Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/World War II task force
Welcome to the World War II task force of the Military history WikiProject! The task force coordinators are Nick-D (talk) and the_ed17 (talk).
Participants
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- Abel29a (talk · contribs) (Air war, Luftwaffe and German Heer Panzer units are main interests.)
- Anonymous Dissident (talk · contribs)
- Awotter (talk · contribs) (General clean-up US Army Mainly ETO)
- AQu01rius (talk · contribs) (China-India-Burma theater & Pacific War)
- Bewareofdog (talk · contribs)
- Borg_Sphere (talk · contribs) (I'll gladly help out anywhere, but I'm best at Pacific Carrier battles. Midway and Leyte Gulf are my favorites.)
- Btphelps (talk · contribs) (My father served in the 32nd Division, and while crossing Papua New Guinea, he didn't remove his boots or socks for a month.)
- Captain panda (talk · contribs) (European war especially Operation Barbarossa and North African campaign)
- Chamal_N (talk · contribs) Mainly working on battle articles.
- Chat6 (talk · contribs) (Great grand father fought in world war two)
- chrisbenson (talk · contribs) (World War II - My father-in-law Eric Stanmore King was a British tank gunner throughout the Normandy Invasion, and I've been documenting his experiences during the campaign.)
- CLDWARHIST (talk · contribs) (US Army Air Forces - specifically units and installations)
- Climie.ca (talk · contribs) (Canadian Campaigns in Normandy, Pacific War)
- cla68 (talk · contribs) (East Asian/Pacific theatre.)
- CORNELIUSSEON (talk · contribs) (My Father and Brother seved in World War II - My Brother is buried in the US Cemetery in Florence, Italy. My Army Career spanned from Vietnam through Desert Storm, and I've waited a long time for something like this to come along as an attempt at presenting the historical facts - as against opinion and conjecture - for this war. I have personal access to a lot of research material on the subjects presented here.)
- Ctatkinson (talk · contribs) Espionage
- David Frommer (talk · contribs) (Currently researching WWII German units and Officers)
- DMeyering (talk · contribs) (mostly Naval & Air combat)
- DMorpheus (talk · contribs) (Main interests/contributions: Eastern Front, Red Army, US Army, Normandy campaign, Italian campaign, AFV pages, tactics pages. Look but don't touch: Pacific stuff. Glad to help any way I can)
- DJ Clayworth (talk · contribs) (Help out where I can)
- Dominik92 (talk · contribs)
- DPdH (talk · contribs) (Intend to contribute mainly related to my Key interests => Technology: Combat Aircraft & related weapons/ordnance, Armored warfare, Artillery, Infantry weapons, Vehicles, Missiles & Rockets, Naval warfare & related weapons. Theatres: ETO, Africa/Mediterranean, Italy, Atlantic, Ostfront. Doctrine & Order of Battle: German army, US Army, British Army, Russian Army).
- Dudtz (talk · contribs) (Armoured vehicles,small arms,and other WW2 history)
- Dreamafter (talk · contribs) (Weaponry mostly.[That includes guns, tanks, vehicles, and mortars.])
- EasyPeasy21 (talk · contribs) (Narrative of WW2 campaigns in primarily the European Theatre of Operations)
- EnigmaMcmxc (talk · contribs) (Mainly the North African Campaign and the fighting in North West Europe, also dabble in the other fronts of World War Two.)
- Erikupoeg (talk · contribs) (WWII in the Baltic States)
- Eurocopter tigre (talk · contribs) (Romanian theatre/Eastern Front)
- Ferbess (talk · contribs) (Strategy, Airborne)
- FitzColinGerald (talk · contribs) (Battle of France)
- GangstaEB (talk · contribs)
- {{User|generalhannible|| (tank, naval and air opperations, pacific theatre, special forces, D-day and tactics, us, german, japanese and british armed forces.)
