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Participants
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- 47thPennVols (talk · contribs) (the Holocaust, members of the Resistance in Europe, and notable women of World War II)
- Alexikoua (talk · contribs)
- AlinaGusewa (talk · contribs)
- Arthurcurrie (talk · contribs)
- Austin Moulton (talk · contribs) (WW2 German Small Arms, also one of my grandfathers was a USAAF Teacher who would teach mechanic students how to fix planes. the other one was a mechanic on the "home front" who worked on Tanks in the US Army)
- Binksternet (talk · contribs) (more Pacific than not)
- Brigade Piron (talk · contribs) (Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg-related topics)
- Buidhe (talk · contribs)
- CanonHistory (talk · contribs) (Pacific Theater)
- Luis Santos24 (talk · contribs) (U.S. Navy Pacific 1940-1945, Great-Grandfather was B-24D Liberator Co-Pilot in South Pacific, Other Great-Grandfather was Army PFC. in Europe.)
- DPdH (talk · contribs) (Intend to contribute mainly related to my Key interests => Technology: Combat Aircraft & related weapons/ordnance, Armored warfare, Artillery, Infantry weapons, Vehicles, Missiles & Rockets, Naval warfare & related weapons. Theatres: ETO, Africa/Mediterranean, Italy, Atlantic, Ostfront. Doctrine & Order of Battle: German army, US Army, British Army, Russian Army).
- EnigmaMcmxc (talk · contribs) (Mainly the North African Campaign and the fighting in North West Europe, also dabble in the other fronts of World War Two.)
- Eurocopter (talk · contribs) (Romanian theatre/Eastern Front)
- Farawayman (talk · contribs) (North Africa, Italy, Eastern Front)
- FitzColinGerald (talk · contribs) (Battle of France)
- Gavbadger (talk · contribs) (RAF bases and RAF Bomber Command)
- GELongstreet (talk · contribs) (Axis armed forces, Orders of Battles, Biographies)
- Glorianesserirl (talk · contribs) (Mostly work on improving stubs of any topic)
- Grant65 (talk · contribs) (Mediterranean theatre, 1940-43 mostly; Malaya-Singapore; the South West Pacific theatre, 1942-45; WW2 aircraft and air forces; Allied supreme commands)
- Hawkeye7 (talk · contribs) (US-related, Pacific Theatre, Logistics)
- Iazyges (talk · contribs) Largely naval.
- Indy beetle (talk · contribs) (Naval battles; Events involving "minor" countries like Belgium, Thailand, Denmark, various colonies, etc.)
- Kierzek (talk · contribs) (History of Nazi Germany, NSDAP history, Schutzstaffel (SS), Japanese tanks and weapons and German Panzers and weapons)
- Lineagegeek (talk · contribs) (US Army Air Force. focusing on history of organizations )
- Ljleppan (talk · contribs) (Mostly Finland-related topics)
- MetropolitanIC (talk · contribs) (Second Sino-Japanese War, Pacific Front)
- MoRsE (talk · contribs) (Broad interests, but especially articles somehow related to Finland, AWB-user)
- Noha307 (talk · contribs) (a lot of, but not limited to, naval, especally U-Boats)
- Peacemaker67 (talk · contribs) (Australian Army involvement, Yugoslavia)
- PhilDaBirdMan (talk · contribs) (Western Front 1943-45, Italy 1942-45, battle maps)
- sm8900 (talk · contribs) (Some categorization, history, etc.)
- Someone0317 (talk · contribs) (Australia, New Guniea, Units, BCOF and Western Front)
- Stanley Bannerman (talk · contribs) (New Zealand)
- the_ed17 (talk · contribs) (U.S. Navy, particularly battleships)
- Ted52 (talk · contribs) (European theater; Wehrmacht; Military planning & organization)
- TeutonicToad (talk · contribs) (Late war Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS on eastern front)
- Thehistorianisaac (talk · contribs) (my great grandfather died in ww2; I will contribute by protecting the sino-japenese war and related article's quality(and also improve it) to make sure these stories are told properly. I will also help in ww2 weapons.)
