Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/World War II task force

Welcome to the World War II task force of the Military history WikiProject!

Objectives

• Improve Wikipedia's coverage of World War II.
• Make World War II a featured article on the English Wikipedia.
• Add things here!

Participants

Please remember to also add your name to the main list of project members if you are not yet listed there.

1. Andreas1968 (talk · contribs) (Eastern Front, German formations and strategy, Normandy, are my prime areas of interest and potential contributions)
2. (World War II - My father-in-law Eric Stanmore King was a British tank gunner throughout the Normandy Invasion, and I've been documenting his experiences during the campaign.)
3. CidTheGod (talk · contribs) (Added Production information to main WWII article - I currently study Political Science/History)
4. cla68 (talk · contribs) (Help out where I can, but prefer to work on articles concerning east Asian/Pacific campaigns. Immediate plans are to improve the articles concerning the Solomon Islands campaign.)
5. (My Father and Brother seved in World War II - My Brother is buried in the US Cemetery in Florence, Italy. My Army Career spanned from Vietnam through Desert Storm, and I've waited a long time for something like this to come along as an attempt at presenting the historical facts - as against opinion and conjecture - for this war. I have personal access to a lot of research material on the subjects presented here.)
6. Darkildor (talk · contribs)
7. DMorpheus (talk · contribs) (Main interests/contributions: Eastern Front, Red Army, US Army, Normandy campaign, Italian campaign, AFV pages, tactics pages. Look but don't touch: Pacific stuff. Glad to help any way I can)
8. DJ Clayworth (talk · contribs) (Help out where I can)
9. General Eisenhower (talk · contribs) (Do the best I can)
10. Grafikm fr (talk · contribs) (Eastern front battles (Budapest & Königsberg done, Lower Dnieper on the way... ^_^)
11. Harryema (talk · contribs)
12. J.StuartClarke (talk · contribs) (WWII German tactics, largely Panzer, combined arms, mechanized and armoured warfare)
13. Ktsquare (talk · contribs) (Help out where I can)
14. Lordandmaker (talk · contribs) (Time permitting, UK & USSR contributions to WWII, and aircraft)
15. Mike McGregor (Can) (talk · contribs) (Canadian contabutions to the war mostly, also intrested in, Armour, German forces, airborne forces, commonwelth forces, etc...)
16. Oberiko (talk · contribs) (Several different areas, spanning from various equipment to different campaigns and categorization)
17. Sandertje (talk · contribs) (Is intrested in the Western front will help wherever possible and on request)
18. Smoth 007 (talk · contribs) (Will help anywhere I can - currenty working on Pacific battles)
19. Spot87 (talk · contribs) (I do/will do a little bit of everything. I am currently working on WWII ships)
20. TomStar81 (talk · contribs) (Huge fan of WWII, will help in any way possible (school work permitting))
21. Tristan benedict (talk · contribs) (Articles on military units in WWII)
22. Wikist (talk · contribs) (Recently overhauled M4 Sherman; broad interests)
23. DMeyering (talk · contribs) (mostly Naval & Air combat)

To-do

• Add things here!

• Battle of Königsberg needs some cleanup. Not major but important. See details here and thanks for everyone who will contribute! -- Grafikm ^(AutoGRAF) 22:19, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

• Axis Powers needs to be restructured. I put forward some proposed changes on the talk page, but so far I haven't received any feedback at all. I guess it'd be smart to run this by you guys before making radical changes. Superdix 08:16, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

• Military history of India has only a few sentences on WWII.

• Eastern Front is in an edit war again. This began in Dec 2005; the page was protected about ten weeks ago; an RfC was issued; no consensus emerged. Numerous personal attacks on the discussion page. The page was unprotected on April 2, and as of May 4 (33 days later) there have been 133 edits. Average just over 4 per day. It could use some help from knowledgable folks, both on content and on behavior of some editors. DMorpheus 20:22, 4 April 2006 (UTC) and resubmitted 17:23, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

• Battle of Ortona Could use expantion, I need help filling out and fact-checking the the infobox.

Mike McGregor (Can)

• Battle of Cherbourg could really use an article, or at the very least the article on Cherbourg could somehow reference the Battle of Normandy and vice-versa.--Caliga10 12:03, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

• Operation Dragoon (Invasion of Southern France) could use some reorganization and an infobox.

• I've just completed a translation of the de article Battle for Caen and posted it on this project. There is still much to do, the opening graphic is the one from the commons and is in German (I'd do it, but I don't have a good graphics editor, I could provide a translation for someone). Other than that, it needs cleaned up, some of the OB stuff is wrong I think and some of the language is obviously a translation, and it needs general fact checking. --Easter Monkey 00:08, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

Tagging articles

Any article related to this task force should be marked by adding WWII-task-force=yes to the {{WPMILHIST}} project banner at the top of its talk page (see the project banner instructions for more details on the exact syntax). This will automatically place it into Category:World War II task force articles.

Templates

Campaignboxes (requires some cleanup and reorganization):

• Mediterranean Naval WW2
• Atlantic Naval WW2
• Western Front
• Nazi occupation of Norway
• Normandy
• Balkans Campaign
• Siegfried Line
• Polish September Campaign
• Operation Tempest
• Axis-Soviet War
• Winter War
• Continuation War
• Lapland War
• Western Desert
• Second Sino-Japanese war (1937–45)
• Pacific 1941
• Aleutians
• New Guinea
• Solomons
• Gilberts and Marshalls
• Marianas and Palaus
• Borneo Campaign (1945)
• Philippines
• Ryukyus

Categories

• Category:Airborne divisions of the United States Army
• Category:Wars of the United States
• Category:Separate Brigades of the United States Army
• Category:American army groups
• Category:American field armies
• Category:Separate Companies of the United States Army
• Category:Regiments of the United States Army
• Category:United States Army posts
• Category:Units of the United States Marine Corps

Bibliography

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Resources

Internal

• Glossary of German WWII military terms
• List of equipment used in World War II
• List of World War II electronic warfare equipment
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External

• The following group hold digitized versions of 90% of all the files you would need to prepare articles on the US Army, and they are all in the Public Domain.
  • Official Resource Site for US Government Graphic Insignia
    • U.S. Army Institute of Heraldry
  • Official Resource Site for US Army historial files of all sorts.
    • U.S. Army Center of Military History
  • Official Resource Site for US Army Historial Collections
    • U.S. Army Heritage Collection Online
• Combat Chronicles of U.S. Army Divisions in World War II
• OnWar - A general purpose military site with a focus on World War II
• Chronik Seekrieg 1939-45 - in German
• Axishistory - website and forum on WW2 related matters
• Ibiblio Hyperwar- online document repository
• ARMY HISTORICAL SERIES: AMERICAN MILITARY HISTORY: US Army Center of Military History
• Lone Sentry site
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International work

• Imperialism and world wars on meta