<CENTER><IMG SRC="../media/navigation.gif" BORDER="0" WIDTH="463" HEIGHT="117" USEMAP="#navigationMap"> </CENTER>
Is your trip necessary? Needless travel interferes with the war effort.

World War II: The Homefront Links

 

http://history.rutgers.edu/oralhistory/orlhom.htm

Rutgers University oral history project.


http://www.tankbooks.com/

The site has oral histories based on tank groups. The Hitler Youth story is really good.


http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/Quarters/1350/

This site is a daughter's personal tribute to her father, a Tuskegee Airman.


http://www.kent.wednet.edu/KSD/SJ/TuskegeeAirmen/Tuskegee_HomePage.html

Tuskegee Airmen information.


http://ac.acusd.eud/History/ww2Timeline/Tuskegee.html

Excellent background on the Tuskegee Airmen.


http://www.private-art.com/

Great collection of letters from "Private Art."


http://www.isd77.k12.mn.us/schools/dakota/war/worldwar.html

This web site has oral histories done by 8th graders in Minnesota.


http://www.chs.chico.k12.ca.us/~mrummens/marg/WW2/a.htm

This site has individual pages with links to World War 2 sites based on each individual letter.


http://members.aol.com/dadswar/index.htm

A site about how a guy traced all the facts about his dad's combat. It also has a list of links to people who have done the same thing.


http://www.grolier.com/wwii/wwii_mainpage.html

Great page of links. It has national archive photos and some downloadable films!


http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/wcf/wcf0001.html

Library of Congress site about women journalists in the war.


http://www.execpc.com/~dboals/a-part1a#WORLD WAR II

Excellent, informative site. 


http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/WWII_Women/

What did you do in the war, Grandma? An oral history site.


http://www.u.arizona.edu/~kari/rosie.htm

Rosie the riveter site.


http://www.gettysburg.edu/~mbirkner/fys120/homefront.html

World War II homefront newspaper articles.


http://normandy.eb.com

Extensive site developed by Encyclopedia Britannica offers photos, articles, essays, interactive maps and much more.


 

http://web.arts.ubc.ca/history/ww2prop/prop.htm

Essay about conditions in Canada when the war began. Many posters.


http://www.library.nwu.edu/govpub/collections/wwii-posters/

A stite maintained by Northwestern University library. It has over 300 World War II posters. It is searchable by various words.


http://members.aol.com/EARTHSUN/Manzanar.html

The site has articles and photos of present day Manzanar.


http://www.nara.gov/nara/nn/nns/ww2photo.html

A collection of captioned National Archives photos.

 


http://www.geocities.com/Athens/8420/main.html

Pictures of the internment camp in Manzanar, CA.


http://www.adventure.com/encyclopedia/america/toyo.html

The story of a photographer of Manzanar.


http://www.umass.edu/history/internment.html

Excellent resources on internment camps.


http://www.youth.net

Click on the Memories of 1945 section where a panel of World War II survivors answers students' questions.

 

 

Timeline | Museum | Simulation | Resources | Participation

Home
© ThinkQuest 1998 Team 15511
E-mail us at: 15511@advanced.org