Searching for an encyclopedia of all ww2 vehicules

Hi everyone.

I am searching for an encyclopedia in which I can find all vehicules used in the second world war (submarines, ships, planes, bombers, tanks, jeeps, artillery, transport ...).

Thanks for your help!

 

What do you mean exactly? Sorry, my first language is french. I thought you were talking about my computer memory

 

I have never seen a set that had all the vehicles in.

You would likely have to search for book on individual navies, air forces, and armies(also broken into AFVs & soft skin).

M J Whitley did one volume on cruisers and another volume on destroyers - both are excellent.

There are several books on individual navies - French, Italian, Soviet, etc. That cover all warships of the respective navy.

There are many books covering individual air forces.

As well as several books on AFVs, although books covering all soft skinned vehicles are harder to find.

 

Doesn't really exist, mate. Outside of certain 70s attempts & kid's books.

For land vehicles (the most interesting part ), you can't go far wrong with After The Battle & the blessed Vanderveen's 'Historic Military Vehicle Directory' as an ID encyclopedia of sorts, but it gives the most basic info and doesn't delve far into armour.



Like Opana says, the Internerd is the closest you'll get to such a wide encyclopedia. Been collecting vehicle books for a long time and would have to recommend at least five or six to begin properly covering just WW2.

 

Thanks guys for tour help.

 

Ok I will forget about this idea. I will check infos on internet instead.

Thanks for your advice.

 

This is a fairly comprehensive listing of American military vehicles (note, the vehicle prices included within are grossly out of date).

https://www.amazon.ca/Standard-Catalog-U-S-Military-Vehicles/dp/087349508X

 

Finally, I just received this encyclopedia. I am very happy with my purchase.

 

Which one?

 

The only thing I can think of that covers a lot of the vehicles/equipment would be military factory.com, but even that's missing some.

Maybe we should make a google doc/sheets encyclopedia? I'll start on it and share the link somewhere if everyone is ok with that?

 

I believe what you propose is called Wikipedia.

 

Well I suppose you could compare it to wikipedia... But I think wikipedia misses a lot of stuff and also it is known for not being the most accurate...

 

Damn, I posted a few photos but it didn't work. Do you know how I can add photos on this forum? I don't know how to put an url link to my photos.

 

You could try a google photos link? Or look for the 'Upload a File' button on this site

 

What does the "Upload a File" button looks like?