GURPS WWII

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GURPS WWII

GURPS WWII Core Rulebook (2001) covers historical events from the end of the Great War (1918) to Japan's surrender (1945).

GURPS WWII is considered part of the Powered by GURPS line and has a variant of Classic GURPS Lite included. Strangely, it and several of its supplements are among the few Classic GURPS works that don't have "Classic" in their current marketing name.

Alternate Worlds

Many of the alternate worlds are expanded in GURPS WWII Classic: Weird War II

• The World at War: the historical background
• Supers WWII
• Cliffhangers WWII
• Fantasy WWII
• Magic WWII
• Mecha WWII

Related GURPS Material

• GURPS WWII Ranks
• Classic: WWII - 4e update
• GURPS Weird War II: The Secret of the Gneisenau
• GURPS Cliffhangers
• GURPS Update
• GURPS High-Tech: WWII Jeep, Medium Propeller Fighter, Medium Tank, Medium Truck

GURPS WWII supplements

• GURPS WWII Classic: All the King's Men (2004) - Britain
• GURPS WWII Classic: Dogfaces - US ground forces
• GURPS WWII: Doomed White Eagle (2004) - Poland
• GURPS WWII Classic: Frozen Hell (2003) - Finnish campaigns
• GURPS WWII Classic: Grim Legions (2003) - Italy
• GURPS WWII Classic: Hand of Steel (2002) - special forces
• GURPS WWII Classic: Iron Cross (2002) - Germany
• GURPS WWII: Leyte Gulf (2004) - Battle of Leyte Gulf
• GURPS WWII: Michael's Army (2005) - Romania
• GURPS WWII Classic: Motor Pool (2004) - WWII vehicles and tools to build that which was only dreamed.
• GURPS WWII: Red Tide (2009) - Soviet Union in WWII; additional material: Classic: Russia
• GURPS WWII Classic: Return to Honor (2002) - France 1940-1945
• GURPS WWII: Their Finest Hour (2006) - The Battle of Britain
• GURPS WWII Classic: Weird War II - The bizarre parts of World War II, real and imagined

Cultural Notes

Many movie theaters in the 1930's and 1940's had this format (reproduced in the PBS series Matinee at the Bijou): trailers, a cartoon, one or more selected short subjects (a clip from Puttin' on the Ritz involving Alice was used as a short subject in an episode of the PBS series Matinee at the Bijou), a chapter of a cliff-hanger serial, and the feature presentation (about 60-90 minutes long)

Additional Material

• WWII Vehicles

Designer's Notes

• GURPS World War II (12/7/2001)
  • GURPS WWII: All the King's Men (2/20/2004)
  • GURPS WWII Dogfaces (6/6/2003)
  • GURPS WWII: Frozen Hell (4/25/2003)
  • GURPS WWII: Grim Legions (5/16/2003)
  • GURPS WWII: Hand of Steel (5/24/2002)
  • GURPS WWII: Iron Cross (8/2/2002)
  • GURPS WWII: Return to Honor (10/18/2002)
  • GURPS WWII: Motor Pool (5/14/2004)

General Information

• National WWII Museum
• Eight Million Bayonets: Bayonet Fencing in GURPS WW2 (8/29/2003)
• WWII Theaters of Operation
• Weapons of World War II 1925 to 1945
• World War II (wikipedia)
• Ration Books WWII National Museum, New Orleans
• The Iron Channel
• Meet the Soldiers Who are Still Fighting WWII Today
• Military Tank Expert Rates 8 Tank Battles In Movies And TV | How Real Is It? | Insider

Adventures

• Adventure Pizza: Hunting The Griffins (5/17/2002)

Cultural Flavor

• Bellamy salute: The original salute used for the Pledge of Allegiance. Replaced in 1942 with the hand over heart because it too closely resembled the Fascist salute.
• Sears, Roebuck and Co (1918; #137; part 2, internet archive)
• Sears Roebuck and Co.: Hardware Catalog (1919, internet archive)
• Sears, Roebuck & Co.: Seeds (1919, internet archive)
• Sears Roebuck And Co Catalog 1922 (internet archive)
• World War I and World War II films (Playlist, US National Archives. 480+ videos)
• World War II Films (Playlist, US National Archives. 70+ videos - 34 of which are "Memphis Belle (Outtakes)" with no sound)
• Frank Capra's Why We Fight series.
• Know Your Enemy: Japan - thanks to delays this became Frank Capra's last WWII propaganda film.
• Why History Overlooks How Much the Japanese Actually Feared the Americans in WW2
• Comic Book Plus Public Domain comics up to the 1950s
• ComicWeb - Radio shows, serials, and TV shows
• Sherlock Holmes Radio: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, TomConway, John Stanley
• Danger UXB - 1979 TV series partly based on Unexploded Bomb - The Story of Bomb Disposal, the memoirs of Major A. B. Hartley, MBE, RE
• Harvey, Robert (2006) American Shogun: A Tale of Two Cultures - the lives of both General Douglas MacArthur and Emperor Hirohito and how the cultures of their respective nations made them into the men they were.
• The Supersizers Go... Wartime (1939-45): Part 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6

Extra History

• Defense of Poland (Sept 1939): The Battle of the Border, Under Siege
• Hunting the Bismark (1941): The Pride of Germany, The Mighty HMS Hood, A Chance to Strike, and Sink the Bismarck
• Battle of Saipan (June 1944): Steel and Coral and Suicide Island
• Japanese Militarism: Drawing the Knife, Taisho Democracy, Blood on the Railway, Government by Assassination, Marco... Polo...

Rationing films

• Point Rationing of foods (1943)
• How to Use Your Ration Coupons (recreation of how a promotional film would look in color)

Myths

• 4 Myths About World War I
• 5 Myths about World War II
• 5 Myths About WWII TANKS
• 5 Myths About WWII FIGHTER PLANES
• What Films about Hiroshima/Nagasaki Get Wrong
• Dropping the Bomb: Hiroshima & Nagasaki