WWII Resources

• Databases, Newspapers, et al. Databases, newspapers and more. See Ms. Moakley or library staff for passwords or email: [email protected] to request passwords. Request MUST be sent from a Holy Trinity Gmail email account for me to be able to give out passwords via email.

• General WWII Resources

• African-Americans in WWII

• Atom Bomb

• European Theater

• Holocaust

• Interviews - World War II

• Japanese-Americans in WWII

• Pacific Theater

• US Home Front

• Women During WWII

General WWII Resources

The Perilous Fight: America's World War II in Color (Rare color footage!) PBS - http://www.pbs.org/perilousfight/

United States Marine Corps History Division - Frequently Requested (many in right column) -http://www.mcu.usmc.mil/historydivision/Pages/Frequently_Requested.aspx

American Economy during World War II - Economic History Assoc. - http://eh.net/encyclopedia/the-american-economy-during-world-war-ii/

Veterans Stories: Struggle for Participation – Library of Congress -http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/primarysourcesets/veterans/struggles.html

Navajo Code Talkers  - www.navajocodetalkers.org/

Black Wings: African American Pioneer Aviators – National Air and Space Museum - 

http://airandspace.si.edu/blackwings/

Air Force Historical Research Agency - WWII -  http://www.afhra.af.mil/timelines/index.asp

World War II | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History http://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-by-era/great-depression-and-world-war-ii-1929-1945/world-war-ii

Aircraft Carrier – U.S. Navy - www.militaryfactory.com/ships/us-navy-aircraft-carriers.asp

Children in War – Awesome Stories - www.awesomestories.com/history/children-war

World War II Documents - Yale Univ. Law Library - Avalon Project: Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy -http://avalon.law.yale.edu/subject_menus/wwii.asp

Forgotten Posters of World War II –Awesome Stories - www.awesomestories.com/history/forgotten-posters

Science and Technology of World War II – National WWII Museum – www.nationalww2museum.org/

**War by Ken Burns – PBS -  www.pbs.org/thewar/

Women and World War II – about.com - http://womenshistory.about.com/od/warwwii/a/overview.htm

Women Come to the Front: Journalists, Photographers and Broadcasters – Library of Congress - www.loc.gov/exhibits/wcf/

World War II – about.com - http://history1900s.about.com/od/worldwarii/World_War_II.htm

World War II Materials – Library of Congress - http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/WW2/WW2bib.html

World War II Posters: Powers of Persuasion – National Archives -http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/powers_of_persuasion/powers_of_persuasion_intro.html

Northwestern University Library’s World War II Poster Collection http://digital.library.northwestern.edu/wwii-posters/

Duke University Ad*Access http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/adaccess/browse/ 

Browse the World War II (1942 - 1945) section: http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/adaccess/browse/war/ for government propaganda, and commercial advertisements that support government campaigns. 

To only search ads from 1940 to 1945 click here: http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/adaccess/browse/1940-1945/.

Hint: Use the 3D Wall view to browse the images quickly. This feature helps make up for the fact that the organization and tagging of the collection does not make it easy to quickly find images that relate to both women and WWII (i.e.: ads for beauty products and services that portray women in military uniforms are categorized “Cosmetics: 1940s” and under the subject heading “Beauty and Hygiene--Cosmetics” but are NOT linked to “World War II (1942 – 1945,)” “War” or “Military”). Don’t let the categorization stop you from using this resource.

