Websites of particular interest

[Andreas]

I have just come across the site for 3rd US Armored Division in WW2, which includes a fully digitized version of their history 'Spearhead in the West'.

http://www.3ad.com/history/wwll.htm



Great cover BTW - looks like a Sgt. Rock comic.

All the best

Andreas

[Andreas]

A very good account of the battle for Walcheren, the opening of the Scheldt estuary, can be found on the Combined Ops website:

http://www.combinedops.com/Walcheren.htm

This contains an operational narrative, personal memoirs, maps, and lots of photos.

All the best

Andreas

[Andreas]

Merchant Navy in WW2 and Convoy.web

http://www.mikekemble.com/ww2/merchantnavyintro.html

A tribute to the Merchant Navy's role in the Battle of the Atlantic. Very good site. Contains individual accounts, lots of pictures.

This is a very informative site giving information

http://www.convoyweb.org.uk/

This site contains searchable databases on a vast number of convoys. E.g. the Russian convoy section contains information on ships in the convoy, whether and how they were sunk during that convoy, and on escorts associated with that particular convoy. A goldmine.

All the best

Andreas

[Andreas]

Halcyon Class Minesweepers



http://www.halcyon-class.co.uk/

Website giving information on this class of 21 fleet minesweepers, including individual ship histories including transcripts of their logs, detailed information on the D-Day minesweep, an account of the massacre of the minesweepers by a tragic Typhoon attack off Cap d'Antifer in August 1944, a series of excellent links, information on books.

Great site!

All the best

Andreas

[Andreas]

Lost Bombers

http://lostbombers.co.uk/ is a site containing a database of bomber losses of the RAF. Very nicely done by a 76-year old former member of the RAF.

Entry for Handley Page Hampden L4078:

Hampden L4078 Information
Type Hampden
Serial Number L4078
Squadron 50
X1D VN-?
Operation Hannover
Date 1 26th June 1940
Date 2 27th June 1940

Further Information
Serial Range L4032 - L4211. 180 Hampden Mk.B.1. First production Order. L4032 had Wright Cyclone engines experimentally installed. L4038; L4041; L4075; L4076; L4086; L4091; L4105; L4115; L4118; L4141; L4144; L4150; L4170; L4196; L4201; l4204 were converted th Hampden TB (Torpedo Bomber). Delivered by the Handley Page Co (Cricklewood) between Aug38 and Jun39 L4078 was one of two 50 Sqdn Hampdens lost on this operation. See: P1329. Airborne 2217 26Jun40 from Waddington to attack the aerodrome at Langen Hagen. All are buried in Hannover War Cemetery. P/O A.S.Luxmoore KIA Sgt W.C.Harding KIA Sgt G.Nichols KIA Sgt A.H.Smith KIA

Very well done site with lots of information.

All the best

Andreas

[Andreas]

An excellent site containing tons of information on ships of all major navies of World War 2, including a searchable data base for (at least) RN losses, as well as well-researched and written stories of interesting actions.

http://www.world-war.co.uk/

One can spend hours there.

All the best

Andreas

[Andreas]

Gary Kennedy has a superb website with a lot of detail on unit TO&Es and tactics. Of particular interest to anyone building scenarios for e.g. Combat Mission, or who is interested in standard TO&Es for engagements where little detail is known.

http://www.bayonetstrength.150m.com/index.htm

All the best

Andreas

[Andreas]

A very interesting site about the history of escorts and convoys by a former member of the crew Leander class frigates.

http://www.middle-watch.co.uk/index.html (the old site, no longer updated, but with a nice intro to WW2 convoys) and

http://www.leander-project.homecall.co.uk/

All the best

Andreas

[Andreas]

Some more naval information;

http://www.uboatarchive.net/ is a site containing a lot of original reports on the submarine war.

http://www.netmarine.net/bat/divers/aconit/index.htm is a French language page on the FNFL Aconit, which sank U-432 during the defense of convoy HX228, containing a lot of info on that particular convoy battle.

All the best

Andreas

[Andreas]

Another U-Boat site with some free articles available is Uboataces.com

http://www.uboataces.com/

Nice site to spend some time on.

All the best

Andreas

[Andreas]

An excellent site (in French), on the French army in 1940 is:

http://www.atf40.fr/

It has a forum, articles, and a lot of original maps.

All the best

Andreas

[Andreas]

Website of the US 30th Infantry Division, Old Hickory.

http://www.oldhickory30th.com/index.htm

This site contains personal accounts, battle reports, maps of fighting in Normandy, and is a gem.

All the best

Andreas

[Andreas]

Thanks to Kingfish, I have come across this excellent and highly informative site about British units in WW2, with a strong focus on the Normandy battles:

http://warchronicle.com/units/British/contents.htm It is part of a larger site, but I have not yet had time to explore all of it.

http://warchronicle.com/

Contains unit histories, period document transcriptions, and first-person accounts.

All the best

Andreas

[Andreas]

A real treasure trove of combat reports and maps is the Fort Benning Infantry School website, which contains a good number of digitized monographs on combat actions in both World Wars and all theatres in which US infantry forces participated.

Anyone wanting to learn more about the Queen of the Battlefield should have a rummage there:

https://www.infantry.army.mil/monograph ... /index.htm

All the best

Andreas

[Andreas]

The Fort Sill Field Artillery Command has very helpfully put all its back issues of the Field Artillery Magazine into a searchable database. I highly recommend looking for articles from the World War II period. Here are some examples of the very interesting material found on the site (both are PDF files):

Article by the Norwegian Military Attaché in Washington on the battle of Norway on the 4th anniversary of the German invasion

Translation of a 1940 German article in Wehrwissenschaftliche Rundschau on artillery in the battle of France

http://sill-www.army.mil/FAMAG/archives.htm

All the best

Andreas