Including the United States Coast Guard, which operates as part of the Navy during wartime.

[Titles in bold face are those definitely planned for phase one of this project: the Pacific Theater of Operations. Phase two will finish the war with Japan, covering the China-Burma-India Theater of Operations. If I live that long, phase three will then cover the European Theater of Operations. However, "targets of opportunity" may result in early inclusion of some material.]

• U.S. Governmant Manual, 1945--The Navy Department
• Administration of the Navy Department in World War II

All U.S. Navy vessel types. Giving naming conventions and links to lists of all ships for each type--which list ships by classes, with descriptions and links to pages for individual ships--giving profile, characteristics, history, and photographs of the ship.

• The Java Sea Campaign, January--February 1942
• Early Raids in the Pacific Ocean, 1 February--10 March 1942
• The Battle of the Coral Sea, 4--8 May 1942
• The Battle of Midway, 3--6 June 1942
• The Landing in the Solomons, 7--8 August 1942
• The Battle of Savo Island, 9 August 1942
• The Battle of the Eastern Solomons, 23--25 August 1942
• Battle of Cape Esperance, 11 October 1942<
• Battle of Santa Cruz Islands, 26 October 1942
• The Landings in North Africa, November 1942
• Battle of Guadalcanal, 11--15 November 1942
• Miscellaneous Actions in the South Pacific, 8 August 1942--22 January 1943
• Battle of Tassafaronga, 30 November 1942
• Japanese Evacuation of Guadalcanal, 29 January--8 February 1943 (including loss of the Chicago)
• Bombardments of Munda and Vila-Stanmore, January--May 1943
• Operations in the New Georgia Area, 21 June--5 August 1943
• Kolombangara and Vella Lavella, 6 August--7 October 1943
• The Aleutians Campaign, June 1942--August 1943
• The Bougainville Landing and the Battle of Empress Augusta Bay, 27 0ct.-2 Nov. 1943
• The Sicilian Campaign, 10 July--17 August 1943

• Vol. I: The Battle of the Atlantic, September 1939--May 1943
• Vol. II: Operations in North African Waters, October 1942--June 1943
• Vol. III: The Rising Sun in the Pacific, 1931--April 1942
• Vol. IV: Coral Sea, Midway and Submarine Actions, May--August, 1942
• Vol. V: The Struggle for Guadalcanal, August 1942--February 1943
• Vol. VI: Breaking the Bismarcks Barrier, 22 July 1942--1 May 1944
• Vol. VII: Aleutians, Gilberts and Marshalls, June 1942--April 1944
• Vol. VIII: New Guinea and the Marianas, 1944
• Vol. IX: Sicily, Salerno and Anzio, 1943--1944
• Vol. X: The Battle of the Atlantic Won, May 1943--May 1945
• Vol. XI: The Invasion of France and Germany, 1944--1945
• Vol. XII: Leyte, June 1944--January 1945
• Vol. XIII: The Liberation of the Philippines, 1944--1945
• Vol. XIV: Victory in the Pacific
• Vol. XV: Supplement and General Index
  (See Ships of the U.S. Navy, 1940-1945 for the material presented in the first part of this volume)
• "Thoughts on Naval Strategy, World War II", Samuel Eliot Morison [Naval War College Review, March 1968:3-10; repr. Winter 1998:58-66]

• Administration of the Navy Department in World War II
  by Rear Adm. Julius Augustus Furer, USN (Retired) A one-volume condensed (1000 pages) history based on the individual histories included in:
• Guide to United States Naval Administrative Histories of World War II
• Pearl Harbor: Why, How, Fleet Salvage and Final Appraisal
  by Vice Admiral Homer N. Wallin, USN (Ret.)

• The Amphibians Came To Conquer: The Story of Admiral Richmond Kelly Turner
  by Vice Adm. George C. Dyer, USN (Retired)
• At Close Quarters: PT Boats in the United States Navy

• Beans, Bullets and Black Oil: The Story of Fleet Logistics Afloat in the Pacific During World War II,
  by Rear Adm. Worrall Reed Carter, USN (Retired)
  
• Ships, Salvage and the Sinews of War: The Story of Fleet Logistics Afloat in Atlantic and Mediterranean Waters During World War II by Rear Adm. Worral Reed Carter, USN and Rear Adm. Elmer Ellsworth Duvall, USN (Retired)
• Gray Steel and Black Oil: Fast Tankers and Replenishment at Sea in the U.S. Navy, 1912-1992, by Thomas Wildenberg

• From Dam Neck to Okinawa: A Memoir of Antiaircraft Training in World War II

• Naval Armed Guard:
  • UNITED STATES NAVAL ADMINISTRATION IN WORLD WAR II: Arming of Merchant Ships and Naval Armed Guard Service
  • UNITED STATES NAVAL ADMINISTRATION IN WORLD WAR II: History of the Naval Armed Guard Afloat, World War II
  • General Instructions for Commanding Officers of Naval Armed Guards on Merchant Ships, 1944 (OpNav 23L-2)
  • Wartime Instructions for United States Merchant Vessels (Cominch)
  • Historical Narrative of U.S. Naval Armed Guard Center Third Naval District, 20 May 1941 to June 1945
  • AntiSubmarine Warfare: Notes for the Use of Naval Armed Guards (ONI Publication No. 9, May 1917)
• Office of Naval Intelligence:
  • UNITED STATES NAVAL ADMINISTRATION IN WORLD WAR II: Office of Naval Intelligence
• Seabees:
  • Building the Navy's Bases in World War II

• Building the Navy's Bases in World War II: History of the Bureau of Yards and Docks and the Civil Engineer Corps, 1940-1946
• Pearl Harbor Navy Base
• Port Chicago Naval Ammunition Depot
• Naval Air Station Attu, Alaska

• Dictionary of American Naval Aviation Squadrons Volume 1 (VA, VAH, VAk, VAL, VAP, and VFA Squadrons
• Dictionary of American Aviation Squadrons Volume 2 (VP,VPB, VP(H) and VP(AM) Sauadrons)
• US Navy Patrol Squadrons
• Navy Target Kite Manual

• The Negro in the Navy in World War II
• Cryptologic Documents in the Collection of the Navy Department Library [A bibliography of cryptologic histories and records]
• Disposition of German Submarines in U.S. Custody at the end of World War II

• Ships of the U.S. Coast Guard in World War II
  All U.S. Coast Guard vessel types. Listing ships by type and class, with descriptions and links to pages for individual ships--giving profile, characteristics, history, and photographs of the ship.
• Coast Guard-Manned Naval Vessels in World War II
• United States Coast Guard Home Page
• From the U.S. Coast Guard Historian:
  • The Coast Guard at War
  • Coast Guard Units in Hawaii on December 7, 1941
  • The Coast Guard's Role in Hawaii During the Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor, 7 December 1941!
  • The Coast Guard and the North Atlantic Campaign in World War II
  • The Coast Guard and the Pacific War in World War II
  • Douglas Munro, the Coast Guard and the Guadalcanal Campaign
  • The Coast Guard and the Greenland Patrol
  • Coast Guard Captains of the Port
  • The U.S. Coast Guard at Normandy
  • The Coast Guard & the Women's Reserve in World War II
  • Beach Patrol and Corsair Fleet

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