AngularJS History of World War II (greatly abridged)

Overview

This is intended to be an demo project interactive World War 2 history site modeled on "The West Point History of the Civil War" by Rowan Technology

Specific chapters include:

• Operation Overlord
• Operation Market Garden
• Battle of Leyte Gulf

Installation

npm install -g bower npm install npm start

http://localhost:8000/app/#/chapters

Technologies

AngularJS, Three.js

References

P51D 3D model and rendered images, own work.

Text from Wikipedia.org retrieved November 29 2015:

• Operation Overlord
• Operation Market Garden
• Battle of Leyte Gulf

4th Division map is from 'Cross-Channel Attack', by Gordon A. Harrison, Chapter VIII ('The Sixth of June'), page 30.

Operation Market Garden maps from 'Major And Mrs Holt's Battlefield Guide To Operation Market Garden'.

Battle of Leyte Gulf maps scanned from Reports of General MacArthur, Vol 1.

Workings of the application

• The application filesystem layout structure is based on the angular-seed project.
• There is no dynamic backend (no application server) for this application. An application server is emulated by fetching static json files.

Author

Jake Park - parkjake.com