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Post Websites for WWII or Related Research (i.e. Family History)

I've tried looking to see if a thread already exists for website links, but have not seen it. If there is one, perhaps, the moderators could put them together. We all link to various sites when corroborating or expanding on a post, but they can be hard to find once one tries to find it again. I thought I would add some of the sites that those doing information or family history requests might find useful. I've got 32 plus pages of sites and will add them here as I verify that the links are still live effective the date of the post.

General

http://www.cwgc.org/cwgcinternet

The Commonwealth War Graves Commission
An excellent site where you can search for places of commemoration to the 1.7 million members of the Commonwealth forces who died in the First and Second World Wars.

http://members.aol.com/dadswar/index.htm
This site by Wesley Johnston (husband of Lynn Johnston “The Better or Worse” cartoonist) is to military genealogy what Cyndi Howell’s links are to general genealogy research.

American

http://www.abmc.gov
American Battle Monuments Commission
Searchable database listing monuments to US Casualties.

http://www.archives.gov/research_room/arc/
US National Archives and Records Administration

http://www.accident-report.com/index.html
Accident Report.com
Offers accident reports and information on USAAF and USN. *Charges for service.

Australian

http://www.naa.gov.au/the_collection/family_history/armed_services.html
National Archives of Australia Armed services personnel records

http://www.ww2roll.gov.au/
World War II Nominal Roll of Australia

British

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/researchguidesindex.asp
UK Public Record Office Online Catalogue
Search for records, which can be viewed at Kew.

http://www.wartimememories.co.uk
Wartime Memories Project

Canadian

http://www.collectionscanada.ca/war-military/index-e.html
The National Archives of Canada

http://www.warmuseum.ca/
The Canadian War Museum Website

http://www.warmuseum.ca/cwm/newspapers/intro_e.html
An online database: During the Second World War, the staff of the century-old Hamilton Spectator newspaper kept its own monumental record of the war. This collection of more than 144,000 newspaper articles, manually clipped, stamped with the date, and arranged by subject, includes news stories and editorials from newspapers, mostly Canadian, documenting every aspect of the war.

www.mapleleafup.org
The Canadian Army Overseas in World War II

www.CanadaAtWar.com
Listings of book resources on Canada’s war and military history
http://www.civilization.ca/orch/www04i_e.html#army
Online resources for Canadian Heritage: Military and naval history – Canada (includes more than WWII military links)
http://lib74123.usask.ca/scaa/gallery/war/
Saskatchewan in Two World Wars

http://www.fleetairarmarchive.net/CommonwealthCountries/CanadaHomepage.html
Canada and the Fleet Air Arm 1939-1945

http://www.junobeach.org/main.html
The JunoBeach Centre in Normandy

http://www.dnd.ca/hr/dhh/engraph/home_e.asp
DND Directorate of History and Heritage (This is the Department of National Defence)

German


http://www.lwag.org/index.php
Luftwaffe Archives & Records Reference Group
A co-operative resource for worldwide research on the German Air Force, 1933-1945.

http://www.volksbund.de/
The German Wargraves Commission

Deutsche Dienststelle (WASt)
for the notification of next-of-kin of members of the former German Wehrmacht who were killed in action

http://www.cannockchasedc.gov.uk/cannockchase/wargraves.htm
Cannock Chase - German Military Cemetery
The German Cemetery Near Broadhurst Green
The German Cemetery near Broadhurst green, on Cannock Chase is a memorial to some 5,000 German war dead, where the servicemen's graves are marked by headstones of Belgian granite, set in plots of heather and tended by gardeners.

The cemetery is a tribute to the spirit of co-operation existing between the Commonwealth War Graves Commission and the Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgraberfürsorge (German War Graves Commission).
Cannock Chase German Military Cemetery

http://www.bundesarchiv.de/
The German Public Records Office

http://www.feldgrau.com/
research on the German armed forces 1918-1945
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