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World War II Links on the Internet
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General - World War II index from Yahoo is a good place to start
- World War II Resources from Larry W. Jewell with documents from the Pearl Harbor Working Group and from the former Byrd Archive, including FDR speeches
- World War II Discussion List Archives from WWII-L@LISTSERV.ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU since 1993
- World War II links from Canadian Forces College in Toronto
- Hyperwar from Patrick Clancey with collections of government documents and military histories
- World War II on the Web and extensive list of links from Mark Conrad
- Search online collections of National Archives and British Public Record Office
- World War II Plus 55 David H. Lippman
- World War I and Cold War links A-bomb
- Enola Gay Perspectives
- Enola Gay and the Atomic Bomb from NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) based on the script from the canceled Smithsonian Institution 1995 exhibit
- Fifty Years from Trinity special supplement from Seattle Times
- Hanford
- High Energy Weapons Archive from FAS
- Leo Szilard home page with links to other atomic bomb pages
- The man who dropped the bomb. Chicago Tribune's Bob Greene talks to Paul Tibbets, 83, the pilot of the Enola Gay.Here are his columns on Tibbets' recollections.
- Trinity Atomic Test Site Aviation
- Elevon with Aviation History documents by Emmanuel Gustin and Joe Baugher formerly at the Byrd Archive
- The Pueblo Weisbrod Aircraft Museum , home of the International B-24 museum
- Spitfire & Hurricane Museum at RAF Manston in Kent
- A short history of the Boeing aircraft company
- A P-38 page from pilot "Wild Bill" Boyd
- George Rarey's cartoon journals of the 379th Fighter Squadron of P-47 Thunderbolts
- Descriptions of WWII planes from the game Air Warrior include the North American P51 Mustang and the Republic P-47D Thunderbolt and the Grumman F6F-3 Hellcat
- Pictures of more planes in various archives listed in the aviation image index at Harvard
- American Aircraft of World War II is a reference site on over 140 U.S. aircraft used or designed by the U.S. in WWII. Photos and info. Search by name, type, or manufacturer.
- The Naval Air War In The Pacific is a visual history of U.S. Navy and Marine air units in WWII Pacific. Includes photos, paintings, and text covering the men, aircraft, carriers, tactics, and battles.
- A Tribute to the Cactus Air Force is about the U.S. Marine, Navy, and Army Air Corps pilots who defended Guadalcanal from August-November 1942. Includes: history, photos, paintings, references.
- Black Cat PBY Catalinas is a history of U.S. Navy PBY squadrons in the WWII Pacific that painted their Catalina flying boats flat black and attacked Japanese ships at night.
- Battle-damaged B-17 Flying Fortresses is a photo gallery of B-17 Flying Fortress bombers that managed to get back to their bases despite serious battle damage during WWII.
- B-29 Superfortress by Gerd Eles and Paolo Pizzi from NavisMagazine
- The United States Strategic Bombing Survey Summary Report (Pacific) 1 July 1946 and European from Chuck Anesi
- Bomber Command from the Canadian site The Valour and the Horror Battles by Date
- 1937 - Nanking Massacre
- 1938 - Kristallnacht from the U.S. Holocaust Museum
- 1940 - Dunkirk from BBC
- 1940 - Battle of Britain from David Matusek
- 1940 - Battle of Britain from RAF
- 1940 - Battle of Britain's airplanes features at the Spitfire & Hurricane Museum at RAF Manston in Kent
- 1941 - Pearl Harbor
- 1941 - Pearl Harbor to Guadalcanal Vol. I of the History of U.S. Marine Corps Operations in World War II
- 1941 - The Defense of Wake Dec. 10-23, Marines in World War II Historical Monograph
- 1941 - A Magnificent Fight: Marines Marines in the Battle for Wake Island Marines in World War II Commemorative Series 1992
- 1942 - Multimedia exhibit on the fall of Singapore and the 70-day Malayan campaign in 1942 from the National Museum of Singapore
- 1942 - North African Campaign
- 1942 - Philippine Islands 7 December 1941-10 May 1942 from CMH
- 1942 - Battling Bastards of Bataan from Richard M. Gordon
- 1942 - Midway from John Crossen
- 1942 - Return to Midway from National Geographic Online features the expedition led by Dr. Robert Ballard that discovered on May 19, 1998 the wreck of the Yorktown (6/1/98)
- 1942 - Marines at Midway, Marines in World War II Historical Monograph, 1948
- 1942 - Aleutian Islands 3 June 1942 - 24 August 1943 from CMH
- 1942 - The Aleutians Campaign June 1942--August 1943, United States Navy Combat Narrative, Naval Historical Center 1993
- 1942 - China Defensive 4 July 1942-4 May 1945 from CMH
- 1942 - Papua 23 July 1942-23 January 1943 from CMH
- 1942 - First Offensive: The Marine Campaign For Guadalcanal Marines in World War II Commemorative Series 1992
- 1942 - Guadalcanal 7 August 1942-21 February 1943 from CMH
- 1942 - The U.S. Army Campaigns in World War II: Guadalcanal from CMH
- 1942 - Guadalcanal Online The Campaign on Guadalcanal, August 7, 1942 - February 9, 1943. Featuring the 1st Marine Division.
