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  • "Crossing the Bridge at Remagen"(424 clicks)
    Interview with Ken Hechler. Interviewer: Betty Dotson Lewis. July 14, 2001
  • 104th Infantry Division(780 clicks)
    Divisional veterans page
  • 10th Mountain Division, U S Army(431 clicks)
    [ 85th Regiment ] [ 86th Regiment ] [ 87th Regiment ] [ 604th. ] [ 605th. ] [ 616th. ] [ 10th Anti Tank Bn. ] [ 10th. Recon ] [ 10th Quarter Master ] [ 10th Medical ] [ 110th Signal ] [ Division HQ ] [ HQ Special Troops ] [ Belvedere Blizzard ] [ Italy 2000 ] [ 126th Engineers ]
  • 1941 Russian/German Front(476 clicks)
    WW2 in Russia in 1941. All defense and offensive operations
  • 1941: Russian/German Front(430 clicks)
    Battle maps are the key element of this site.
  • 33rd Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron Online(429 clicks)
    History of men and machines of the 33rd PRS in WWII.
  • 376th Heavy Bombardment Group Oral Histories(436 clicks)
    The 376th Heavy Bombardment Group Oral Histories includes audio and video oral histories with veterans serving in the 376th Heavy Bombardment Group during World War II.
  • A European Anabasis(417 clicks)
    A European Anabasis — Western European Volunteers in the German Army and SS, 1940-1945.Book by Kenneth W. Estes
  • A General Sketch of the European War - The Second Phase(436 clicks)
  • A Walk in My Shoes During the Battle of the Bulge(412 clicks)
    Combat veteran and POW
  • Achtung Panzer(479 clicks)
    German Tanks in World War II
  • Adolf Hitler- Declaration Of War Against Allies 1941(373 clicks)
    audio
  • Aerial Reconnaissance Archives(411 clicks)
    Aerial reconnaissance photographs, deposited by the UK Ministry of Defence at TARA, accessible via the internet. For the first time you can access 5.5 million photographs taken over occupied Western Europe, by the Allies during World War II.
  • After D-Day: The Normandy Campaign(432 clicks)
    The battle for Europe after the D-Day invasion.
  • Avanti, Savoia!(389 clicks)
    Le Forze Armate del Regno d’Italia, Regio Esercito, Regia Marina e Regia Aeronautica, nella Seconda Guerra Mondiale. Reparti, uomini, armi, mezzi. Battaglie e campagne.
  • Avout A New Dawn(381 clicks)
    A firsthand account of one German man's experience living through World War II.
  • Battle for Moscow(413 clicks)
    Battle for Moscow during WW2 in 1941-1942. All operations with maps.
  • Battle for Moscow(415 clicks)
    Also in Russian.
  • Battle of Britain(400 clicks)
    Includes an ongoing battle diary.
  • Battle of Britain Historical Society(420 clicks)
    Interesting site.
  • Battle of Leningrad(467 clicks)
    Great battle during WW2 in 1941-1944. All operations and map.
  • Battle of Leningrad(438 clicks)
    Also in Russian.
  • BBC-WW2 People's War(433 clicks)
    The BBC asked the public to contribute their memories of World War Two to a website between June 2003 and January 2006. This archive of 47,000 stories and 15,000 images is the result.
  • Bletchley Park(405 clicks)
    "During WW2 the German armed forces top secret codes were broken at Bletchley Park, providing the allies with vital infomation towards their war effort. The world's first programmable computer and other technologies we take for granted today were initiated at Bletchley Park."
  • Blood Ran in the Streets(412 clicks)
    World War II Story "Blood Ran in the Streets," Cabin Creek, WV Coal Miner; July 1, 2001
  • Captured: The 65th Anniversary of D-Day on the Normandy Beaches(465 clicks)
  • Comando Supremo: Italy at War, 1940-1943(454 clicks)
    Counters the arguments of Italian cowardice.
  • Complete Broadcast D-Day NBC(482 clicks)
  • Congratulations to the 7th Army(371 clicks)
    HEADQUARTERS SEVENTH ARMY, APO #758, U. S. Army. GENERAL ORDER, 22 August 1943: NUMBER 18
  • D+66: World War II Through a Single Soldier's Eyes(426 clicks)
    War memoirs of Van R. Mayhall, Sr., USAR Col. (ret)
  • D-Day (National Film Board of Canada)(394 clicks)
  • D-Day--Complete Broadcast(480 clicks)
  • D-Day: American Experiebce(413 clicks)
    PBS
  • Diary of a WWII Veteran(386 clicks)
    Short but useful
  • Documentatiegroep '40-'45(516 clicks)
    Dutch association of WWII collectors
  • Feldgrau.com(518 clicks)
    Feldgrau.com - research on the German armed forces 1918-1945
  • Finnish Army in World War II(433 clicks)
    Includes references.
