LINKS: For map makers and campaign & scenario designers

Post by **randowe** » 2019-09-21 19:15, Saturday

Table of contents

Map Resources - this post
Units, Weapons, Vehicles, OOB, other Information - second post

If you want to share useful links, please feel free to post an answer and we'll add your link to the lists.

Map Resources

WORLD WAR I
First Battle of Gaza 1917	http://mappery.com/map-of/First-Battle-of-Gaza-Map-1917
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WORLD WAR II
Wikipedia Maps of World War II	http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Categ ... rld_War_II
Celles Pocket	http://www.history.army.mil/books/wwii/ ... apVIII.jpg
Normandy I	http://broermapsonline.org/online/Europ ... ny_sm.html
Normandy II	http://broermapsonline.org/online/Europ ... po_sm.html
Military Maps of WWII (from narod.ru)	http://mapww2.narod.ru/
Stalingrad to Berlin	http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USA/USA ... html#index
German Eastern Front Situation Maps, 1941-45	http://www.gutenberg-e.org/esk01/eskmap.html
Onwar - Strategic maps	https://www.onwar.com/wwii/maps/index.html
Armchair general- EF & Far East maps	http://www.armchairgeneral.com/rkkaww2/ ... raphic.htm
German records	http://www.sturmpanzer.com/Default.aspx ... em=1&sec=1
WW2 Areal photos and maps (FTP Server)	http://wwii-microfilm.blogspot.com/
Czechoslovak 1930's fortification system	http://mapa.opevneni.cz/
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OTHER
University of Texas Library	http://lib.utexas.edu/maps/
Brandenburg, Neumark	http://brandenburg.rz.htw-berlin.de/neumark.html
Central and Eastern Europe	http://mapywig.org/
Poland	http://igrek.amzp.pl/mapindex.php?cat=WIG100
Emerson Kent World History	http://www.emersonkent.com/maps_by_year_from_1939.htm
CIA World map - altitude focus	https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wo ... _large.jpg
Westpoint Atlases	https://westpoint.edu/academics/academi ... ry/atlases
David Rumsey Map Collection	https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/RUMSEY~8~1
ontheworldmap	http://ontheworldmap.com/
kolamap (russian language only)	http://kolamap.ru/index.html
Lithuanian maps	http://www.lithuanianmaps.com/
Old maps online	https://www.oldmapsonline.org/
russian maps 1917 - 1945 (russian language only)	http://rkka.ru/imaps.htm
Modern and historic maps of the USA	https://ngmdb.usgs.gov/topoview/viewer/
historic russian maps (russian language only)	http://retromap.ru