- 1942 - Guadacanal Diary of J. R. Garrett
- 1942 - Pacific Counterblow The 11th Bombardment Group and the 67th Fighter Squadron in the Battle for Guadalcanal
- 1942 - Third Battle of Savo, November 14-15, 1942. Excerpt from: Operational Experience of Fast Battleships: World War II, Korea, Vietnam. Second Edition, compiled and edited by John C. Reilly, Jr., Naval Historical Center, Department of the Navy, Washington: 1989, pp 61-67.
- 1943 - Death of Yamamoto April 18, 1943
- 1943 - Tarawa Nov. 20-23, 1943
- 1943 - Bougainville Nov. 1943
- 1943 - Sicily 9 July-17 August 1943 from CMH
- 1943 - Central Pacific 7 December 1941-6 December 1943 from CMH
- 1944 - The Marshall Islands Campaign January 31, 1944 - Feb. 8, 1944
- 1944 - Naples-Foggia 9 September 1943-21 January 1944 from CMH
- 1944 - Anzio 22 January-24 May 1944 from CMH
- 1944 - Rome-Arno 22 January-9 September 1944 from CMH
- 1944 - Normandy 6 June-24 July 1944 from CMH
- 1944 - Normandy: 1944 from Encyclopedia Britannica
- 1944 - In Desperate Battle: Normandy 1944 from from the Canadian site The Valour and the Horror
- 1944 -50th Anniversary of D-Day from nando.net
- 1944 - Guts and Glory documentary on D-Day from American Experience
- 1944 - Cross-Channel Attack - Army "Green Book" from CMH
- 1944 - Omaha Beachhead (6 June-13 June 1944) from CMH
- 1944 - Utah Beach to Cherbourg (6-27 June 1944) with maps, from CMH
- 1944 - St-Lo (7 July - 19 July 1944) from CMH
- 1944 - Paris Liberation is an online chronology of the events of August 1944 in France
- 1944 - Operation Market Garden of 1944 from Pegasus in the Netherlands
- 1944 - Scheldt
- 1944 - Ardennes: Battle of the Bulge - Army "Green Book" from CMH
- 1944 - NavisMagazine article on photo sequence of the US Navy attack on the Japanese fleet and battleship Musashi (Yamato's sistership) in the Sibuyan Sea on October 24, 1944, one of the chapters of the Battle of Leyte Gulf.
- 1944 - North Apennines 10 September 1944-4 April 1945 from CMH
- 1945 - Po Valley 5 April-8 May 1945 from CMH
- 1945 - Luzon 15 December 1944-4 July 1945 from CMH
- 1945 - Okinawa
- US Army in Northern Ireland, 1941-1945 from CMH
- Defense of the Americas 7 December 1941-2 September 1945 from CMH
- The Army Nurse Corps in World War II from CMH
- The Women's Army Corps in World War II from CMH
- U.S. Army Special Operations in World War II from CMH Books
- World War II Seminar bibliography and recent book list
- CMH Publications on-line from U.S. Army Center of Military History
- Scenes from the End: The Last Days of World War II in Europe by Frank E. Manuel from Steerforth Press, published February 2000. CD-ROMs
- World War II Global Conflict and Sources & Analysis from Mentorom (see article by Lawrence Magid)
- Almanac of World War II from Beachware
- World War II, Selected Images from the National Archives from Harcourt Brace
- Day After Trinity from Voyager (see review by B. Richard Latner)
- Their Sacrifice from Australia Remembers and State Library of South Australia
- World War I and World War II and War in the Pacific from Flagtower
- World War II from IMSI
- World War II Encyclopedia from Attica Cybernetics
- World War II from Quanta (see review by R. Michael Smith)
- The Holocaust from Quanta (see review by Stanley S. Seidner)
- Battle of the Bulge from Quanta (see review from CD-ROM Today)
- Wings Over Europe from Discovery Channel
- D-Day: 100 Days of Destiny, and Normandy: Cradle of Liberty from Gazelle Technologies Countries
- Library of Congress Area Handbook studies of countries of the world
- CIA World Factbook with maps
- Maps from the large collection at the University of Texas
- Britain
- Canada
- China
- Finland
- Germany
- Italy
- Japan
- Poland
- Russia
- Spain Documents
- 419th Field Artillery Battalion,10th Armored Division with action reports of Col. Robert McCabe 1 Dec. 1944-5 June 1945 in Europe, from Joanna Gebhardt (Mar. 29, 1999)
- Diary of Emmett L. Newell, one of the 1200 construction workers on Wake Island in 1941 and POW in China until 1945, from Jody Newell (Nov. 18, 1999)
- Hannah Arendt Papers at the Library of Congress
- Historic Government Publications from World War II from Southern Methodist University
- Japanese Surrender Document from Historical Document Reproduction, Inc.