- Grafikm fr (talk · contribs) (Eastern front battles ^_^)
- GrahamP (talk · contribs)
- Grant65 (talk · contribs) (Mediterranean theatre, 1940-43 mostly; Malaya-Singapore; the South West Pacific theatre, 1942-45; WW2 aircraft and air forces; Allied supreme commands)
- Gr8opinionater (talk · contribs)
- Gunner357 (talk · contribs) (British Army in NW Europe, Normandy Campaign, Airborne Ops.)
- Harland1 (talk · contribs) (North Africa)
- Harryema (talk · contribs)
- Hawkeye7 (talk · contribs) (US-related, Pacific Theatre, Logistics)
- ItemCo16527 (talk · contribs)
- Jason97m (talk · contribs) (WWII)
- Jmlk17 (talk · contribs) (WWII Western Front, US Pacific Theater, D-Day)
- Ken keisel (talk · contribs) (Aircraft)
- Ktsquare (talk · contribs) (Help out where I can)
- L3eater (talk · contribs) (WWII Land and Ariel War Machines, Eastern & Western Front and Allied & Axis Campaigns)
- Laurinavicius (talk · contribs) (Interested in all aspects of the war, particularly knowledgeable about American and German campaigns and Allied and Axis commanders; help wherever I'm needed)
- Leithp (talk · contribs)
- Leobold1 (talk · contribs) (Pacific Theater, Post War Japan, American Theater, US Marine Corps, US Navy, Japanese Navy)
- Lordevilvenom (talk · contribs)
- Magus732 (talk · contribs) (general cleanup and fact-fixing; American and Japanese naval forces; American, Japanese and German air forces)
- MarcoLittel (talk · contribs)
- Marlith (talk · contribs) Citations and general editing
- Marky48 (talk · contribs) (Hurtgen Forest, Battle of the Bulge, D-Day)
- Mattyness (talk · contribs) (Mainly German, Nazi articles on small subjects)
- Mike McGregor (Can) (talk · contribs) (Canadian contabutions to the war mostly, also intrested in, Armour, German forces, airborne forces, commonwelth forces, etc...)
- Mooseberry (talk · contribs)
- MoRsE (talk · contribs) (Broad interests, but especially articles somehow related to Finland, AWB-user)
- Mr. Yooper (talk · contribs)
- NeoFreak (talk · contribs) (Mainly trying to get stubs or Starts going on German divisions as well as clean up War Crimes sections and bad translations)
- Nick Dowling (talk · contribs) (Pacific Theatre and other Australian aspects of the war)
- Noha307 (talk · contribs) (a lot of, but not limited to, naval, especally U-Boats)
- Nwinther (talk · contribs) (German landforces, Eastern Front 1939-1943, Western Front 1939-1941, Weserübung, North Africa)
- Oberiko (talk · contribs) (Several different areas, spanning from various equipment to different campaigns and categorization)
- Phoenix-wiki (talk · contribs)
- Psdubow (talk · contribs) (Anywhere I can help)
- Qarnos (talk · contribs)
- RashBold (talk · contribs) (World War II in Europe, World War II espionage)
- Red4tribe (talk · contribs) (All battles of the war)
- Redskunk (talk · contribs)
- Riotrocket8676 (talk · contribs) (General History, as well as D-DAY and Aircraft)
- Rjray (talk · contribs) (AFV and aircraft history, museums and their holdings, scale modeling)
- Sandertje (talk · contribs) (Is intrested in the Western front will help wherever possible and on request)
- Skinny87 (talk · contribs) (Airborne Warfare, recently writing Operation Varsity)
- sm8900 (talk · contribs) (Some categorization, history, etc.)
