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Archives/Museums/Online
Records
- Aerial Reconnaissance Archives
- Created by The Aerial Reconnaissance
Archives (TARA) at Keele University. Their aim is to make the
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. Work is continuing
to make millions more photographs taken throughout the world
during World War II and later conflicts, accessible."
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- Aeronautical Systems Center (ASC) History Office
- Provides historical information
and related services to the Commander and Staff of ASC. The office
prepares annual histories, monographs, and special studies relating
to ASC and its subordinate units, including the 88th Air Base
Wing. The History Office also maintains a research collection
of historical materials which is available for official researchers
(Air Force, Department of Defense, and their contractors).
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- Air Force History Index
- Searchable index of 550,000
Air Force Historical Research Agency documents -- representing
records held by AFHRA up to 2001.
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- Air University Research Web
- 1,700 research papers on national
security issues, "Special Collection" of eight professional
publication series produced by the Air University Press, and
a Topics Database with suggestions for student or faculty research
from the Air Staff, AF MAJCOMs, and unified commands.
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- Archives of Ontario
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- Army
Historical Foundation
- Dedicated to the preserving
the history and heritage of the American Soldier.
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- Army Records Society - (UK)
- The Army Records Society publishes
documents relating to the military history of Britain.
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- Art of the First World War
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- The Art of War
- Provides free access to an online
exhibition containing a collection of several hundred digital
images of Second World War posters, prints, caricatures, cartoons
and art works held by the British National Archives. Also accessible
are clips from war time documentaries and government sponsored
information films. They include important examples of British
Ministry of Information propaganda materials as well as commentary
on the homefront and conditions in the Second World War. The
site may be browsed by artist, theme or resource type.
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- Avalon Project at Yale Law School: Documents in
Law, History and Diplomacy
- Several collections within this
project contain military-related documents
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- Bomber Pilot
- Web site devoted to the story
of Captain Donald Macintosh, a Royal Air Force bomber pilot of
a Lancaster bomber in 1944. Site contains an audio interview
with Captain Macintosh.
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- British Library
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- British National Army Museum
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- Canada Remembers
- Contains contents of the Canadian
Books of Remembrance.
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- Canada's Digital Collections: Canada
at War
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- Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Archives:
Conflict and War
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- Canadian Forces Directorate of History
and Heritage
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- Canadian Letters & Images Project
- An online archive of the Canadian
war experience, from any war, as told through the letters and
images of Canadians themselves.
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- Canadian Military Heritage Project
- Free searchable genealogy databases
for each war and rebellion Canada has been involved in.
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- Canadian Virtual War Memorial
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- Canadian War Museum
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- Canadian War Poster Collection
- From McGill University's digital
library.
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- Canadian Wartime Experience
- This site is maintained by the
University of Manitoba. It provides free access to a collection
of several thousand digitized primary source materials: such
as documents, newspaper articles, letters, photographs and prints
relating to the experience of Canada and Canadians during various
wars from 1899-1970s.
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- Cantigny First Division Foundation
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- Canvas of War -- Masterpieces from the
Canadian War Museum
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- Center for the Study of the Korean War
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- Centre d'études d'histoire de la défense
(French Defense Ministry)
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- Churchill Archives Centre
- Home to the papers of Sir Winston
Churchill and to over 570 collections of personal papers and
archives documenting the history of the Churchill era and after.
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- Czech Legion
- Documents the story of the Czech
Legion in Revolutionary Russia.
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- 5th Army Mobile Radio Station
- This website contains a scrapbook
put together by a First Lieutenant in the United States Army
during World War II who was assigned to head up the 5th Army
Mobile Radio Station in Italy. The scrapbook consists of
newspaper clippings, photographs, autographs, and other memorabilia
from the radio station and his adventures during the war.
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- First Division Museum
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- The
Freedom Museum
- The museum's prime purpose is
to honor veterans and fallen comrades of recent wars, concentrating
on the American twentieth century, to include all armed forces
and supporting arms and organizations (the USO, Civil Air Patrol,
Merchant Marine, WASPS, Nurse Corps, to name a few), as well
as vital Home Front efforts. Exhibits include photographs, artifacts,
and models depicting America's military in action during the
twentieth century. Special exhibits are set up for dates such
as: D-Day, VJ-Day, and others accompanied by visiting aircraft,
speakers, and demonstrations.
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- German
Historical Museum
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- George C. Marshall
Museum
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- German Military History Research Institute
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- Histoire et Memoire des Deux Guerres Mondiales
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- History and Museums Division of Headquarters, U.S.
Marine Corps
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- HyperWar: A Hypertext History of the Second World
War
- Primary materials about the
Second World War
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- Imperial
War Museum
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- Juno
Beach Centre
- The Juno Beach Centre presents
the war effort made by all Canadians, civilian and military alike,
both at home and on the various fronts during the Second World
War, as well as the manifold faces of contemporary Canadian society.
