bigpigeon.us webpage WWII-Germany, updated by RAC 30 Sep 2022.
Big Pigeon's WWII-Germany module, along with the WWII and WWII-Japan modules, summarize US WWII involvement. The WWII Roster module provides a Pottawattamie area perspective.
Big Pigeon's WWII-Germany module, along with the WWII and WWII-Japan modules, summarize US WWII involvement. The WWII Roster module provides a Pottawattamie area perspective.
Links to Big Pigeon's major WWII-Germany subpages:
- WWII-Germany Overview
- The Battle of the Atlantic - the war in the Atlantic Ocean
- The MTO, Mediterranean Theater of Operations (November 1942 - May 1945)
- The MTO - Overview
- The North Africa Campaigns (November 1942 - May 1943)
- The Italian Campaigns (July 1943 - May 1945)
- The MTO Sea War
- The MTO Air War
- The MTO Communications Zone
- The ETO, European Theater of Operations ( June 1944 - May 1945)
- The ETO - Overview
- The Normandy Campaign (June-July 1944)
- Liberation (July-September 1944)
- The War of Attrition (September-December 1944)
- Enemy Counteroffensives (December 1944 - January 1945)
- Alsace 1945
- The Siegfried Line - 1945 (January-February 1945)
- The Advance to the Rhine - 1945 (January-March 1945)
- The Central Europe Campaign (March-May 1945)
- The ETO Air War
- The ETO Sea War
- The ETO Communications Zone
- The Eastern Front - summary only (Jun 1941 - May 1945)
- The MTO, Mediterranean Theater of Operations, includes North Africa, Sicily & the Italian mainland.
- The ETO, European Theater of Operations includes France, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg & Germany.
- Click on The MTO and The ETO links to see additional subpages.
- Some subpages are incomplete.
Sources for Big Pigeon's WWII-Germany webpage:
** My major print source, The Liberation Trilogy is a series of three military history books about the United States' involvement in World War II, written by American author Rick Atkinson and published by Henry Holt & Co. These three books are not on the web, but were the major print sources for my outline of the US Army in the War with Germany.
** Sources for webpage images: (C/O = courtesy of)
** My major print source, The Liberation Trilogy is a series of three military history books about the United States' involvement in World War II, written by American author Rick Atkinson and published by Henry Holt & Co. These three books are not on the web, but were the major print sources for my outline of the US Army in the War with Germany.
- An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942–1943 (2002)
- The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943–1944 (2007)
- The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944–1945 (2013)
- http://liberationtrilogy.com/books/army-at-dawn/maps-from-an-army-at-dawn/images-of-maps-from-an-army-at-dawn/ - access maps from An Army at Dawn.
- http://liberationtrilogy.com/books/day-of-battle/maps-from-the-day-of-battle/images-of-maps-from-the-day-of-battle/ - access maps from The Day of Battle.
- http://liberationtrilogy.com/books/guns-at-last-light/maps-from-the-guns-at-last-light/images-for-maps-from-the-guns-at-last-light/ - access maps from The Guns at Last Light.
** Sources for webpage images: (C/O = courtesy of)
- London 1940, webpage header photo, https://www.vintag.es/2021/12/london-during-the-blitz.html - This shows the aftermath of a German bomb blast during the 1940 Blitz. C/O Vintage Everyday, https://www.vintag.es.
- Berlin 1945, webpage header photo, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/Berlin-_the_Capture_and_Aftermath_of_War_1945-1947_C5284.jpg/1024px-Berlin-_the_Capture_and_Aftermath_of_War_1945-1947_C5284.jpg - This show the aftermath of the massive Allied bombing of Berlin late in WWII.
