Looking for real ONI Recognition Manual

[dmlavan]

Does anyone know where you can either view online, or purchase, one of the ONI recognition manuals for either Japanese warships or merchants for WWII? I've found some sights that offer CD's that have "their" version (i.e. include computer-aided images which obviously weren't around back then...).

[Donner]

http://www.history-on-cdrom.com/id88.htm

These are the real manuals in pdf format. I purchased ONI-208J (Revised) from them last year. No worries on the authenticity. Great manual.

Japanese Naval Vessels of World War Two as seen by US Naval Intelligence (ISBN 0-87021-314-8) is reprint of ONI-41-421, Index to all Japanese Naval Vessels, ONI 41-42, Japanese Naval Vessels, ONI-220J Japanese Submarines, and ONI 225J Japanese Landing Operations and Equipment.

The book is out of print but can be found quite easily through online used book search engines. Plus you can save some cash buying the hard copy as opposed to the CDs of these manuals.

Cheers!:ping:

[Captain Krunch]

I've bought CDs from History on CD-Rom, and their PDFs don't appear to be anything but scans from the original documents.

http://www.history-on-cdrom.com/id88.htm

[Edit: Ha, looks like Donner beat me to the punch!]

[Blue]

I wish the UBISoft hard copy, packaged with the Collectors Edition was available seperatly.

[dmlavan]

Gents,
I had seen the CD version from that website but didn't know if they were "the real thing". Thanks!

[scrag]

Check out Naval Institue Press as they republished the old ONI compilation:
Japanese Naval Vessels of WWII
As Seen by US NAVAL Intelligence
ISBN 0-87021-314-8
aka
ONI 41-421
ONI 41-42
ONI 220J
ONI 225J
Hope it helps