MILITARY HISTORY SITES

World War I

Aviation

• The Aerodrome: Aces and Aircraft of World War I
• Aviation History On-line Museum
• Dark Autumn: the The 1916 German Zeppelin Offensive
• Illustrated History of World War I Aviation
• League of World War I Aviation Historians
• Ro§bud's WWI Aviation Image Archive - Aeroplanes, Airships & Kite Balloons
• WWI Aces and Aircraft
• World War I Aircraft Photo Archive
• World War I Aviation Links
• World War I Aviation Links (different site)
• The Zeppelin in World War I

Battles and Battlefields

• Battle of Jutland
• Battle of the Somme
• Battle of Verdun
• Belgian Fronts
• The Forts of Verdun
• Canada and the First World War
• Canada in the First World War and the Road to Vimy Ridge
• Canadian Veterans Interviews - Veterans Affairs Canada
• The Forts of Verdun
• Gallipoli
• Gallipoli 1915
• The Gallipoli Association
• Gallipoli Digger (artifacts from the battlefields)
• Gallipoli: The Drama of the Dardanelles (Imperial War Museum)
• The Great War: Vimy Ridge
• Leaders of Anzacs
• Memorials to Canada's War Dead
• Photos of the Hijaz Railroad: Site of T. E. Lawrence Operations
• 2nd Battle of the Marne, 1918
• Visit Gallipoli

Commemorative Sites and Official Histories

• American Battle Monuments Commission
• ANZAC Day Commemoration Committee (Queensland)
• Armenian National Institute (Armenian genocide in WW I)
• Australia in World War I (Australian Dept. of Veterans' Affairs)
• Australian War Memorial
• Belleau Wood and its Cemetery
• (Proposed) Belleau Wood Museum
• Canada and the First World War (Canadian National Archives)
• First World War Official Histories (Australia)
• Imagining Australia 1914-1918
• Lusitania Online
• Newfoundland and the Great War
• The Newfoundland Beaumont Hamel Memorial
• The Russian Legion (Russian units fighting on the Western Front)
• SS Tuscania

Posters, Art, and Propaganda

• American Posters of World War I
• Art of the First World War
• Canadian Posters from the First World War
• Canadian War Posters
• George Tyler WWI Poster Collection
• The Poster War Virtual Exhibit (Allied Posters)
• Propaganda Postcards of the Great War
• World War I Rotogravures (Library of Congress)
• World War I Sheet Music
• War Artists of the First World War

Primary Sources: Texts and Photos

• The Archives of Ontario Remembers our Canadian War Heroes
• Australian Army War Diaries
• First World War: Sources for History (UK National Archives)
• The Great War Series Archives
• Photos of the Great War
• Songs Popular during the First World War (Veterans Affairs Canada)
• Stars and Stripes (entire World War I edition)
• Text of the Treaty of Versailles
• War Diaries of the First World War (National Archives of Canada)
• World War One Color Photos (Western Front)
• World War I Document Archive (A Biographical Dictionary of World War I figures is now included.)
• World War I History Commission Questionnaires (Commonwealth of Virginia)
• World War I Sheet Music

Soldiers, Poets, and Writers

• Anthem for Doomed Youth: Writers and Literature of the Great War
• Ernst Jünger in Cyberspace (Jünger wrote the famous war memoir entitled Storm of Steel)
• Introduction to First World War Poetry
• Isaac Rosenberg
• John McCrae (Canadian poet who wrote the famous poem, "In Flanders Field")
• Lost Poets of the Great War
• Remembrance and Mourning: Literature of the Great War
• Robert Graves, Fairies and Fusiliers (this collection of poetry is in HTML format)
• Rudyard Kipling
• Rupert Brooke, Collected Poems
• Siegfried Sassoon, Counter-Attack and Other Poems
• Siegfried Sassoon, The Old Huntsman and Other Poems
• Siegfried Sassoon, Picture-Show
• The Wilfred Owen Multimedia Digital Archive
• Wilfred Owen, Poems

