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Post by oldpop2000 on Mar 28, 2017 21:30:47 GMT -6
There was a comment that I should start a thread and provide archives that I have and here goes. My First is a map source. The Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/map_sites/hist_sites.html#mideast The last for this post is the WWII Aircraft Performance reports. These are actual reports from flight tests done during the war. There are two interesting categories, Comparisons and Articles & Misc. www.wwiiaircraftperformance.org/ Ok, this is a start. Enjoy Note: This isn't limited to just me, if you have a good archival site or just an interesting historical site, put the link in a post. We can use this thread as a source of information for all.
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Post by oldpop2000 on Mar 29, 2017 7:47:58 GMT -6
Okay, next installment of archives and sites. This first site was developed by Patrick Clancy who has since passed away. It is a little unfinished but a very good source of information. I am providing two links, the second is to the area designated What's New. This material that Patrick did not have time to move. You can use the link "Finding Stuff at Hyperwar" to get an idea of how to search for items. www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/WhatsNew.htmlThe next is the US Army Center of Military History - This site has some great books and other documents online to read and download. www.history.army.mil/index.htmlThe next site is the Air Force Historical Research Agency. There are numbered studies from 1-200 that are available and downloadable. Just click on the range numbers like 1-50. www.afhra.af.mil/Information/Studies/
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Post by oldpop2000 on Mar 29, 2017 9:51:16 GMT -6
I am not going to worry about duplication on the forum, if I've placed a site or archive out there, so be it. This is my attempt, with a suggestion from one of the forum members to compile these sites and more. Next installment The next site is the Ike Skelton Combined Arms Research library digital Library. There are operational documents, School of Advanced Military Studies Monographs and Master of Military Art and Science Theses. cgsc.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/The last in this installment is the NASA Glenn Research Center Aerodynamics Index. If you are interested in how aircraft fly, parts etc. this site is excellent. There are just about everything from basic science to wind tunnels explainations etc. www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/K-12/airplane/short.htmlEnjoy
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Post by oldpop2000 on Mar 29, 2017 10:35:56 GMT -6
Okay, another installment This site is the San Francisco Maritime National Park Association site. The link is to NAVPERS 91900, 1953 which as it says was designed to introduce sailors to the basics of weapons fire control. You might find this informative. maritime.org/doc/firecontrol/The next site is the German-Navy site which has specifications and drawings of German naval vessels. www.german-navy.de/kriegsmarine/The next site is the NavSource Naval History site with just about every ship in the US Navy you could ever want. www.navsource.org/The next site is the Imperial Japanese Navy Battle Orders site. It has the original battle orders from 1941 to 1945. pacific.valka.cz/forces/ijn/The next site is excellent for understand the basics of radar. It helps me to refresh my mind about what I learned in the USAF and working for the US Navy. www.radartutorial.eu/01.basics/Radar%20Principle.en.htmlThe next site is the WW1 The War At Sea site. It has extensive documents about almost everything in the WW1 Naval wars. www.gwpda.org/naval/n0000000.htmLast site is the Australia-Japan Research Project. It has some interesting documents about the invasion of New Guinea and translation of sections of Senshi Sosho which is the official post war history about the War in the Pacific. Unfortunately, it is in Japanese but here is one translation. ajrp.awm.gov.au/
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Post by oldpop2000 on Mar 29, 2017 10:53:23 GMT -6
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Post by axe99 on Mar 29, 2017 17:07:13 GMT -6
Great stuff Oldpop, keep 'em coming .
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Post by oldpop2000 on Mar 29, 2017 20:08:37 GMT -6
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Post by garrisonchisholm on Mar 29, 2017 20:22:47 GMT -6
WOW !!! My AAR Writing is going to Suffer!!!!! I already found two that will consume at least my whole evening! Thank you!
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Post by oldpop2000 on Mar 29, 2017 21:01:19 GMT -6
WOW !!! My AAR Writing is going to Suffer!!!!! I already found two that will consume at least my whole evening! Thank you! Oop's Sorry about that.
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Post by oldpop2000 on Mar 31, 2017 10:01:09 GMT -6
Here is another interesting website - Naval-History.net. It has full copy of the History of the Great War - Naval Operations by Sir Julian Corbett and Henry Newbolt, History of the Great War - Merchant navy by Sir Archibald Hurd and many other excellent accounts by Jellicoe, Lord Fisher etc. www.naval-history.net/Index0-1914.htm
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Post by oldpop2000 on Mar 31, 2017 14:48:57 GMT -6
The Red Navy came into existence after the October 1917 revolution but in fact wasn't a separate force until 1926. As always the Soviet were concerned about attacks by hostile capitalist powers and Red Navy would have to defend the Russian Baltic coasts against any maritime assault. Initially, the former tsarist officers believe that by using submarines and torpedo boats they could attrit any hostile force as it moved through the Gulf of Finland(reminder: when I mention a geographical location, get a map out). At a proper time, the Baltic fleet would make its stand with concentrated blows using battleships and light forces with coast artillery and aircraft. This was the basis for doctrine for many years. This strategy was similar to the Black Sea strategy. As you can see, this was purely defensive strategy.