- Therealscorp1an (talk · contribs) Europe
- TheSandDoctor (talk · contribs) (Almost anything either American or German, specifically respective airforces and special forces)
- Tomobe03 (talk · contribs) (Yugoslavia and Adriatic)
- TomStar81 (talk · contribs) (Huge fan of WWII, will help in any way possible (school work permitting))
- Trfasulo (talk · contribs) (Almost anything in American military)
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Article statistics
Open tasks
- Attention needed
- ...to referencing and citation (29,909) • ...to coverage and accuracy (23,614) • ...to structure (5,155) • ...to grammar (1,548) • ...to supporting materials (4,900)
- Popular pages
- Full list
- Cleanup needed
- Battle of Kiev (1943) • Battle of Ko Chang • Colditz Castle • Spiritual national defence • Tuskegee Airmen
- Requested articles
- Battle of Uhtua-Kiestinki • Battles of Repola-Rukajärvi • Battle of Siiranmäki • Battle of Łuck • Battle of Równe • Battle of Włodzimierz Wołyński • Battle of Lubartów • Battle of Miedniki • Battle of Jodła • Francis Blanchain • Shinshou Draenger • Christer Lyst Hansen • Ove Kampman • League for Combat Policy • Julien Meline • Operation Mittelmeer • Operation Richard • Otto Program • Martin Poppel • Roehm's Avengers • Poul Bruun • Raoul Boulanger • Battle of West Ukraine (1941) • Battle of Zunyi • Liberation of Denmark (currently redirect) • Operation Vado (currently redirect) • Finnish 19th Division (Continuation War) • Finnish 11th Division (Continuation War) • Finnish Cavalry Brigade • 1st Jaeger Brigade • 2nd Jaeger Brigade • 168th Rifle Division (Soviet Union) • 71st Rifle Division (Soviet Union) • Group Oinonen • Operation Vesuvius (currently redirect) • Capture of Kassala (currently redirect) • Brandenburg–Rathenow Offensive • Japanese internment of European civilians during World War II • Miranda de Ebro concentration camp • German occupation of the Netherlands (current redirect) •Labour Charter (Vichy France) • Berles-Monchel and Aubigny-en-Artois massacres (1940) • Febvin-Palfart massacre (1940) • German massacres of French colonial prisoners of war • 1941 Nord-Pas de Calais miners' strike • Spitfire funds • Good War (historiography) • Nederlandsche Oost Compagnie • West African Pioneers • 2nd Marching Battalion of Ubangui-Shari • Bataillon du Pacifique • Persecution of freemasons in Nazi Germany and German-occupied Europe • Mohammed El Maadi • Luxembourgers in the Wehrmacht • Netherlands East Indies Government in exile • Burma Government in exile (1942-1945) • Delfzijl Pocket • Operation Canada
- Expansion needed
- Princess Irene Brigade • Battle of Bay of Viipuri • Demilitarisation • Free Dutch Forces • Martha Desrumeaux • Mochitsura Hashimoto • Operation Cascade • Operation Tan No. 2 • Burma Area Army • Battle of Courland • Battle of Munda Point • Battle of Voronezh (1943) • Drive on Munda Point • First Battle of Kharkov • Race to Berlin • Marie Fourcade • Donald Blakeslee • Operation Nordwind • Battle of Skerki Bank • Michael Sinclair (soldier) • Battle of Maastricht • Battle of Zeeland • Landings on Rendova • New Georgia counterattack • Operation Waterfall • Petsamo–Kirkenes Offensive • American-British-Dutch-Australian Command • Battle of Viru Harbor • Battle of Wickham Anchorage • Western New Guinea campaign (and the individual battles of the campaign) • Operation Blockbuster • Operation Cooney • The Holocaust in France • Knowledge of the Holocaust in Nazi Germany and German-occupied Europe • Francoist Spain and the Holocaust • Japan campaign • Volcano and Ryukyu Islands campaign • Légion Français des Combattants • more
- Images needed
- Twelfth Army (United Kingdom) • 4th Airborne Division (United Kingdom) • 5th Airborne Division (United Kingdom) • XVI Corps (United Kingdom) • Battle of Dakar • Battle of the Lys (1940) • Battle of Zeeland • Battle of the Grebbeberg • Franco-Thai War • Battle of Ko Chang • Switzerland during the World Wars • Berthe Fraser • Western Allied invasion of Germany • LXXXIII Army Corps (Wehrmacht)
- Merging needed
- Add an article here!
