World War Two Links

Aerial operations

• General resources
  • Information and archives
    • Aircraft strength and losses in WWII (Emmanuel Gustin)
    • Effect of the North American P-51 Mustang on the air war in Europe (David Buckingham)
    • Håkans Aviation page Biplane Fighters of the Second World War
    • Sturmvogel [Axis and neutral air forces]
    • Aeroseek Aviation Search Engine
    • Zenos Warbird Video Drive-in (Fandal)
    • New Zealand Fighter Pilots Museum  (NZFPM)
    • War Birds Resource Group  (Scott Rose)
    • Pacific Wreck Database  (Justin Taylan)
    • Aeroseek Aviation Search Engine
• Museums and institutes
  • Friends of The Fighter Collection (Duxford, U.K.)
• Photographic archives
  • Warbirds (Roadjock)

• Belgium
  • The Belgium Airforce in WW2 John_C_McLeod 
• Brazil
• Canada
• Czechoslovakia
• Finland
  • Aircraft of the Finnish Air Force in World War II (Pentti Perttula)
  • Allied planes in Finnish AF in WWII (Jyri-Pekka Järvine)
  • Finnish Air Force aces (Matti Yrjölä)
  • Finnish Air Force aircraft in the Second World War (Matti Yrjölä)
• Germany
  • Jagdflieger: German VTO [vertical take-off] projects of World War II
  • Luft '46 [experimental German aircraft] (Dan Johnson)
  • Die Luftwaffe (Ricky Law)
  • Luftwaffe operations over the Bristol area 1940-1944 (John Penny, Fishponds Local History Society)
  • Luftwaffe unit histories, 1939-45 (Michael Holm)
• Great Britain
  • The Fleet Air Arm Archive Royal Navy Air Power.
• Japan
  • Japanese aviation (Mark T.Wlodarczyk)
  • Zero fighter world
• Poland
  • Polish aviation history [World War II] (Robert Postowicz)
• United States
  • B-29 Superfortress - Then and Now. The history of the B-29 Superfortress.
  • The Heavy and Very Heavy Bomb Groups of the USAAF in WWII.
  • USAF Military Heritage Database
  • 461st Bomb Group (H), "The Liberators" (Rob Hoskins)
  • American combat aircraft of World War II (MultiEducator History of Aviation)
  • Army Air Forces Navigation School, Selman Field, Monroe, Louisiana, 1942-1946 (Rita Bryant)
  • Memphis Belle (Memphis Belle Memorial Association)
  • Tuskegee Airmen: a tribute to my father (Phyllis G. Douglass)
  • United States Strategic Bombing Survey summary report (European War) (Chuck Anesi, transcriber)

  Art and literature

  • Esprit de la résistance [poetes de la résistance] (Jean-Pierre Rosnay)

  Atomic bomb

  • Indexes
    • Web links to Hiroshima (Gene Dannen)
    • Web links to Nagasaki (Gene Dannen)
  • Information and archives
    • Atomic bomb: decision (Hiroshima-Nagasaki) (Gene Dannen)
    • Atomic spaces: living on the Manhattan Project (Peter Bacon Hales)
    • Costs of the Manhattan Project (Brookings Institution)
    • Hiroshima archive (Mayu Tsuruya et al,)
    • Hiroshima: was it necessary? (Doug Long)
    • Projet Manhattan (Sébastien Jodogne)
    • Rembering Nagasaki (Exploratorium)
    • Trinity (Bill Dietrich/Alan Berner, Seattle Times)
    • Unofficial Trinity site page (Jim Tankard)
  • Personal narratives
    • Personal record of Hiroshima A-bomb survival (Takeharu Terao)
    • Voice of Hibakusha, Bomb Survivors
  • Photographic archives
    • Hiroshima and Nagasaki Exhibition (World Conference Against A&H Bombs/Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament)