Post by **randowe** » 2019-09-23 12:58, Monday

★ ★ ★
Units, Weapons, Vehicles, OOB, other Information

ALL NATIONS
Fighting Ships of the world	http://www.navypedia.org/
WWII OOB and Organization	http://www.niehorster.org/index.htm
Eastern Europe Wars 1918 - 1923	http://pygmy-wars.50megs.com/pygmywars.com/index.html
Vietnam War	http://www.tom.pilsch.com/Vietnam.html
Forgotten Airfields in Europe	https://www.forgottenairfields.com/
Nafziger OOB Collection 1600 - 1945	https://www.alternatewars.com/CARL/Nafgizer_CARL.htm
World War Weapons, Diary, Armies, History, Pictures	https://ww2-weapons.com/
World War 1 and the Colonial Wars	http://www.kaiserscross.com/
Trucks of the World 1900 - 2020	https://www.trucksplanet.com/
WWII Ballistics Calculator	http://www.wwiiequipment.com/pencalc/
Military History Encyclopedia	http://www.historyofwar.org/
Generals of WW2	http://www.generals.dk/
WW2 database (with various articles)	https://ww2db.com/
Armed Conflict Events Data (e.g. WW2 day by day chronology)	https://www.onwar.com/index.html#gsc.tab=0
Stalingrad Database	http://staldata.com/
The Battle for Stalingrad	https://stalingrad.net/
Encyclopedia of Armaments of WW2 (polish language only)	http://www.dws-xip.pl/encyklopedia/
Cold War Airfields	https://www.mil-airfields.de/index-en.html
WWII Tactical and Technical Trends 1942 - 1945	https://www.lonesentry.com/intelbulletin/tt_trends.html
Landships, tanks, SPG, armoured cars and tractors of WWI	http://www.landships.info/landships/index.html
Axis History Forum	https://forum.axishistory.com/
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ARGENTINA
Argentina 1806 - 1982	http://www.militariarg.com/
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AUSTRALIA
Australia, New Zealand & Papua Military Aircraft	http://www.adf-serials.com.au/home.htm
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AUSTRIA-HUNGARY
Austria-Hungary's Last War, 1914-1918 (book)	http://www.comroestudios.com/StanHanna/
Austria-Hungarian Land Forces	http://www.austro-hungarian-army.co.uk/
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BELGIUM
Belgian Air Force 1909 - today	https://www.belgian-wings.be/
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BRAZIL
Artillery, Vehicles and Planes of Brazil (portuguese language only)	https://www.armasnacionais.com/
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BULGARIA
Bulgarian Artillery 1878 - 1918	https://www.bulgarianartillery.it/
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CANADA
organization, vehicles, weapons, uniforms of Canada 1900 - 2000	http://www.canadiansoldiers.com/index.htm
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CUBA
Cuban Aviation	http://www.urrib2000.narod.ru/index-e.html
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DENMARK
Danish Army vehicles 1909 - today	http://www.armyvehicles.dk/
Danish Army on April 9th, 1940 (PDF, 20mb)	https://www.chakoten.dk/The%20Danish%20 ... mplete.pdf
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FINLAND
Finnish Army 1918 - 1945	https://www.jaegerplatoon.net/
Finnish wartime photo archive	http://sa-kuva.fi/
Winter War	https://www.talvisota.fi/en/the-winter-war/
Finnish Military / Finnish Defence Forces in WW II	http://www.geocities.ws/finnmilpge/fmp_main.html
The Battles of the Winter War	https://www.winterwar.com/mainpage.htm
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FRANCE
France 1940	http://france1940.free.fr/en_index.html#Army
French tanks and armored cars 1915 - 2008 (french language only)	http://www.chars-francais.net/2015/
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GERMANY
German units and OOB (german language)	http://www.lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de/
German trucks, cars and vehicles of WWII	http://www.kfzderwehrmacht.de/
The Luftwaffe, 1933-45	https://www.ww2.dk/
Luftwaffe Airfields 1935 - 1945	https://www.ww2.dk/lwairfields.html
German Submarines of WWI and WWII	https://uboat.net/
German Navy of WWI and WWII	https://www.german-navy.de/information/index.html
Beutepanzer, captured tanks and guns in german use	http://beutepanzer.ru/
German abbreviations	http://www.70nord.de/Abkuerzungen.html
Original german WW2 documents (german, russian language)	https://germandocsinrussia.org/de/nodes ... kollektsiy
