Department of History
Dr. Harold Tanner, Chair
P.O.Box 310650
Denton, Texas 76203
Phone: 940-387-2288
Email: history@unt.edu |
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World War II Web
Resources
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D-Day |
National D-Day Memorial Foundation
http://www.dday.org/
About.com D-Day Guide Picks by Jennifer
Rosenberg
http://history1900s.about.com/cs/dday/index.htm
Normandy 1944
http://search.eb.com/normandy/week1/buildup.html
from Britannica Online
Normandy Allies
http://www.normandyallies.org
"non-profit organization which commemorates the liberation of Normandy
in 1944. Offering a summer study trip designed to educate students about
this historic and monumental feat."
Normandy D-Day
http://homepage.mac.com/rioedtech/index.html
"I set up a Normandy web site to commemorate D-Day and share pictures
and information from my visit to Normandy ... I also did this to share
with other teachers to give them ideas of the kinds of things they can
include on a teacher-made web site to share with their students, other
teachers or the community." - Michael Rio
50th Anniversary of D-Day: Rangers at Pointe du Hoc Normandy
http://members.tripod.com/~DDay50/
US Army Rangers, WWII veterans return to Grandcamp, Pointe du Hoc,
Omaha Beach, in Normandy, France, for the 50th Anniversary of D-Day in
June 1994.
D-Day Memories of Jim Wilkins
http://www.erols.com/wolfy/qor/html/body_wilkins.html
of The Queen's Own Rifles of Canada, Company B.
National D-Day Museum
http://www.ddaymuseum.org/index.html?bhcp=1
"The National D-Day Museum preserves the
stories of the American men and women who prevailed in an epic struggle
against tyranny. You will learn how they lived, fought and died for your
freedom in the most titanic war in world history."
Higgins Boat Project
http://www.higginsboat.org
on the attempt to build an original Higgins boat, (LCVP) for display at
the National D-Day Museum in New Orleans, La.
Armada de la Liberte [D-Day boats]
http://www.cnam.fr/Images/Armada/
Desperate Battle: Normandy 1944
http://www.valourandhorror.com
"based in part on the documentary, The Valour & The Horror - Canada At
War. Explores Canada's involvement in World War II."
From Normandy to the Rhine
http://www.csun.edu/~hceng029/warprints/rareprints.html
"25 prints of Army Engineers on drive from Normandy to the Rhine. Looking
for a home, preferably in the Los Angeles Area."
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War in the
Pacific -- Pearl Harbor |
Road to Pearl Harbor
http://history.acusd.edu/gen/WW2Timeline/RD-PEARL.html
Pearl Harbor Attack- 1941
http://history.acusd.edu/gen/WW2Timeline/Prelude23.html
Pearl Harbor - Remembered
http://my.execpc.com/~dschaaf/mainmenu.html
"Created to honor the survivors of the
Pearl Harbor, their families and friends, and to those who died on that
Sunday morning in December 1941."
The Pearl Harbor Working Group
Primary Source Documents Website
http://www.ibiblio.org/pha/index.html
"Primary source materials on the Web. Original documents regarding all
aspects of the war."
Pearl Harbor Attacked
http://www.pearlharborattacked.com/
digital photographs of the remains of the USS Arizona and related links
Pearl Harbor Child.com
http://www.pearlharborchild.com/
A Child's View of Pearl Harbor, from Attack to Peace. The only book
about the Pearl Harbor attack written by a woman, through the eyes of a
child.
Pearl Harbor Attack: Oral History: LT Erickson
http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq66-3b.htm
Excerpt from Oral History of LT Ruth Erickson, NC (Nurse Corps), USN.