  • France - "Les archives de guerre"(467 clicks)
  • Franco-German Armistice, June 25, 1940(423 clicks)
    Armitice agreement between the German High Command ... and French...June 22, 1940
  • Frankowski Diary (440 clicks)
    Mrs. Frankowski’s diary is a record of the events she and her family suffered as a result of the Soviet invasion of Poland on September 17, 1939.
  • Game of Death: playing soccer with the Nazis(420 clicks)
  • Gen. Carl Spaatz and D Day(409 clicks)
    Richard Davis, Aerospace Power Journal, Winter 1997
  • German Surrender Documents(393 clicks)
    WWII. Complete set.
  • Germans Surrender Among Ruins(394 clicks)
    Contemporary viedo
  • Harry J. Herder, Jr., Liberation of Buchenwald(690 clicks)
    Eyewitness account.
  • Humor as a defense mechanism in the holocaust(431 clicks)
    Doctor of Philosophy Thesis from Tel-Aviv University. By Chaya Ostrower. The purpose of this study was to investigate and comprehend the types of humor and laughter and the functions they fulfilled in the Holocaust.
  • John C. Crews, WWII Veteran(411 clicks)
    One's man's story of the fight against Germany.
  • Journal for the 3rd Battalion, 26th Infantry, 1st Infantry Division(388 clicks)
    Commencing November 1st 1942
  • Kursk - July, 1943(408 clicks)
    WWII battle in Russia.
  • Lesser Known Facts(387 clicks)
  • Letter and Interview(267 clicks)
    Letter home during the War and an interview in May, 2002.
  • Letter, Headquarters II Corps, 1943(263 clicks)
    Letter of Commendation, July 16, 1943
  • Luchtoorlog-Warplanes(298 clicks)
  • M4 Sherman Tank - Crew tell how shocking it was (387 clicks)
    YouTube
  • Magnificent Eleven: The D-Day Photos of Robert Capa(553 clicks)
    When soldiers of the 16th Regiment of the 1st Infantry Division landed at Omaha Beach on June 6, 1944, photographer Robert Capa, in the employ of LIFE magazine, was among them.
  • Massacres and Atrocities of World War II.(455 clicks)
    Massacres and Atrocities of World War II within the countries of Belgium, France, Greece, and Holland. by George Duncan.
  • Memories of a World War II Veteran on the "U.S.S. Nevada"(307 clicks)
    1943 - 1946. Good photos
  • Memory Project: The Italian Campaign(296 clicks)
  • Mission Accomplished(257 clicks)
    The Story of the Campaigns of the VII Corps
  • Monte Cassino(263 clicks)
    "A documentary of experiences of the men who suffered in the shadow of the great Abbey of Monte Cassino."
  • Netherland Forced Labor(271 clicks)
    How the Germans forced the Dutch into slave labor
  • Normandy, 1944(259 clicks)
    from Encyclopdia Britannica
  • Occupation Soldier, The (1946)(298 clicks)
    "This film stresses the job of the occupation soldier in Germany, with emphasis on a '"be firm -- but fair" policy."
  • Operation Barbarossa(834 clicks)
  • Operation Market Garden(278 clicks)
    The largest Airborne operation in history, the heroic actions of the 1st Airborne Division in Holland, September 1944
  • Operation Market Garden: "A Bridge Too Far"(310 clicks)
    Famous battle
  • Panzer Museum(382 clicks)
  • Photos from the Italian Front(264 clicks)
    Collection of Photos taken by my Dad and vets of 5th Army in Italy. Includes group photos, photos of Camp Shelby(MS), Desert Training Center(CA), Execution of Mussolini. From 328 Field Artillery, 85 Div, 310 Engineer Btln. Link to Anzio Diary(38pgs)
  • Photos, Articles, and Research on the(351 clicks)
  • Pobediteli: Soldiers of the Great War(295 clicks)
    Our objective is to thank those who won the Great Patriotic War.
  • Poland Invasion. Blitzkrieg! (Sep 1939). 1 of 2(715 clicks)
  • Polish Campaign, 1939(281 clicks)
    German units rolled into Poland and crushed it. This was the campaign that began WWII in Europe.
