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Welcome to the World War II task force. If you have any questions about articles or are generally seeking advice, you're encouraged to ask at the main military history talk page, or you can directly approach one of the task force participants below.

The coordinators of the Military history WikiProject can be contacted here.

Scope

This task force covers all articles related to World War II.

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Participants

If you approach anyone from this list for advice or help, please check their contributions first to check if they've edited recently. This list may contain people who have not edited Wikipedia in a long time.

  1. {{User|A 10 fireplane}} (mostly the US Navy)
  2. {{User|47thPennVols}} (the Holocaust, members of the Resistance in Europe, and notable women of World War II)
  3. {{User|Alexikoua}}
  4. {{User|AlinaGusewa}}

  1. {{User|Arthurcurrie}}
  2. {{User|Austin Moulton}} (WW2 German Small Arms, also one of my grandfathers was a USAAF Teacher who would teach mechanic students how to fix planes. the other one was a mechanic on the "home front" who worked on Tanks in the US Army)

  1. {{User|Binksternet}} (more Pacific than not)
  2. {{User|Brigade Piron}} (Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg-related topics)
  3. {{User|Btphelps}} (My father served in the 32nd Division, and while crossing Papua New Guinea, he didn't remove his boots or socks for a month.)
  4. {{User|Buidhe}}

  1. {{User|CanonHistory}} (Pacific Theater)
  2. {{User|Cdtuba}}
  3. {{User|Luis Santos24}} (U.S. Navy Pacific 1940-1945, Great-Grandfather was B-24D Liberator Co-Pilot in South Pacific, Other Great-Grandfather was Army PFC. in Europe.)

  1. {{User|Dunutubble}} (Range of interests but I am particularly interested in Fascist War Crimes and Atrocities)

  1. {{User|DPdH}} (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).
  2. {{User|EnigmaMcmxc}} (Mainly the North African Campaign and the fighting in North West Europe, also dabble in the other fronts of World War Two.)
  3. {{User|EpsilonEditor}} (Mostly Naval history, but will help where I can)
  4. {{User|Eurocopter}} (Romanian theatre/Eastern Front)
  5. {{User|Farawayman}} (North Africa, Italy, Eastern Front)
  6. {{User|Fallschirmjäger}} (Image Improvements and European & Eastern Fronts)
  7. {{User|FriyMan}} (Vehicles)
  8. {{User|FitzColinGerald}} (Battle of France)
  9. {{User|Foxsch}} (WWII Then & Now)
  10. {{User|Gavbadger}} (RAF bases and RAF Bomber Command)
  11. {{User|GELongstreet}} (Axis armed forces, Orders of Battles, Biographies)
  12. {{User|Glorianesserirl}} (Mostly work on improving stubs of any topic)
  13. {{User|Grant65}} (Mediterranean theatre, 1940-43 mostly; Malaya-Singapore; the South West Pacific theatre, 1942-45; WW2 aircraft and air forces; Allied supreme commands)
  14. {{User|Gr8opinionater}}
  15. {{User|Hawkeye7}} (US-related, Pacific Theatre, Logistics)
  16. {{User|Iazyges}} Largely naval.
  17. {{User|Ibericus Lusitanus}} (Battles in Europe, German weapons and units)
  18. {{User|Indy beetle}} (Naval battles; Events involving "minor" countries like Belgium, Thailand, Denmark, various colonies, etc.)
  19. {{User|JackTheBestBoss}}(US Armed Forces operations, into Pacific Theatre as well as European, specialize in German, American, and Japanese weaponry)
  20. {{User|Jak474}} (Air campaigns, fighters, bombers, transports, and other aircraft.)
  21. {{User|Jcfrommn}} (Eastern and Western Fronts)
  22. {{User|Kierzek}} (History of Nazi Germany, NSDAP history, Schutzstaffel (SS), Japanese tanks and weapons and German Panzers and weapons)

  1. {{User|Leithp}}

  1. {{User|Lineagegeek}} (US Army Air Force. focusing on history of organizations )
  2. {{User|Ljleppan}} (Mostly Finland-related topics)
  3. {{User|Loqiical}}
  4. {{User|Magus732}} (general cleanup and fact-fixing; American and Japanese naval forces; American, Japanese and German air forces)
  5. {{User|MetropolitanIC}} (Second Sino-Japanese War, Pacific Front)

  1. {{User|MoRsE}} (Broad interests, but especially articles somehow related to Finland, AWB-user)
  2. {{User|Noha307}} (a lot of, but not limited to, naval, especally U-Boats)

