HyperWar Subject Index
This Index is not intended to be a comprehensive cross-index to all terms covered by World War II history. Rather, it primarily intended to list topics that do not conveniently fit within the traditional "timeline-by-theater" organization of the rest of the site, such as technical developments, military justice, an others...
-- A --
Abwehr -- See Intelligence
Abyssinia -- See African Theater of Operations
ABDA (American-British-Dutch-Australian Command) -- See Pacific Theater of Operations)
Afrika Korps Aircraft Carriers:
U.S. Navy
Alabama:
Alaska
- USS Alabama (BB-60)
- U.S. Naval Activities by State
Anti-aircraft -- See Gunnery, Radar
Anti-Submarine Warfare:
- ASW in World War II (Operations Evaluation Group Report No. 51)
- 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)- Arming of Merchant Ships and Naval Armed Guard Service
(UNITED STATES NAVAL ADMINISTRATION IN WORLD WAR II)- History of the Naval Armed Guard Afloat, World War II
(UNITED STATES NAVAL ADMINISTRATION IN WORLD WAR II)- The Conduct of the War at Sea (Adm. Karl Doenitz)
- (See also: The Battle of the Atlantic)
Articles for the Government of the U.S. Navy
The Articles of War (U.S. Army)
Artillery -- See Gunnery, Ordnance
Axis:
-- B --
balloon bombs
Bombs -- See Ordnance
Britain, Battle of
See also United Kingdom
-- C --
Carrriers -- See Aircraft Carriers
CBI (China-Burma-India Theater)
CIC -- See Radar
Codes and Cyphers -- See ULTRA & MAGIC
Combat Information Center -- See Radar
Convoys:
- Convoy Routing Codes, World War II
- 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)- (See also: The Battle of the Atlantic)
COSSAC (Chief of Staff to the Supreme Allied Commander)
Courts Martial
Courts of Inquiry"Crossing the Line"
A traditional ceremony commemorating a sailor's first crossing of the Equator. "Shellback" are veterans, "Pollywogs" are the first-time crossers, "King Neptune" oversees the festivities (which sometimes resemble a college fraternity initiation.)
- Pollywog Watch List for USS Hydrus (AKA-28)
-- D --
decorations:
Destroyers for Bases Agreement
-- E --
electronic warfare -- see Radar
Equator -- see "Crossing the Line"
Ethiopia -- See African Theater of Operations
European Theater of Operations
Explosives -- See Ordnance
-- F --
Fire Control (See Gunnery, Radar)
-- G --
Grenades -- See Ordnance
Gunnery (see also Ordnance, Radar):
-- H --
-- I --
IFF -- See Radar
Intelligence:
- ULTRA & ENIGMA
- MAGIC
- German Operational Intelligence
Iran -- See Persia
-- J --
-- K --
King Neptune -- see "Crossing the Line"
Lend-Lease: -- L --
Lend-Lease Act
Executive Order 8926 -- Establishing the Office of Lend-Lease AdministrationUS Government Manual: Foreign Economic Administration (absorbed Lend-Lease Administration, 25Sep43)
All for One; One for All--The Story of Lend-Lease
Lend-Lease Shipments, World War II, (War Dept., 31 December 1946)
[A complete list of materials--descriptions, quantities, and destination--of all
items shipped by the War Department under Lend-Lease.]
Administration of the Navy Department in World War II, Chapter 17, pp. 668-678.
-- M --
Mine Warfare -- See Ordnance
-- N --
Neutrality Act of 1936
Neutrality Act of 1937
Neutrality Act of 1939
Revisions to Neutrality Act of 1939Neutrality Instructions, U.S. Navy, 1940 (Neutrality Patrol)
Neutrality, Declarations of:
The Kingdom of Belgium
-- O --
Occupation:
Office of Strategic Services (OSS):
Office of Strategic Services (OSS) Organization and Functions
Herringbone Cloak--GI Dagger: Marines of the OSS
-- P --
Pearl Harbor:
Attack
Naval BasePersia
Philippine Islands:
PolandPollywog -- see "Crossing the Line"
Port Chicago Naval Ammunition Depot (including disaster & mutiny)
Potsdam:
Conference
Declaration
-- Q --
-- R --
-- S --
Shellback -- see "Crossing the Line"
Sicily
-- T --
Tanks -- See Ordnance
Torpedoes -- See Ordnance
Turner, Admiral Richmond Kelly
-- U --
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
-- V --
V-Weapons (V-1 & V-2
V-12 Program (U.S. Navy):
Administration of the Navy Department in World War II: The Bureau of Medicine and Surgery
-- W --
Weapons -- See Ordnance
-- X --
-- Y --
-- Z --