World War II, Propaganda, Cartoons, Film, Music, and Art - www.teacheroz.com/WWIIpropaganda.htm

World War II Sites - www.besthistorysites.net/index.php/ww2

National Archives: Military Resources: World War II  http://www.archives.gov/research/alic/reference/military/ww2.html

The Perilous Fight: America's World War II in Color (Rare color footage!) PBS - http://www.pbs.org/perilousfight/

United States Marine Corps History Division - Frequently Requested (many in right column) -http://www.mcu.usmc.mil/historydivision/Pages/Frequently_Requested.aspx

American Economy during World War II - Economic History Assoc. - http://eh.net/encyclopedia/the-american-economy-during-world-war-ii/

Veterans Stories: Struggle for Participation – Library of Congress -http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/primarysourcesets/veterans/struggles.html

Navajo Code Talkers  - www.navajocodetalkers.org/

Black Wings: African American Pioneer Aviators – National Air and Space Museum - 

http://airandspace.si.edu/blackwings/

Air Force Historical Research Agency - WWII -  http://www.afhra.af.mil/timelines/index.asp

World War II | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History http://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-by-era/great-depression-and-world-war-ii-1929-1945/world-war-ii

Aircraft Carrier – U.S. Navy - www.militaryfactory.com/ships/us-navy-aircraft-carriers.asp

Children in War – Awesome Stories - www.awesomestories.com/history/children-war

World War II Documents - Yale Univ. Law Library - Avalon Project: Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy -http://avalon.law.yale.edu/subject_menus/wwii.asp

Forgotten Posters of World War II –Awesome Stories - www.awesomestories.com/history/forgotten-posters

Science and Technology of World War II – National WWII Museum – www.nationalww2museum.org/

**War by Ken Burns – PBS -  www.pbs.org/thewar/

Women and World War II – about.com - http://womenshistory.about.com/od/warwwii/a/overview.htm

Women Come to the Front: Journalists, Photographers and Broadcasters – Library of Congress - www.loc.gov/exhibits/wcf/

World War II – about.com - http://history1900s.about.com/od/worldwarii/World_War_II.htm

World War II Materials – Library of Congress - http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/WW2/WW2bib.html

World War II Posters: Powers of Persuasion – National Archives -http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/powers_of_persuasion/powers_of_persuasion_intro.html

Northwestern University Library’s World War II Poster Collection http://digital.library.northwestern.edu/wwii-posters/

Duke University Ad*Access http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/adaccess/browse/ 

Browse the World War II (1942 - 1945) section: http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/adaccess/browse/war/ for government propaganda, and commercial advertisements that support government campaigns. 

To only search ads from 1940 to 1945 click here: http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/adaccess/browse/1940-1945/.

Hint: Use the 3D Wall view to browse the images quickly. This feature helps make up for the fact that the organization and tagging of the collection does not make it easy to quickly find images that relate to both women and WWII (i.e.: ads for beauty products and services that portray women in military uniforms are categorized “Cosmetics: 1940s” and under the subject heading “Beauty and Hygiene--Cosmetics” but are NOT linked to “World War II (1942 – 1945,)” “War” or “Military”). Don’t let the categorization stop you from using this resource.

World War II, Propaganda, Cartoons, Film, Music, and Art - www.teacheroz.com/WWIIpropaganda.htm

World War II Sites -www.besthistorysites.net/index.php/ww2

The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki - Avalon Project - Yale Univ. Law Library -http://avalon.law.yale.edu/subject_menus/mpmenu.asp

The Manhattan Project: An Interactive History - US Dept of Energy - https://www.osti.gov/manhattan-project-history/index.htm

Manhattan Project - American Museum of Natural History - http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/past-exhibitions/einstein/peace-and-war/the-manhattan-project

Battle Lines: Letters From America’s Wars – Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History - http://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-by-era/military-history/interactives/battlelines-letters-from-america%E2%80%99s-wars  

D-Day – PBS (American Experience) - http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/dday/

Battle of the Bulge – PBS (American Experience) - http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/bulge/

D-Day Remembered – History Channel - www.history.com/topics/d-day

Eyewitness to History: World War II - www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/w2frm.htm

People at War – http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/a_people_at_war/a_people_at_war.html

Pictures of African Americans in World War II - www.archives.gov/research/african-americans/...pictures/index.html

**Veterans’ History Project – Library of Congress - http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/vhp/search?query=&field=name&war=worldwarii

Focus on Liberation – U.S. Holocaust Museum - http://www.ushmm.org/information/exhibitions/online-features/special-focus/category/Liberation