  Biography

  • Information and archives

  Campaigns and battles

• General resources
  • Indexes
• Africa
  • North African campaign of World War II (Paul John)
• Battle of Britain
  • Battle of Britain Alex ! 
• Ardennes (Battle of the Bulge)
  • Battle of the Bulge (Jim Franklin, University of San Diego)
  • Battle of the Bulge: the Ardennes offensive (David Sargent)

• Atlantic Ocean

  • Canonesa, Convoy HX72 and Joachim Schepke's U-100 (Tom Purnell)
• Balkans
• Coral Sea
• Far East - China Burma, India
  • South East Asia Command
• France
  • Normandy 1944 (Encyclopaedia Britannica)
• Guadalcanal (Solomon Islands)
  • USS Washington & WW2+55 (John C. Reilly)
• Guam
• Italy
• Iwo Jima
  • Iwo Jima (Iwo Jima)
• Leyte Gulf (Philippines)
• Marshall Islands
  • Marshall Islands Campaign (31 Jan. 1944-8 Feb. 1944) (Lyn Kukral, U.S. Navy and Marine Corps World War II Commemorative Committee)
• Midway
  • Battle of Midway 1942: the fight for the Pacific (Rafael Mozún)
• Netherlands
• Normandy (France)
• Pacific Ocean
  • United States Strategic Bombing Survey summary report (Pacific War) (Chuck Anesi, transcriber)
  • Kamikazes Alex 
  • Netherlands East Indies 1941-1942 Imperia Histroy Group 
• Pearl Harbor (Hawaii)
  • Attack on Pearl Harbor, 1941 (Ibis Communications)
  • Pearl Harbor Remembered (Online Schools)
  • Pearl Harbor attack: hearings before the Joint Committee on the Investigation of the Pearl Harbor Attack, Congress of the United States, Seventy-Ninth Congress (Larry W. Jewell, maintainer)
• Philippines
• Poland
• Soviet Union
  • Operation Barbarossa (J. A. Fernandez)
  • The Battle of Stalingrad Gero
  • The Battle for Stalingrad Han Wijers 
  • Battle of Kursk (Alan Wilson 1997)
• Tarawa (Kiribati)

  Cryptography and Intelligence

  • Making of MAGIC (Jennifer Henson, University of San Diego)
  • Center for the Study of Intelligence (CIA)NOTE: Check out Books, Monographs and newsletter links.

  Film and television

  Holocaust

  • Art and literature
  • Biography
  • Directories
  • Education
  • Exhibitions
  • Film and television
    • Memory of the camps (PBS Frontline)
  • Indexes
    • Holocaust/Shoah (David M. Dickerson)
  • Information and archives
    • Anne Frank online (Anne Frank Center USA)
    • An Auschwitz alphabet (The Ethical Spectacle)
    • Auschwitz-Birkenau: a layman's guide (Kenneth N. McVay)
    • Auschwitz: Endstation Vernichtung (Institutes für Sozial- & Wirtschaftsgeschichte der Johannes Kepler Universität Linz)
    • Beyond the Holocaust: survival or extinction? (Peter A. Zuckerman)
    • "Webography" of the Holocaust ()
    • Documentary resources on the Nazi genocide and its negation
    • Einsatzgruppen (Ken Lewis)
    • Five million forgotten: non-Jewish victims of the Shoah (Terese Pencak Schwartz)
    • Giving the devil his due: Holocaust revisionism.... (Frank Miele, The Skeptic)
    • Holocaust (David Graham)
    • Holocaust (Jewish Student Online Resource Center)
    • Holocaust assets (United States, Dept. of State)
    • Literature of the Holocaust (Al Filreis, University of Pennsylvania)
    • Operation Reinhard: a layman's guide (Kenneth N. McVay)
    • Polish Jews in World War II (LNT Poland)
    • The Heart Has Reasons: Holocaust Rescuers and Their Stories of Courage by Mark Klempner (Book link)
    • Responses to the Holocaust: a hypermedia sourcebook for the humanities (University of Virginia)
    • Wannsee protocol (Al Filreis)
    • Willis Carto and The Institute for Historical Review (Kenneth N. McVay)
    • Women and the Holocaust
  • Museums and memorials
    • Anne Frank House (Amsterdam)
    • C.A.N.D.L.E.S. Holocaust Museum (Terre Haute, Indiana)
    • El Paso Holocaust Museum and Study Center (El Paso, Texas)
    • Ghetto Fighters House (Israel)
    • Holocaust Memorial Center (West Bloomfield, MI)
    • Holocaust Museum Houston (Houston, Texas)
  • Organizations and programs
    • Amcha
    • American Friends of The Ghetto Fighters' House
    • Anne Frank Educational Trust UK
    • Association of Holocaust Organizations
    • Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust (Bradley R. Smith)
    • March of the Living
    • Nizkor Project
    • Simon Wiesenthal Center
    • Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation
    • Yad Vashem: The Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority
  • Personal narratives
    • Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies (Yale University)
    • To save a life: stories of Jewish rescue (Ellen Land-Weber)
  • Photographic archives
    • Auschwitz/Birkenau (Alan Jacobs)
  • Theatre