German Schnellboote, MTB, Fast Attack Craft; 1916 - today	http://s-boot.net/index-english.html
Engines, tanks, trucks, vehicles of the Wehrmacht	https://www.o5m6.de/wehrmacht/index.php
Aces of the Luftwaffe	http://www.luftwaffe.cz/
Fortress Norway, German coastal defense in Norway	http://www.nuav.net/festnorw.html
Organisation of the Wehrmacht (german language)	http://www.wwiidaybyday.com/
Deutsches Afrikakorps (through web archive; german language)	https://web.archive.org/web/20140819212 ... -korps.de/
U-Boat Warfare, War Diaries, Documents, Photography	https://www.uboatarchive.net/
Deutsche Geschichte 1919 -1945 (german language)	https://balsi.de/
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ITALY
Italy in WW2	https://comandosupremo.com/
Piave front in WW1 (italian language)	http://www.frontedelpiave.info/
Dolomites front in WW1 (italian language)	https://www.frontedolomitico.it/index.html
List of Italian artillery in service 1940 as well as captured artillery	http://xoomer.virgilio.it/ramius/Milita ... e_2gm.html
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JAPAN
Imperial Japanese Army, Vehicles, Artillery, Small Arms	http://www3.plala.or.jp/takihome/
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NETHERLANDS
Royal Netherlands Navy Warships of WWII	https://www.netherlandsnavy.nl/
War over Holland 1940	http://www.waroverholland.nl/
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NEW ZEALAND
Official History of New Zealand in WW2	http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarl ... s-WH2.html
28th Maori Battalion	https://28maoribattalion.org.nz/
Australia, New Zealand & Papua Military Aircraft	http://www.adf-serials.com.au/home.htm
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NORWAY
Norway 1940	https://web.archive.org/web/20110605100 ... index.html
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PORTUGAL
Portugal in WW2	https://pea2agm.blogspot.com/
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ROMANIA
The Romanian Royal Army	http://www.geocities.ws/dangrecu/index-2.html
Romanian Army in WWII	http://www.worldwar2.ro/
Romanian Air Force WWII	http://www.geocities.ws/huzumstreza/
Encyclopedia of Romanian Artillery (pdf, romanian language)	https://rft.forter.ro/biblioteca-virtua ... om%C3%A2ne
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RUSSIA
Russian Civil War Polities	https://www.worldstatesmen.org/Russia_war.html
Axis tanks in Red Army	http://wio.ru/tank/capt/capt.htm
Engines, tanks, trucks, vehicles of the Red Army	https://www.o5m6.de/redarmy/index.php
Soviet OOBs (russian language)	http://www.teatrskazka.com/Raznoe/
Russian Military History	https://marksrussianmilitaryhistory.info/
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SWEDEN
Swedish Military History	http://www.hhogman.se/military.htm
Swedish Aviation	http://www.avrosys.nu/aircraft/index.htm
Swedish tanks and armoured cars (swedish language)	https://www.sphf.se/
Swedish artillery 1800 - 2000 (pdf) (swedish language)	https://www.sfhm.se/contentassets/84a6e ... 0-2000.pdf
Radar stations on Gotland 1952 - 2000 (swedish language)	https://www.aef.se/Marktele/Artiklar/Go ... c264919822
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SWITZERLAND
Swiss military vehicles and artillery, AD guns (german language)	https://militaerfahrzeuge.ch/
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TURKEY
Turkey during WW2	https://www.militaryimages.net/threads/ ... wwii.9569/
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UNITED KINGDOM
British Artillery in WW2	http://nigelef.tripod.com/index.htm
Royal Air Force Recce Units	https://web.archive.org/web/20100218102 ... s/RAF.html
Crossley Military Vehicles 1919-1945	http://www.crossley-motors.org.uk/history/military.html
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USA
Abandoned & Little-Known Airfields in the USA	http://www.airfields-freeman.com/index.htm
US Army Center of Military History	https://history.army.mil/
The Civil War	http://www.sonofthesouth.net/
The US Automobile Industry in WW2	https://usautoindustryworldwartwo.com/index.htm
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YUGOSLAVIA
World War 2 in Yugoslavia	http://www.vojska.net/eng/world-war-2/introduction/
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Post by **Wonderdoctor** » 2019-09-23 17:42, Monday

