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Paths of Memory (War in Europe 1914-1945)

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Top sites
General websites about D-Day and the Battle of Normandy
For kids! (sites about D-Day and the Second World War in general)
Visiting Normandy Today
Memories of Those Who Were There
British Land Forces
Canadian Land Forces
US Land Forces
Polish, French and other Allied Forces
Naval Forces, including Landing Craft
The Air War
German-occupied Europe
German Forces
Casualties and War Graves
Family History
Vehicles, Weapons and Equipment
The Home Front
Other Military Museums and Related Institutions
Associations and Contacts for Veterans
The Second World War: General Information

Top sites
If you only want to view a few websites, have a look at these:
D-Day, Normandy and Beyond
Encyclopaedia Britannica’s Normandy 1944 website
The BBC’s Second World War website
The Battle of Normandy: Memory (includes information on cemeteries, memorials and museums)

General websites about D-Day and the Battle of Normandy
The Association “Normandy-Memory”
Southampton and D-Day
Encyclopaedia Britannica’s Normandy 1944 website
War Chronicle (detailed information on the different beaches)
D-Day
BBC History’s D-Day audio archive
D-Day, by Military.com
Saving Private Ryan Online Encyclopedia (The film “Saving Private Ryan” and D-Day)
D-Day & Normandy Fellowship (association for veterans and everyone interested in D-Day)
6 June 1944 (a detailed website in French)
D-Day preparations in Hampshire and Dorset (BBC Southampton)
D-Day links page, from City College of New York

For kids!
(sites about D-Day and the Second World War in general)
D-Day planning game
Life during the Second World War (BBC History)
The Imperial War Museum’s education page
The Home Front 1939-1945 (National Archives’ Learning Curve)
Spartacus Educational (all aspects of the Second World War)

Visiting Normandy Today
D-Day anniversary events in Normandy
The Normandie Pass scheme - save money when visiting museums and other historic sites in Normandy
Normandy Tourism
Western France Tourist Board
The Battle of Normandy: The Memory (includes information on cemeteries, memorials and museums)
Battlefields of WW2
Normandy Allies International Experience for students and adults

Memories of Those Who Were There
Many other sites listed here include memories of those who witnessed D-Day.
BBC History’s D-Day audio archive
The American Experience on D-Day (PBS)
The Wartime News: The WWII Newsletter written by the Veterans themselves
Witness to War
Recollections of WWII (UK oral history collections)

British Land Forces: General
Regiments and Corps of the British Army
Hill 112 memorial (Battle of Normandy)
Combined Operations
War Chronicle (detailed information on the different beaches)
The British Tanks on D-Day (from the Tank Museum)
Project to Rebuild a Horsa Glider

British Land Forces: Specific Units
59th Division, 1939-1944
6th Airborne Division in Normandy
ATS (Auxiliary Territorial Service) Remembered
7th Armoured Division
8th Armoured Brigade
The Royal Artillery during the Second World War
The Glorious Glosters (Gloucestershire Regiment)
7th Battalion, The Loyal Regiment, 92nd (Loyals) LAA Regiment RA
British units in Normandy, by Battlefields of WW2
Essex Yeomanry and D-Day
2nd Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment
Royal Pioneer Corps and D-Day
Glider Pilot Regiment and D-Day
Hallamshire Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment (49th Division)
Battle of Lingevres, 14 June 1944 (50th Division and 8th Independent Armoured Brigade)
Memories of four British Normandy Veterans
British Artillery in World War Two

Canadian Land Forces: General
Veterans Affairs Canada: Normandy
Veterans Affairs Canada: links to other Canadian websites
In Desperate Battle: Normandy 1944
Canadians on D-Day
War Chronicle (detailed information on the different beaches)
Juno Beach Centre
Maple Leaf Up: The Canadian Army Overseas, 1939-1945
The Memory Project (Memories of Canadian veterans)

Canadian Land Forces: Specific Units
All Tanked Up: The Canadians in Headley during WW2

US Land Forces: General
List of US Army units, Normandy
War Chronicle (detailed information on the different beaches)
Memorial Site to the US Servicemen Killed at Slapton Sands, April 1944
On-Line US Official Histories of World War II
Americandday.org
Sherman Tank memorial at Slapton Sands

US Land Forces: Specific Units
US 502nd Parachute Infantry Regiment (101st Airborne Division)
506th Parachute Infantry Regiment Association (101st Airborne Division)
US 746th Tank Battalion, D-Day and after
US 737th Tank Battalion (Battle of Normandy)
US 83rd Infantry Division
US 25th AAA Searchlight Battalion