Other

• Armenian Genocide
• The Art of the First World War
• Association 1914-1918 (a French organization)
• Battle of Jutland
• Canadian Expeditionary Force 1914-1919 (Official History--pdf)
• Canadian Songs of the First World War
• U-Boot Net (auf deutsch)
• First World War.com
• The First World War Encyclopedia
• The First World War in the News
• German Naval History
• German Navy in World War I
• The Great War
• The Great War 1914-1918
• The Great War: 80 Years On (A BBC Special Report)
• The Great War Series Articles (The War Times Journal)
• The Great War--Western Front Battlefield Guide
• Hellfire Corner -- The First World War
• The Heritage of the Great War
• In Memory of Able Seaman William Fielding
• Maps of World War I
• North Carolinians and the Great War
• Old Contemptible's Great War Website
• Over The Top (an interactive experience based on the experience of Canadian soldiers in World War I)
• Photos of the Great War
• Themenportal Erster Weltkrieg (auf deutsch)
• World War I Image Archive
• WW1 Maps Index
• Word War I, The Great War (The Western Front)
• Spartacus International Internet Encyclopedia: The First World War

World War II

Air War

• Der alliierte Bombenkrieg 1939-1945 (auf deutsch)
• American Aces of World War II
• Aviation History On-line Museum
• B-17 Flying Fortress
• B-29 Superfortress
• Battle of Britain History Site (RAF)
• The Battle of Britain
• Dambusters 1943
• D-Day Air Operations
• Flight History.com
• Capt. George Rarey's Air Force Cartoon Journals
• Imperial Japanese Naval Aviation Page
• The Luftwaffe Resource Page
• Planes and Pilots of World War II
• Royal Air Force Bomber Command
• Royal Canadian Air Force Archive Page
• US Strategic Bombing Survey (Summary Report)
• World War Two Aircraft
• World War II Aviation Links
• Zeno's Warbird Video Drive-In (WWII aviation training films in RealVideo)

Atomic Bomb

• A-Bomb WWW Museum in Hiroshima
• The Atomic Archive
• The Atomic Bomb and the End of World War II (documents)
• Bikini Atoll
• Bureau of Atomic Tourism (A Guide to Places Important in the Development of the A-bomb)
• The Costs of the Manhattan Project
• The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb (1960 study)
• Enola Gay and the Bombing of Hiroshima
• Enola Gay Archive (Air Force Association)
• The Enola Gay Controversy
• Enola Gay--Former Exhibition
• Enola Gay Remembered
• Enrico Fermi and the Nuclear Chain Reaction
• The Final Months of the War with Japan: Signals Intelligence, U.S. Invasion Planning, and the A-Bomb Decision (a CIA monograph)
• The Hanford Site Historic District
• A Personal Record of Hiroshima A-Bomb Survival
• Remembering Nagasaki (includes riveting photos taken in the city in 1945)
• Secrets, Lies, and Atomic Spies (NOVA)
• Truman's Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb (a document collection)
• Harry S. Truman Presidential Library Digital Archive Project: The Atomic Bomb Decision

D-Day and the Fight Inland

• After D-Day: Operation Cobra and the Normandy Breakout
• Airborne Assault on the Orne Bridges on D-Day
• Battle of Arnhem
• D-Day Air Operations
• D-Day Museum Home Page
• D-Day (National Film Board of Canada)
• D-Day on the Web
• Juno Beach Centre
• National D-Day Memorial Foundation
• Normandy 2000: A Tour
• Normandy Allies
• Normandy Landing Site Photos by Joe Hickman
• Untold Stories of D-Day
• Utah Beach to Cherbourg (US Army Center for Military History)