The complete Nafziger collection

https://www.alternatewars.com/CARL/Nafgizer_CARL.htm

Post by **randowe** » 2019-09-23 18:53, Monday

Wonderdoctor wrote: The complete Nafziger collection

https://www.alternatewars.com/CARL/Nafgizer_CARL.htm

Added for ALL NATIONS, second table

Post by **randowe** » 2019-10-20 09:21, Sunday

Added the following links:

russian maps 1917 - 1941 (russian language only)
This site is in russian language aonly but it is possible to navigate by year and date. Maybe people who speak russian can find some other useful informations on that site? I don't know.

World War Weapons, Diary, Armies, History, Pictures
This site gives an general overview about various topics related to both world wars. But more on WWII though.

Norway 1940
This is a web archive mirror of one of the best (if not the best) site about the norwegian army in 1940. The original site is down now, but the web archive mirror works as well, as far as i have tested.

France 1940
This site offers the complete OOB for the French Army in 1940. It even shows the OOB of the overseas units, like the units in Indochina. There are other useful informations about the French Army as well.
But unfortunately most of the other links for other nations are broken. I still consider this a useful site because of the informations about the french army.

Austria-Hungary's Last War, 1914-1918 (book)
A book about Austria-Hungary in WWI. Urica posted this link in the Alpenkorps thread at JP's and i think it can be useful. It also offer some great maps.

Kaisercross
Offer information about: "World War 1 and the Colonial Wars in the period leading up to World War 2" Posted by Jurgen in the same Alpenkorp thread at JP's.

EDIT: WW2 Areal photos and maps, this site is down at the moment, but the ftp server is still up and i am downloading in this moment.

Post by **randowe** » 2019-11-05 19:20, Tuesday

Added a link about the military of Argentina which i think can be very useful. At least it was useful for me

There are also lots of photos too.

Post by **randowe** » 2020-02-18 21:42, Tuesday

Added the following links to the second table:

- Swedish Military History
- Swedish Aviation
- Cuban Aviation
- Trucks of the World
- World War 2 in Yugoslavia (site is very slow, but offers some good informations)

Revised the following link:

- Imperial Japanese Army

Post by **randowe** » 2020-04-01 20:01, Wednesday

Added the following links to the second table:

- WWII Ballistics Calculator - choose gun and target and the calculator will create a chart with informations of target penetration/destruction (probability). You can also follow a link to the main page which offers some informations about British equipment.

- Military History Encyclopedia - website with a truckload of articles, pictures, maps, etc...

- Generals of WW2 - short biographical sketches about 28000 generals of WW2

Post by **randowe** » 2020-06-25 09:04, Thursday

Added the following links to the second table:

Various

- World War II Database: Site with various articles about events, battles and equipment of WW2. There are photos and documents as well, as well as a "today in history" and "todays WW2 news" sections.

Germany

- Beutepanzer: captured tanks in german use. Lots of photos. There is also a useful table about the german designations of captured artillery and small arms.
- German WW2 documents: A site with tons of scanned original german wartime documents, such as divisional war diaries and much more (german and russian language only)
- German abbreviations: long and detailed list of german (WW2 military) abbreviations.

Italy

- Comando Supremo: a site with various articles, OOBs, biographies and informatios on armament and vehicles of Italy in WW2
- Il fronte dolomitico: The dolomites front in WW1 (italian language only)
- Fronte del Piave: The Piave front in WW1 (italian language only)

EDIT, i forgot:

Austro-Hungary

- Austro-Hungarian Land Forces 1848-1918. Pretty good informations on many aspects of the Austro-Hungarian Land Forces, like detailed OOBs, unit history and much more. There are also some translations for hungarian military terms and an other table with abbreviations.

Post by **randowe** » 2020-07-01 20:17, Wednesday

Dunno if someone cares

, but i just checked some sites and found out that: WW2 Areal photos and maps (FTP Server) website is down. But the blog is still up and i changed the link in the first table accordingly. Although it seems you have to contact j c calvin for login data now if you are a new user. The FTP server is still working, i downloaded Poland '39 situation maps few days ago.

Golothin · Post by **Golothin** » 2020-10-03 14:47, Saturday

Best site for Soviet OOBs I know. In Russian, but with Chrome ect. no problem.

http://www.teatrskazka.com/Raznoe/

Post by **randowe** » 2020-10-03 15:39, Saturday

Golothin wrote: ↑2020-10-03 14:47, Saturday Best site for Soviet OOBs I know. In Russian, but with Chrome ect. no problem.

http://www.teatrskazka.com/Raznoe/

Added to the second table. Thanks for the link

I also added a link to a site about German Schnellboote, MTB, captured MTB, Fast Attack Craft, etc. from 1916 - today.

Post by **randowe** » 2020-10-27 16:51, Tuesday

While i was looking for the Latin Generals website i checked old links and some of the PG2 sites shared some useful links too. Some links are dead after all the years, some are already part of our link collection and 4 links added to the second table today:

- The official history of New Zealand in WW2
- French tanks and armored cars 1915 - 2008
- Armed Conflict Events Data (WW2 day by day chronology)
- British Artillery in WW2

Post by **randowe** » 2020-11-07 10:18, Saturday

Added to the second table:

Danisch military vehicles 1909 - today - the website looks simple but provides excellent infomation about all? vehicles in Danish military service.
Danish Army on April 9th, 1940 - A PDF about the danish army and fighting on the day of the german invasion.
Swiss military vehicles, guns - A good site about vehicles in Swiss Army service as well as artillery and AD guns.

