There are at least 2 ways you can assist in the progress of this hypertext documentary history of the Second World War: To Do
- Acquisition of the material to be transcribed. A "wish list" of histories is maintained at Amazon.com ("New wish list"). Our funds to make these purchases are extremely limited at this time, so purchase of any of these volumes would be of critical help.
- Once we have the volumes in hand, they still need to be transcribed for posting on the web site. See below for a list of pending projects. When contacting HyperWar to volunteer, we will want to know:
- What topic(s) you are most interesting in. As you can see below, we already have a wealth of material lined up on many topics, so there's no need to pick something "boring"!
- What your skill level is on computers. Fear not! Whether you simply transcribe the text into unformatted files, or produce fully-formatted HTML files with maps and photos, it is a big step forward for the project. We will provide templates for the "look and feel" of the finished documents, and coaching for novices. If you're not already HTML literate, this may be your chance to learn...
[Volunteers with access to any of the volumes are especially welcome! We can supply photo-copies of some of the documents not already in machine readable format, but do not have the resources to supply copies of books.]
Email us at HyperWar Team
Electronic Files (text, Word, PDF, & HTML)
(We can supply the files to work from)
- Subject Bibliographies
- Diplomacy (Allied Conferences)
- Documents and Histories pertaining to specific combat operations:
- Pacific Theater of Operations
- China-Burma-India Theater of Operations
- European Theater of Operations (including N. Africa)
- The Eastern Front
- General service-specific documents, mostly not about specific theaters or campaigns (Field Manuals, race relations, miscellaneous, etc.), but may include series of unevaluated and unsorted histories:
- US Army
- US Army Air Forces
- US Navy
- US Marine Corps
- The Home Front (Gov't agencies and programs, etc.)
- UN-Allies (Documents and Histories specific to Brazil, Canada, Mexico)
- Non-campaign material specific to the Axis countries:
- Miscellaneous Historical Material
(These are items we wish to include, but only exist in the originally published paper form. Our "lending library" resources are minimal, but most should be available from a Federal Depository Library.) The items in this list are generally organized under the originating agency, rather than the familiar Theater/Campaign topics shown above. Other Desired Items: Hard Copy
General Topics * US Army * US Army Air Force * US Navy & Coast Guard * US Marine Corps * British Histories * Australian Histories * Miscellaneous Topics
General Topics
U.S. Army
- See the U.S. Army page for a complete list of contemplated volumes, including those already completed.
- Other Material:
- Alphabetical Listing of APO's (Army Post Officer numbers)
- Army Field Manuals
(Available in PDF)- Army Technical Manuals
(Available in PDF)- Japanese Land Operations (from Japanese sources) December 8, 1941 to June 8, 1942
- Source Documents: (These all require input from scratch--typing or scanning/OCR)
- Order of Battle US Army in World War II--The War Against Japan--Command, Administrative, and Supply Organization--Chapter II: First Philippine Campaign
- U.S. Army Signals Intelligence in World War II: A Documentary History
- Army Battle Casualties and NonBattle Deaths in World War II
U.S. Army Air Force
- Published Histories: (These all require input from scratch--typing or scanning/OCR)
See the U.S. Army Air Force page for a complete list of contemplated volumes, including those already completed.
- Army Air Force Historical Studies:
(See complete list)
- Source Documents: (These all require input from scratch--typing or scanning/OCR)
- HAP: Henry H. Arnold, Military Aviator
- Piercing the Fog: Intelligence and Army Air Forces Operations in World War II
- ULTRA and the Army Air Forces in World War II
- Combat Squadrons of the Air Force World War II
- The U.S. Army Air Forces in World War II:
- Weapon of Denial: Air Power and the Battle for New Guinea
- The High Road to Tokyo Bay
- The Battle Against the U-Boat in the American Theater
- Wings At War:
- The AAF in Northwest Africa
- Air-Ground Teamwork on the Western Front
- Airborne Assault on Holland
- The AAF in the Invasion of Southern France
U.S. Navy
- Published Histories: (These all require input from scratch--typing or scanning/OCR)
See the U.S. Navy page for a complete list of contemplated volumes, including those already completed.
