World War II
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Mark Conrad has collected a list of links dealing with World War II. |
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Hyperwar: a hypertext history of the Second World War. |
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Historical text archive of WWII. |
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BBC's in-depth chronology of the war. |
| Maps for Europe and Pacific/Asian theaters, from the U.S. Military Academy. |
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The Rutgers oral history of WWII |
| World War II Reels. |
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About the National World War II Memorial. |
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The Sixth Army Special Reconnaissance Unit, also known as the Alamo Scouts, was a special operations force in the Pacific Theater. |
| The Drop Zone: oral histories, e-histories, and photos, by and about America's elite units of WWII. |
| Power Point presentation of the history of the European Theater. |
| Essential Pearl Harbor from Osprey Publishing. |
| Feldgrau.com: Research on the German forces from 1918 -1945. |
| A Marine Diary: My Experiences on Guadalcanal |
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Several American Indian tribal languages were used as codes. The Navajo Codetalkers are best known, but the Sioux and Comanche have also been recognized for their work. Other tribal languages may have been used to similar effect, but I haven't found them yet. |
| Patton's "Big Speech," delivered June 5 1944, with commentary. And here is the movie version. |
| A British Soldier Remembers |
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A number of air war links from the web site of the 78th Fighter Group. |
| A site dedicated to the U-Boat war. |
| Timeless Voices of Aviation: Collecting first-person oral history recordings from individuals who have impacted aviation. |
| Marshall Stelzriede's experiences as a B-17 navigator. |
| The story of the Indianapolis tragedy. |
| The bombings of (among others) Hamburg, Dresden, Tokyo and Kobe created firestorms, |
| An Air Force view of Dresden. |
| Chronology of the atomic bomb, 1945-46. |
| Fly The Fortress: book flights aboard a B-17. |
| Sentimental Journey Ltd.: British Militaria, 1914-1965. Replicas of clothes, paperwork, etc. |
| Music files and radio broadcasts from WWII. |
| A very impressive site on World War II reenacting. |