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- Killroy
Was Here
- Memories and photographs from
WWII and the Korean War. An Official Partner of the Veterans
History Project, in cooperation with the Library of Congress
and the American Folklife Center.
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- Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention
and Innovation
- This new database from the Smithsonian's
Lemelson Center will guide researchers on where to find invention-related
documents and collections. The MIND (Modern Inventors Documentation)
database identifies the invention-related holdings of hundreds
of archives across the United States and is the nation's first
database devoted exclusively to such documents.
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- Letters
from World War One and Two
- Primary source website dedicated
to databasing as much mail from soldiers of world war one and
two as possible and making them freely available online. Site
contains hundreds of letters, envelopes, stamps, photos and miscellanous
items.
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- Library and Archives Canada: War and
Military
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- Library of Congress
- Library catalog, legislative
information, American Memory Project.
- From
the Home Front and the Front Lines
- - Military
Affairs
- - Military
Battles and Campaigns
- - Newspaper
Pictorials: WWI Rotogravures
- - World
War II Military Situation Maps
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- The Memory Hole: Listing of Classified and Restricted
Documents at the Air Force Historical Research Agency
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- Musee de l'Armee
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- National Archives - UK
- Researcher information, publications.
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- National Archives - US
- Finding aids, publications,
researcher information.
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- National
Museum of the Civil Air Patrol
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- National Security Archive
- An independent non-governmental
research institute and library located at The George Washington
University in Washington, D.C. The Archive collects and
publishes declassified documents acquired through the Freedom
of Information Act (FOIA).
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- NATO Defense College: Research Aids and
Resources
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- New York State Military Museum & Veterans Research
Center
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- Operation Iraqi Freedom Documents
- Provides access to unclassified
documents and media captured during Operation Iraqi Freedom.
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- Orders of Battle Database
- The Orders of Battle website
is an online database of military units in World War II
Using this database, the user can view information on military
units of all sizes including Army Groups, Armies, Corps, Divisions,
Brigades, Regiments and Battalions for the Armies of the British
Commonwealth, United States of America, Germany and other major
powers in the Second World War and the men who commanded
them.
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- The Poster War - Allied Propaganda Art
of the First World War
- From the Provincial Museum of
Alberta.
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- Pritzker Military Library
- The Mission of the Pritzker
Military Library is to acquire and maintain a collection of materials
and develop appropriate programs focusing on the concept of the
Citizen Soldier as an essential element for the preservation
of democracy. The collection features over 20,000 reference,
biographical and rare books with military themes, over five hundred
posters and prints, and other military artifacts from the private
collection of COL (IL) James N. Pritzker, IL ARNG (Ret.).
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- Recent Dissertations in the Medical Humanities
- Provides access to recent doctoral
dissertations worldwide on a variety of social science history
topics, including the history of military medicine.
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- RevWar75
- Indexes Continental and British
army orderly books from the Revolutionary War.
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- Royal
Air Force Museum
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- Royal Naval Museum
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- The
Russian Front
- A group site/blog devoted to
Russian military and diplomatic history. In addition to promoting
discussion among scholars and students, The Russian Front is
a repository for research and teaching materials including bibliographies,
syllabi, and translated documents.
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- Soldiers of the First World War
- From the National Archives of
Canada. An index to the personnel files of the Canadian Expeditionary
Force.
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- Soldiers of the Queen
- A virtual museum of Victorian-era
British military photographs.
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- Songs of the First World War
- Contains selected recordings
from the National Library of Canada's collection of 78-rpm discs
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- U.S. Air Force Historical Research Library
- Bibliographies of historical
studies, finding aids to personal papers, researcher information.
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- U.S. Army Combat Studies Institute
- A military history 'think tank'
which produces timely and relevant military history research
publications and contemporary operational history for the U.S.
Army.
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- U.S. Army Heritage and Education Center
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- U.S. Army Center of Military History
- Library catalog, texts of publications,
finding aids, information about Army history.
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- U.S. Army Combined Arms Center and Fort Leavenworth
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- U.S. Army Command and General Staff College
Combined Arms Research Library Digital Library
- Oral histories, publications,
historic manuals, and other primary and secondary military history
sources
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- U.S. Army Military History Institute
- Databases concerning manuscript
collections and photographs.
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- U.S. Marine Corps Small Wars Manual (1940
edition)
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- U.S. Naval Postgraduate School: Internet
Resources for Military Maps
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- United
States Military Academy
- Digital representations from
the six atlases and nearly one thousand maps in the History Department's
collection, encompassing not only America's wars but global conflicts
as well.