- Nuremberg War Crimes Trials Proceedings Volumes1-22 Complete from Avalon Project
- Papers of Admiral Richard W. Bates are on-line in pdf format from the Naval War College. Bates commanded the cruiser USS MINNEAPOLIS (CA-36) in the bombardment of Wake Island, participated in the invasion of the Gilbert Islands and sank the Japanese light cruiser KATORI off Truk in April 1944. During May-August 1944, Bates was on the staff of the Commander in Chief Pacific Fleet. In September he served with the Seventh Fleet during the Philippine Islands campaign and in December was Chief of Staff and Aide to Commander Battleship Division Two and was involved in the Lingayen-Luzon and Okinawa operations. (Nov. 18, 1999)
- Spearheading with the Third Armored Division, narrative written in 1945 (Feb. 14, 1999)
- Symbol - The Casablanca Conference from Simon Appleby including chapters from his book and essays such as the SS
- World War II Documents from the Avalon Project at Yale Law School
- World War II Documents at Mississippi State University
- World War II Documents at Wiretap.spies.com Espionage
- Bletchley park Home Page with pictures of Enigma and Colossus and a mailing list for those interested in WWII cryptography
- Codebreaking and Secret Weapons in World War II articles from Nautical Brass magazine
- National Cryptologic Museum from the National Security Agency
- Bletchley Park web site at Cranfield University and home of the Bletchley Park mailing list; also the Bletchley Park Trust official website for the code-breaking museum in Milton Keynes, UK (1/18/99)
- Enigma and WWII Cryptography Bibliography from Bill Momsen Holocaust
- Holocaust documents from the Nizkor Project
- Holocaust links from Mark Conrad
- Holocaust history from the U.S. Holocaust Museum
- Index of Bulgarian Jews in WWII
- The Holocaust on Trial from Atlantic Monthly Feb. 2000
- Varian Fry saved thousands from the Holocaust in 1940 France Homefront
- Mobilization in World War II from CMH
- Exhibit of photos from a German POW camp in Oregon.
- Camp Aliceville History of the German POW camp in Aliceville, Alabama
- Fighters on the Farm Front is an exhibit from the Oregon state archives.
- War Relocation Authority Camps in Arizona, 1942-1946
- Japanese-American internment camps at Tule Lake and Topaz
- Camp Harmony was the Puyallup Assembly Center for Japanese-Americans near Seattle.