- Citations needed
- Battle of Borneo (1941–42) • Battle of Imphal • Garderegiment Fuseliers Prinses Irene • Japanese invasion of French Indochina • Japanese invasion of Thailand • Luxembourg in World War II • New Georgia Campaign • Operation Cartwheel • Operation Chastise • Royal Netherlands Motorized Infantry Brigade • Solomon Islands campaign • Battle of Radom • Seishin Operation • Moravia–Ostrava Offensive • Panzerjäger
- Translation needed
- 5th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment • Novorossiysk-Taman Operation • 1943 Novorossiysk Operation • 1943 Air Battles over Kuban • Battle of Rostov (1943) • Battle of Olshansky • Nalchik-Ordzhonikidzevskaya Operation • Bukrinsky Landing • Cape Tarhan Landing • 1942 Sudak Landing • Mozdok-Malgobek Operation • Alexander Sergeyevich Ksenofontov • Henri de Vernejoul • André Bergeret • Battle of Nice • Liberation de Saint-Malo • Battle of Seuil Valley • René-Jean-Paul Cassagne • Cameroun's rallying to the Free French • Battle of Bouno-Misaki
Article alerts
Today's featured article requests
- 15 May 2026 – Operation Brevity (talk · edit · hist) has been proposed for Today's Featured Article by Harizotoh9 (t · c); see discussion
Did you know
- 08 Mar 2026 – Mortimer War Memorial (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Usernameunique (t · c); see discussion
- 22 Feb 2026 – Sachio Ashida (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by ThaesOfereode (t · c); see discussion
Articles for deletion
- 18 Feb 2026 – Louis C. Graziano (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Ckfasdf (t · c); see discussion (11 participants; relisted)
- 23 Feb 2026 – Roman switch line (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by 4meter4 (t · c) was closed as merge by Explicit (t · c) on 09 Mar 2026; see discussion (7 participants; relisted)
Proposed deletions
Files for discussion
- 07 Mar 2026 – File:Churchill adressing Canadian Parliament, 30 December 1941.jpg (talk · edit · hist) (on Winston Churchill's address to the Canadian Parliament (1941)) was FfDed by Howardcorn33 (t · c); see discussion
- 07 Mar 2026 – File:Churchill adressing Canadian Parliament, 30 December 1941.jpg -- closeup.jpg (talk · edit · hist) (on Winston Churchill's address to the Canadian Parliament (1941)) was FfDed by Howardcorn33 (t · c); see discussion
- 28 Feb 2026 – File:The Magnificent Eleven - First Five.jpg (talk · edit · hist) (on The Magnificent Eleven) was FfDed by Based5290 (t · c); see discussion
- 30 Jan 2026 – File:Beaune-la-Rolande Transfer List 19 August 1942 ADLoiret 175W34121.jpg (talk · edit · hist) (on Beaune-la-Rolande internment camp) was FfDed by JayCubby (t · c); see discussion
- 28 Jan 2026 – File:John Logie Baird, 1st Image.jpg (talk · edit · hist) (on 1, 2, 3) was FfDed by Candidyeoman55 (t · c); see discussion
- 22 Jan 2026 – File:Zapluty karzel.jpg (talk · edit · hist) (on 1, 2, 3) was FfDed by JayCubby (t · c); see discussion
- 14 Jan 2026 – File:Lawrence Compton Bush Conant Compton Loomis 83d40m March 1940 meeting UCB.JPG (talk · edit · hist) (on 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6) was FfDed by Widgetkid (t · c); see discussion
Featured article candidates
- 21 Feb 2026 – Ruby Loftus Screwing a Breech-ring (talk · edit · hist) was FA nominated by SchroCat (t · c); see discussion
- 26 Jan 2026 – Manhattan Project feed materials program (talk · edit · hist) was FA nominated by Hawkeye7 (t · c); see discussion
A-Class review
- undated – USS Anzio (CVE-57) (talk · edit · hist) was put up for A-Class review
- undated – Battle of 42nd Street (talk · edit · hist) was put up for A-Class review
- undated – Landing at Scarlet Beach (talk · edit · hist) was put up for A-Class review
Good article nominees
- 09 Mar 2026 – Mortimer War Memorial (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Usernameunique (t · c); start discussion
- 04 Mar 2026 – Malcolm Calder (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Zawed (t · c); start discussion
- 23 Feb 2026 – Sachio Ashida (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by ThaesOfereode (t · c); start discussion
- 15 Jan 2026 – Mihir K. Roy (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Zwerubae (t · c); see discussion
- 10 Jan 2026 – Type IX submarine (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Klutserke (t · c); start discussion
- 29 Dec 2025 – The Monuments Men (book) (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by DrOrinScrivello (t · c); start discussion
- 24 Sep 2025 – AB-Aktion (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Daniel Case (t · c); see discussion
- 03 Sep 2025 – Mordechai Schlein (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by The Blue Rider (t · c); start discussion
Featured article reviews
- 10 Jan 2026 – Douglas MacArthur (talk · edit · hist) was put up for FA review by Z1720 (t · c); see discussion
Good article reassessments