  Media and Propaganda

  • Radio Libre - French (Maurice de Cheveigné)

  Museums and memorials

  • Arizona Memorial Museum Association (Pearl Harbor, Hawaii)
  • Mémorial de Caen (Caen, France)
  • USS Arizona Memorial (Pearl Harbor, Hawaii)

  Naval operations

  • General resources
    • Photographic archives
      • Warships of WWII
  • Germany
    • Kriegsmarine (Ricky Law)
    • "Uboat.net" - U-boat War, 1939-1945 (Guðmundur Helgason)
    • Unterseebootwaffe (Michael Sjodin)
  • Great Britain
    • HMS Hood Association
  • Italy
    • Navi da Battaglia Italiane (Giuseppe Iacono)
  • Japan
    • Nihon Kaigun [Japanese Navy] (Jon Parshall)
  • Mediterranean
    • Minesweeping at Malta (Jack Williams)
  • United States
    • Battleship North Carolina Commission [BB-55]
    • Knights of the sea: PT boats of World War II (Richard J. Washichek)
    • LST 454 (Scott A. Molski, Anthony V. Giglio)
    • Project Liberty Ship
    • SS Jeremiah O'Brien National Liberty Ship Memorial (San Francisco, Calif.)
    • US Navy in the Pacific, 1941-1945 (Tim Lanzendoerfer)
    • U.S. Navy: the Seabees (United States, Navy)
    • USS Augusta (CA-31) (R. Swanson)
    • USS Arizona (Gene Spesard, University of Arizona Library)
    • USS Bowfin Submarine Museum and Park (Honolulu, Hawaii)
    • USS Claxton (DD-571) (Tom Clyce)
    • USS Drexler (DD-741) (USS Drexler Survivor Group)
    • USS Gunnel SS-253 (Jim Lavelle)
    • USS Lexington (CV-16) Museum (Corpus Christi, Texas)
    • USS Rocky Mount (AGC-3)
    • USS Tabberer (DE-418) (Matthew F. Wilson)
    • USS Underhill (DE-682) (Rodger J. Crum)
    • USS Wasp (CV-18) history: November 1943-August 1945
    • USS Washington (BB56) (Howard Wright III)