- Produce for Victory: Posters on the American Home Front (1941-45) from Smithsonian
- Images of the Home Front: The World War II Experience in America from Primary Sources Network
- World War II and the American Dream: How Wartime Building Changed A Nation exhibit from the National Building Museum
- Profile of Carl Vinson Library of Congress
- American Memory home page or list by historical eras
- America From the Depression to World War II: Photographs From the FSA-OWI, 1935-1945
- Library of Congress Area Handbook Country Studies Maps
- CIA World Factbook with maps
- Omaha Beach Intelligence Assault Map from Michael Richards
- World War II maps from CMH at UT
- World War II Maps from World War II Timeline Maritime
- Aircraft Carriers USS Lexington (CV16) and USS Wasp (CV18) and escort carrier USS Gilbert Islands (CVE-107)
- American Merchant Marine at War
- Battleships USS Missouri and USS North Carolina and USS Alabama and USS New Jersey
- Battleships Carriers And All Other Warships
- Battleship Page from the Iowa Class Preservation Association
- Cruisers USS Augusta
- Destroyers On Line
- Full Fathom Five: The U.S. Submarine War Against Japan
- German Uboats in the Battle of the Atlantic 1939-45
- Liberty Ships SS John W Brown and SS Jeremiah O'Brien
- LST 454 Home page from Scott A. Molski, Anthony V. Giglio
- Maritime Disasters of World War II from George Duncan
- North Atlantic U.S. Military Bases
- Pacific Naval Battles map
- Pacific War from Michael Haenel (in German), focusing on Hokkaido Bay and the waters north of Tokyo
- PT Boat page
- Submarines USS Bowfin in Pearl Harbor and USS Cavalla in Galveston and USS Cod in Cleveland and USS Cobia and USS Crevalle in Portsmouth and USS Pampanito in San Francisco and USS Silversides in Muskegon, Michigan, and German U-505 in Chicago
- Tour a U2540 Type XXI German sub using QuickTime VR from Zeitraum GmbH
- U-boat Net from Gudmundur Helgason
- United States Naval and Shipbuilding Museum has the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships
- United States Navy in WWII: Primary Source Documents
- U.S. Navy in the Pacific War 1941 - 1945 from Tim Lanzendoerfer
- Warships Associated With World War II in the Pacific by Harry A. Butowsky, online book from National Park Service History Division, May 1985
- World War II "Silent-Service" from Subnet Mass Media
- Atlantic Monthly stories:
- Audie Murphy Memorial Web Site
- Band of Brothers TV miniseries 2001 from HBO
- Ernie Pyle's stories about Capt. Waskow and Frontlines in Italy from 36th Division Association
- Dr. Seuss Went to War provides the entire collection of 400 editorial cartoons drawn 1941-43 by Theodor Seuss Geisel (Dr. Seuss) when he was the chief editorial cartoonist for PM newspaper in New York, from the Mandeville Special Collections Library at the University of California, San Diego.
- Ernie Pyle Wanderlust Documented from TrueAmerica
- Filmnotes for the Hollywood feature films The Bridge on the River Kwai and A Bridge Too Far and Casablanca and Das Boot and Enemy at the Gates and The English Patient and The Fighting Seabees and The Fighting Sullivans and Flying Tigers and Foreign Correspondent and The Glenn Miller Story and The Last Emperor and The Longest Day and Mission to Moscow and Mrs. Miniver and Patton and Pearl Harbor films and Ramparts We Watch and Sahara and Saving Private Ryan and They Were Expendable and To Hell and Back and U-571
- Military Aviation Movie List compiled by Marshall Cram from Flightline II
- Picturing the Century: One Hundred Years of Photography from the National Archives, includes gallery for The Great War and the New Era, The Great Depression and the New Deal, A World in Flames (World War II), Postwar America, and Century's End
- Picasso's Guernica Unveiled shows details of the famous painting, from Alan Carter
- Ten Best American Movies of World War II from American Heritage magazine, Feb. 1999.
- They Drew Fire: Combat Artists of World War II from PBS
- War of the Worlds transcript and articles on the 1938 radio broadcast; 60th anniversary site
- World War II Navy Art: A Vision of History from The Navy Art Gallery Museums & Exhibits
- A-Bomb WWW Museum
- Airborne & Special Operations Museum in Fayetteville NC
- American Air Museum in Duxford, England, opened in 1997
- American Battle Monuments Commission schedule of ceremonies observing the 55th anniversary of D-Day
- Arizona Memorial Museum Association and USS Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
- Caen Memorial at Caen, France
- Canadian War Museum
- Duxford Aviation Museum of the Imperial War Museum
- Ernie Pyle State Historic Site from Scripps Howard Foundation grant
- FDR Memorial in Washington, DC
- Imperial War Museum in London
- MacArthur Memorial at Norfolk, Va.