The Pearl Harbor Day Page
http://www.ccdemo.info/PearlHarbor/PearlHarborDayRemembered.html
Pearl Harbor & Ciphering Methods
http://raphael.math.uic.edu/~jeremy/crypt/contrib/kurzeja.html
by Karen Kurzeja
Home page for the USS Missouri Memorial Association Inc.,
http://www.ussmissouri.com/
a non-profit organization that is bringing the "Mighty Mo" (BB63) to
Pearl Harbor, Hawaii to serve as a national memorial and museum
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After Pearl Harbor |
Scott' World War Two
http://www.geocities.com/pentagon/5133/
"pictures of the war in the Pacific. Stories of battles, ships, planes and
etc."
Japanese Aviation & Military Web Ring
http://www.j-aircraft.com/jring/
"association of web sites dedicated to the study of Japanese Aviation &
Military history until 1945."
Strategic Bombing Campaign - Pacific War
http://www.pressenter.com/~anesi/ussbs01.htm
LCT 376 Home Port
http://www.angelfire.com/pa/LCT376/
"covers the history of landing craft tank in the south pacific during
World War II."
The MacArthur Memorial
http://sites.communitylink.org/mac/
Rongstad's Worldwide Military Links: Prisoners of War (POW)
http://vikingphoenix.com/public/rongstad/military/pow/pow.htm
a compendium of POW accounts for most modern wars
Battling Bastards of Bataan
http://home.pacbell.net/fbaldie/Battling_Bastards_of_Bataan.html
an "account of the battles in Bataan and the subsequent imprisonment of
the survivors."
Bataan Death March In Verse
http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/8967/index.html
Twelve Hundred Days - A WWII POW Story
http://home.attbi.com/~rgrokett/POW/
"This is the true story of my father, Russell A. Grokett, Sr. 24 Nov
1912 - 29, Jun 1982. He grew up in rural Kansas, went thru the Great
Depression, lost both parents while a young man in his early twenties,
joined up with one of the last horse cavalry units in Texas, fought in the
Battle for the Philippines, survived the Bataan Death March, spent 3 1/2
years in Japanese POW Camps, came back, got married, had a family, lived
through years of operations and illnesses including Legionnaire's Disease,
traveled all over the United States camping and fishing and died of a
heart attack at the age of 69.
Flying Tigers: American Volunteer Group
in the defense of China from Japan
http://www.flyingtigersavg.com/
Korea 1935-1955: An Eye Witness
http://www.kimsoft.com/korea/eyewit.htm
USS Indianapolis (CA-35)
http://www.ussindianapolis.org
"struck by torpedoes in 1945, many of its crew were lost to shark
attacks. This site seeks to clear Captain McVay, the only U.S. ship's
captain court-martialed for service in WWII."
Tribute to the Cactus Air Force
http://www.ixpres.com/ag1caf/cactus
"about the U.S. Marine, Navy, and Army Air Corps pilots who defended
Guadalcanal in 1942, including history, photos, paintings and references."
Wings at War
http://sunsite.unc.edu/hyperwar/AAF/WW-3.html
"Pacific Counterblow: The 11th Bombardment Squadron and the 67th Fighter
Squadron in the Battle for Quadalcanal", published by Headquarters, Army
Air Forces is now available online, complete with maps and photos. . ."
First Offensive: The Marine Campaign for Guadalcanal
http://sunsite.unc.edu/hyperwar/USMC/USMC-C-Guadalcanal.html
Iwo Jima
http://www.iwojima.com
a history of the battle and of the flag raising photograph
Marshall Islands Campaign (January 31, 1944 - Feb. 8, 1944)
http://www.chinfo.navy.mil/navpalib/wwii/facts/marshlls.txt
Battle of Midway 1942
http://www.geocities.com/Colosseum/Arena/2951/english.html
in English and Spanish
Battle of Midway
http://www.grolier.com/wwii/wwii_midwaybat.html
Return to Midway
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/features/98/midway/
"deep-sea explorer Robert Ballard, joined by a National Geographic
team, seeks the lost ships of Midway."
Northern Mariana Islands and World War II
http://www.cnmi-guide.com/history/ww2/
"with a review of the role of Tinian, the atomic bomb and the loss of the
U.S.S. Indianapolis."