  1. {{User|Peacemaker67}} (Australian Army involvement, Yugoslavia)
  2. {{User|PhilDaBirdMan}} (Western Front 1943-45, Italy 1942-45, battle maps)
  3. {{User|ShauryaOMG}} (Mostly the Pacific War, Eastern Front and Western Front)
  4. {{User|sm8900}} (Some categorization, history, etc.)
  5. {{User|Stanley Bannerman}} (New Zealand)
  6. {{User|the_ed17}} (U.S. Navy, particularly battleships)
  7. {{User|Ted52}} (European theater; Wehrmacht; Military planning & organization)
  8. {{User|TeutonicToad}} (Late war Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS on eastern front)
  9. {{User|Thehistorianisaac}} (my great grandfather died in ww2; I will contribute by protecting the sino-japenese war and related article's quality(and also improve it) to make sure these stories are told properly. I will also help in ww2 weapons.)
  10. {{User|Therealscorp1an}} Europe
  11. {{User|TheSandDoctor}} (Almost anything either American or German, specifically respective airforces and special forces)
  12. {{User|Tomobe03}} (Yugoslavia and Adriatic)
  13. {{User|TomStar81}} (Huge fan of WWII, will help in any way possible (school work permitting))
  14. {{User|Trfasulo}} (Almost anything in American military)

  1. {{User|73.126.133.15}} (Mostly the Soviet battles, European front and the Pacific war)
  2. {{User|Antny08}} (Mainly WW2 battles in Europe)

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Resources

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; Internal

;Australia

  • [https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C1417143 Australian Second World War Official Histories], Australian War Memorial

;United States

  • [http://www.tioh.hqda.pentagon.mil/ U.S. Army Institute of Heraldry]
  • [http://www.army.mil/cmh/ U.S. Army Center of Military History]
  • [http://144.99.215.50:8080/site/index.jsp U.S. Army Heritage Collection Online]
  • [http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/lineage/cc/cc.htm Combat Chronicles of U.S. Army Divisions in World War II]
  • [http://www.onwar.com/ OnWar] - A general purpose military site with a focus on World War II
  • [http://www.wlb-stuttgart.de/seekrieg/chronik.htm Chronik Seekrieg 1939-45] - in German
  • [http://www.axishistory.com Axishistory] - website and forum on WW2 related matters
  • [http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/ Ibiblio Hyperwar]- online document repository
  • [http://www.army.mil/cmh/books/AMH/amh-toc.htm ARMY HISTORICAL SERIES: AMERICAN MILITARY HISTORY: US Army Center of Military History]
  • [http://www.lonesentry.com/intelbulletin/index_subject.html| Lone Sentry site]
  • [http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/documents/ETO-OB/ETOOB-TOC.htm ORDER OF BATTLE OF THE UNITED STATES ARMY; WORLD WAR II: EUROPEAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS: DIVISIONS]
  • [http://cgsc.leavenworth.army.mil/carl/contentdm/home.htm Combined Arms research library]
  • [http://www.britishpathe.com/index.php British Pathé news archives]
  • [http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USN/USN-Chron/USN-Chron-Intro.html The Official Chronology of the U.S. Navy in World War II]
  • [http://www.history.navy.mil/books/OPNAV20-P1000/index.html OPNAV 29-P1000 (Revised APRIL 1949) U.S. Navy Abbreviations of World War II]
  • [http://niehorster.orbat.com/ World War II Armed Forces: Orders of Battle and Organizations]
  • [http://www.usmm.org/ww2.html U.S. Merchant Marine in World War II]

;Germany

  • U.S. War Department Technical Manual;March 15, 1945; TM - E30-451: Handbook on German Military Forces; 1939 - 1945; Republished 1990 by Louisiana 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}}

;Japanese

  • [http://ajrp.awm.gov.au/ajrp/ajrp2.nsf/088031725e4569e4ca256f4f00126373/1fcb61d633972daaca257291000abf44?OpenDocument Japanese army operations in the South Pacific Area], translated by Steven Bullard, Australian War Memorial

;Miscellaneous

  • {{cite book | last = Reid | first = Patrick R. | authorlink = Pat Reid | others = Illustrated by John Watton | title = Colditz and The Latter Days | isbn = 0340386312}}
  • {{cite book | last = Chancellor | first = Henry | title = Colditz: The Definitive History | isbn = 0-06-001286-2}}

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