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- U.S. Naval Historical Center
- Library catalog, finding aids,
information regarding Navy history.
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- War Artists from the First World War
- From the Archives of Ontario
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- War Diaries of the First World War
- From the National Archives of
Canada
This database contains the digitised War Diaries of the Canadian
Expeditionary Force (CEF) units.
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- War
Relics
- Images, primarily from WWII.
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- World War I Document Archive
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- World War II Tributes
- The tributes on this site detail
the stories and journey of one families relatives during World
War II.
Online Publications
- Aerospace Power Journal
- Published quarterly, this is
the professional flagship publication of the United States Air
Force. It is designed to serve as an open forum for the presentation
and stimulation of innovative thinking on military doctrine,
strategy, tactics, force structure, readiness, and other matters
of national defense. The online journal can be viewed in English,
Spanish, and Portuguese editions.
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- Armchair General
- Armchair General is a new history
magazine that is designed to be an interactive experience in
military history and strategy.
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- Arms and Armour
- A peer-reviewed academic journal
which aims to encourage and publish serious research in the field
from scholars, both professional and amateur, around the world.
Its areas of study, which are multi-disciplinary in approach
and content, include, but are not limited to, the history, development,
use, decoration and display of arms and armour throughout history.
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- Canadian Military Biography
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- Canadian
Military Journal
- Available in both French and
English versions.
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- Digitized maps from the United
States Military Academy Department of History.
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- From Colony to Country : A Reader's Guide
to Canadian Military History
- From the National Library of
Canada.
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- John M. Gates, The
U.S. Army and Irregular Warfare
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- Joint Electronic Library
- Maintained by by the Defense
Technical Information Center.
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- Joint Force Quarterly
- Published for the Chairman,
Joint Chiefs of Staff, by the Institute for National Strategic
Studies, National Defense University, to promote understanding
of the integrated employment of land, sea, air, space, and special
operations forces. The journal focuses on joint doctrine, coalition
warfare, contingency planning, combat operations conducted by
the unified commands, and joint force development.
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- Journal
for Maritime Research
- The Journal for Maritime Research
is a subscription-only, international journal targeted at maritime
historians, commercial maritime organisations and maritime museum
staff.
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- MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of America's Military
Past
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- MilitaryHistoryOnline.com
- A webzine of community-submitted
articles.
- Military Review
- The professional journal of
the United States Army, prepared by US Army Command and General
Staff College.
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- Marine Corps Gazette
- The professional journal of
the United States Marine Corps
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- Naval War College Review
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- Parameters: The US Army War College Quarterly
- The United States Army's Senior
Professional Journal.
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- Scientia Militaria
- Academic journal from the Military
Academy of South Africa
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- The US Naval Institute Proceedings
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- War in History
- A journal from Arnold Publishers
Organizations/Societies
Links Pages
Other Government/Official
Sites
- NATO
- General information, recent
articles, press releases.
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- United Nations
- General information, audiovisual
databases, official documents.
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- U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary
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- U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff
- Information about JCS history,
recent speeches, current members.
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- U.S. Marine Corps
History
- Statistics and other information
regarding Marine Corps history.
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- United States Military Academy Department of History
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Vendors/Tours
- Alpha Music DVD: Military DVDs
- A large collection of military
history-related DVDs. DVDs are region free, but PAL format (European),
not NTSC (United States, Canada, Japan), so they will only work
on PAL or dual format DVD players.
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- BMD Certificates
- A team of expert researchers
specialising in acquiring replacement birth certificates, replacement
marriage certificates, and replacement death certificates obtained
from Government sources for England, Wales,
Scotland, and Northern Ireland.
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- British Sky Tours
- A small tour operation with
a slant towards military history. They take mostly American families,
although sometimes company management teams, on trips by air
and then road and easy walking. Events covered include (among
others) the Battle of Hastings in 1066 through the Battle of
Britain and Operation Sealion in 1940 and on to D Day. The site
has air photos of these places because they show the visitors
the battlefield and surrounding sea/land from a private plane
before touring on the ground by comfortble car and easy walking.
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- Fighter
Combat International
- Fighter Combat International
operates in compliance with the FAA standards for the Air Combat
Schools of America
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- Firearmshirts.com
- Firearmshirts.com is a vendor
of quality silkscreened t-shirts of the best guns in military
history.
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- Fotosearch
Stock Photography
- Allows users to search from
more than 100 quality stock photography publishers at one site.
Users can view high quality World War II photos, including weapons,
planes, tanks and submarines. Includes video previews of actual
footage from D-Day, Pearl Harbor and more.
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- GeoPassage
- Offer customized tour packages,
many organized around military themes.
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- Military Heritage Tours
- Ireland's first battlefield
and military heritage company.
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- Military
Historical Tours, Inc.