  Organizations and programs

  • World War II Preservation Society
  • World War Two Studies Association

  Participation by country

  • Australia
    • Australian War Memorial
    • Diggers - Lords of Battle (Bali Ferguson)
    • VetNet - Australian Veterens Network (VICG)
  • Austria
    • Anschluss (Ayme Hosseini, University of San Diego)
  • Bulgaria
    • Bulgaria: a country study (Library of Congress)
  • Canada
    • Historical perspective: Second World War (Veterans Affairs Canada)
    • Trop loin de Berlin Summary of book about Axis Interness in Postwar Canada (Yves Bernard, Caroline Bergeron)
  • Cyprus
    • Cyprus: a country study (Library of Congress)
  • Croatia
  • Czechoslovakia
    • Museum of the Slovak National Uprising In Slovak but with English language section.
    • Czechoslovakia: a country study (Library of Congress)
  • Denmark
  • Ethiopia
    • Ethiopia: a country study (Library of Congress)
  • Finland
    • Air raids on Helsinki in Feb. 1944 (Pauli Kruhse)
    • Finland: a country study (Library of Congress)
    • Short summary of Finland in WWII (Matti Yrjola)
  • France
    • Archives de guerre, 1940-1944 (France, Institut National de l'Audiovisuel)
    • Les Aubrac et les historiens (Libération)
    • Paris Libéré! (Paris Pages)
    • Résistance française (Poly-Inter Communications)
    • X-Résistance : l'action des Polytechniciens pendant la Seconde guerre mondiale
  • Georgia
    • Georgia: a country study (Library of Congress)
  • Germany
    • Atlantikwall (Michel van Best, Peter Heijkoop)
    • German armed forces in World War II (Jason Pipes)
    • Third Reich Fact Book Very informative OOB site, a must see. Marcus Wendal
    • Axis Biographical Reasearch Comprehensive site of German officers and officials. Michael Miller & Jeff Chrisman
    • National Socialist Era, 1933-1945 (H-German)
    • Panzer war (Ralph Zuljan)
    • Panzergrenadier Dr. Chuang, Taipei
    • Places of World War II (Michel van Best)
    • Research of WW II-built underground systems (Harald Faeth)
  • Great Britain
    • Britain in WW2 (R. Cull)
    • Long Range Desert Group [LRDG] Preservation Society
  • Iceland
  • India
    • Sikh Cyber Mueseum History of the Sikh Regiments
  • Japan
    • WWII Japan - Yahoo Chat Group
  • Korea
  • Macedonia
  • Netherlands
  • Norway
    • Norway in World War Two (Kurt Monsen)
    • Nazi children (Ole Wilhelm Klüwer)
  • Philippines
  • Poland
    • Nazi occupation of Poland (Ibis Communications)
  • Romania
    • The Dutch Helmet - Romainian Army in WW2
  • Singapore
    • Civilian Internees of the Japanese in Singapore during WWII
  • Slovakia
    • Museum of the Slovak National Uprising In Slovak but with English language section.
  • Soviet Union
    • SovietArmy.com History of the Red Army
    • The Russian Battlefield
    • The Soviet Union Factbook
    • V.M. Molotov's address on the foreign policy of the [Soviet] Government, 29 March 1940 (Pauli Kruhse)
    • World War II (Library of Congress, Soviet Archives Exhibit)
    • World War II in Ukraine (Andrew Gregorovich)
  • Switzerland
    • Nazi gold (PBS Frontline)
    • Swiss bank dormant accounts (Swiss Bankers Association)
  • Ukraine
    • UPA Army and Ukrainians in World War II military formations: an overview (Peter J. Potichnyj)
    • World War II in Ukraine (Andrew Gregorovich)
  • United States
    • Color photographs from the FSA and OWI, ca. 1938-1944 (Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress)
    • Institute on World War II and the Human Experience (Florida State University)
    • US Army Center for Military History  
    • German-American internment during theWorld Wars
    • Japanese American internment (C. John Yu)
    • North Platte Canteen, North Platte, Nebraska (Martin Steinbeck)
    • People at war (United States, National Archives and Records Administration, National Personnel Records Center)
    • War Relocation Authority Camps in Arizona, 1942-1946 (University of Arizona Library)
    • Washington goes to war (Don DeAngelo, University of San Diego)
  • Yugoslavia
    • OB's in Yugoslavia in WW2 Ivan Bajlo