- Mighty Eighth Air Force Museum in Savannah
- National D-Day Memorial Foundation in Bedford, VA, to open May 31, 2000, funded in part by a grant from Peanuts cartoonist Charles Schultz
- National Iwo Jima Memorial Monument from the Iwo Jima Survivors Association
- National Museum of Naval Aviation at NAS Pensacola Florida
- National World War II Memorial is planned for the Mall in Washington DC
- RAF Museum at Hendon
- Seabee Museum at Port Hueneme, CA
- Tvrz Bouda at Kraliky, Czech Republic (in Czech)
- War in the Pacific National Historical Park on Guam
- World War II Through Russian Eyes from the Historical Achievements Museum, the traveling exhibit of artifacts from the Russian Central Armed Forces Museum in Moscow opened August 6, 1998 in the Ronald Reagan Building and Center for International Trade, Washington, D.C., through September 1 (Washington Post article and RFE article ), then to Memphis through Jan. 31, 1999, will be in San Diego in Balboa Park from March 12 through July 4, 1999 (San Diego Union article )
- Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Israel
- Yahoo index of WWII Museums and Memorials National Archives
- National Archives home page
- Powers of Persuasion and A People at War are from the Exhibit Hall
- NAIL recently added collections
- National Archives photos from the Grolier WWII Commemoration site Propaganda
- Propaganda Leaflets of World War 2 from Hans Moonen
- World War II Poster Database at Northwestern
- Old Eagle's Posters Archive
- EarthStation1: The Radio Propaganda Sounds & Pictures Page
- Propaganda from NSDAP Museum
- German Propaganda Archive from Randall Bytwerk at Calvin College Special Subjects
- Franklin D. Roosevelt Library
- Winston Churchill is now immortalized on the web by theInternational Churchill Societies
- Navajo Code Talkers
- New Deal Network
- Tanks! Armoured Warfare Prior to 1946 from Bill Kirk (Dec. 11, 1999)
- Wendell Willkie from Tim Walker (July 27, 1999)
- World War II links from Jim West (Nov. 18, 1999)
- World War II U.S. Veterans page from Dick and Dave Berry
- The WWII Sounds and Pictures Page from Jim Kaelin U.S. Government
- National Security Agency has on online tour of some exhibits in the National Cryptologic Museum
- White House tour shows theDiplomatic Reception Room where FDR made his Fireside Chats
- House of Representatives provides WAIS searches of legislation U.S. Military
- U.S. Army
- U.S. Navy
- U.S. Navy Submarine Centennial
- U.S. Naval Air Stations
- U.S. AirForce
- U.S. Marines
- U.S. Marines (unofficial)
- Camp Pendleton Marine Corps Base
- U.S. Coast Guard
- The U.S. Army's Center of Military History and Army Nurse Corps History
- DOD Dictionary of Military Terms
- Naval Historical Center and FAQs on topics
- USAF Museum
- Air Force Historical Research Agency is the repository for Air Force historical documents.
- The official magazine of the U.S. Army Soldiers has had articles on WWII:
- Unit histories What's New
- World War II links from Tracey Osborn (Apr. 5, 2000)
- Hawaiian Newspapers, War Records, and Trust Territory Image Collections from the University of Hawai'i System Libraries has 10,000 digital images 1848-present
- Hannah Arendt Papers at the Library of Congress
- Foreign Relations of the United States includes online volumes 1900-01 and 1903-18 and since 1945
- The Nanking Atrocities is based on the Master's thesis by Masato Kajimoto at the University of Missouri-Columbia and documents the Japanese occupation of Nanking in 1937-38.
- A Joint Study of the Sino-Japanese War, 1931-1945 from Harvard University lists archival and bibliographic sources
- Battle of Britain from the Royal Air Force (RAF) to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Battle of Britain (July 10 to October 31, 1940)
- DHM Picture Archive from the German Historical Museum
- Dunkirk Remembered from the BBC , in commemoration of the 60th anniversary of Dunkirk
- Enola Gay and the Atomic Bomb from NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) has excerpts of the script from the Smithsonian Institution exhibit, "The Last Act: The Atomic Bomb and the End of World War II," proposed for 1995 but never shown
- Imperial War Museum Online Exhibitions include Battle of Britain and Enigma and Gallipoli 1915
- MI5 (Security Service) records related to World War II from the UK Public Record Office
- Nuremberg War Crimes Trials Proceedings from the Avalon Project at the Yale Law School includes all 22 volumes of the International Military Tribunal proceedings at Nuremberg in 1946
- The Canadian Letters and Images Project from the History Department at Malaspina University College is a digital archive of the Canadian war experience
- Tour a U2540 Type XXI German submarine from 1945 using QuickTime VR, presented by Zeitraum GmbH
- Stalag Luft I Online - 8,939 Allied Airmen were imprisoned during World War II as Prisoners of War by the Germans at Stalag Luft I in Barth, Germany
- The American Ex-Prisoner of War Organization
- Poland's Holocaust-A Family Chronicle of Soviet and Nazi Terror and Poland Timeline 1917-45 from Chris Gladun
- Deliverance! It Has Come! POW WWII Diary (1942-1945) from John S. Beaber about the internment of his missionary father Herman Baeber in the Los Banos camp in the Philippines
- WWII Hastings includes the memories of Noel Care, an ex-Civil Defence WW2 worker, of his part in the conflict when a young resident of Hastings, England
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