Casemate Publishing

341 Pages

Leading military historian and researcher, Jonathan Gawne, explains and shares the techniques he uses to research archives, libraries, veteran associations and myriad other sources of information to track down the wartime career of an individual. The author describes this as “What I did, and what you can do to find out what ‘he’ did in the army.”

I found a copy at my local Barnes and Noble. It’s also available at Amazon.com.

Published in 1998 by Barnes and Noble Books

220 pages, list price: 24.95

This is a superb reference book detailing the organization, structure, and equipment of the US Army during WWII.

Please note that since this volume is published by Barnes and Noble, that’s probably the only place you’ll find it. You can also order it online .

Osprey Publishing

Published in 2007

296 pages

This survey of WWII soldier slang is broken into three sections: US Army and Marine Corps slang, British Commonwealth army slang, and German army slang.

Available through bookstores.