(Maybe i should put the second table into alphabetical order since the table becomes larger, but the table looks so complicated itself (see it when klick on quote the first post) that i am not sure if i want to do it

)

Post by **randowe** » 2020-11-23 18:28, Monday

I added the homesite of the Luftwaffe website to the second table, as mentioned in the other thread.

I also added a website about "Abandoned & Little-Known Airfields in the USA". That site was very useful when i desigend the Brunswick (Savannah) map recently.

Post by **randowe** » 2020-12-29 22:02, Tuesday

Maybe i am the only one who uses the links, but...

Added to the second table:

- Swedish tanks and armoured cars
- Bulgarian Artillery 1878 - 1918
- organization, vehicles, weapons, uniforms of Canada 1900 - 2000

Post by **randowe** » 2021-01-12 14:42, Tuesday

Added the following links to the second table:

All nations:
- THE BATTLE FOR STALINGRAD, 19 August 1942 - 2 February 1943
- Stalingrad Database. This site shows, inter alia, a interactive map with the positions of the units at the start of Uranus.

New Zealand:
- 28th Maori Battalion

Sweden:
- Swedish artillery 1800 - 2000. The pdf file is in swedish language but you will find data on every artillery piece in swedish service.

Italy:
- List of Italian artillery in service 1940 and a list with captured artillery used by Italy

Post by **randowe** » 2021-02-04 22:13, Thursday

Added the following links to the second table:

- US Army Center of Military History - Most notably: download 600 books and historical studies in pdf format -> publications -> CMH publications catalog

- The Civil War - original Civil War resources, most notably: Harper's Weekly (magazine) with war time battle reports and drawings.

Post by **randowe** » 2021-04-12 14:39, Monday

I finaly put the second table into alphabetical order. All Nations still on top though

I also added one link about soviet engines, tanks, vehicles. Then there is a new link (for all nations) of a polish "Encyclopedia of Armaments of the Second World War", which i found to be very useful. The site is in polish language only.

Post by **randowe** » 2021-04-12 14:40, Monday

Double post

[Edit: found (and added to the table) a site with drawings and information on german and italian engines, tanks, vehicles, etc.... from the same author like the soviet site. ]

sympatyk · Post by **sympatyk** » 2021-04-12 21:50, Monday

Thank you for your great job and for collecting all this information.

Post by **randowe** » 2021-04-13 16:06, Tuesday

Yeah thanks

But i think i am my best customer myself

I have another one and maybe someone who speaks russian can check this out. There are many books for download. Don't know if it is legal

http://prussia.online

There are also german language books or english books or articles like this one:

http://prussia.online/Data/Book/ru/russ ... -1930-2000

So i will not add this one to the lists for now.

sympatyk · Post by **sympatyk** » 2021-04-13 19:55, Tuesday

A very interesting site
Is it legal?
I would be more wondering what you will download -> you don't know who it belongs to (only electronic form and no name)

You download legally (I haven't tried)
But do they - operate legally?

You talked about linking to your backgrounds -> maybe this thread is better to post here

Post by **randowe** » 2021-04-13 20:23, Tuesday

sympatyk wrote: ↑2021-04-13 19:55, Tuesday A very interesting site
Is it legal?
I would be more wondering what you will download -> you don't know who it belongs to (only electronic form and no name)

You download legally (I haven't tried)
But do they - operate legally?

Yes, that is the question. For some old documents the copyright is expired but more modern ones... The website says:

Information for copyright holders

All texts displayed in the library are taken from open sources or sent by readers.

In the event that you are the owner of exclusive property rights, including:
- the exclusive right to reproduce;
- the exclusive right to distribution;
- the exclusive right to public display;
- the exclusive right to communicate to the public
and your rights are violated in one way or another by using this site, please let us know using the form below.