Documents & Other Primary Sources

• Aerial Reconnaissance Archives
• After the Day of Infamy: "Man-on-the-Street" Interviews Following the Attack on Pear Harbor
• Art and War (Canadian War Museum)
• The Art of War (UK National Archives)
• Australian Army War Diaries
• BBC - WW2 People's War
• Capt. George Rarey's Air Force Cartoon Journals
• Crisis Over Czechoslovakia, 1938
• Democracy at War: Canadian Newspapers and the Second World War
• Doctor Seuss Went to War
• Echoes of War: Stories from the Big Red One
• The Drop Zone Virtual Museum Oral History Project
• Experiencing the War: Stories from the Veterans History Project
• German Propaganda Archive
• German Surrender Documents - World War II
• German Army map of European Russia, 1943-4
• A Guadalcanal Diary (memoir)
• Japanese Navy: Pearl Harbor Operations: General Outline of Orders and Plans
• Lone Sentry
• Man-on-the-Street Interviews Following the Attack on Pearl Harbor
• Mulvaney on Bomb Disposal
• Nazi and German Propaganda
• Nazi Propaganda Posters
• Nominal Roll of World War II Veterans (Australia)
• Nuremberg War Crimes Trial (Library of Congress)
• Nuremberg Trial: The Doctors' Trial
• Nuremberg Trial Documents
• Nuremberg: Trial of Major German War Criminals (Nizkor)
• Nuremberg: Trial of Major German War Criminals (Blue Series)
• Nuremberg Trials, 1945-1949
• Nuremberg: Trials of War Criminals (Green Series)
• Nuremberg Trials Project (Harvard Law School Library)
• Nuremberg War Crimes Trials
• Oral History Archives of World War II (Rutgers)
• OSS Psychological Profile of Adolf Hitler (The Langer Report)
• Primary Documents: Germany
• Private Art: WW II Letters to and from Home
• Rutgers Oral History Archives of World War II
• Second World War Experience Centre (Britain)
• Through a Lens: Dieppe in Photography and Film
• US Government Publications from World War II
• US Navy in World War II: Primary Source Documents
• From the diary of Frank Curry - Veterans Affairs Canada
• War Crimes Trials at Nuremberg (Truman Library)
• War Memoirs Project
• World War II Military Situation Maps
• World War II Oral History Website
• World War II Resources from the Univ. of North Carolina
• World War II Songs
• World War II Sound and Image Archive

Graphics and Maps

• African-Americans in World War II: Photos
• Art and War (Australian War Memorial)
• Art and War (Canadian War Museum)
• The Art of War (UK National Archives)
• Canadian War Posters
• Fortunes of War Collectibles
• Lone Sentry
• Military Maps of the Second World War
• Normandy Landing Site Photos by Joe Hickman
• The Perilous Fight: America's World War II in Color
• Poster Art from World War II (NARA Exhibit)
• The Russian Campaign: A Photo Diary by Otto Willnauer
• World War II Photos (NARA)
• WWII Maps--Asian Theater
• WW II Maps, European Theater
• World War II Poster Collection (Northwestern University Library)
• World War II Posters from the WPA

The Holocaust (Also see the separate Holocaust page on this site)

• An Auschwitz Alphabet (well worth a look)
• Cybrary of the Holocaust
• David Dickerson's Home Page (Holocaust, Antisemitism, Jewish Culture & History)
• Holocaust Archive Project
• Holocaust Links by Al Filreis
• I*EARN Holocaust/Genocide Project
• Mauthausen Concentration Camp Memorial
• Nazi Gold (PBS Frontline on Switzerland and the Jews in World War II)
• Nizkor Holocaust WWW Home Page (This is the most important Holocaust site in North America.)
• Remembering the Holocaust (an Australian site)
• Shamash Holocaust Resources
• Simon Wiesenthal Center
• Tunnels, Shelters, Armament Production: Underground Systems of WW II
• U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C.
• Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism
• Yad Vashem Home Page (Israel's Holocaust Memorial and Research Center)

The Home Front

• The Archives of Ontario Remembers the Home Front
• Building the Alaska Highway
• Canadian War Industry During the Second World War
• The Decision To Evacuate the Japanese From the Pacific Coast (US Army Center for Military History)
• Fighters on the Farmfront
• Hitler Youth (The History Place)
• Japanese-American Exhibit
• Life Interrupted: The Japanese American Experience in World War II Arkansas
• Polish Home Army (resistance)
• The Second World War as a National Experience (PDF document) 
• The Warsaw Uprising 1944
• War Relocation Authority Camps in Arizona, 1942-1946
• What did you do in the war, Grandma?
• Women's Land Army