Flying Tigers of the 14th Air Force
http://www.angelfire.com/ma/MONGELL/
"AVG and CATF that served in WWII under the direction of Gen. Chennault."
National Archives and Records Administration: Flying Tigers
http://www.archives.gov/exhibit_hall/a_people_at_war/prelude_to_war/
flying_tigers.html
from the A People at War series
The Planes and Pilots of WWII site
http://home.att.net/~C.C.Jordan/index.html
C.C.Jordan: "For those of you who enjoy WWII aviation history,
original Flying Tiger flight leader Erik Shilling has published the
epilogue of his autobiography on the "Planes and Pilots of WWII" website.
Mr. Shilling's experiences flying with the AVG in China are graphically
described in his book "Destiny: A Flying Tiger's Rendezvous With Fate".
Tale of a Tiger: R.T. Smith
http://home.att.net/~ww2aircraft/RTSmith1.html
from the diary of a Flying Tiger
Highlights of My Army Career
http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/Quarters/4667/
journal of Myron J. Nelsen stationed in India during WWII
Nanjing Massacre Record
http://www.cnd.org/njmassacre/
In 1960, Department of History of the NanJing University organized a
detailed investigation on the NanJing Massacre that took place from
December 1937 to February 1938. In 1962, they compiled a historical record
"the NanJing Massacre of Imperial Japan". The following is the translation
of a portion in the 1979 edition.
Nanjing Massacre: The Other Side
http://members.tripod.com/~funkytomoya/massacre/sample01.htm
presents the claim that the massacre did not happen
Japanese surrender documents
http://www.archives.gov/exhibit_hall/featured_documents/
japanese_surrender_document/index.html
Japanese War Crimes
http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~dyue/wiihist/
The Virtual Pilots' Club: 1942: The
Pacific Air War
http://www.sonic.net/~michaelc/
Marine Bombing Squadron
Six-Thirteen
This site documents the Marine Bombing
Squadron Six-Thirteen's (VMB-613's) service during the Second World
War through official action reports, war diaries, personal accounts,
and hundreds of never published official and personal photographs.
VMB-613 conducted operations against Japanese forces in the Marshall
and East Caroline Islands utilizing the twin-engine PBJ "Mitchell"
bomber.
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Pacific
Diaries and Personal Remembrances |
Company C, 1-185th Aviation
http://www2.msstate.edu/~jbc4/company.html
Capt. Rarey's Sketches of WWII Squadron Life
http://www.rarey.com/sites/rareybird/
"The sketchbook journals of Capt. George Rarey, a young commercial
artist drafted into the Army Air Force in World War II. Humorous, poignant
drawings of the daily life of the P-47 fighter pilots flying out of
England into Europe. Capt. Rarey was killed in action a few weeks after
D-day and this web site is presented by his son, a computer animator, who
never met his father."
Captain George Duffy's POW Page
http://www.usmm.org/duffy.html
POWs of both the German and Japanese military
One Man's War: A Coast Guardsman in WWII
http://members.aol.com/mikeh78286/home.html
"documents and photos collected by a WWII Coast Guardsman aboard a
frigate in the South Pacific."
Revennaugh, Duane - Pacific
http://userwww.service.emory.edu/~jrevenn/
Stone's WWII Site
http://www.sonic.net/~bstone/
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The A Bomb and the Fallout
-- General |
Los Alamos Historical Museum
http://www.oz.net/~chrisp/alamos.htm
Trinity and Beyond (The Atomic Bomb
Movie)
http://www.vce.com/trinity.html
"an unsettling yet visually fascinating documentary presenting the
history of nuclear weapons development and testing between 1945 and
1963."
General Paul Tibbets and The Enola Gay
http://www.theenolagay.com
A-Bomb WWW Museum
http://www.csi.ad.jp/ABOMB/index.html
"Brief intro of the first atomic bomb, photos from the Peace Memorial
Museum in Hiroshima, interviews with A-bomb survivors, interviews and
opinion survey results of the citizens."
