World War II Documents

This book tells the story of what happened on Palawan Island when Japanese commanders decided to kill all the Allied prisoners of war who had worked f...

Oradour-sur-Glane (the massacre village) is located in the Limousin region (of the Haute Vienne Department), France. 

Lt General John L. DeWitt recommended that Japanese-Americans be excluded from their homes in areas where their presence could be problematic during W...

The following summarizes conversations between diplomats during the immediate time before Pearl Harbor was bombed. SUMMARY OF THE HULL-NOMURA CONVE...

Did people around the world know what the Nazis were doing in Poland before the end of the war? In 1942, the Polish government-in-exile sent a pamphle...

Image of a Presidential Proclamation for National Navajo Code Talkers Day, signed by President Ronald Reagan on July 28, 1982. Click on the image for...

The Naval Court of Inquiry treated intercepted, decoded Japanese messages separately from its main opinion.  Hereafter is the Addendum (dated Oct...

A Naval Court of Inquiry was convened to determine whether the United States Navy, or any of its members, were responsible for America's failure to pr...

PROCEEDINGS OF NAVY COURT OF INQUIRY 341A witness called by the judge advocate entered. was duly sworn, and was informed of the subject matter of the ...

This translation of  Erhard Wetzel's letter to Heinrich Lohse - dated October 25, 1941 - was prepared by the Allies for use at the end of World W...

This image depicts an original document, dated 11 January 1944, from Supreme Allied Headquarters.  It discusses "Operation Overlord," the code-na...

During November of 1943, as the planning continued for the Normandy invasion, the Allies were creating a "Cover Operation" to divert Germany's attenti...