  • Regia Marina Italiana(485 clicks)
    The Italian Navy in World War II. In Italian or English.
  • Royal Air Force(318 clicks)
  • Sid's War(295 clicks)
    War time memories of Pvt. Sid Martindale, 1st Battalion Argyll Sutherland Highlanders as told in his own words.
  • Skylighters(343 clicks)
    The 225th AAA Searchlight Battalion (Semimobile).
  • Some Documents Relevant to Germany's Invasion of Poland and Response to Great Britain's Ultimatum(285 clicks)
    Contains: (1)Proclamation by Adolf Hitler, Chancellor of the Reich, to the German Army, September 1,19139. (2) Address by Adolf Hitler, Chancellor of the Reich, before the Reichstag, September 1, 1939. (3) Communication from the German Government to the British Government, Handed to Joachim von Ribbentrop, Minister for Foreign Affairs, to the British Ambassador (Sir Neville Henderson) at 11:20 A.M., September 3, 1939 (4) Proclamation by Adolf Hitler, Chancellor of the Reich, to the German People, September 3, 1939.
  • Soviet War Photography(276 clicks)
  • Stalag XVIII A - Wolfsburg in Austria(287 clicks)
    The original pictures (and those since added) were taken at Stalag XVIII A in Austria. Surprisingly, the camp authorities permitted photography, although a censorship system operated and most of the pictures can be seen as having potential propaganda value for the Germans.
  • Tank Dozer(268 clicks)
    Interview of Clemon Knapp, WWII Veteran by Betty Dotson Lewis, July 17, 2001.
  • Tanks of World War II(278 clicks)
  • Teaching the Holocaust through Stamps(278 clicks)
    An interdisciplinary computerized program through the use of stamps, pictures, text and paintings by children in the Holocaust
  • The Battle of Britain(298 clicks)
    Great site.
  • The Blitz in Portsmouth, England(294 clicks)
    Focus on the port city of Portsmouth with "years later" comments as well.
  • The Italian Campaign, 1943-1945(283 clicks)
    This site covers some history of the Italian Campaign with photos, stories, Unit organization and a Reference Library. Most history books discuss the fighting in Italy after June 1944. This site includes details of the GOTHIC Line and Po Valley.
  • The Katyn Massacre [in Poland](299 clicks)
    AN ASSESSMENT OF ITS SIGNIFICANCE AS A PUBLIC AND HISTORICAL ISSUE IN THE UNITED STATES AND GREAT BRITAIN, 1940-1993. " The purpose of this research is to assess the public, political and historical, scholarly significance of the Katyn Massacre--the extermina- tion of 26,000 Polish officers, cadets, and other officials at Katyn and other killing sites in Russia in Spring 1940. Specifically, the study surveys the historical and contemporary treatment of the Katyn Massacre in the public press and scholarly literature of the United States and Great Britain, 1943-1993."
  • The Netherlands in WWII(277 clicks)
  • The Seventy-First Came(387 clicks)
    Liberation of Gunskirchen, Austria - May 4, 1945
  • The War of a Green Howard(289 clicks)
    "What you will find is a great book written by my dad, Bill Cheall, about his World War II experiences.The book covers many major episodes of the war and there is a special section on all my dad's comrades and acquaintances from what is the most significant period of modern history, including a number of photographs."
  • Tunnel Harry(284 clicks)
    Electric lighting. A railroad. An air ventilation system. Against incredible odds, the Allied airmen imprisoned at the Nazi POW camp Stalag Luft III secretly engineered these and other technological marvels 30 feet underground in the three escape tunnels they named "Tom," "Dick," and "Harry."
  • War Diary of John Kline(274 clicks)
    from the "War Diary" of John Kline, a nineteen year old Squad Leader, Heavy Machine guns, 2nd squad, 1st Platoon, M Company, 423rd Infantry Regiment, 106th Infantry Division.
  • World War II - Prisoners of War - Stalag Luft I(290 clicks)
  • World War II in Europe(310 clicks)
    Summary, photos, links, memoirs
  • Writings of my father, Joseph W. Zorzoli(246 clicks)
    An HTA book. Edited by Judith Z. Marrs. Photos.
  • WW2 People's War(254 clicks)
    From the BBC
  • Yankee Division: Letters From the Front(269 clicks)
    WWII letters with additional commentary.
  • You Never Know Who's Listening!(279 clicks)
    In February 1940 a nationwide campaign was launched that warned the general public against loose talk and the dangers of unwittingly giving information to enemy sympathizers.
  • “One of Many”(270 clicks)
    British WWII site.