Yad Vashem – World Center for the Holocaust Research - www.yadvashem.org/

Adolf Hitler – Jewish Virtual Library - www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/hitler.html

Anne Frank – Anne Frank Museum - www.annefrank.org/

America and the Holocaust - PBS - http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/holocaust/

Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State PBS - www.pbs.org/auschwitz/

Breman Jewish Heritage and Holocaust Museum - www.thebreman.org/

Dachau Concentration Camp memorial Site - www.kz-gedenkstaette-dachau.de/index-e.html

Decoding Nazi Secrets – NOVA - www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/decoding

Genocide Under the Nazis – BBC - www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/genocide/

Holocaust Encyclopedia – U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum - http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/

Holocaust Evidence – Awesome Stories - www.awesomestories.com/history/holocaust-evidence

Holocaust Frequently Asked Questions – Holocaust Museum of Houston - www.hmh.org/ed_butterfly%20FAQ.shtml

Holocaust Links – Holocaust Museum of Houston - www.hmh.org/ed_holocaust_links.shtml

Holocaust Resource Center of Buffalo – survivor testimonies - www.holocaustcenterbuff.com/

Jewish Foundation for the Righteousness - http://www.jfr.org/pages/education/links

Jewish Virtual Library - http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/holo.html

Memorial and Museum Auschwitz – Birkenau - http://en.auschwitz.org/m/

Museum of Tolerance - www.museumoftolerance.com/

Nazi Camps – United States Holocaust Memorial Museum - http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007398  

Sugihara: Conspiracy of Kindness – PBS - www.pbs.org/wgbh/sugihara

Teacher’s Guide to the Holocaust - http://fcit.usf.edu/holocaust/resource/resource.htm

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum - www.ushmm.org/

USC Shoah Foundation Institute - http://sfi.usc.edu/video-topics  

Voices of the Holocaust – Illinois Institute of Technology - http://voices.iit.edu/

Voices of World War II: Experiences From the Front and From Home – Missouri State Library -http://library.umkc.edu/spec-col/ww2/furtherstudy/index.htm

**War by Ken Burns – PBS - www.pbs.org/thewar/

Women and World War II – about.com - http://womenshistory.about.com/od/warwwii/a/overview.htm

http://www.loc.gov/vets/vets-portal.html

World War II – about.com - http://history1900s.about.com/od/worldwarii/World_War_II.htm

World War II: Oral Histories – C- Span - www.c-span.org/History/Oral-Histories/

World War II Sites - http://www.besthistorysites.net/index.php/ww2

WW2: People’s War – (British war experience) – BBC - www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/

Children of the Camps – PBS - www.pbs.org/childofcamp

Famous Dissents - Korematsu v. United States (1944) - PBS -http://www.pbs.org/wnet/supremecourt/personality/landmark_korematsu.html

Korematsu v. United States - Cornell Legal Information Institute -https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/323/214

Japanese American Internment and Estelle Ishigo - http://ipr.ues.gseis.ucla.edu/classroom/lessons.html

Japanese Americans and the US Constitution – Smithsonian - http://americanhistory.si.edu/press/releases/smithsonian-launches-online-exhibition-more-perfect-union-japanese-americans-and-us

Letters from the Japanese American Internment – Smithsonian -http://www.smithsonianeducation.org/educators/lesson_plans/japanese_internment/index.html

National Japanese American Memorial Foundation - Education Resources in conjunction with Stanford Univ. -http://njamf.com/Education/index.html

Japanese-American Internment – Awesome Stories -

http://www.awesomestories.com/famous-trials/korematsu-us

Manzanar - Nat'l Parks Virtual Exhibit - http://www.nps.gov/museum/exhibits/manz/index.html

Manzanar National Historic Site, California – American West Travelogue - http://www.amwest-travel.com/awt_manzanar_01.html

Scan of WWII US Internment Camp Yearbook - http://boingboing.net/2008/11/12/scan-of-wwii-us-inte.html

