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Fires and Firefighting in World War II
This web page highlights materials relating to fires and firefighting operations arising from aerial bombing in the Second World War.
General: titles relating to WWII fire experiences
- Fire and the air war: Item description | Full report
- Report - Fire spread in urban areas : Item description | Full report
- Report - Fire effects of bombing attacks : Item description | Full report
- Book - Firefighting during World War II : Item description |
- Article - Fire effects of non-nuclear bombs: Full article |
- Article - Wartime fire fighting : Item description |
- Report - Deaths from fire in large scale air attack - with special reference to the Hamburg fire storm : Item description |
- Article - WWII European firefighters heroic against fire bombing : Full article
- Article - Learning to burn down cities : Full article
Germany
- Report - Fire fighting operations in Hamburg, Germany during World War II: excerpts from the Hamburg Fire Department documents on the air attacks during World War II, Appendixes 3,4,5, and photographs – Item Description | Full report
- Report - Appendixes 1 through 7 to the Hamburg Police president's report on the large scale air attacks on Hamburg, Germany in World War II : Item description | Full report
- Report - Appendixes 8 through 9 to the Hamburg police president's report on the large scale air attacks on Hamburg, Germany in World War II : Item description
- Report - World War II German fire document translations - Item Description | Full report
- Report - Fire fighting operations in Hamburg, Germany during World War II - Part 1 – Item Description | Full report
- Report - A study of World War II German fire fatalities – Item Description | Full report
- Report - Practical experiences of fire protection services – Item Description |
- Report - Field notes on World War II German fire experience – Item Description |
- Article - Germany's experience during World War II provides useful data on wartime fire defenses – Item Description |
- Article - Why Berlin suffered heavy fire losses from bombing: not prepared for combatting multiple blazes; building construction defective; fire fighting facilities inadequate – Item Description |
- Book - The night Hamburg died: Item description |
Japan
- Book -Japan 1945: a U. S. marine's photographs from Ground Zero – Item Description |
- Book - Yokohama burning: the deadly 1923 earthquake and fire that helped forge the path to World War II: Item description |
United Kingdom
- Book - The fire fighters of London in action : Item description |
- Article - The Blitz: London Fire Brigade's finest hour : Item description |
- Report - Wartime fire defense in London: the organization, general plan and methods used by the London Fire Brigade to control fires resulting from incendiary bombing as observed by members of the New York Fire Department assigned to London from October 22, 1940 to January 14, 1941 : Item description |
- Book - Fire and water: an anthology by members of the NFS: Item description |
- Book - Firemen at war: the work of London's fire-fighters in the second World War: Item description |
- Online exhibit - London Fire Brigade in WWII: Website |
United States
- December 7, 1941 - the Day the Honolulu Fire Department Went to War : Item description and full report
- Article - Fire fighting on Guadalcanal : Item description |
- Article - Navy firefighting schools in WWII : Item description |
- Video - An interview with Percy Bugbee - see part two - NFPA through the War Years : Description
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