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Big Pigeon's WWII modules:
WWII Dead
WWII Hub
WWII US
Japan
Germany
. bigpigeon.us webpage WWII Hub, © 2025 by Robert A. Christiansen, updated by RAC 6 Jun 2025.
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WWII Hub is the central module of Big Pigeon's five-module World War II component.

 WWII Hub subpages:  
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Big Pigeon's WWII Japan and WWII Germany submodules
 
(All webpages are shown. Some are incomplete.)
WWII Japan - Directory & Combat Summary:
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WWII Japan, 68 pages, 268 dead, 11 Apr 2024
    WWII Japan Overview
    Order of Battle
 
       OOB - Armies & Corps
        OOB - Divisions
        OOB - South Pacific
        OOB - Southwest Pacific
        OOB - Central Pacific
        OOB - Philippines Liberated
​        OOB - Iwo Jima & Okinawa
    Japan Ascendant
═══ Pearl Harbor to Midway (45 dead) ═══
​     Japan Lashes Out (40 dead)
    ​   † Pearl Harbor, 1941 (5 dead)
       ​† Guam and Wake Islands (1 dead)
          Malaya & Singapore Lost (no dead)
       ​† Dutch East Indies Lost (7 dead)
       ​† Philippines Lost (27 dead)
          Northern Melanesia, 1942 (no dead)
    Japan Overreaches (5 dead)
    ​    † Coral Sea (3 dead)
    ​    † Midway (2 dead)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
═══ Guadalcanal to Peleliu (63 dead) ════
   
    South & Southwest Pacific
(42 dead)
        ​    Securing Australia​
       
 † Papua, southeast New Guinea (5 dead)
        
† Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands (4 dead)
       
† Guadalcanal Naval War (20 dead)    
           Isolating Rabaul
        † Lae-Madang, northeast New Guinea (2 dead)
        † New Georgia, Solomon Islands (4 dead)
        
† New Georgia Naval War (9 dead)
        † Bougainville, Solomon Islands (1 dead)
        † Bougainville Naval War (2 dead)
    ​    † Bismarck Archipelago (2 dead)
           Towards the Philippines

        † Western New Guinea (3 dead)
    North Pacific (5 dead)
        ​† North Pacific, Alaska (4 dead)
        † North Pacific, Attu & Kiska (1 dead)
           Pacific Lend-Lease Routes (projected)

    Central Pacific (16 dead)
    ​    † Gilbert Islands (4 dead)
           Marshall Islands (1 dead)    
    ​    † Mariana Islands (5 dead)
           Mariana Naval War (no dead)

    ​    † Palau Islands (6 dead)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
═══ Philippines to Okinawa (69 dead) ════  
    Philippines Liberated
(40 dead)
    ​    † Leyte (5 dead)
        ​† Battle of Leyte Gulf (3 dead)
    ​    † Philippines Naval War (5 dead)
        ​† Luzon (19 dead)
    ​    † Southern Philippines (7 dead)
    Iwo Jima & Okinawa (30 dead)
    ​    † Iwo Jima (10 dead)
    ​    † Okinawa (16 dead)
        † Okinawa Naval War (4 dead) 
-------------------------------------------------------------------------═══ Other War with Japan (91 dead) ═════  
    Japan Overpowered (1 dead)
   ​        Japan Under Attack (0 dead)
    ​    † ​Japan Vanquished (1 dead)
    Naval War w/ Japan (30 dead)
        † US Submarine Force (12 dead)
        † Third & Fifth Fleets (18 dead)
        US Navy dead included in other webpages: 50
   ​Army Air Force War w/ Japan (28 dead)
        † Fifth Air Force (13 dead)
        † Seventh Air Force (3 dead)
        † ​Thirteenth Air Force (5 dead)
        † Twentieth Air Force (7 dead)
        USAF dead included in other webpages: 33 (not current)

    The Pacific Base Areas (18 dead)
    The China-Burma-India Theater (14 dead) 
    ​    † China, 1941-45 (6 dead)
        † India, 1942-45  (1 dead)
        † Burma, 1941-45 (3 dead)
        ​† Crossing the Hump (4 dead)  
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WWII Germany - Directory & Combat Summary:
​WWII Germany, 104 pages, 390 dead, 10 Aug 2024

​    WWII Germany Overview
 † ^Battle of the Atlantic (15 dead) ═══════
    --------------------------------------------------------------------
​    
The MTO (111 dead) as of 18 Jun 2024
        MTO Background       
        MTO Overview
​        North Africa (31 dead) ══════════
               North Africa - Order of Battle

            ​† Operation Torch (5 dead)
        ​    † + Race to Tunis (6 dead)
        