"Pearl Harbor Radiogram" Virtual Exhibit - National Archives -http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/american_originals/fdr.html

The Kamikaze Threat - PBS - http://www.pbs.org/perilousfight/psychology/the_kamikaze_threat/

REMEMBERING JAPAN'S KAMIKAZE PILOTS - BBC - HTTP://WWW.BBC.COM/NEWS/MAGAZINE-26256048

Pearl Harbor-Related Artifacts - National Archives - http://research.archives.gov/search?expression=tag%3APearl+Harbor&pg_src=brief&data-source=online

Navajo Code Talkers  - www.navajocodetalkers.org/

Navajo Code Talkers in World War II - US Marine Corp History Division -http://www.mcu.usmc.mil/historydivision/pages/frequently_requested/Navajo_Code_talkers.aspx

Sullivan Brothers -  http://www.history.navy.mil/research/archives/subject-collections/the-sullivan-brothers-and-the-assignment-of-family-members.html

After the Day of Infamy (Man on the Street Interviews) - http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/afcphhtml/afcphhome.html

The Perilous Fight: America's World War II in Color - The Home Front (PBS) -http://www.pbs.org/perilousfight/home_front/

Children In War – Awesome Stories - www.awesomestories.com/history/children-war

On the Homefront: America During World War I and World War II -http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/presentationsandactivities/presentations/homefront/gallery.html

Rural Life in the 1940’s – Living History Farm - http://www.livinghistoryfarm.org/farminginthe40s/life_01.html

Voices of World War II: Experiences from the Front and from Home -  http://library.umkc.edu/spec-col/ww2/index.htm

World War II Home Front - http://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-by-era/great-depression-and-world-war-ii-1929-1945/world-war-ii

Women Marines in World War II (from the USMC History Division, Frequently Requested) http://www.mcu.usmc.mil/historydivision/Pages/Frequently_Requested/Marines_in_WWII/Women.aspx

Part 1 -http://www.marines.mil/Portals/59/Publications/Free%20a%20Marine%20to%20Fight%20Women%20Marines%20in%20World%20War%20II%20PCN%2019000312900_1.pdf

Jordan, Melissa. "Flying Bombers in World War II: Stories My Mother Told Me." Air & Space Magazine 1 August 2010. http://www.airspacemag.com/military-aviation/Flying-Bombers-in-World-War-II.html    

WASP on the Web http://www.wingsacrossamerica.us/wasp/  

This is a website dedicated to documenting the history and experiences of the WASPs. They have assembled an amazing collection, including photographs, 115 WASP interviews, press releases from the 1940s, scans of newspapers, official government documents and more.

Women in the U.S. Army: http://www.army.mil/women/index.html  

WWII is covered in this very polished and resource-filled website as part of in numerous sections: Timeline, History (nurses, pilots, WAAC/WAC, New Era sections), Profiles, and Resources (links to organizations, news articles, etc.). 

The Women in the U.S. Army: WWII-New Era http://www.army.mil/women/newera.html

Women in Army History (U.S. ARMY CENTER OF MILITARY HISTORY) http://www.history.army.mil/html/topics/women/index.html  

Despite similar titles, this Army site from the U.S. Army Center of Military History is different from the Army site listed previous to this. This site links to free online versions of many U.S. Army-published books. It also has a great gallery of photographs and illustrations, with high resolution versions available. Check out “Captured Army Nurses: The Philippines – World War II” to see and learn about American women POWs in World War II.

United States Marine Corps - History Division http://www.tecom.usmc.mil/HD/Home_Page.htm  

The History Division of the United States Marine Corps is a great place to get photos and information on Women Marines in the context of Marine Corps history and in World War II.

WAVES National - Women of the WAVES  (Women’s Naval Reserves in WWII) http://womenofthewaves.com/  

Women Come to the Front: Journalists, Photographers and Broadcasters – Library of Congress - www.loc.gov/exhibits/wcf/

Women and World War II – about.com - http://womenshistory.about.com/od/warwwii/a/overview.htm