Some Sources


(Updated February 2 2002) The sources of information about America's military history, units, ships, people, and other characteristics are endless. Listed below are the major sources that I have used to date. Some, such as the Morison series, are available at most major libraries. Others, especially the private printings, are harder to find. I've used these because they are either not copyrighted, the specific information I've cited from them is not copyrighted, or I have obtained the permission of the publisher or author to take certain information from them.

Medal of Honor, Center of Military History, United States Army, web site (www.army.mil/cmh-pg/mohind.htm)

Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, Naval Historical Center, eight volumes, published 1959 through 1991. A new volume 1A, containing the ships with names starting with A, was published in 1991. The volume containing ships named B is out of print. It is available on the web at www.uss-salem.org

The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies

A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion, by Frederick H. Dyer

History of United States Naval Operations in World War II, by Samuel Eliot Morison, Little, Brown and Company(15 volumes)

Volume I - The Battle of the Atlantic, 1939-1943 (1947)

Volume II - Operations in North African Waters, October 1942-June 1943, (1947)

Volume III - The Rising Sun in the Pacific, 1931-April 1942, (1948)

Volume IV - Coral Sea, Midway and Submarine Actions, May 1942-August 1942, (1949)

Volume V - The Struggle for Guadalcanal, August 1942 -February 1942, (1948)

Volume VI - Breaking the Bismarks Barrier, 22 July 1942-1 May 1944 (1950)

Volume VII - Aleutians, Gilberts and Marshalls, June 1942-April 1944 (1951)

Volume VIII - New Guinea and the Marianas, March 1944 - August 1944 (1953)

Volume IX - Sicily-Salerno-Anzio, January 1943-June 1944 (1954)

Volume X - The Atlantic Battle Won, May 1943 - May 1945 (1956)

Volume XI - The Invasion of France and Germany, 1944-1945 (1957)

Volume XII - Leyte, June 1944-January 1945 (1958)

Volume XIII - The Liberation of the Philippines, 1944 - 1945 (1959)

Volume XIV - Victory in the Pacific 1945 (1960)

Volume XV - Supplement and General Index (1962)

Army Lineage Series, The Continental Army, Robert K. Wright, Jr. , Center of Military History, United States Army, 1989 (This is about the Revolutionary War)

Army Lineage Series, Air Defense Artillery, Compiled by Janice E. McKinney, Center of Military History, United States Army, 1985

Order of Battle of the United States Land Forces in the World War (This is about World War I) Center of Military History, United States Army
Volume 1 American Expeditionary Forces: General Headquarters, Armies, Corps, Services of Supply, Separate Forces, (1937)
Volume 2 American Expeditionary Forces: Divisions (1988)
Volume 3 Zone of the Interior, Organization and Activities of the War Department (1988)
The Center of Military History's publications about World War I are available on CD-ROM from the Government Printing Office Final Report of Gen. John J. Pershing, U.S. Government Printing Office (World War I)

US Army in World War II, Center of Military History, United States Army. This extensive series of volumes is available through the U.S. Government Printing Office

(The following is not a complete list of the volumes in this series)

The War in the Pacific - The Fall of the Philippines, Louis Morton (1953)

The War in the Pacific - Guadalcanal: The First Offensive, John Miller, Jr., (1949)

The War in the Pacific - Victory in Papua, Samuel Milner (1957)

The War in the Pacific - Triumph in the Philippines, Robert Ross Smith (1963, reprinted 1991)

The War in the Pacific - Okinawa: The Last Battle, Roy E. Appleman, James M. Burns, Russell A. Gugeler and John Stevens (1948)

Mediterranean Theater of Operations - Sicily and the Surrender of Italy, Albert N. Garland and Howard McGaw Smith, (1965)

European Theater of Operations - Cross-Channel Attack, Gordon A. Harrison, (1951)

European Theater of Operations - Breakout and Pursuit, Martin Blumenson, (1961)

European Theater of Operations - The Siegfried Line Campaign , Charles B MacDonald (1963)

European Theater of Operations - The Last Offensive, Charles B. MacDonald (1973)

The China-Burma-India Theater - Stilwell's Command Problems, Charles F. Romanus and Riley Sunderland (1956, reprinted 1987)

Special Studies - Chronology, 1941 - 1945, Compiled by Mary H. Williams (1960)

Unit Citation and Campaign Participation Credit Register, Department of the Army Pamphlet 672-1, Jul 1961, provides a list of Army units that received credit for participation in campaigns in World War II and in the Korean War. This is available on the Internet U.S. Army in the Korean War, Center of Military History, U. S. Army

South to the Naktong, North to the Yalu, Roy E. Appleman (1961)

The First Battle of Manassas, An End to Innocence, July 18-21, 1861, John Hennessy, H. E. Howard, Inc., 1989

Second Manassas Battlefield Map Study, John Hennessy, H. E. Howard, Inc., 1985

United States Army Station Lists (Those used thus far are for April 1943, April 1944, May 1945, July 1951, February 1952 and Oct 1969) They are available at the Army's Center of Military History

Air Force Combat Units of World War II, USAF Historical Division, Air University, Department of the Air Force, (1961)

Korean War Order of Battle, by Shelby Stanton, an unpublished Army document in the Army's Center of Military History

Combat Squadrons of the Air Force, World War II, USAF Historical Division, Air University, Department of the Air Force (1969)

At Close Quarters, Capt Robert J. Bulkley, Jr., Naval History Division, Department of the Navy, (1962). This is about the PT boats in World War II

Ten Thousand Men and One Hundred Thirty "Mighty Midget" Ships - The U.S.S. LCS(L)s in World War II, Raymond A. Baumler, Historian, The National Association of LCS(L)s 1-130, (1991) (Privately Printed)

LSM-LSMR, WW II Amphibious Forces, Rolf Illsley, (1994), Turner Publishing Company

United States Maritime Commission listing of Completed Contracts for commercial type ships built just before and during WW II. Many of these ships were converted and commissioned for use by the Navy or the Army, and most of the others saw service in support of the Armed Forces, many in combat. A copy of the list was provided to me by Project Liberty Ship, Baltimore, MD.

U.S. Army Transportation Corps Museum library. Unpublished documents in the library's files:

1. United States Army Watercraft Listing, by Dave King, Iinternational Consulatants, Inc., 1996. Lists Army watercraft then on the rolls.

2. Report of Army Small Boat Construction 1 Jul 1940 to 31 May 1945, War Department.

3. Listing of contracts, hull numbers, etc., of Army watercraft produced in World War II

Joe Baugher's web site was my major source of information about individual aircraft by serial number/bureau number. It is http://home.att.net/~jbaugher/

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