- Source Documents: (These all require input from scratch--typing or scanning/OCR)
- War Service Fuel Consumption of U.S. Naval Surface Vessels
- The Escort Carriers in Action: The Story--in Pictures--of the Escort Carrier Force U.S. Pacific Fleet
- Navy and Marine Corps Awards Manual (NAVPERS 15,790 (Rev. 1953) (HTML coding experience definitely necessary)
- Interrogation of captured Japanese seamen, re: murder of US aviator at Battle of Midway
- Data cards for Flotillas Flagships (amphibious) (LSFF) -- to be transcribed into DANFS format
- Data cards for Landing Ships, Infantry, Gunboat (LCI(G)/LSI(G)) -- to be transcribed into DANFS format
- Data cards for Landing Ships, Infantry, Large (LSI(L)) -- to be transcribed into DANFS format
- Data cards for Landing Ships, Medium (LSM) -- to be transcribed into DANFS format [assigned]
- Data cards for Motor Minesweepers (YSM) -- to be transcribed into DANFS format
- Interview, re: USS Thresher's (SS-200) 1st 3 War Patrols
- Operational Aspects of Typhoon Warning Service, 1945-1946
- Table of Distances Between Ports (Hydrographic Office, USN)
- USS Waldron (DD-699)--Deck Log, Sep45
- APA-AKA Type Organization and Regulations (Appendix I to Transport Doctrine, Amphibious Forces, U.S. Pacific Fleet
- Current Tactical Orders Aircraft Carriers U.S. Fleet USF-77
- Action Reports, Battle of Leyte Gulf:
- CTG 79.11 (ComDesRon 54) -- Battle of Surigao Strait
- USS Heerman (DD-532)
- USS Hoel (DD-533)
- USS John C. Butler (DE-339)
- USS Samuel B. Roberts (DE-413)
- War History of USS Chourre (ARV-1)
- USS San Francisco (CA-38) Cruise Book
- Training Booklets:
- Carrier Sense
- Get Your Bearings Straight (as in ball bearings, not directions)
- Hang On to Your Line
- Lookout Manual
- Pointers on Fire Fighting
- Pointers on Shipboard Ventilation
- Pointers on Steam Systems and Their Auxiliaries
- Pointers on Turbine Operation
- Prisoner Sense (Guidelines for POWs)
- Personal Affairs of Naval Personnel and Aid For Their Dependents
- Gun Sight Mark 14
- Men Make the Navy ... The Navy Makes Men (Recruiting pamphlet)
- The Story of Navy Manpower
- Information on the Use of Smoke Screens at Sea
- Neutrality Instructions: US Navy: 1940
- The Cook Book of the United States Navy
- Antisubmarine Warfare in World War II (Operations Evaluation Group Report #51)
- Radar: Summary Report and HARP Project
- Amphibious Operations--Invasion of the Marianas
- Amphibious Operations--The Marshall Islands
- Amphibious Operations--Invasion of Northern France--Western Task Force--June 1944
- Amphibious Operations--Capture of Okinawa
- Mines Against Japan
- U.S. Navy Bureau of Ordnance in World War II
- History of the Eastern Sea Frontier (Organizational and Operational)
- The United States Navy: A Description of its Functional Organization
- Manual of Organization Charts -- Navy Department
- Gas! Know Your Chemical Warfare
- Radar Bulletin No. 3: Radar Operator's Manual
- Report of the Salvage of the USS Lafayette (ex-SS Normandie)
- USS New Jersey "Crossing the Line" Ceremony--1968
- Operational Experience of Fast Battleships; World War II, Korea, Vietnam
- Project HULA: Secret Soviet-American Cooperation in the War Against Japan
- Japanese Naval and Merchant Shipping Losses During World War II by All Causes
- Organization and Rank of Japanese Army and Navy Air Services
U.S. Coast Guard
- Published Histories: (These all require input from scratch--typing or scanning/OCR)
See the U.S. Coast Guard page for a complete list of contemplated volumes, including those already completed.
U.S. Marine Corps
- Published Histories: (These all require input from scratch--typing or scanning/OCR)
See the U.S. Marine Corps page for a complete list of contemplated volumes, including those already completed.
- Source Documents: (These all require input from scratch--typing or scanning/OCR)
- A Chronology of the United States Marine Corps, 1775-1934
- United States Marine Corps Ranks and Grades, 1775-1969
- US Marine Corps World War II Divisions, Brigades, and Regiments
- The 1st Marine Division and Its Regiments
- The 2d Marine Division and Its Regiments
- A Brief History of the 7th Marines
British Histories
- Published Histories: (These all require input from scratch--typing or scanning/OCR)
See the British histories page for a complete list of contemplated volumes, including those already completed. Please note, most of these histories are still in copyright, and thus unavailable for display on the site. The copyright runs for 50 years from date of publication
- Out of Copyright Histories: These histories all require input from scratch, but are out of copyright, and thus available for transcription.
- Statistical Digest of the War
- Food, Volume 1: Growth of Policy
- Problems of Social Policy
- Coal
- The Economic Blockade, Volume 1
- British War Production
- Civil Industry and Trade
- Works and Buildings
- The Control of Raw Materials
- Contracts and Finance
- The Emergency Medical Services, Volume 1: England and Wales
- The Emergency Medical Services, Volume 2: Scotland, Northern Ireland, and Principal Air Raids on Industrial Centres in Great Britain
- The Army Medical Services, Administration, Volume 1
- The Civilian Health Services, Volume 1: The Civilian Health Services; Other Civilian Health and Medical Services
- Medicine and Pathology
- Medical Research
- British Military Administration of Occupied Territories in Africa During the Years 1941-1947
- The Royal Air Force, 1939-1945, Volume 1: Fight at Odds
- The Royal Air Force, 1939-1945, Volume 2: Fight Avails
- The War in France and Flanders, 1939-1940
- Arms and the Men
- Norway -- The Commandos -- Dieppe
- The Campaign in Italy
- Greece and Crete
- North-West Europe, 1944-5: Achievement of 21st Army Group
- Histories out of Copyright on 1 January 2005:
- The Royal Air Force Medical Services, Volume 1: Administration
- The Royal Naval Medical Service, Volume 1: Administration
- Surgery
- The War at Sea, Volume 1: The Defensive
- The Royal Air Force, 1939-1945, Volume 3: Fight is Won
- The Mediterranean and Middle East, Volume 1: The Early Successes Against Italy, to May 1941
- Five Ventures (Iraq-Syria-Persia-Madagascar-Dodecanese)
- Histories out of Copyright on 1 January 2006
- Agriculture
- Merchant Shipping and the Demands of War
- North American Supply
- The Administration of War Production
- Civil Defence
- The Royal Air Force Medical Services, Volume 2: Commands
- The Army Medical Services, Administration, Volume 2
- The Civilian Health Services, Volume 2: The Colonies, The Medical Services of the Ministry of Pensions, Public Health in Scotland, Public Health in Northern Ireland
Online in PDF format -- need to be converted to HTML, formatted for HyperWar standards, and hyperlinked with the rest... Australian Histories