bigpigeon.us webpage WWII Home, © 2023 by Robert A. Christiansen, updated by RAC 31 Jan 2923.
This is the Home module of Big Pigeon's five-module World War II component.
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  • WWII Japan and WWII Germany module directories follow, with hotspots to directly access their submodules.​
The War with Japan - Combat Summaries
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​WWII Japan, 57 pages, 228 dead, 31 Jan 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)
    China-Burma-India (11 dead) 
    ​    † China (5 dead)
           India (no dead)
        † Burma (2 dead)
        ​† Crossing the Hump (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 (17 dead)
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The War with Germany - Combat Summaries
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​WWII Germany, 91 pages, 324 dead, 27 Jan 2023
​    WWII Germany Overview
    † Battle of the Atlantic (13 dead)
    The MTO (93 dead) as of 22 Dec 2022
        The MTO Overview
              MTO Background
​        North Africa (31 dead)
            ​† Operation Torch (5 dead)
        ​    † Race to Tunis (6 dead)
        ​    † Tunisia (20 dead)   
        Italy (40 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 (3 dead)
        ​† The MTO Sea War (6 dead)
        † The MTO Air War (13 dead)
    ​    † The MTO Comm. Zone (3 dead)
    The ETO (218 dead) as of 23 Dec 2022
        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 (26 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 (16 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
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