  Personal narratives

  • British soldier remembers [Troop Sergeant Ronald Tee, 56th Recce Regiment, 78th Battleaxe Division] (Robyn Dowsett)
  • Dad's war: finding and telling your father's World War II story (Wesley Johnston)
  • David A. Friederich: Coxwain U.S.N.R. WWII memoirs (David Friederich)
  • Drop zone virtual museum
  • From Butte to Iwo Jima: the memoirs of W. Paull (William T. Paull)
  • Memories of war (Steve Manning)
  • «Pauline» : l'histoire vraie de Pearl Witherington, agent du SOE (Pearl Cornioley, Hervé Larroque)
  • Private art: a collection of WWII letters to and from the home front (Rose Pranger, ed.)
  • Témoignage : les parias du STO (R. Noblet)
  • World War II oral history (Aaron Elson)
  • WW2 ETO logbook, Herman Kreipke, 26th Ordnance, M.M. (Don Kreipke, ed.)

  Prisoners of war

  • Clinton Prisoner of War Camp, Clinton, Mississippi (Mike Allard)
  • Colditz Castle (Antony Anderson, Hermann Förster)
  • Great escape: Stalag Luft 3, Sagan, March 1944 (Rob Davis)
  • Prisonniers de guerres français racontent (Olivier Jourdan, éd.)
  • U.S. Navy prisoners of war during World War II: a bibliography (United States, Navy, Naval Historical Center)

  Regimental Histories and OB's

  • Orders of Battle - General
    • Commonwealth Orders of Battle Steve Rothwell 
  • Canada
  • France
    • France 1940 (and up until 1945) Nowfel
  • Germany
    • 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich (Dan Reinbold)
    • Gebirgsjaeger (Peter Denniston)
    • Various German WW2 topics (The Conglomeration)
  • Great Britain
    • Burma Star Association The Forgotten Army - Commonwealth Forces in Burma.
    • Land Forces of Britain, the Empire and Commonwealth (TF Mills) Information on and links to many WW2 related unit sites.
    • Higland Regiments 1939 - 1945
    • Royal Artillery Regiment - 1939 - 1945
    • Larry's Bomber Command Website
    • British 46th Infantry Divison and British Army Info
  • Netherlands
    • Royal Dutch Army Order of Battle, May 10th, 1940 (Rogier Peeters)
  • United States
    • Grunts.net - Unit histories of all US Armed Forces Formations (Grunts.net)
    • 7th Armored Division World War II history (7th Armored Division Association) US Army
    • 56th Fighter Group
    • 504th Airborne in WWII (504th Parachute Infantry Regiment)
    • 225th AAA Searchlight Batallion (AAA Searchlight Batallion Association)
    • 381st Bomb Group (H), Ridgewell, England, Station No. 167
    • 487th Bomb Group (Tim Erskine)
    • 738th Field Artillery Battalion
    • Writing 69th [8th Air Force journalists] (Jim Hamilton)

  Reenactment

  • General resources
    • Information and archives
      • Re-enactor links The Forgotten Armies Web site
      • World War II re-enactors (reenactor.net)
    • Photographic archives
  • Companies
  • Information and archives
  • Organizations and programmes
    • 2nd Panzer Division
    • 15th (Scottish) Division
    • California Historical Group World War II Living History Association
    • Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
    • Queen’s Own Rifles of Canada

  Tanks

  • Achtung Panzer! George Parada 
  • Panzerkeil  

  Veterans

  • 7th Armored Division Association (Wesley Johnston) US Army
  • 87th Infantry Division Association

  War crimes

  • Japan
    • Japanese War Crimes (Dongxiao Yue)
    • Nanjing Massacre (CND)
  • Germany
    • Doctors Trial (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum)
    • Look back at Nuremberg (Court TV)
    • Nuremberg War Crimes Trials (Avalon Project)
    • Witnesses to Nuremberg: an oral history of the War Crimes Trials (University of Connecticut, Center for Oral History)

  Women and the war

  • United States
    • What did you do in the war, Grandma?: an oral history of Rhode Island Women during World War II (South Kingstown High School, Honors English Program)
    • Women at war: Redstone's WWII female "production soldiers" (Team Redstone Hyperia Historical Information)
    • Women come to the front: journalists, photographers, and broadcasters during World War II (Library of Congress)