Pacific Theater

• The Decision to Withdraw to Bataan (US Army Center for Military History)
• The Fall of the Philippines (US Government text)
• A Guadalcanal Diary (memoir)
• The Imperial Japanese Navy Page
• Iwo Jima
• Iwo Jima--The Full Story
• Kamikazes
• Navajo Code Talkers
• Pearl Harbor Remembered
• Remembering Pearl Harbor (National Geographic)
• Return to Midway (Nat. Geographic dives at the battle site)
• World War II in the Pacific: U.S. Troops in Action
• WWII Maps--Asian Theater

The War at Sea

• 3D Corvette
• Ahoy--Mac's Web Log: Naval, Maritime, Australian History and more
• Battle of the Atlantic
• Battle of the Atlantic (Veterans Affairs Canada)
• Canada in World War II: At Sea
• US Coast Guard Combat Victories in World War II
• German Naval History
• The Imperial Japanese Navy Page
• The PT Boat Page
• ULTRA and the Campaign Against U-Boats
• U188
• U-boat Net: The U-boat War 1939-1945

Wartime Leaders

• Adolf Eichmann - Biography
• The Churchill Archive Centre, Cambridge
• Eisenhower Memorial Commission
• Reinhard Heydrich - Biography
• The Rise of Adolf Hitler
• Rudolf Hess - Biography
• Hitler and World War II (hypertext lecture)
• The Winston Churchill Home Page

General and Miscellaneous Sites

• Ahoy--Mac's Web Log: Naval, Maritime, Australian History and more
• America at War: American Military History (includes timelines for World Wars I & II)
• American Battle Monuments Commission
• Arthur Szyk: Artist for Freedom
• Australia in World War II (Australian Dept. of Veterans' Affairs)
• Axis History Factbook
• Battle of the Bulge (US Army Center for Military History)
• Battle of the Bulge on the Web
• Battle of Kursk on the Web
• Battle of Stalingrad
• Bletchley Park (official website)
• Canada in World War II (Juno Beach Centre)
• Canvas of War (Canadian War Museum)
• Decoding Nazi Secrets
• Dunkirk Remembered (BBC)
• eHistory: World War II
• Enigma Cipher Machine
• Enigma Cipher Machine: History of Solving
• Experiences in the Use of ULTRA (Nat. Security Agency)
• Feldgrau.com: German Armed Forces, 1919-1945
• France in World War II
• German Tanks in World War II
• German War Grave Commission (auf Deutsch)
• Government Publications from World War II
• Historical Facts of World War II
• History: World War II (BBC Online)
• Hitler's Third Reich and World War II in the News
• Holocaust-Era Assets
• HyperWar: World War II on the World Wide Web
• Japan's Decision for War (US Army Center for Military History)
• Lectures for Hitler's Germany (Prof. Gerhard Rempel)
• Museum of World War II
• Nazi & Soviet Art
• Nazi Underground Installations in World War II
• Nurses in World War II
• Operation Market Garden (Allied land and airborne assault on the Germans at Arnhem)
• Paris Liberation
• Remembrances: Canada and the Second World War
• The Road to Victory (USSR)
• Second World War Experience Centre (Britain)
• Soldiers at War (Soviet Forces)
• Stalingrad Battlefield Information
• Stalingrad (The Voice of Russia)
• Stalingrad/Volgograd
• Summary of Finland in WWII
• They Drew Fire: Combat Artists of World War II
• US Airborne in World War II
• The Valour & The Honor: Canada at War
• Valour Remembered: Canada and the Second World War
• Virtual Library Geschichte - Drittes Reich
• Virtual Library Geschichte - Zweites Weltkrieg
• Wehrmacht Awards and Decorations, 1933-1945
• The Winter War
• Women Come to the Front (Women Journalists, Photographers, and Broadcasters in World War II)
• World War II Battlefield Tour (Eastern Front)
• WW II Codes and Ciphers
• World War II Exhibit: A People at War
• World War II Links
• World War II Multimedia Database
• World War II Plus 55
• World War Two in Europe Timeline (The History Place)
• World War II Navy Art: A Vision of History
• World War II Remembered
• World War II Tours and Travel