- 11 Mar 2026 – Japanese battleship Kirishima (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for GA reassessment by Z1720 (t · c); see discussion
- 11 Mar 2026 – Battle of Kursk (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for GA reassessment by Z1720 (t · c); see discussion
Requests for comments
- 18 Feb 2026 – Joseph Stalin (talk · edit · hist) has an RfC by Absolutiva (t · c); see discussion
Requested moves
- 10 Mar 2026 – Lord Mountbatten (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma by Keivan.f (t · c); see discussion
- 10 Mar 2026 – Operation Rentier (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Operation Renntier by EdJohnston (t · c); see discussion
- 05 Mar 2026 – Angus Lewis Macdonald (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Angus L. Macdonald by Carguychris (t · c); see discussion
- 22 Feb 2026 – Fritz Schmidt (Generalkommissar) (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Fritz Schmidt (officer) by BarrelProof (t · c); see discussion
- 11 Mar 2026 – Korea under Japanese rule (talk · edit · hist) move request to Korea (Japanese colony) by Wasting time is still my passion (t · c) was not moved; see discussion
- 01 Mar 2026 – Waffen-SS in popular culture (talk · edit · hist) move request to Waffen-SS revisionism by NeuroJasper (t · c) was moved to Waffen-SS revisionism (talk · edit · hist) by LuniZunie (t · c) on 09 Mar 2026; see discussion
Articles to be merged
- 25 Feb 2026 – Ward Boston (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to USS Liberty incident by ScrubbedFalcon (t · c); see discussion
- 11 Jan 2026 – Friedrich Krupp Germaniawerft (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft by ~2025-32936-59 (t · c); see discussion
Articles to be split
- 01 Nov 2025 – R. Peter Straus (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by 174.251.64.115 (t · c); see discussion
- 31 Jul 2025 – Joseph J. Kruzel (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by DutchTreat (t · c); see discussion
- 15 May 2025 – Type B ship (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by 65.92.246.77 (t · c); see discussion
- 11 Apr 2025 – Japanese occupation of West Sumatra (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Kaliper1 (t · c); see discussion
- 18 Oct 2024 – Litene (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Piotrus (t · c); see discussion
- 05 Oct 2024 – Francoist Spain (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Salmoonlight (t · c); see discussion
- 28 Mar 2024 – Submarine (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by StefenTower (t · c); see discussion
- 02 Oct 2023 – Selbstschutz (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by +JMJ+ (t · c); see discussion
- 28 May 2023 – 8th Special Operations Squadron (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Felix QW (t · c); see discussion
- 12 Feb 2023 – French Resistance (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Fred Gandt (t · c); see discussion
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Articles for creation
- 12 Mar 2026 – Draft:Walter Boston Stitt, Jr. (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by NANDtrocity (t · c)
- 20 Feb 2026 – Draft:Zenon Jachymek (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by AverageHistoryGuy (t · c)
Resources
- Internal
- Glossary of German WWII military terms
- List of equipment used in World War II
- List of World War II electronic warfare equipment
- World War II photos on Commons
- Imperialism and world wars on meta
- Australia
- Australian Second World War Official Histories, Australian War Memorial
- United States
- U.S. Army Institute of Heraldry
- U.S. Army Center of Military History
- 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
- ORDER OF BATTLE OF THE UNITED STATES ARMY; WORLD WAR II: EUROPEAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS: DIVISIONS
- Combined Arms research library
- British Pathé news archives
- The Official Chronology of the U.S. Navy in World War II
- OPNAV 29-P1000 (Revised APRIL 1949) U.S. Navy Abbreviations of World War II
- World War II Armed Forces: Orders of Battle and Organizations
- U.S. Merchant Marine in World War II
- Germany
- U.S. War Department Technical Manual;March 15, 1945; TM - E30-451: Handbook on German Military Forces; 1939 - 1945; Republished 1990 by Louisiana State University Press. Document in Public Domain EXCEPT for new material added by LSU Press. ISBN 0-8071-2011-1
- British War Office, 1944/US War Department 1944. German Order Of Battle: 1944; Republished 1994; Greenhill Books, Lionel Leventhal LTD, Britain/Stackpole Books/USA; Under Crown Copyright in Britain; In Public Domain EXCEPT for new material in USA. ISBN 1-85367-170-3
- Japanese
- Japanese army operations in the South Pacific Area, translated by Steven Bullard, Australian War Memorial
- Miscellaneous
- Reid, Patrick R. Colditz and The Latter Days. Illustrated by John Watton. ISBN 0340386312.
- Chancellor, Henry. Colditz: The Definitive History. ISBN 0-06-001286-2.