Links To Resources for Spring Term Paper on WWII
The links below will take you to a number of different sites that deal with military issues. Dig through them to find what you need.
U.S. Army Center for Military History, WWII page: If it happened in WWII you will find it on this page. Contains VOLUMES of works which make up the official US Army History of WWII.
The Second World War.com: This site contains a host of links to all aspects of World War II. Just make sure to verify the authenticity of anything you find.
Journal of Military History: A quarterly magazine that draws input from experts in the field of military history. Use the search function to narrow down your field and then check out the articles.
JSTOR: A massive collection of online magazines that draw input from scholarly experts in all types of fields. Use the search function to narrow down you field and then check out the articles.
US Navy Online Historical Resources: WOW! The navy has links to reference materials on just about every subject you can imagine. Check this place out!
USMC Online Reference Sources: Magazine and journal entries as well as biographies and a host of other material gathered together on the official US Marine Corps Historical Division Website.
Lone Sentry: A page of links to unit histories, official US military documents and primary sources from WWII. Nice Site! Definitely worth checking out
Military History Online: A the online site for about a dozen magazines dealing with every aspect of military history. Search for articles in the simple search box and see what you get.
Armchair General Magazine: Another great magazine that covers all aspects of war. Each issue also contains an article that lets YOU make decisions to see how you would do in a war.
US Navy online archives reading room: Just like the Army's Center for Military History except this is the Navy's site. (Personnally I would check out the World War II link at the bottom right on this page first).
More official US Navy records and documents from World War II - You could spend days checking out all of the cool stuff in here. Everything from the treatment of Japanese Americans to the field manual that tells you how to deploy your Aircraft Carrier Battle Group when going into action.
USMC History page: Contains links to unit histories and reports from WWII to the present. Browse through to find more specific topics.
WW2 Link Page: Dozens of links, some of which take you to other pages with thousands of sources. Worth a look.
Pearl Harbor "Man on the Street Interviews - recordings from the Library of Congress
Teacher Oz’s Kingdom of History - ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE SITE!! Mrs. Oz has put together one of the finest collections of links to be found anywhere. Page after page of links to databases of all types. You must check this out.If you cant find it here – you ain’t trying.
WWII Primary Source links page from “Teacher OZ” – A subsection of Teacher Oz’s site. This page has categories that lead to page after page of links to primary source document databases. Incredible site.
World War II First Person Accounts, Letters Home, Diaries, & Journals – A subsection of the above site. It is a great site with links to massive amounts of primary sources
World War II Propaganda, Cartoons, Film, Music, & Art – Another subsection from Teacher Oz’s site. A treasure trove of links to propaganda posters, cartoons films etc. Awesome page!
World War II Table of Contents - A massive list of links to virtually any topic you can think of about World War II. Brought to you by the good people at AOL.
Eyewitness to History - A wonderful collection of primary sources for all sorts of World War II stuff. Diaries, letters, manuscripts, speeches, you name it. Great Stuff. You can also link to other time periods from here as well.