Source Documents Online

I am looking to put together a compilation of links to WWII related source documents online. So, if you know of any, please post details and links.

As an example, I would idnetify the Avalon Project at Yale University, which provides, among many other original document texts, extensive original documentation of the International Militaty Tribunal's major war crimes trial at Nuremberg, at:

http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/imt/imt.htm

When there are enough, I hope to put them together in one list.

 

Good idea Angie.

Here's a couple I know of:

New Zealand War History Project
- Has volumes of NZ WW2 Official History and Unit histories avialble.

http://www.nzetc.org/projects/wh2/index.html

1st Worcestershire Regiment War Diary NW Europe 1944-45

http://www.worcestershireregiment.com/wr.p...inc/war_diaries

Australian War Memorial
- This site contains a lot of useful info and access to original material.

http://www.awm.gov.au/atwar/index.htm

 

D-day related documents and other material from the Dwight D Eisenhower Library:

http://www.eisenhower.archives.gov/dl/DDay/ddaypage.html

 

Originally posted by angie999@Jun 15 2005, 11:32 AM
D-day related documents and other material from the Dwight D Eisenhower Library:

http://www.eisenhower.archives.gov/dl/DDay/ddaypage.html
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What a resource! Full of memos journal entrys and excellent photos - If there is any one who hasnt seen it, you should!

Chris

 

If you have links to original source material, folks, please post.

 

West point military maps

 

Thanks, morse. Excellent. Please keep 'em coming, folks, as having the time and opportunity to track down good primary sources is a big problem for some of us amateurs.

Below is a link to trial transcripts and documents relating to the 2000 libel action where David Irving sued Deborah Lipstadt and Penguin Books over "Denying the Holocaust":

http://www.holocaustdenialontrial.org/ieindex.html

 

American Army Centre for History

I know it is an american site but it still contains a lot of useful info concerning ww2

 

Hi Angie999,

I posted this last week in homefront other countries.

There is a mix of info as well as letters to parents and letters from parents to government etc.

A very good quality sight.

http://
Australia's War 1939-1945www.ww2australia.gov.au/



Regards

Geoff

 

RN Losses WW2

 

Fighting the U-Boats

[/URL]http://uboat.net

Details on Allied shipping Losses etc.

Allied War Losses
Please note this page is still very incomplete.
It shows ships destroyed (lost) to all causes during the war.

An example below.

Date Vessel Type Class

1939
10 Sep, 1939 HMS Oxley (55 P) Submarine O
17 Sep, 1939 HMS Courageous (50) Aircraft Carrier Courageous
14 Oct, 1939 HMS Royal Oak (08) Battleship Royal Sovereign
13 Nov, 1939 HMS Blanche (H 47) Destroyer B
20 Nov, 1939 HMS Mastiff (T 10) ASW Trawler Dog
21 Nov, 1939 HMS Gipsy (H 63) Destroyer G
22 Nov, 1939 HMS Aragonite MS Trawler
23 Nov, 1939 HMS Rawalpindi Armed Merchant Cruiser
12 Dec, 1939 HMS Duchess (H 64) Destroyer D
13 Dec, 1939 HMS William Hallett (FY 554) MS Trawler
14 Dec, 1939 HMS James Ludford (T 16) MS Trawler Mersey
16 Dec, 1939 HMS Sedgefly (FY 122) ASW Trawler
20 Dec, 1939 HMS Napia Tug
21 Dec, 1939 HMS Bayonet (Z 05) Boom defence vessel Net
22 Dec, 1939 HMS Dromio MS Trawler
25 Dec, 1939 HMS Loch Doon ASW Trawler

 

http://www.rnzncomms.net.nz/jackharker/achillesHMSO.html

HMSO report of the Battle of The river Plate

 

I'm not sure if this is the type of thing that you want, but I found that it had some interesting material. It is the daily reports for the 91st Bomb Group from October 1942 through March 1943:
http://www.91stbombgroup.com/91stdailies.html

The 323rd Squadron of the 91st Bomb Group has theirs transcribed from April 1942 through the end of the war:
http://91stbombgroup.com/323rddailies.html

The 91st Bomb Group is the only bomb group of the 8th Air Force that has put such material online (that I know of).

 

http://www.archives.gov/research_room/arc/...f_contents.html

World War II Honor List of Dead and Missing
Army and Army Air Forces Personnel - United States

 

Scanned original documents and information on Stalag Luft I

http://www.merkki.com/documents.htm

 

Contains all the aircraft serials for ww2 RAF aircraft and includes info on the disposal of the individual aircraftRAF Aircraft serials

 

I have a nice one, nice color pictures www.ww2incolor.com

 

Combined Arms Research Library
U.S. Army Command & General Staff College

http://www-cgsc.army.mil/carl/resources/csi/csi.asp

This page sells some field manuals also has some nice info

http://www.battlefront.com/products/books/...armorintro.html

 

It occurs to me that this thread hasn't been updated for a while.

These are a few photo archives that I look at regularly :-

The good old IWM (but perhaps not everybody has seen it)

Welcome the Imperial War Museum's Collections Home Page

The Canadian Archives (lots of pictures taken in the UK and Europe).

Archives Search - Library and Archives Canada

Stilltime - No specific WW2 section but lots for vehicle enthusiasts and the wartime shots crop up in odd places.

Stilltime.net Stilltime.net

British Pathé - Not the easiest site but wonderful moving images, some with sound including Bren Carriers gunning their V-8s and the possibility to view stills at 1 second intervals. Lots of Mr. Cholmondley-Warner moments.

British Pathe Limited

Rich.