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World War II
World War II Research CDs
Unit Histories,
Documents, Monographs, Books and Reports
on CD
PDF Remastered and Keyword Searchable
Welcome to the home WorldWar2Files.com
where you can find PDF files of division
reports, histories, monographs, campaign
books, research guides and more, all available
on CD or by digital download.
This grouping of information
is for the World War 2 Researcher or Family
Member and is designed to be suitable both
as a Research Tool.
The goal here is to publish
a CD on each of the US divisions who were
in North Africa, Sicily, Italy, France,
Germany and the Netherlands, a CD on each
European campaign and major battle, and
then a CD on each of the Pacific Theater
divisions, campaigns and battles. If the
CD you are interested in isn't ready yet
send me an email to Hello@MtMestas.com .
I also sell these CDs internationally.
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PRODUCT DISCLAIMER
- PLEASE READ BEFORE BUYING
These are not DVDs. These
CDs contain PDF, HTM and TXT files that
you can view or read from your computer's
cd drive.
These World War II Research
CDs will get your started in your endeavor
to learn about World War II, however, files
like rosters, narratives and after action
reports, etc. of a World War II division
can be very scarce and rare for some divisions
in many cases, and so these CDs may not
include everything you might expect or want
to see on a research cd or may want to know
about a Division. Those files either did
not exist or were unavailable in the Public
Domain at the time this CD set was compiled.
Files copied from books
and the National Archives, etc., are "as
is" and may be incomplete or unreadable
in parts and generally, there are no better
source copies available.
The files are organized
for ease of use and mostly file named in
chronological order for quickly locating
a file. For example, a file name starting
with "4410-10" would be from 10
Oct 44. All of the files on the CDs are
listed on the CDs ClickMe.htm navigation
page shown below and the files are found
in their folders on the CDs. All of the
Pictures are embedded into the PDF files.
The IMAGES folders on the CDs contain the
few small JPG and GIF thumbnail images that
are part of the Navigation page and do not
enlarge and are not for viewing.
CD1 is more Division specific
and may contain historical narratives, daily
reports and rosters and monographs, etc.,
while CD 2 is usually more Campaign and
World War II general history focused and
may contain research guides and forms among
other things.
Please feel free to ask
any questions before ordering.
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