I mean, there are many sites where you can download old books but this site

Better dismiss it.

sympatyk wrote: ↑2021-04-13 19:55, Tuesday You talked about linking to your backgrounds -> maybe this thread is better to post here

I want to post little pictures (400x400) and when you click on them, you get to the big picture. This thread is not the right place i think.
I guess i will post it in my own map thread. Although i think nobody reads that once it gets buried in the forum

Post by **randowe** » 2021-04-21 21:06, Wednesday

Added to the second table:

- website about the Lufwaffe aces with detailed infos on many aces and theatres like The Battle of Britain, etc...
- site about the Finnish Forces in WW2 with very good infos on many different topics

Post by **randowe** » 2021-04-25 22:04, Sunday

Added to the second table:

- swedish radar stations on gotland 1952 - 2000
- german coastal defense in norway "fortress norway", and Petsamo, Finland
- organisation of the wehrmacht. Most importantly the "Kriegsstärkennachweise" for single units with exact number of men and equipment.
- Royal Air Force Recce Units, through web.archive
- For all nations: Cold War Airfields
- For all nations: US ARMY WW2 wartime publication "tactical and technical trends" If you go back to the main site, you will find more articles and stuff.

Post by **Wonderdoctor** » 2021-04-26 09:35, Monday

randowe wrote: ↑2021-04-25 22:04, Sunday Added to the second table:
- For all nations: Cold War Airfields

Thanks! This is where I was stationed at the end of the cold war: https://www.mil-airfields.de/germany/aa ... field.html

Post by **randowe** » 2021-04-27 23:16, Tuesday

Wonderdoctor wrote: ↑2021-04-26 09:35, Monday
randowe wrote: ↑2021-04-25 22:04, Sunday Added to the second table:
- For all nations: Cold War Airfields
Thanks! This is where I was stationed at the end of the cold war: https://www.mil-airfields.de/germany/aa ... field.html

So you were in the Belgian Air Force at that time? Or what units used that airfield?

Added a link to a site about the romanian air force the second table. I have some problems with overlapping texts being displayed but the site offers some interesting information

Post by **Wonderdoctor** » 2021-04-28 13:52, Wednesday

So you were in the Belgian Air Force at that time? Or what units used that airfield?

Small airfield - just the 18th Escadrille army light aviation, flying Alouette II. They switched to the anti-tank version of the Agusta 109 later.

Post by **randowe** » 2021-09-09 13:47, Thursday

I guess i am the only one who frequently uses the link-lists and so i added some more of my links (so i can clean my browser's bookmarks

)
I also reorganized the lists and shiftet the second one to the second post because the opening post was getting longer and longer and i don't know the maximum legth of a post.

I added following links to the second table:

All Nations - Landships, tanks, SPG, armoured cars and tractors of WWI
Australia - Australia, New Zealand & Papua Military Aircraft
New Zealand - Australia, New Zealand & Papua Military Aircraft
Germany - Deutsches Afrikakorps (through web archive; german language)
Russia - Russian Military History (link once sent to me by Para

)
United Kingdom - Crossley Military Vehicles 1919-1945
Netherlands - Royal Netherlands Navy Warships of WWII

[EDIT: typo]

Post by **randowe** » 2021-10-11 16:35, Monday

Added three links that helped me to learn about WW2 equipment of Finland, Netherlands and Portugal

Post by **randowe** » 2021-10-13 20:44, Wednesday

Added a good link about the Belgian Air Force and a link leading to a encyclopedia of Romanian artillery.

Post by **randowe** » 2021-12-26 17:35, Sunday

Added a link about Brazilian equipment to the second table.

Alberich · Post by **Alberich** » 2022-07-02 00:41, Saturday

To create maps for Open General, you can of course use various maps, be it historical or publicly available such as google maps. But I would like to show you two pages that are not listed in the resource links: viewtopic.php?p=110#p110.

The first page is topoView - https://ngmdb.usgs.gov/topoview/viewer/ - a page with maps of the USA and where you can also find historical maps of these areas.
The other site is the Russian Retromap - http://retromap.ru - to which I want to devote more attention.

In this post I provide general information about what you can find and what the tools are. In the next post, I will present various examples of the available maps broken down into details and the extent of the map coverage.

General view with a short description:

I - current map
II - labels of the current map
III - other maps to choose from, interactive bar based on location
IV - zoom in, zoom out, current zoom level
V - work with different modes

You can enlarge the screen by clicking on it, then it will open in a new tab.

