Some online resources

[ichadwick]

For grognards, modders and scenario designers:

A chapter by the US Military (1945) on German unit tactics:

http://rhino.shef.ac.uk:3001/mr-home/hobbies/doctrine.txt

Initial Soviet forces in 1941:

http://rhino.shef.ac.uk:3001/mr-home/hobbies/barbaros.html

And more links listed here:

http://rhino.shef.ac.uk:3001/mr-home/hobbies/resource.html

US Military publications:

http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/online/Bookshelves/WW2-GerPer.htm

A collection of WW2 maps (not great images):

http://history.acusd.edu/gen/WW2Index/picindexmaps.html

and here:

http://www.usd230.k12.ks.us/PICTT/publications/maps/maps.html

and here:

http://home.clara.net/percy/resources.htm

Some interesting comments about controversies about the Eastern Front (no maps):

http://www.visi.com/~thornley/david/military/wwii/contost.html#history

Another page of resources including links to maps:

http://www.ku.edu/kansas/mil/ww2.html

and here:

http://www.teacheroz.com/WWIIEurope.htm

Some interesting hisotrical stuff on the war in the air from another gaming site:

http://www.il2center.com/technika/

Operation Bagration details:

http://call.army.mil/products/newsltrs/3-88/histp.htm

Jim Dunnigan's home page (the father of the modern wargame - no direct relation with CMBB but of interest to those of us who grew up with his games):

http://www.hyw.com/Books/WargamesHandbook/Contents.htm

The war history of Ilomantsi (Finland):

http://www.joensuu.fi/mekri/sotahistoria/warhistory.htm

I'll stop now, but if you want more, I'll provide links galore.

[Canon]

Great links Ian...thanks

Do you have any links for colour plates or photos of whitewashed German and Soviet armour?

Thanks

[Foxbat]

Great links, especially this one http://rhino.shef.ac.uk:3001/mr-home/hobbies/resource.html has a great selection of "suspect" articles from the Leavenworth "Sovietologists", quite a few subjects that you won't find described anywhere else.

[Ubertracker]

Winter clothing, armour links, some stuff on winter combat doctrine. Some also link to other sites or more pages within a site. Many images on several listed:

http://www.activevr.com/afv/camouflage.html

http://www.angelraybooks.com/diewehrmacht/gallery/f6.htm

http://www.battlefield.ru/t28.html

http://www.battlefield.ru/camo/camouflage.html

http://www.tridentmilitary.com/Soviet-WW2/camouflage-winter-clothing.html

http://www.military.cz/panzer/index_en.htm

Book review and here: Another review

http://www.aeronautics.ru/archive/wwii/books/panzertruppen/bw/web_gallery_bw/index_3.htm

http://www.aviapress.com/viewonekit.htm?OTH-114

http://www.sovietarmy.com/mirror/undertheredstar/border.htm

http://www.aviapress.com/viewonekit.htm?FRI-011

http://www-cgsc.army.mil/carl/resources/csi/Chew/CHEW.asp and http://www-cgsc.army.mil/carl/resources/csi/Sasso/SASSO.asp CGSC is a good resource site.

http://www.iremember.ru/artillerymen/lukinov/lukinov2.htm Soviet memoirs. Here too: http://www.iremember.ru/tankers/loza/loza1.html

http://www.clandavidsonusa.com/wac/panzergruppe/feb98/feb-apr98.htm Modelling site with some interesting pics.

http://www.adtdl.army.mil/ Generic stuff but some interesting items in the library.

http://www.tidal-w.com/toy/dragon/dragon_e.htm#2112 Toys - model kits that have some inetresting pieces like this one:

(see also http://www.tidal-w.com/news_e.htm)

[ichadwick]

Another map source. Not a lot of WW2 but there are links to a lot of later Soviet maps, some with considerable detail:

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/commonwealth.html