World War II Documents

With Germany upset about how WWI ended and Japan upset about a lack-of-access to much-needed natural resources, another war sent the world into chaos between 1939-1945. Stories in this collection are about some of those events.

Continuing with the "Cover Operation" for the Normandy invasion, the Allies lay-out various means by which to deceive Germany into thinking that the a...

Continuing with the "Cover Operation" for the Normandy invasion, the Allies discuss the timing of their bogus plan: In order to achieve surprise, c...

Image of the Operation "Valkyrie" plans.

Image of the Operation "Valkyrie" plans.

"Operation Valkyrie" was the code name for the Wolf’s-Lair plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler.  Although the bomb exploded, on 20 July 1944, ...

This excerpt from the Congressional Record reveals that Navajo Code Talkers, and their secret code, were so significant to the War in the Pacific that...

This map, from the Illustrated London News, depicts the Pacific "border" of Japan's Empire - and the distance (3,379 miles) between Tokyo and Honolulu...

566 CONGRESSIONAL INVESTIGATION PEARL HARBOR ATTACK[1095] TESTIMONY OF LT. COL KERMIT A. TYLER, AIR CORPS, ORLANDO, FLA., ARMY AIR FORCE BOARD(The wit...

Bookcover image of Rettung über die Ostsee. Die Flucht aus den Ostseehäfen, (Rescue on the Baltic Sea: The escape from the Baltic Seaports),...

Soon after Philip Johnston requested a Marine Corps enlistment, to allow him to work with Navajo Code Talkers, he received this Special-Delivery respo...

In his book Auschwitz: Technique and Operation of the Gas Chambers, Jean Claude Pressac (originally a Holocaust denier until he reviewed documentary e...

The following is the Opinion of the Naval Court of Inquiry which examined whether Rear Admiral Husband E. Kimmel and General Walter C. Short were in d...

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