Costs of the Manhattan Project
http://www.brook.edu/fp/projects/nucwcost/manhattn.htm
the Gadget that triggered the first bomb, and a photograph of Jumbo
Fifty Years from Trinity
http://www.seattletimes.com/trinity/
Trinity Site & Los Alamos, NM
http://www.atomictourist.com/
Atomic Bomb: Decision
(Hiroshima-Nagasaki)
http://www.dannen.com/decision/index.html
Personal Account of Exposure to
A-bomb
http://www.coara.or.jp/~ryoji/abomb/e-index.html
Leo Szilard Home Page
http://www.dannen.com/szilard.html
"Leo Szilard (1898-1964). Physicist, biophysicist, and 'scientist of
conscience.' Biographical information, documents, photos, audio, links."
Anniversary of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Bombings
http://www.infoplease.com/spot/hiroshima1.html
From the Spotlight Archive: This feature appeared in August
1998 Spotlight: The Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Atombomben
http://www.japan-guide.com/d/d2125.html
über die Atombomben von Hiroshima und Nagasaki. (Deutsch) or Atomic
Bombs About the Atomic Bombs of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. (English)
Nuclear Links
http://www.majbill.vt.edu/history/barrow/hist4214/nuclearlinks.html
Atomic Archive
http://www.atomicarchive.com/Bios/Szilard.shtml
Explore the History, Science, and Consequences of the Atomic Bomb.
The Atomic Archive explores the complex history surrounding the
invention of the atomic bomb - a crucial turning point for all mankind.
Follow a timeline that takes you down the path of our nuclear past, from
the 1920s to the present.
Remembering Nagasaki: Commentary
http://www.exploratorium.edu/nagasaki/commentary/commentary.html
"In 1995, the Exploratorium invited the public to post their ideas
and opinions about the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and about the
nuclear age in general. What resulted . . ."
The Legacy of the Bombs
http://www.abc.net.au/science/slab/radiation/story.htm
The Legacy of the Bombs: The Development of Radiation Exposure
Standards (English)
Kärnvapen'99
http://w1.500.telia.com/~u50000124/brunnen/vapen/frames/index.htm
On Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Fatman, Littleboy, Einstein. In Swedish
John Darwell - Fallout
http://www.artcumbria.org/archive/fallout/fallout.htm
John Darwell artist/photgrapher dealing in social, environmental and
nuclear issues.
Letters To Ground Zero
http://www.virtual-cafe.com/munio/projects.html
Scottish CND
http://ds.dial.pipex.com/cndscot/
News and information on the growing number of atom bombs and Trident
submarines in Scotland and the latest protests against them, with
photos.
The Avalon Project : The Atomic
Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/abomb/mpmenu.htm
Days after the bombing of Hiroshima
and Nagasaki
http://www.marketrends.net/WWIIsecret/
one more city was bombed. "The official story of WWII is that
it ended with the dropping of two atomic bombs in August 1945. This
story was to justify the horror of the world's only use of atomic
weapons to force Japan's surrender and the terrible destruction of
Hiroshima and Nagasaki. . . "
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Hiroshima |
Hiroshima: Was it Necessary?
http://www.doug-long.com/
"why dropping the atomic bomb on Hiroshima was probably unnecessary.
Prominent Americans who disagreed with the bombing. Extensive
bibliography. Historians' letter to the Smithsonian on Enola Gay exhibit."
The City of Hiroshima
http://www.city.hiroshima.jp/
Hiroshima Archive
http://www.lclark.edu/~history/HIROSHIMA/
Hiroshima Live Project
http://www.csi.ad.jp/hiroshima-live/index.html
Personal Account of Exposure to A-bomb
http://www.coara.or.jp/~ryoji/abomb/e-index.html
Compelling first-person account of the events surrounding the bombing of
Hiroshima on 06 August 1945.