​    † Tunisia (20 dead)   
        ----------------------------------------------------------------                   Italy (54 dead) ══════════════       
              Italy - Order of Battle
              Italy  - Sources
           † Sicily (5 dead)
               Italy Leaves the Axis (no dead)   
​   
               Salerno-Naples-Foggia (no dead)
               Naples to Rome
            † + The Volturno Line (6 dead)
            † + The Bernhardt Line (6 dead)
        ​    † + Battle of Anzio (9 dead)
           ​ † + The Gustav Line/Cassino #1 (9 dead)
               + Cassino #2 & #3

            † + Cassino to Rome (8 dead)
         ​   † Rome to Florence (2 dead)
        ​       Northern Apennines
            † + North Apennines Fall 1944 (1 dead)
               + North Apennines Winter 1944–45
            ​† The Po Valley (7 dead)
               + Breakthrough
               + Advance to the Po
               + Beyond the Po
​        
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        ════ Other MTO (26 dead) ══════

         † The MTO Air War (16 dead)
    ​     ​† The MTO Sea War (7 dead)
​         
† The MTO Comm. Zone (3 dead)  
    --------------------------------------------------------------------
​    ​The ETO (249 dead) as of 27 Jan 2024
        ETO Overview
             ETO Background
        ETO Orders of Battle
             ETO Unit Subordination.
​        ----------------------------------------------------------------
         ══
══ France (46 dead) ════════
        Normandy Campaign (16 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 (10 dead)
        Liberation (30 dead)
            
† Operation Cobra (3 dead)
        
​       ETO, 1 August 1944 (order of battle)
            † Brittany (6 dead)
        ​    † Normandy (9 dead)
            † Northern France & Belgium (7 dead) 
        
​       ETO, 25 August 1944 (order of battle)
            ​† Southern France (5 dead)
        --------------------------------------------------------------
        ═══ ETO 
Border Areas (86 dead) ═══
        War of Attrition, Fall 1944 (51 dead)
​               ETO, 15 September 1944 (order of battle) 

        ​    † Netherlands, Fall 1944 (4 dead)
            † Rhineland, Fall 1944 (1 dead)
           
† V Corps at the West Wall (2 dead)
            † Aachen (3 dead)
           
† Hürtgen Forest (2 dead)           
            † Operation Queen (4 dead)
            † Queen/Hürtgen (8 dead)
               The Last 1944 Offensives
               Lorraine/Alsace, Fall 1944
        ​    † Lorraine/Third Army (10 dead)
           
† Lorraine/Seventh Army (11 dead)
            ​† Alsace/Seventh Army (6 dead)
               ETO, 15 December 1944 (order of battle)

        ​Ardennes/The Bulge (31 dead)
                
About the Bulge    
             
† The Bulge Begins (5 dead) 
             
† The Bulge Grows (1 dead)
                Ardennes, 25 December 1944 (order of battle)
             
† The Bulge Contained (7 dead)
             
† The Bulge Eliminated (18 dead)
        Alsace-Lorraine, 1945 (4 dead)
               Nordwind
            
† Colmar Pocket (2 dead)
           
† Seventh Army in Stasis (2 dead)
        ---------------------------------------------------------- 
        ══
══ Germany (51 dead) ═════ 
        Siegfried Line 1945 (12 dead)
              ETO, 26 Jan 1945 (order of battle)
              Operation Blackcock (no dead)
            
† First Us Effort (1 dead)
            
† Roer River Dams (3 dead)
            
† VIII Corps to Prüm (1 dead)
            
† XII Corps to Bitburg (6 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 (28 dead)
        ​    † Crossing the Rhine (7 dead)
            † Beyond the Rhine (9 dead)
               ETO, 4 April 1945 (order of battle)
            ​† Central Germany (2 dead)
            
† Southern Germany (10 dead) 
       
------------------------------------------------------------
        ══
══ Other ETO (81 dead) ═════
        
The ETO Air War (60 dead)
           
† Eighth Air Force (44 dead)
           
† Ninth Air Force (16 dead)
     † The ETO Sea War (7 dead)
     † ​The ETO Comm. Zone (14 dead)
        --------------------------------------------------------------
The Eastern Front
 Hint for visitors interested in browsing WWII history:
  • Using the above hotspots and hotspots on combat summary webpages, you can use WWII Hub to quickly move between disparate aspects of WWII.
Sources for Big Pigeon's WWII Hub webpage:
I mean the twin webpage header images, Czechosovakia betrayed, 1938 and Ukraine betrayed, 2025?, to remind visitors of the troubling parallel between:
  • the Munich Conference of September 1938, when Britain and France allowed Adolph Hitler's Nazi Germany to annex a strategic portion of western Czechoslovakia.
  • February 2025, when Donald Trump appeared to turn against our European Allies to side with Vladimir Putin's Russia in the Russo-Ukranian war.
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