World War II

Cobble John.com
This site is dedicated
to our grandfather PFC John Bruszewski, nicknamed (Cobble John). It chronicles his journey through Europe with the 4th Cavalry group in WWII.
Normandie44.net
"Croyez moi Lang, les premieres vingt-quatres heures de l'invasionseront decisives....Pour les allies comme pour nous, ce sera le plus long jour...."
Fread Vogels Back To Normandy
Free downloads of music inspired be D-Day
PTSD in WW2 Vets
WWII sketches of the men from the
857th Engineer Aviation Battalion
After the bombing of Pearl Harbor in December of 1941, Karl Rittmann, a senior at the Rhode Island School of Design, put his education on hold and enlisted in the Army. Following Officers Training in Virginia, Lieutenant Rittmann was off to the Pacific theater where he was assigned to the 857^th Aviation Engineers.
World War II U.S. Veterans Website
post memorabilia, contact long lost friends, find other veteran-related sites, and reminisce with fellow vets online..
Anzio, Operation Nordwind and Dachau

Bob Seedorf's Experiences in the Marshall Islands
D-Day account of LTC John G. Burkhalter - personal account of D-day on Omaha Beach as part of the Big Red One.
D-Day memories of Jim Wilkins

- Jim Wilkins was with The Queen's Own Rifles of Canada, Company B..

Drop Zone Virtual Museum - history of airborne and paratrooper units told through personal accounts.

Local Heroes - interviews of World War II vetrans from the Bayside area of Melbourne Australia.
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Memories Aboard the USS Nevada - tribute to a sailor aboard the U.S.S. Nevada during WWII.
Memories of War - records the personal stories and pictures of World War II veterans. All vets are encouraged to tell their story here.
My Father's Wartime Service in Europe - A Biographical Letter - account of Richard C. Jewell's service in Brittany and France during the war..
Private Art - WWII letters depicting a country's devotion to their GIs and the men's affection for the homefront. A tribute to the 86th Chemical Mortar Battalion.

Triple Nickles, America's first African-American
Paratrooper unit. The elite 555 was the first

African-American unit to break the Army's color barrier.

70th Infantry Division Association
In the line for 86 consecutive days of combat...Liberated 58 towns and took 668 prisoners in penetrating the Siegfried Line and driving through the Saarland ... Total Casualties: 835 KIA, 2713 WIA, 397 taken as POWs, and 54 listed as MIA. Awards: Distinguished Unit Citation - 1, Distinguished Service Cross - 13, Silver Star - 228 (4 clusters), Bronze Star - 430 (14 clusters), Air Medals - 10, Legion of Merit - 7, Soldiers Medal - 8

The Troubleshooters.com/
"Patton's Troubleshooters", By Terry D. Janes, The untold story of how the 702nd Tank Battalion “Red Devils” & The 80th Infantry Division “Blue Ridgers” teamed up to crush the toughest obstacles that Hitler’s German Army could devise and throw in front of General George Patton’s Third Army.

AIR FORCE

WELCOME TO CHINA DAYS 1944-1945

A Site Dedicated To The 396th Air Service Squadron-12th Air Service Group That Served With Claire Lee Chennault's 14th Air Force In China During The Years 1944-1945

390th Bomb Group The 390th Memorial Museum is located in Tucson, Arizona on the grounds of the third largest aviation museum in the United States, the Pima Air and Space Museum. The 390th Museum contains the beautifully restored B-17G “I’ll Be Around,” a General James H. Doolittle exhibit, an 11×23 foot mural of “Top Cover for the J Group,” probably the most recognized painting of World War II, an Honor Wall, A Gallery of Crews, art and aircraft models, and many items of memorabilia and artifacts. The Joseph A. Moller Library, a part of the Museum, contains over 90,000 pages of 390th combat history, over 10,000 photographs and is a research center for the Air Campaign of Central Europe.

457th Bomb Group Page - pictures and stories of one man's bomber crew flying B-17 Flying Fortresses in WW II.
5th AAF, 43rd BG - learn about the men and their planes while listening to music from the 40s.
Flying Tigers of the 14th Air Force - AVG and CATF that served in WWII under the direction of Gen.Chennault.

Flying Tigers: American Volunteer Group - about their operations in the defense of China from Japan.
Heavy Bombers - on-line resource and research guide to the USAAF Heavy Bomber Groups: B-17, B-24, and B-29.
Lost Squadron - details the story of Glacier Girl, the P-38 recovered from the Greenland glacier

Atomic Bomb: Decision-archive of documents relating to the atomic bomb project and the decision to employ it against Japan.
Bombshell - book by Joseph Albright and Marcia Kunstel that exposes previously unknown American physicist turned Soviet spy, who now relates how/why he passed atomic bomb secrets. Download once secret FBI and KGB files. Great Links.

Chronological Table of Nuclear Weapons - timeline in the development of the destructive power of the atom.

Enola Gay

Hiroshima: Was it Necessary? - why dropping the atomic bomb on Hiroshima was probably unnecessary. Includes a bibliography, and the historians' letter to the Smithsonian on Enola Gay exhibit.

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