- Smoth 007 (talk · contribs) (Will help anywhere I can - currenty working on Pacific battles)
- Spot87 (talk · contribs) (I do/will do a little bit of everything. I am currently working on WWII ships)
- Stetsonharry (talk · contribs) (my childhood fascination with WWII was revived while I was researching Alexander Scotland)
- Syrenab (talk · contribs)
- the_ed17 (talk · contribs) (U.S. Navy, particularly battleships)
- Thesurveyor (talk · contribs) (Particularly bios of Bradley, MacArthur, and Ike, also Naval Organization and USA order of battle in Europe after Normandy)
- TheWoody (talk · contribs) (Senior history major; WWII concentration - intelligence, biographies, aviation, special forces, EU/Pac theatres)
- Tomdidiot (talk · contribs) (UK and US Divisions)
- TomStar81 (talk · contribs) (Huge fan of WWII, will help in any way possible (school work permitting))
- Tristan benedict (talk · contribs) (Articles on military units in WWII)
- Ugen64 (talk · contribs) (anything, mostly NW Europe theatre)
- UNHchabo (talk · contribs) (WWII, especially western front)
- USMA (talk · contribs) (Know quite a bit about the AFVs used during the war, constantly expanding knowledge on the various theaters of war).
- VX (talk · contribs) (Primarily interested in WWII aircraft/air war. I've got a couple books that could help :D )
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- 5th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment • Novorossiysk-Taman Operation • 1943 Novorossiysk Operation • 1943 Air Battles over Kuban • Battle of Rostov (1943) • Battle of Olshansky • Nalchik-Ordzhonikidzevskaya Operation • Bukrinsky Landing • Cape Tarhan Landing • 1942 Sudak Landing • Mozdok-Malgobek Operation • Alexander Sergeyevich Ksenofontov • Henri de Vernejoul • André Bergeret • Battle of Nice • Liberation de Saint-Malo • Battle of Seuil Valley • René-Jean-Paul Cassagne • Cameroun's rallying to the Free French • Battle of Bouno-Misaki
Resources
Internal
- Glossary of German WWII military terms
- List of equipment used in World War II
- List of World War II electronic warfare equipment
- World War II photos on Commons
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External
- The following group hold digitized versions of 90% of all the files you would need to prepare articles on the US Army, and they are all in the Public Domain.
- Official Resource Site for US Government Graphic Insignia
- Official Resource Site for US Army historial files of all sorts.
- Official Resource Site for US Army Historial Collections
- Combat Chronicles of U.S. Army Divisions in World War II
- OnWar - A general purpose military site with a focus on World War II
- Chronik Seekrieg 1939-45 - in German
- Axishistory - website and forum on WW2 related matters
- Ibiblio Hyperwar- online document repository
- ARMY HISTORICAL SERIES: AMERICAN MILITARY HISTORY: US Army Center of Military History
- Lone Sentry site
- ORDER OF BATTLE OF THE UNITED STATES ARMY; WORLD WAR II: EUROPEAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS: DIVISIONS
- Combined Arms research library
US Navy
- The Official Chronology of the U.S. Navy in World War II
- OPNAV 29-P1000 (Revised APRIL 1949) U.S. Navy Abbreviations of World War II
- The following sites are Copyrighted. The author will give permission to use information from his site.
- World War II Armed Forces: Orders of Battle and Organizations
- U.S. Merchant Marine in World War II
Annotated bibliography
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Authoritative Books on the German Military
- U.S. War Department Technical Manual;March 15, 1945; TM - E30-451: Handbook on German Military Forces; 1939 - 1945; Republished 1990 by Louisanna State University Press. Document in Public Domain EXCEPT for new material added by LSU Press. ISBN 0-8071-2011-1
- British War Office, 1944/US War Department 1944. German Order Of Battle: 1944; Republished 1994; Greenhill Books, Lionel Leventhal LTD, Britain/Stackpole Books/USA; Under Crown Copyright in Britain; In Public Domain EXCEPT for new material in USA. ISBN 1-85367-170-3
Miscellaneous
- Reid, Patrick R. Colditz and The Latter Days. Illustrated by John Watton. ISBN 0340386312.
- Chancellor, Henry. Colditz: The Definative History. ISBN 0-06-001286-2.