- Dedicated to providing the finest
in custom designed tours to sites of military historical interest
for the veteran, family member, friend, historian, educator and
student. Tours are limited in size to provide a "one on
one" experience and are lead by an experienced professional
who has traveled extensively in the specific location. Guest
historians and speakers, plus tour hosts, are added to provide
an "in-depth" perspective.
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- Legacy Motors Military and Aircraft Scale Models
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- Portal
Germany
- Military car sales in Germany.
Used car listings for Soldiers, Sailors and Marines in Germany.
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- Stuff With Names Personalized Military
Gifts
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- U.S. Challenge Coins
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- US Warprints and Military Hangups
- Reproductions of military-themed
posters.
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- War Research Society
- Offers trips to battlefield
sites or personal visits to cemeteries in Europe. This is a volunteer,
charitable organisation and not a holiday company.
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- Tours International American Military
Tours
- Escorting American World War
II veterans back to their European battlefields since 1982.
Finding Veterans/Veterans
Organizations
- Birgelen Veterans Association
- A Cold War website for those
who served in Birgelen Germany at 13 Signal Regiment, with
the British Army of the Rhine.
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- Comrades and Colleagues
- Database of those who served
in 5938 military Units in the UK, Australia, New Zealand and
Canada.
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- Forces Reunited
- A dedicated UK database of Forces
and Ex-Forces Personnel on the web, run by Ex-Forces Personnel.
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- MoD
Reunited
- The largest active community
of serving and former Service personnel in the UK. All facilities
on the site are entirely without charge.
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- Old
Oppos
- Database of US Navy veterans.
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- US
Army Ranger Rally Point
- Contains news, info, stories,
resources and much more for Army rangers, their families and
supporters.
General Interest
- American Civil War
- Comprehensive American Civil
War site with forums.
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- Australian Bunker Project
- Devoted to WWII-era underground
bunker networks in Queensland, Australia.
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- B-66
"Destroyer" Website
- Documents the role of the various
versions of the E/R/W/B-66B/C/D Aircrafts and commemorates the
men and women who flew or supported the B-66 program between
1952 to 1976.
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- Battle of Jutland
- Comprehensive overview of the
WWI battle, complete with animations.
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- Battlefield Anomalies
- Descriptions and analysis of
historical military campaigns and battlefields.
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- Britain's Small Wars, 1945-2003
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- British Military Medal Portal
- A comprehensive medal website
focussed on British awards - profiles, histories, images, forums,
dealer directory and much more.
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- Bunker
Pictures
- Pictures, locations, information
about bunkers from WW2, the Atlantikwall and the Cold War.
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- CafeMIL
- CafeMIL is a place for people
to speak their mind about events, issues, and policies that impact
the military.
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- Erster Weltkrieg (Clio-Online, Deutsche
Forschungsgemeinschaft)
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- FirstWorldWar.com
- A good general interest site
that is always growing.
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- The German Imperial Automobile Corps
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- The Great War 1914-1918
- Another good general interest
site.
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- The
Great War and the Shaping of the 20th History (PBS)
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- Grunt's Military Site
- Includes details on military
rank insignia, medals and ribbons as well as images, forums,
military quotes and glossaries.
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- The
Institute on World War II and the Human Experience
- A Florida Atlantic University
professor's attempt to preserve the memories and artifacts of
the men and women who served in World War II in the service and
of civilians who helped on the home front.
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- The
Long, Long Trail: The Story of the British Army in the Great
War 1914-1918
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- Military-Net.com
- A web portal for information
of interest primarily to the United States military.
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- Military-School.org
- Information about military school
life and opportunities.
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- The
Military History Encyclopaedia on the Web
- The title says it all.
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- Military History Wiki
- A free online encyclopedia focusing
on the history of the people and institutions of war.
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- Naval
History.Net
- Focuses on 20th century naval
history, with an emphasis on the Royal Navy.
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- Oregon ConSim Games
- Producers of military
simulation board games.
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- Project
on Defense Alternatives
- Since its inception in 1991,
the Project on Defense Alternatives has sought to adapt security
policy to the challenges and opportunities of the post-Cold War
era. Toward this end it promotes consideration of the broadest
range of defense options. Central to its mission is the development
of "transitional security policy," which would serve
to create conditions favorable to the advent of regional and
global cooperative security regimes.
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- This
Day in US Military History
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- The
United States Navy Then and Now
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- Wars and Conflict
- From the BBC
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- World
War I: Trenches on the Web
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- World War II Plus 55
- Daily events from around the
globe as they happened 55 years ago.
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- World War II and Adolf Hitler's Third Reich in
the News
- A daily edited review of hand-picked
Third Reich and World War Two related news and articles, providing
thought-provoking collection of WW2 information.
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