, the Official Report of debates in Parliament. Information presented here is generated from the publicly available XML files. Material on this site remains under Parliamentary Copyright. Within these copyright constraints, you are encouraged to use and to explore the information provided.
    Information used to make this site has been provided by the Hansard Digitisation Project, led by the Directorate of Information Services of the House of Commons and the Library of the House of Lords. The site is still undergoing development and experimentation, and further features may be added in due course. Work to improve the quality of the data is also ongoing.........








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  10. Jan7

    Jan7 Senior Member

    La Hemeroteca de La Vanguardia -In Spanish, but very interesting-B)

    La Hemeroteca de La Vanguardia desde 1881 -Newspaper of Barcelona

    http://www.lavanguardia.es/hemeroteca/index.html


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  11. militarycross

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  15. Capt.Sensible

    Capt.Sensible Well-Known Member

    Afternoon all,

    New resource online -
    'The What’s New pages of the PastScape website have recently been updated with an article commemorating the 70th anniversary of the beginning of the Second World War;
    ttp://www.pastscape.org.uk/News.aspx?id=NewsItem14.

    The article explores the various themes and types of Second World War
    heritage sites that have been recorded in the last 20 years and a number of interesting examples are highlighted. In a follow up to the successful HER Summer Forum on recording military sites, a news item also features on the Heritage Gateway website, reviewing the thematic surveys undertaken by staff at the National Monuments Record (NMR) to record 20th century military sites. This aims to provide all heritage professionals and those involved in recording military heritage with an overview of the content and scope of the recording projects carried out by the NMR up to now, and those which are on-going.

    PastScape is the online version of the national historic environment record curated by the National Monuments record (NMR).'

    Well worth a look.

    CS
     
  16. Jan7

    Jan7 Senior Member

    British Air Ministry equipment numbers table.....


    Amazing table in wich presentation I readed, few minutes ago, isn't mine..... B)

    Here is my attempt to compile a list of the Air Ministry equipment numbers and some notes about what they were. WWII military aircraft equipment is mainly built in a modular fashion, so that power units, aerial connections, control panels etc. could be varied according to the detail of the installation, which itself was given an ARI number. Most of the main equipment numbers refer to either receivers or transmitters and are the main functional parts of the installation. Other modules, such as power units, were numbered using a different system, often by numeric type number. Note that some transponders seem to have been numbered like receivers possibly to confuse the enemy.

    GMB's list of Air Ministry equipment numbers








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  17. Jan7

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  18. Earthican

    Earthican Senior Member

    World War II Military Situation Maps - (American Memory from the Library of Congress)

    These may not be original documents but they are contemporary. I'd kill to get hold of original situation maps, anything from division level to SHAEF. I imagine orignal situation maps were wall maps with push-pins to track unit movement, but maybe there are photos of these.

    I looked for a 'maps' thread and did not see one, so this seemed the best place to post.

    The Viewer used on this site seems a bit clunky but one use should be enough to get the hang of it. To get you started just choose 'Browse by Date' on the left, pick a date from the list, click on the Thumbnail of the map and you're at the Viewer. Below the 'Zoom View' window pick the middle zoom, now click on the 'Zoom View' window and it will center to where you click. The red box on the 'Navigator' window (on the right) will show where you are looking. Click either window and it will re-center the zoom. You can change the zoom and/or window size, then click on the either window.
     
  19. Jan7

    Jan7 Senior Member

    [​IMG]

    I think that this digital hemeroteque http://newspapers.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/home is possibly an useful tool. The Australian Newspapers service allows access to historic Australian newspapers digitised as part of the Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program








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  20. Vitesse

    Vitesse Senior Member

    A resource which is by no means obvious is the library of CONI, an Italian sports body. It's all in Italian, but searchable reasonably easily.

    elenco testate | biblioteca dello sport

    If you click on the link which says "Periodici sportivi da meta 800 ai giorni nostri" that will bring up a list of titles. Obviously most of it is sport-biased, but once Italy joined the war the daily sports paper Il Littoriale covered quite a lot of military matters, including publishing the daily Italian High Command bulletins. You can also find articles on military vehicles and aircraft in both l'Automobile and Motore e L'Automobilismo. Other titles which might be of interest are La Milizia Sportiva and Lo Sport Fascista.

    The default reader is rather slow to load, especially when using Il Littoriale, since it's a book reader rather than for newspapers. It won't allow you to download pages either, but there is a way to do that by using a "hidden" reader, which can produce free jpeg images (providing you know the trick). I won't put those details up here, but please PM me if you want to know how to do it.

    Another useful Antipodean newspaper site is New Zealand National Archives' Papers Past At present it only goes up to 1932, but they will shortly be adding their first wartime papers.
     

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