Other Eras & Sites Covering Several Periods

Pre-Modern Era

• Audio Program on Ancient Siege Warfare
• Battle of Hastings, 1066
• Maps of Ancient Warfare
• The Mongol Empire

French Revolution and Napoleonic Era

• French Revolution and Napoleon
• Französische Revolution (auf deutsch)
• Maps of the Wars of Napoleon
• Napoleon
• Napoleon Bonaparte (auf deutsch)
• The Napoleon Series
• Napoleonic Caricatures
• Napoleonic Wars
• The Nelson Society
• Nelson, Trafalgar, and those who served
• Timeline: The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars
• The War of 1812 (Archives of Ontario)
• Waterloo 1815
• Wellington's Dispatches

American Civil War

• American Civil War.com
• 15 Civil War Stories from Harper's Weekly
• Antietam on the Web
• The American Civil War Homepage
• The American Civil War in the News
• Brooklyn in the Civil War
• Camp Life
• Civil War at the Smithsonian
• Civil War Battle Summaries
• The Civil War in Florida: Letters of a New Hampshire Soldier
• Civil War Maps (Library of Congress)
• Civil War Photographs Home Page (Library of Congress)
• A Civil War Soldier in the Wild Cat Regiment
• Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System
• Civil War Traveler
• Civil War Women
• Confederate Broadside Poetry Collection
• eHistory.com: The American Civil War
• Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the War (Civil War)
• Generals of the American Civil War (pictures)
• Gilmer Civil War Maps
• Eugene Goodwin Civil War Diary
• Ulysses S. Grant (Internet Public Library)
• The Harvard Regiment Home Page (20th Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry 1861-1865)
• Historical New York Times: The Civil War
• Papers of Robert E. Lee 
• Lincoln/Net (Abraham Lincoln Historical Digitization Project )
• Mr. Lincoln's Virtual Library
• Maps of the American Civil War
• Military History Online
• The Memoirs, Diary, and Life of Private Jefferson Moses, Company G, 93rd Illinois Volunteers
• Official Records of the War of the Rebellion
• Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant
• Pictures of the Civil War (NARA)
• Sherman's March to the Sea
• United States Civil War Center
• US Civil War Generals
• Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War

Korean War

• Australian Army War Diaries
• Korean War Maps
• Korean War Project Home Page
• No Gun Ri Report
• State-Level Casualty Lists from the Korean Conflict (NARA)

Vietnam War

• History of Vietnam and the Vietnam War
• Investigating the Vietnam War
• Khe Sanh Veterans Home Page
• Resources on the Vietnam Conflict at Texas Tech University
• Re: Vietnam -- Stories Since the War
• State-Level Casualty Lists from the Vietnam Conflict (NARA)
• US Army Vietnam Combat Art
• Vietnam-USA--30th Anniversary Vietnam War
• The Vietnam War
• The Vietnam War Declassification Project
• Vietnam War Era Ephemera Collection
• The Vietnam War in the News
• Vietnam War Maps
• The Vietnam War: Prof. Moise's bibliography (This is an impressive bibliography--not to be missed!)
• Vietnam: Yesterday and Today
• The Wars for Vietnam, 1945 to 1975 (Prof. Robert Brigham, Vassar College)

Other Periods

• 1755 (The French and Indian War Homepage)
• American Revolutionary War in the News
• Anglo Boer War Museum
• Battle of Santiago Bay
• Bay of Pigs (newly declasified CIA documentation)
• Canada and the Boer War, 1899-1902
• The Cold War (CNN)
• Cold War Era Civil Defense Museum
• Flyers of Fortune: American Airmen in the Spanish Civil War
• Fog of War: The Bombing of Baghdad in the Gulf War
• John Philip Sousa
• The Battle of Santiago
• New York Public Library Online Exhibition of the Spanish American War
• The Russo-Japanese War Research Society
• South African War (New Zealand)
• The Spanish-American War in Motion Pictures
• Spanish American War Centennial Website
• Stereoscopic Visions of War and Empire: the Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars
• U.S.-Mexican War (1846-1848)

