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WWII Naval Armament & Treaty Data Structured tables extracted from Fleets of World War II: Design History and Analysis (Nimble Books, ISBN 9781608881604). Three queryable tables plus the full set of 35 extracted source tables. table rows what naval_guns 93 gun armament specs — caliber, shell weight, range, ceiling, fire control, ship class torpedoes 42 torpedo specs — type, explosive weight, range/speed treaty_tonnage 19 interwar naval-treaty tonnage allocations… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/wfzimmerman/wwii-naval-armament.

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WWII Naval Armament & Treaty Data

Structured tables extracted from _Fleets of World War II: Design History and Analysis_ (Nimble Books, ISBN 9781608881604). Three queryable tables plus the full set of 35 extracted source tables.

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naval_guns93gun armament specs — caliber, shell weight, range, ceiling, fire control, ship class
torpedoes42torpedo specs — type, explosive weight, range/speed
treaty_tonnage19interwar naval-treaty tonnage allocations (Washington / London)

Provenance & rights

Extracted from the book's canonical interior PDF via PyMuPDF table detection. The underlying data is published with the permission of Nimble Books LLC under CC BY-NC 4.0 — free for non-commercial and research use with attribution. Commercial use requires a license from Nimble Books LLC (editorial@bigfivekiller.online). Page-level provenance in every row (source_page).

Example queries

  • —"Which WWII navies' battleships mounted guns of 15-inch caliber or larger?"
  • —"Compare destroyer tonnage allowed to Britain, the US and Japan under the naval treaties."
  • —"List Japanese oxygen torpedoes and their range."

Source & full analysis

The narrative design-history and analysis — why these fleets were built the way they were — is in the book: Fleets of World War II, Nimble Books. https://bigfivekiller.online/books/9781608881604/