[url=http://www.opengeneral.pl/upload/retro_tryb1.png][img width=650]http://www.opengeneral.pl/upload/retro_tryb1.png[/img][/url]

Here you can see a tab for working with different modes:

[url=http://www.opengeneral.pl/upload/retro_tryb2.png][img width=650]http://www.opengeneral.pl/upload/retro_tryb2.png[/img][/url]

Inversion mode:

[url=http://www.opengeneral.pl/upload/retro_tryb3.png][img width=650]http://www.opengeneral.pl/upload/retro_tryb3.png[/img][/url]

Black and white mode:

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Light mode 1:

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Light mode 2:

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Turning off transparency (0% level) will give us a view to the second map here Open Streen Standart Map:

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Of course, the second map can also to be set on your own chosen map:

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Both maps can be set with different modes and transparency:

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For example, black and white 25% transparency and the other set to inversion:

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Alberich · Post by **Alberich** » 2022-07-02 00:42, Saturday

Post by **randowe** » 2022-07-02 02:31, Saturday

Alberich wrote: ↑2022-07-02 00:41, Saturday To create maps for Open General, you can of course use various maps, be it historical or publicly available such as google maps. But I would like to show you two pages that are not listed in the resource links: viewtopic.php?p=110#p110.

The first page is topoView - https://ngmdb.usgs.gov/topoview/viewer/ - a page with maps of the USA and where you can also find historical maps of these areas.
The other site is the Russian Retromap - http://retromap.ru - to which I want to devote more attention.

Thank you

I'll add the links tomorrow

I know about retromap but for some reason never added it to the list

May i ask you to remove all the pictures and/or transfer them to a seperate thread if you want to keep them?
The file size of all files is very big and it took me several minutes to load the thread.
When posting pictures it is best to post jpg and reduce file size as much as possible imo.
While i type this all pictures have to be loaded again and everything is slow. But maybe that is just my connection

[EDIT: the thread is very slow for me and i can not work on it at the moment. I will try again tonight to add the links]

Post by **randowe** » 2022-09-14 19:05, Wednesday

Added two links, metioned by Parabellum, to the second table:
- Axis History Forum, probably the most extensive WW2 forum on the internet.
- And a site about German History 1919 - 1945 with detailed information about units, equipment and lots of other information (german language only)

Post by **randowe** » 2022-09-14 19:12, Wednesday

Alberich wrote: ↑2022-07-02 00:41, Saturday To create maps for Open General, you can of course use various maps, be it historical or publicly available such as google maps.
[...]

Hello Alberich, i would like to kindly ask you again if it is possible to remove all the map pictures from this thread? If you want to keep the pictures you may open a new thread or use one of the map threads.

Opening this thread and loading all the maps may take some time for visitors and some of the file sizes are quite big. Overall its 70+mb or something like this. Imo this thread should be about the link tables only and it would be easier and faster to operate.

Post by **randowe** » 2022-10-14 17:21, Friday

I will step down from the maintenance of this thread. Most of the time i am using a portable webstick (with limited data) on my laptop and pc, and i don't want to load all the pictures in this thread every time i visit it. And i frequently visit it and use the links! So i will copy everything i need to my efile thread.
Sorry, but asked 2 times, in September and July, if it is possible to put the pictures into an other thread but got no reaction.
I don't know if it is technically possible for someone else to take over this thread...

Post by **LuisGuzman** » 2022-10-14 18:11, Friday

I've disabled the BBCodes for those 2 post from Alberich, so the info is yet there, but anyone can browse faster over them.
Hope it will help

Post by **randowe** » 2022-10-14 21:56, Friday

LuisGuzman wrote: ↑2022-10-14 18:11, Friday I've disabled the BBCodes for those 2 post from Alberich, so the info is yet there, but anyone can browse faster over them.
Hope it will help

Thank you very much

Thread is super fast now.

[EDIT: Added a link to a forum post about Turkey with very good information.
Unfortunately the Texas University map collection is archived and not updated anymore. Some maps are not available anymore already. It was the best map collection on the internet by far imo.]