In the late '20's and early '30's, a new school which claimed that light forces like submarines torpedo boats and aircraft could paralyze the enemy surface forces then the weaker Red Navy could provide the naval support to the Army. This group was purges in the late 1930's. Stalin wanted a fleet of giant battleships and fast battleships. Unfortunately, building this fleet would take time and it was problematic whether their potential enemies would give them that time.
At the end of the 1930's there were now four separate theatres with the addition of the Arctic. Each had different operational conditions and intertheatre maneuverability was limited. Each fleet would be challenged with different enemies and different requirements. The operational plan in the event of war. The Baltic fleet was to defend the gulfs of Finland and Riga against German naval forces to prevent amphibious landings, interrupt the enemy's sea communications, and support the Red Army's maritime flank. The Black Sea fleet's job was to prevent enemy naval forces from entering through the Turkish Straits, destroy the Romanian navy and support the Red Army. The Northern Fleets responsibility was to defend the Soviet Arctic coasts, cooperate with the Red Army and attack with submarines, the enemy's sea communications. The Pacific Fleet was up against the IJN and could not hope to match it. Their job, operating out of Vladivostok was to prevent a landing by amphibious assault troops on Vladivostok into Manchuria. So, it was to prevent landings on the Soviet coasts of the Sea of Japan, the Sea of Okhotsk or the Kamchatka Peninsula; interrupt maritime communications between Japan and its forces on the Asian mainland; and conduct submarine warfare against commerce east of the Japanese archipelago.
This should give you the strategic plan for the Soviet Navy during WWII.
My reference is On Seas Contested: The Seven Great Navies of the Second World War by my author friend Vince O'hara.
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Post by axe99 on Mar 31, 2017 16:39:07 GMT -6
I re-read that chapter a couple of weeks ago - it's excellent (one of the better chapters in the book imo) . Do you know Vince O'Hara? If you do, be sure to tell him he's an excellent writer and editor . On websites, what are your thoughts on Navweaps? (http://www.navweaps.com/). I've mainly gone there for information on various guns, and they were consistent with Campbell's Naval Weapons of WW2 and seemed very good (but I'm not experienced enough to be able to assess these things accurately).
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Post by oldpop2000 on Mar 31, 2017 16:50:12 GMT -6
I re-read that chapter a couple of weeks ago - it's excellent (one of the better chapters in the book imo) . Do you know Vince O'Hara? If you do, be sure to tell him he's an excellent writer and editor . On websites, what are your thoughts on Navweaps? (http://www.navweaps.com/). I've mainly gone there for information on various guns, and they were consistent with Campbell's Naval Weapons of WW2 and seemed very good (but I'm not experienced enough to be able to assess these things accurately). I was invited to two book signings and have two signed books. I am also in the acknowledgements because he would send me individual chapters to review and provide critical reviews. He called me his intelligent reader. I haven't seen or talk to him in couple of years. I've had coffee with him and he once told me to write a book. Anyway, he was gracias enough to put me in the books, but I don't feel I did much. I strongly urge you to get his books and read them, he is a top writer who does his homework. I believe that the contributors to Navweaps are men who know this material well and are experts. I use them frequently. As to your experience, just keep reading about all this. There are some good books on gunnery by John Brooks, and many other authors. Read the articles by Nathan Okun on naval gun/armor resource, its on the bottom of the Navweaps page. Keep studying.
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Post by axe99 on Apr 1, 2017 16:08:19 GMT -6
Aye, O'Hara's most definitely on my reading list - which books are you acknowledged in? I'll try and guess who you are . (That's a friendly, off-handed comment - please don't acknowledge if you'd rather I didn't try and guess who you are). Had a look at the Nathan Okun stuff (although it's mostly faded from memory, but that's what re-reading is for!) and agree it sounds very good .
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Post by oldpop2000 on Apr 1, 2017 16:15:02 GMT -6
Aye, O'Hara's most definitely on my reading list - which books are you acknowledged in? I'll try and guess who you are . (That's a friendly, off-handed comment - please don't acknowledge if you'd rather I didn't try and guess who you are). Had a look at the Nathan Okun stuff (although it's mostly faded from memory, but that's what re-reading is for!) and agree it sounds very good . I am in "Struggle for the Middle Sea" and "In Passage Perilous". Try to guess, If you guess wrong, I will provide my name, it does not bother me. Nathan Okun is a well respected expert on Naval gunnery.
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