Voice of Hibakusha
http://www.inicom.com/hibakusha/
I Could Not Forgive
http://www.soon.org.uk/page3.htm
Eyewitness account of the Hiroshima atomic bomb by Kiyoko Tanimoto. An
eye witness account of the Hiroshima atomic bomb. "I lay there buried
alive under our house when the bomb hit our city. The bomb started great
fires. The fires came nearer and nearer to us as workers tried to reach
us." In English.
No More Atomic Bombs!
http://www.theblackmoon.com/BarefootGen/bomb.html
Barefoot Gen is a vivid autobiographical story. Artist Keiji Nakazawa was
only seven years old when the Atomic Bomb destroyed his beautiful city of
Hiroshima. "Gen" tells the tale of one family's struggle to survive in the
dreadful shadow of war. In English.
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Nagasaki |
The Chinese in Nagasaki
http://www.nagasaki-gaigo.ac.jp/nagasaki/7.html
"In terms of numbers alone, the Chinese trade was much more important than
the Dutch trade for Nagasaki. Chinese trade increased from 1600 on and in
1614 sixty or seventy Chinese junks arrived in Nagasaki. . ."
The Dutch in Nagasaki
http://www.nagasaki-gaigo.ac.jp/nagasaki/6.html
"In 1641, the Dutch, who had previously been trading from Hirado, were
moved to the tiny artificial island of Dejima in Nagasaki harbor. The
Portuguese had been expelled from Nagasaki."
Christian Nagasaki
http://www.nagasaki-gaigo.ac.jp/nagasaki/5.html
"Francis Xavier, a Spanish Jesuit priest, was the first Christian
missionary to reach Japan. He arrived in Kagoshima in 1549. He was
followed by others. At first, Christianity was tolerated. . ."
Nagasaki Memories
http://www.exploratorium.edu/nagasaki/mainn.html
The Exploratorium in San Francisco has a memorial to the use of the A-bomb
which includes photos, by Japanese photographer Yosuke Yamahata, taken
literally hours after the detonation over Nagasaki. This collection of
images, along with a discussion page concerning the effect the use of such
weapons has had on the global psyche, make this site a powerful reminder
of the legacy of war.
War official's choice: Nagasaki
http://www.tri-cityherald.com/BOMB/bomb16.html
Nagasaki Nagasaki's fate was sealed in a last-minute decision by
Secretary of War Henry Stimson.
Anti-nuclear haikus from Nagasaki
children
http://www.yoni.com/maidenf/peacehaiku.shtml
Anti-nuclear and peace haikus from children in Nagasaki (English)
Nagasaki
http://linc.cs.vt.edu/schools/bms/suzan2/fat.htm
Fat Man, used to bomb Nagasaki. What the Nagasaki bomb would have
looked like at ground level. (No pictures were actually taken at ground
level).
Nagasaki Peace Declaration
http://www.csi.ad.jp/ABOMB/na.html
Message from the Mayor of Nagasaki. The atomic bomb that exploded in the
sky over this spot at 11:02 a.m., August 9, 1945 generated a
ferocious flash of heat, blast wind and deadly radiation and instantly
reduced the city to a wasteland. In English.
Nagasaki City Peace Declaration, August 9, 1998
http://www.clw.org/coalition/nagasa98.htm
Nagasaki City Peace Declaration Delivered by Iccho Itoh Mayor of
Nagasaki August 9, 1998
Nagasaki relatively untouched before
bombing
http://www.tri-cityherald.com/BOMB/bomb7.html
The first air raid hit Nagasaki just after midnight June 17, 1944.
Twenty-four American B-29 bombers carrying 72 tons. In English.
Use of the Atomic Bomb against Hiroshima
and Nagasaki
http://www.choices.edu/edsummaries/bombpage.html
This one-week interactive high school unit engages students in the
political, military, and ethical questions that entered into the decision
to drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In English
Scientific Data of the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Disaster
http://www-sdc.med.nagasaki-u.ac.jp/n50/start-E.html
Nagasaki University's Division of Scientific Data Registry offers
damage maps, epidemiological statistics, and medical data from the blast.
