bigpigeon.us webpage WWII Home, © 2023 by Robert A. Christiansen, updated by RAC 27 May 2023.
This is the Home module of Big Pigeon's five-module World War II component.
This is the Home module of Big Pigeon's five-module World War II component.
- The upper right hotspots will return to Pigeon Home or access links into WWII Roster and WWII US.
- WWII Japan and WWII Germany module directories follow, with hotspots to directly access key submodules.
The War with Japan - Combat Summaries
═══════════════════════ WWII Japan, 57 pages, 227 dead, 21 May 2023 WWII Japan Overview Japan Ascendant Japan Lashes Out (34 dead) † Pearl Harbor (4 dead) † Guam and Wake Island (1 dead) Malaya & Singapore Lost (no dead) † Dutch East Indies Lost (6 dead) † Philippines Lost (23 dead) New Guinea/Solomons 1942 (no dead) Japan Overreaches (3 dead) † Coral Sea (1 dead) † Midway (2 dead) South & Southwest Pacific (35 dead) † Solomon Naval War (18 dead) † Solomon Islands, Guadalcanal (2 dead) † Southeast New Guinea, Papua (5 dead) † Northeast New Guinea, Lae-Madang (2 dead) † Solomon Islands, New Georgia (4 dead) † Solomon Islands, Bougainville (1 dead) † Bismarck Archipelago (1 dead) † Western New Guinea (2 dead) North Pacific (5 dead) † North Pacific, Alaska (4 dead) † North Pacific, Attu & Kiska (1 dead) Pacific Lend-Lease Routes (projected) Central Pacific (13 dead) † Gilbert Islands (4 dead) Marshall Islands (no dead) † Mariana Islands (4 dead) † Palau Islands (5 dead) Philippines Liberated (36 dead) † Leyte (4 dead) † Battle of Leyte Gulf (3 dead) † Philippines Naval War (5 dead) † Luzon (18 dead) † Southern Philippines (6 dead) Iwo Jima & Okinawa (27 dead) † Iwo Jima (9 dead) † Okinawa (14 dead) † Okinawa Naval War (4 dead) Japan Overpowered (7 dead) † Japan Under Attack (0 dead) † Strategic Air War - Japan (6 dead) † Japan Vanquished (1 dead) US Naval War w/ Japan (24 dead) † US Submarine Force (9 dead) † Third & Fifth Fleets (15 dead) US Navy dead included in other webpages: 41 US Air Force War w/ Japan (16 dead) † Fifth Air Force (9 dead) † Seventh Air Force (3 dead) † Tenth Air Force (4 dead) USAF dead included in other webpages: 33 The Pacific Base Areas (16 dead) China-Burma-India Theater (11 dead) † China (5 dead) India (no dead) † Burma (2 dead) † Crossing the Hump (4 dead) ═══════════════════════ |
The War with Germany - Combat Summaries
═══════════════════════ WWII Germany, 91 pages, 326 dead, 4 Feb 2023 WWII Germany Overview † Battle of the Atlantic (13 dead) The MTO (94 dead) as of 4 Feb 2023 The MTO Overview MTO Background North Africa (31 dead) † Operation Torch (5 dead) † Race to Tunis (6 dead) † Tunisia (20 dead) Italy (41 dead) † Sicily (4 dead) Italy Leaves the Axis (no dead) Salerno-Naples-Foggia (no dead) † To the Gustav Line (10 dead) † Battle of Anzio (8 dead) † Cassino/Gustav Line (7 dead) † Cassino to Rome (6 dead) † Rome to Florence (2 dead) Northern Apennines (no dead) † The Po Valley (4 dead) † The MTO Sea War (6 dead) † The MTO Air War (13 dead) † The MTO Comm. Zone (3 dead) The ETO (219 dead) as of 4 Feb 2023 ETO Overview ETO Background ETO Orders of Battle ETO Unit Subordination. Normandy Campaign (14 dead) † D-Day (2 dead) (excluding navy) ETO, 6 June 1944 (order of battle) † Normandy, June 1944 (4 dead) ETO, 30 June 1944 (order of battle) † Normandy, July 1944 (8 dead) Liberation (27 dead) † Operation Cobra (2 dead) ETO, 1 August 1944 (order of battle) † Brittany (6 dead) † Normandy (9 dead) † Northern France & Belgium (6 dead) ETO, 25 August 1944 (order of battle) † Southern France (4 dead) War of Attrition (41 dead) ETO, 15 September 1944 (order of battle) † 1 - Netherlands Fall 1944 (3 dead) † 2 - Rhineland Fall 1944 (1 + 16 dead) † V Corps at the West Wall (2 dead) † Aachen (2 dead) † Hürtgen Forest (3 dead) † Operation Queen (4 dead) † Queen/Hürtgen (5 dead) The Last 1944 Offensives 3 - Lorraine/Alsace Fall 1944 (22 dead) † Lorraine/Third Army (8 dead) † Lorraine/Seventh Army (9 dead) † Alsace/Seventh Army (5 dead) ETO, 15 December 1944 (order of battle) Ardennes/The Bulge (27 dead) About the Bulge † The Bulge Begins (4 dead) † The Bulge Grows (1 dead) Ardennes, 25 December 1944 (order of battle) † The Bulge Contained (5 dead) † The Bulge Eliminated (17 dead) Alsace 1945 (3 dead) † Nordwind (1 dead) † Colmar Pocket (2 dead) Siegfried Line 1945 (9 dead) ETO, 26 Jan 1945 (order of battle) Operation Blackcock (no dead) † First Us Effort (1 dead) † Roer River Dams (1 dead) † VIII Corps to Prüm (1 dead) † XII Corps to Bitburg (5 dead) † XX Corps to Trier (1 dead) To the Rhine 1945 (11 dead) ETO, 1 March 1945 (order of battle) † Ops. Veritable & Grenade (5 dead) † Operation Lumberjack (3 dead) † Operation Undertone (3 dead) Central Europe (22 dead) † Crossing the Rhine (6 dead) † Beyond the Rhine (7 dead) ETO, 4 April 1945 (order of battle) † Central Germany (1 dead) † Southern Germany (8 dead) † The ETO Air War (46 dead) † The ETO Sea War (6 dead) † The ETO Comm. Zone (13 dead) The Eastern Front ═══════════════════════ |
Sources for Big Pigeon's WWII Home webpage:
- NO LONGER USED The webpage header painting, Inferno, www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/art/exhibits/conflicts-and-operations/wwii/a-vision-of-history/world-war-ii-navy-art-by-draper.html - c/o US Navy History and Heritage Command, https://www.history.navy.mil. This painting, by WWII combat artist William F. Draper, depicts a common feature of both WWI and WWII, namely the use of explosives - delivered primarily by artillery in WWI and also by aircraft in WWII - to wreak physical destruction, often on civilian targets, on a scale impossible in earlier wars.