Sites Covering Several Periods

• The American Battlefield Protection Program (Nat. Park Service)
• Army Nurse Corps History
• Australian War Memorial
• Battle Lines: Letters from America's Wars
• Britain's Small Wars, 1945-2003
• British Battles from Crimea to Korea
• Canada's Digital Collections: Canada at War
• The Canadian Army Home Page
• Canadian Aviation Museum
• Canadian Forces Directorate of History and Heritage
• Canadian Military History Gateway
• Canadian Navy of Yesterday and Today
• Canadian Virtual War Museum
• Canadian War Artists (Exhibition)
• Canadian War Posters
• Canadian War Museum
• The Canadian Wartime Experience (University of Manitoba)
• Canvas of War: Masterpieces from the Canadian War Museum
• Coast Defense Study Group
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Debt of Honour Register
• Conflict and War (CBC Archives)
• Conflict Map (Nobel E-Museum)
• Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships
• DOD Dictionary of Military Terms
• el Gran Capitán: Historia Militar
• Experiencing War (Veterans History Project)
• Flight History.com
• Fortress Study Group - FSG
• From Colony to Country: A Reader's Guide to Canadian Military History
• From the Home Front and the Front Lines (Library of Congress)
• Haze Gray & Underway: Naval History and Photography
• Historic Naval Ships Visitors' Guide
• Historical Nuclear Weapons Test Films
• Historical Weapons
• Historic Wings : the online magazine of aviation
• History of the Russian Navy
• History - Veterans Affairs Canada
• Images Canada: Canada at War
• Imperial German Army, pre-1914
• Imperial War Museum, London
• Imperial War Museum Online Exhibits
• An Interactive History of the Canadian Navy
• International Intelligence History Association
• Invalides--Museum of the Army, Paris
• The Italian Navy
• Kaiser's Bunker--German militaria, 1860-1918
• Land Forces of Britain, the Empire and Commonwealth
• Library and Archives Canada: War and Military
• Map Library, History Department, United States Military Academy, West Point
• The Maritime History Virtual Archives
• MERLN: Military Education and Research Library Network
• Military Campaign Maps (Library of Congress)
• Military History
• Military History Online
• Military Intelligence Links
• Military Resources Worldwide (Cyndi's List)
• Military Science Resources (a British subject tree)
• Museum of Armored Forces, Kubinka, Russia (photos)
• The Nafziger Collection
• National Aviation Museum (Canada)
• National Defense University Library
• National Security Archive (NSA)
• Naval History
• Oral History (an Army "how to" manual for conducting oral history interviews)
• PORT Maritime Information Gateway: Conflicts at Sea
• The Price of Freedom: Americans at War
• Ribbons of Orders and Decorations of the World
• Royal Air Force Museum
• Royal Navy (Great Britain)
• Site O (fortifications and artillery)
• Society for Military History
• Sources on US Naval History in the United States
• Soviet Military Awards
• US Air Force Museum Air Power Gallery
• US Army Center of Military History
• US Marine Corps History and Museums Division
• US Army Military History Institute Digital Library
• US Coast Guard Historian's Office
• US Marine Corps Small Wars Manual (1940 ed.)
• United States Military Academy Digital Collections
• United States Military Academy Maps
• US Naval Warships database
• Veterans History Project (Lib. of Congress)
• War Letters (American Experience)
• War Links (Historical Text Archive)
• War and Society Portal (in German)
• The War Times Journal: Archives (Napoleonic period through World War II)
• Web Sources for Military History
• World War I and II Posters (U. of Minn.)
• World Wide Web Virtual Library: Military History

Last updated on January 22, 2014.