Nagasaki Links
http://www.dannen.com/nagasaki_links.html
UP to Leo Szilard - Online Web Links to Nagasaki Each of the pages
reached by these links is in English, with Japanese version optional.
No More Nagasaki
http://base.mng.nias.ac.jp/Nomore-e.html
The people of Nagasaki and Hiroshima are making appeals in order to
abolish nuclear weapons. They do not think this kind of mistake should
happen on earth again. This program was created to tell their wish to the
world.
Dr. Raisuke Shirabe's Memoir of the Nagasaki Atomic Bombing
http://www-sdc.med.nagasaki-u.ac.jp/n50/shirabe/contents-E.html
My Experience of the Nagasaki Atomic Bombing and An Outline of the
Damages Caused by the Explosion, by Dr. Raisuke Shirabe.
The Atomic Bombing of Nagasaki
http://www.nagasaki-gaigo.ac.jp/nagasaki/10.html
"The city of Nagasaki was the target of the world's second atomic bomb
attack at 11:02 a. m. on 9 August 1945, when the north of the city was
destroyed and an estimated 70,000 people killed outright . . . "
Nagasaki
http://www.csi.ad.jp/suzuhari-es/1000cranes/nagasaki/
The Atomic Bombing of Nagasaki. At 11:02 a.m., August 9, 1945 an atomic
bomb exploded 500 meters above this spot. The black stone monolith marks
the hypocenter. The fierce blast wind, heat rays reaching several thousand
degrees, and deadly radiation.
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The
Fallout |
The Nuclear Files
http://www.NuclearFiles.org
Experiencing ethical and political challenges of the Nuclear Age.
[from the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation]
Anno Atomi
http://www.aracnet.com/~histgaz/atomi/
"Anno Atomi details the Nuclear Testing during 1957 at the Nevada Test
Site. Please visit for an American view of the 'Cold War.'" "Using
government press releases and images...Whittle...has reconstructed 1957
when atmospheric nuclear explosions were a part of everyday life."
The Atomic Duty of Pvt. Bill Bires
http://www.aracnet.com/~histgaz/atomi/bires/
A Portland, Oregon resident & atomic veteran, Bires' web site tells about
his duties at the Nevada Test Site (NTS) during the Buster-Jangle series
of atomic tests in 1951.
A-Bomb WWW Museum ~ June,1995
http://www.csi.ad.jp/ABOMB/index.html
Gar Alperovitz and the H-Net Debate
http://www.doug-long.com/debate.htm
Hiroshima and Nagasaki Gallery Exhibition
http://www.oneworld.org/gallery/hiroshima/hiroshima_top.html
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Canada's
war |
*Archives and Other
Resources
1939-1945: A Soldier's War (CBC Archives)
http://archives.cbc.ca/IDD-1-71-103/conflict_war/soldiers_ww2/
Archives of Ontario Remembers the Home Front
http://www.archives.gov.on.ca/english/exhibits/d_day/index.html
Canada in WWII (Juno Beach Centre)
http://www.junobeach.org/main.html
The Canadian Wartime Experience: The Documentary Legacy of Canada at
War (University of Manitoba Archives)
http://www.umanitoba.ca/libraries/units/archives/canada_war/
Democracy at War: Canadian Newspapers and the Second World War
(Canadian War Museum)
http://www.warmuseum.ca/cwm/newspapers/intro_e.html
National Film Board of Canada: D-Day
http://www.onf.ca/dday/
The Second World War (Veterans Affairs Canada)
http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/remembers/sub.cfm?source=history/secondwar
*Women in WWII
Canadian War Industry During the Second World War (Library and Archives
Canada)
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/war-industry/index-e.html
On Every Front: Canadian Women in the Second World War (CBC Archives)
http://archives.cbc.ca/IDD-1-71-855/conflict_war/women_ww2/
*Private Accounts
Testaments of Honour Historical Archives ("Personal oral histories
of Canadian veterans on digital video")
http://collections.ic.gc.ca/Testaments/
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