French, Polish and other Allied Forces
First Polish Armoured Division (by Veterans Affairs Canada)
The Belgian Piron Brigade in Normandy
Free French forces (website in French)
1st Polish Armoured Division
Recollections of Sgt Gaston Eve, Free French Forces (part in French)

Naval Forces, including Landing Craft
Royal Navy in the Second World War
British amphibious landings during the Second World War (naval-history.net)
British Merchant Navy
US Merchant Marine
Landing Craft and Landing Ships
US LCT (Landing Craft, Tanks) Flotillas of World War II ETO PTO
Landing Craft LCI(L)489 (Landing Craft, Infantry (Large) 489) on D-Day
USS LCI (Landing Craft, Infantry) National Association
Landing Craft on D-Day
US LST (Landing Ship, Tanks) Association
US LST (Landing Ship, Tanks) Home Port
USS LST (Landing Ship, Tanks) Ship Memorial
Losses to British landing ships and craft in the Second World War
Memorial Site to the US Servicemen Killed at Slapton Sands, April 1944
Landingship.com
Lt Salvatore J. “Sam” Favazza USN and LCT 541 at Omaha Beach
UK Historic Vessels at Risk List (includes several vessels that were involved in D-Day, but are now in danger of being lost)

The Air War
Warbirds Resource Group
US Air Power, D-Day and Normandy
Bomber Command RAF
Royal Air Force History website
Fleet Air Arm Archive (FAA) 1939-1945
Angels Eight. Normandy Air War Diary

German-occupied Europe
Vichy-Web (France and the Second World War)

German Forces
The Atlantic Wall (German defences along the Atlantic coast)
German Armed Forces, 1918-1945
Vehicles and People of the German Tank Forces
The Atlantic Wall in France, 1940-1944
The Axis History Factbook

Casualties and War Graves
British War Memorial Project
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
American Battle Monuments Commission
German War Graves Commission (Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge e.V.)
D-Day Ancestors - listing of British and Commonwealth soldiers who died on 6 June 1944

Family History
London Gazette medal award listings
Research guides on naval subjects (National Maritime Museum)
GI Trace (helping people trace their American soldier fathers/families)
Research advice from the Imperial War Museum - family history
For descendants of Second World War soldiers to find their fathers/relatives

Vehicles, Weapons and Equipment
Second World War tanks (by tankhistory.com)
Second World War tanks (by onwar.com)
The Sherman Tank Register
World War II tanks

The Home Front
Air Raid Precautions website
Home Sweet Home Front
The Home Front 1939-1945(National Archives’ Learning Curve)
Put That Light Out: childhood memories of Wartime London, by Patricia Hardy
The US Home Front

Other Military Museums and Related Institutions
United Kingdom
The National Archives, Kew
Imperial War Museum
National Army Museum
Royal Naval Museum
Royal Marines Museum
Royal Air Force Museum
Listing of British Regimental Museums
The Tank Museum
Firepower: The Royal Artillery Museum
Royal Navy Submarine Museum
Explosion: The Museum of Naval Firepower
Motor Museums (Listing of Vehicle Museums)
British Aerial Reconnaissance Archives, Keele University
Defence of the Realm (Military History attractions in Hampshire)

Europe
Listing of European war museums

France
Pegasus Bridge Memorial and Arromanches Museum
Memorial de Caen
Museums in Normandy (Atlantic Wall website)
The Battle of Normandy: The Memory (includes information on museums)
Association of Sites and Museums of the Battle of Normandy

United States
US National D-Day Museum - New Orleans
US National D-Day Memorial Foundation
Dwight D. Eisenhower Library
Museum of World War II, Natick, MA

Canada
The Canadian War Museum

Associations and Contacts for Veterans
Also see websites relating to individual units, above.
Ministry of Defence Government Veterans Agency, including War Pensions
The National Ex-Prisoner of War Association
The Creully Club: The 4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards (N.W. Europe 1940-1945) Association
D-Day & Normandy Fellowship (association for veterans and everyone interested in D-Day)
Normandy Allies (includes a list of many associations for US units that served in Normandy)
Service Pals: Find old comrades

The Second World War: General Information
Panoramas of World War II landmarks
British, Commonwealth , US and German Orders of Battle
Paths of Memory (War in Europe 1914-1945)
The BBC’s Second World War website
Timeline of the Second World War
Spartacus Educational (all aspects of the Second World War)
Holocaust Memorial Day
Links to Second World War history websites
Defence of Britain Project (20th Century Defence Sites in the UK)
Sir Winston Churchill
Maps of the Second World War
World War II, a British focus
Timelines of the World War
International WWII awards and their recipients