World War 2 Reference Links

[Caesar]

Just some links I have collected. Feel free to add your own.

Updated 4/26/09

General WW2 History
World War 2 in Color (http://www.ww2incolor.com/)
World War 2 Database (http://www.ww2db.com/index.php)
Operation Sealion (http://web.archive.org/web/20070504034219/http://www.flin.demon.co.uk/althist/seal1.htm)
WW2 Slideshow (http://www.worldwar2database.com/cgi-bin/slideviewer.cgi)
Lonesentry.com - Documents and Research on WW2 (http://lonesentry.com/)
WW2 Media Resources (http://www.redorchestragame.com/forum/showthread.php?t=5768)
Recommended Reading (http://www.redorchestragame.com/forum/showthread.php?t=24655)

Wehrmacht Links
Luft '46 (http://www.luft46.com/)
Achtung Panzer! (http://www.achtungpanzer.com/)
Axis History Factbook (http://axishistory.com/)
Feldgrau.com (http://www.feldgrau.com/)
Panzerworld (http://www.panzerworld.net/index.html)
Uboat.net (http://www.uboat.net/)

Romanian Army Links
Romanian Small Arms (http://www.carpathiancrosses.com/forum/index.php?topic=114.0)
Romanian Armored Vehicles (http://www.carpathiancrosses.com/forum/index.php?topic=118.0)

Imperial Japan
Nihon Kaigun - Imperial Japanese Navy (http://www.combinedfleet.com/)

Soviet Links
Soldiers of the Great Patriotic War (http://english.pobediteli.ru/)
The Russian Battlefield (http://battlefield.ru/)
War is Over (General Red Army) (http://wio.ru/)

Weapons, Equipment, and Armor
Guns of World War II (http://www.lemairesoft.freehyperspace.com/weben/armes/edito/11139.html#18190)
Anti-aircraft, artillery, and artillery database (http://www.tarrif.net/cgi/production/all_artillery_adv.php)
Engines of the Red Army (http://www.o5m6.de/index.html)
Tanks in WW2 (http://www.tanksinworldwar2.com/tanks.aspx)
Tiger I Information (http://www.alanhamby.com/tiger.html)
Guns vs Armor 1939 to 1945 (http://www.freeweb.hu/gva/index.html)
WW2 Tank Armor (http://yarchive.net/mil/ww2_tank_armor.html)


Army Organization
Bayonet Strength (http://www.bayonetstrength.150m.com/) Highly recommended!
Nafziger Collection for Wargamers (http://home.fuse.net/nafziger/TOE.HTM)
World War II Armed Forces Orders of Battle (http://orbat.com/site/ww2/drleo/index_01.htm)

[IcecreamLtDan]

WWII discussion forum I spend time at.

http://www.ww2f.com/

Here's another one for axis fans

http://forum.axishistory.com/index.php

A nice collection of pictures and links, not updated very much anymore though

http://www.worldwar2database.com/cgi-bin/slideviewer.cgi

[trebmal_ca]

http://www.uboat.net/

online database/pics

[Bowkers]

I rarely use online sources for WW2, much prefer thumbing my various tombes and finding valid arguments there.

[GeoffS]

Here's a few of my bookmarked links:

General WW2 History, Tanks of WW2 (http://www.tanksinworldwar2.com/tanks.aspx)

Wehrmacht info, Tiger 1 Information Centre (http://www.alanhamby.com/tiger.html)

Museums and Memorials, Australian War Memorial (http://www.awm.gov.au/)

[TimW]

Why Operation Sealion was an absolutely terrible idea: http://web.archive.org/web/20070504034219/http://www.flin.demon.co.uk/althist/seal1.htm

[Handyman]

Hey guys, lets not forget wikipedia! There's a lot of information about ww2 there.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ww2

[Bowkers]

Oh god, I knew it was coming but still, really? We are 'historians' after all!

And yes that does sound like one of my lecturers, they have infiltrated my mind

[Kirjava]

Wikipedia's a decent starting point, and is a good place to get the basic facts from as well as providing a lot of points of inspiration you might not have thought of otherwise.

And come on, "historians"? I've seen maybe three texts referenced in peoples' arguments on this sub-forum so far.

[Bowkers]

I am studying to be a historian, and I strive to always mention books I have mentioned in this sub forum. As I said above, in this very thread, I rarely/dont use internet sources.

[Kirjava]

Not saying you shouldn't, provided it's a credible source! :) When it comes to the basic facts you can usually rely on Wikipedia to be sound.

Good on you studying history though, it was part of my Joint Honours degree. Which year are you in (I'm making the assumption that you're at uni)?

Not reading it right now, but I can recommend Richard Overy's 'The Dictators' (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dictators-Hitlers-Germany-Stalins-Russia/dp/0140281495/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1227528412&sr=8-1) for a really thorough look at Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia.

[Bowkers]

Indeed I am, in my second year, so it counts, but yet unsuprisingly my post count has shot up on this forum... Yeah I will make sure I read that. I love any type of history really. Well I say any, anything post 19th century.

[Trizzdog]

Considering the thread's usefulness, I've decided to sticky it. Hopefully it doesn't suffer from "invisible sticky syndrome" in the future!

[IcecreamLtDan]

Here's another good site for photos.

http://go.footnote.com/wwii/

[Herr Kodax]

Here's a few not mentioned yet.

LemaireSoft's Encyclopedia of the Guns of World War II (http://www.lemairesoft.freehyperspace.com/weben/armes/edito/11139.html#18190)

Anti-Tank, Anti-Aircraft, & Artillery Database (http://www.tarrif.net/cgi/production/all_artillery_adv.php)

Engines of the Red Army in WW2 (http://www.o5m6.de/index.html)

War is Over (http://wio.ru/)

[PoK82]

This site has a nice collection of images: World War II in Color (http://www.ww2incolor.com/)
There are a lot of categories like Australian, Canadian Forces and not just German, US or Russian.

[Panzer General]

Wikipedia is good and pretty acurate about WW2!

[Caesar]

Updated today 4/26/09

[Boots262]

This is a collection from Rutgers University of oral history interviews done with soldiers from various wars, starting with WW2: http://oralhistory.rutgers.edu/

Also,t he Australians at War archive, a huge archive of over 2000 interviews with Australian servicemen from most 20th century conflcts: http://www.australiansatwarfilmarchive.gov.au/aawfa/index.html

@Bowkers, while I understand your reluctance to trust the internet, as a PhD student and marker of undergrad work, Wikipedia is good for dates and numbers, just not interpretations. IE don't cite it in your essays, but as reference, it's (generally) fine.

I'll post more as I think of them.

[130Th Panzer]

www.wwiivehicles.com