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. bigpigeon.us webpage WWII Hub, © 2023 by Robert A. Christiansen, updated by RAC 27 Aug 2023.
Big Pigeon's five WWII modules:
WWII Roster
WWII Hub
WWII US
WWII Japan
WWII Germany
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WWII Hub is the central module of Big Pigeon's five-module World War II component.
Links to WWII Hub subpages:          WWII News            Big Pigeon & WWII
Shown below are all of Big Pigeon's WWII Japan and WWII Germany subpages.
WWII Japan - Directory & Combat Summary:
​
WWII Japan, 57 pages, 249 dead, 15 Aug 2023
    WWII Japan Overview
    Japan Ascendant

═══ Pearl Harbor to Midway (40 dead) ═════
​     Japan Lashes Out (36 dead)
    ​   † Pearl Harbor (5 dead)
       ​† Guam and Wake Islands (1 dead)
          Malaya & Singapore Lost (no dead)
       ​† Dutch East Indies Lost (6 dead)
       ​† Philippines Lost (24 dead)
          New Guinea/Solomons 1942 (no dead)
    Japan Overreaches (4 dead)
    ​    † Coral Sea (2 dead)
    ​    † Midway (2 dead)
═══ Guadalcanal to Peleliu (62 dead) ═════
   
    South & Southwest Pacific
(42 dead)
        ​† Solomon Naval War (21 dead)  ​
        † 
Solomon Islands, Guadalcanal (4 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 (2 dead)
        † 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 (15 dead)
    ​    † Gilbert Islands (4 dead)
           Marshall Islands (0 dead)    
    ​    † Mariana Islands (5 dead)
    ​    † Palau Islands (6 dead)
 ═══ Philippines to Okinawa (66 dead) ════  
    Philippines Liberated
(37 dead)
    ​    † Leyte (4 dead)
        ​† Battle of Leyte Gulf (3 dead)
    ​    † Philippines Naval War (5 dead)
        ​† Luzon (18 dead)
    ​    † Southern Philippines (7 dead)
    Iwo Jima & Okinawa (29 dead)
    ​    † Iwo Jima (10 dead)
    ​    † Okinawa (15 dead)
        † Okinawa Naval War (4 dead) 
═══ Other War with Japan (81 dead) ═════  
    Japan Overpowered (8 dead)
   ​         Japan Under Attack (0 dead)
        ​† Strategic Air War - Japan (7 dead)
    ​    † ​Japan Vanquished (1 dead)
    US Naval War w/ Japan (27 dead)
        † US Submarine Force (11 dead)
        † Third & Fifth Fleets (16 dead)
        US Navy dead included in other webpages: 50
    US Air Force War w/ Japan (17 dead)
        † Fifth Air Force (9 dead)
        † Seventh Air Force (3 dead)
        † ​Tenth Air Force (5 dead)
        USAF dead included in other webpages: 33 (not current)

    The Pacific Base Areas (16 dead)
    China-Burma-India Theater (13 dead) 
    ​    † China (6 dead)
        † India (1 dead)
        † Burma (2 dead)
        ​† Crossing the Hump (4 dead)  
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WWII Germany - Directory & Combat Summary:
​WWII Germany, 91 pages, 357 dead, 20 Aug 2023

​    WWII Germany Overview
 † Battle of the Atlantic (14 dead) ════════
    The MTO (104 dead) as of 16 Aug 2023
        The MTO Overview
              MTO Background
​        North Africa (31 dead) ═══════════

            ​† Operation Torch (5 dead)
        ​    † Race to Tunis (6 dead)
        
​    † Tunisia (20 dead)   
        Italy (49 dead) ═══════════════
            † Sicily (4 dead)
               Italy Leaves the Axis (no dead)   
​   
               Salerno-Naples-Foggia (no dead)
            † To the Gustav Line (12 dead)
        ​    † Battle of Anzio (9 dead)
           ​ † Cassino/Gustav Line (9 dead)
            † Cassino to Rome (6 dead)
         ​   † Rome to Florence (2 dead)
        ​    † Northern Apennines (2 dead)
            ​† The Po Valley (5 dead)
​        ════ Other MTO (24 dead) ═══════

         † The MTO Air War (14 dead)
    ​     ​† The MTO Sea War (7 dead)
​         
† The MTO Comm. Zone (3 dead)  
    The ETO
 (239 dead) as of 16 Aug 2023
        ETO Overview
             ETO Background
        ETO Orders of Battle
             ETO Unit Subordination.
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═══ France (43 dead) ═════════
        Normandy Campaign (15 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 (9 dead)
        Liberation (28 dead)
            
† Operation Cobra (3 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)
         ═
═══ ETO Border Areas (76 dead) ════
        War of Attrition (46 dead)
​               ETO, 15 September 1944 (order of battle) 

        ​    † 1 - Netherlands Fall 1944 (4 dead)
            † 2 - Rhineland Fall 1944 (1 + 17 dead)
                   
† V Corps at the West Wall (2 dead)
                   † Aachen (3 dead)
                   
† Hürtgen Forest (3 dead)           
                   † Operation Queen (4 dead)
                   † Queen/Hürtgen (5 dead)
                      The Last 1944 Offensives
               3 - Lorraine/Alsace Fall 1944 (24 dead)
        ​           † Lorraine/Third Army (10 dead)
                   
† Lorraine/Seventh Army (9 dead)
            ​       †  Alsace/Seventh Army (5 dead)
               ETO, 15 December 1944 (order of battle) 

        ​Ardennes/The Bulge (28 dead)
              
About the Bulge    
             
† The Bulge Begins (4 dead) 
             
† The Bulge Grows (1 dead)
                Ardennes, 25 December 1944 (order of battle)
             
† The Bulge Contained (6 dead)
             
† The Bulge Eliminated (17 dead)
        Alsace 1945 (3 dead)
            † Nordwind (1 dead) 
            
† Colmar Pocket (2 dead)
         ═
═══ Germany (46 dead) ════════  
        Siegfried Line 1945 (10 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 (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 (25 dead)
        ​    † Crossing the Rhine (7 dead)
            † Beyond the Rhine (8 dead)
               ETO, 4 April 1945 (order of battle)
            ​† Central Germany (1 dead)
            
† Southern Germany (9 dead) 
         ═
═══ Other ETO (74 dead) ═══════
        † The ETO Air War (53 dead)
        † The ETO Sea War (7 dead)
        † ​The ETO Comm. Zone (14 dead)
    The Eastern Front
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