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The
Midnight Watch
A
site dedicated to the thousands who served on the British homefront
during the war and the over 60,000 men, women and children who
lost their lives. Sections include: Air Raid Precautions, Evacuation,
the Fire Service, Home Guard Pages, National Registration, Rationing
in Wartime, Women's Voluntary Service, Photo Gallery, Homefront
Badges, and Homefront links. The section on rationing is especially
informative. An outstanding site. Excellent
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Private
Art - World War II Letters To And From The Homefront
An extensive archive of letters to and from a soldier in the
war. Private Art Pranger served with the Army in the U.S. and
Europe. His letters to and from home have been archived by the
date they were written. Click on "The Home Front" at the bottom
to get started. Sections include: Meet Private Art, Letter Archive,
Private Art Remembers (present-day memories), Soldier Scrapbook
(photos of artifacts) and more. An outstanding site. Excellent
Rutgers
Oral History Archives Of World War II
An
archive of interviews with men and women veterans of World War
II who served both at home and overseas. There are 152 interviews.
Sections include: Interviews, Units They Served In, Picture Gallery,
Patches, Medals, Memorials, and more. Excellent
The
Second World War America Audio & Video Archive
A huge archive of sound and video clips from the war. Sections
include: Christmas Broadcasts, North Africa, Aircraft, Orphan
Ann (Tokyo Rose), General "Hap" Arnold, Asia and the Pacific,
Atomic Bombings, General Omar Bradley, Propaganda Broadcasts,
War Cartoons, the Fall of Corregidor, D-Day, Martin Dies, General
Dwight D. Eisenhower, Europe's Liberation, Admiral James Forrestal,
Admiral "Bull" Halsey, Homefront, Iwo Jima, Japanese Internment,
Henry Kaiser, Admiral Earnest King, Charles Lindburgh, General
Douglas MacArthur, General George Marshall, Battle of Midway,
Edward R. Murrow, Admiral Chester Nimitz, the O.S.S., General
George Patton, Pearl Harbor Attack, Propaganda Posters, Remagen
Bridge, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt, Sound Effects,
Harry S. Truman, General Jonathon Wainwright, Wake Island, Warships,
Miscellaneous. An outstanding site. Excellent
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