A Few U.S. Government Documents
There are hundreds of U.S. government documents about World War II. Those listed below are just a sample of the available documents.
- Army Air Forces in World War IICall Number: GOV DOCS gdoc D301.82: 1 to 7
- Burma, 1942Call Number: Online & GOV DOCS D114.7/5:B92
- Campaigns of the Pacific war [Strategic Bombing Survey]Call Number: GOV DOCS N 27.2:P 11Publication Date: 1946
- The Chemical Warfare Service : from laboratory to field byCall Number: GOV DOCS D 114.7:C 42/2Publication Date: 2010
- The Corps of Engineers : the war against Japan byCall Number: GOV DOCS D 114.7:EN 3/2017Publication Date: 2017
- Eyes of artillery : the origins of modern U.S. Army aviation in World War II byCall Number: GOV DOCS D 114.19:AR 7
- First in the air : the Eagle Squadrons of World War II byCall Number: GOV DOCS D 301.82/7:EA3Publication Date: 2007
- Flying Tigers : Chennault's American volunteer group in China byCall Number: GOV DOCS D 301.82/7:C 42Publication Date: 2009
- General Clark's decision to drive on Rome byCall Number: GOV DOCS D114.2:C55
- General Kenney reports : a personal history of the Pacific War byCall Number: GOV DOCS D301.82/7:K39
- Japanese story of the battle of Midway : a translationCall Number: GOV DOCS N 13.2:M 58Publication Date: 1947
- Okinawa : victory in the Pacific byCall Number: GOV DOCS D 214.2:OK 3
- Operation Knight's Move : German airborne raid against Tito, 25 May 1944 byCall Number: OnlinePublication Date: 2011
- Operation Thursday : birth of the Air Commandos byCall Number: Online & GOV DOCS D301.82:OP2Publication Date: 1994
- The Ordnance Department : planning munitions for war byCall Number: GOV DOCS D 114.7:OR 2/2017Publication Date: 2017
- Piercing the fog : intelligence and Army Air Forces operations in World War IICall Number: GOV DOCS D301.82/7:P61
- Pipeline to Russia : the Alaska-Siberia Air Route in World War IICall Number: GOV DOCS I 29.2:R 92Publication Date: 2016
- A Priceless advantage: U.S. Navy communications intelligence and the battles of Coral Sea, Midway, and the Aleutians byCall Number: GOV DOCS MICROFICHE D 1.2:IN 8/12
- Rangers: selected combat operations in World War II byCall Number: Online
- The Signal Corps : the emergency (to December 1941) byCall Number: D 114.7:SI 2/2/2017Publication Date: 2017
- Stalingrad to Berlin : the German defeat in the east byCall Number: GOV DOCS D 114.2:ST 1/2011Publication Date: 2011
- Strategic air war against Germany and Japan : a memoir byCall Number: GOV DOCS D301.96:St8Publication Date: 1986
- To Bizerte with the II Corps, 23 April - 13 May 1943Call Number: Online & GOV DOCS D114.9:B55
Some Useful Reference Books
- Encyclopedia of World War II: a political, social and military historyCall Number: Online
- World War II in the Pacific : an encyclopediaCall Number: REF D767 .W68 2001
- World War II: a student encyclopediaCall Number: Online
World War II
This box includes links to resources about World War II from all over the world.
- 90th Division AssociationIncludes unit histories, After Action Reports, General Orders, etc.
- 100th Infantry BattalionIncludes the full run of the Puka Puka Parade, a newsletter written by the veterans of the 100th Infantry Battalion.
- 392nd Bomb GroupIncludes mission reports, photos, etc. Also includes substantial information about POWs.
- Camp Ruston CollectionPOW camp in Louisiana
- CF&I Women of World War IIInformation and primary sources about women who were steelworkers during WWII
- Chaplain Higuchi Wartime CorrespondenceChaplain of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, an all-Japanese American unit
- Chico Flyer, 1943Newspaper of the Chico Army Air Field, unit of the 21st Bomb Wing
- Cinemocracy (Internet Archive)Propaganda films made for the U.S. government
- Connecticut Veterans Commemorative BookletsCommemorative booklets issued to soldiers at the end of World War II
- CSU Japanese American History Digitization ProjectIncludes resources on the War Relocation Authority internment camps in World War II
- Donovan Nuremberg Trials CollectionAn extensive collection of documents
- Echoes & Reflections: Hearing the Voices of the Victims (Yad Vashem)Interviews with Holocaust survivors
- Ernie PyleIncludes his columns from World War II
- Ford IslanderThe newspaper of the Naval Air Station at Pearl Harbor. Includes issues from v.1 (June 2, 1943) - v.6 (June 11, 1948), but some issues are missing.
- Fort Missoula Alien Detention Camp CollectionThis camp held Italian men, Japanese resident aliens, German resident aliens, and Japanese Latin and South Americans during World War II.
- George C. Marshall Digital ArchivesDigitized documents from World War II and postwar.
- German American Internee CoalitionResources about German Americans and Latin Americans who were placed in internment camps by the US government during World War II
- Holocaust Database"A vast philanthropic initiative to digitise and make searchable almost 20 million records relating to the Holocaust and Nazi persecution was completed this week, with the resulting database made available to use for free."
- Human Rights After Hitler: The Story of the UNWCCDocuments of the United Nations War Crime Commission.
- International Criminal Court: Browse the ToolsIncludes transcripts from the International Military Tribunal of the Far East (the Tokyo Trials)
- Law Reports of Trials of War Criminals 1947-1949A 15 volume set that includes summaries of trials from both Europe and Japan
- Online Archive ICLCourt decisions from war crimes trials after the end of World War II
- Rutgers Oral History Archive: Conflict IndexIncludes many oral interviews for World War II.
- War (PBS site)Includes stories from viewers about their experiences in World War II at: http://www.pbs.org/thewar/story_share.htm