United We Stand
      Images of the U.S. flag featured on magazine covers as part of the U.S. government's WWII war bond drive are reunited in this exhibition. A Smithsonian Institution exhibit.

Stalag Luft I
   During World War II, the Germans imprisoned 8,939 Allied airmen at Stalag Luft I in Barth, Germany. Here are some of their stories.

Soldier stories
    Transcripts of interviews with those who fought in World War II.

Military history, World War II

Virtual library, 1940s

Listen to Eisenhower's D-Day message to the troops

Listen to FDR

Listen to President Truman
      A selection of speeches, including his announcement of the defeats of Germany and Japan
 

Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Ansel Adams, photographer

A More Perfect Union: Japanese Americans and the Constitution      A Smithsonian Institution on-line exhibit on the treatment of Japanese-Americans during World War II. Forwarding Address Required Letters exchanged between Japanese American children in WWII internment camps and Clara Breed, a librarian in San Diego "Suffering under a Great Injustice"      Photographs of a Japanese-American internment camp by Ansel Adams. Click on the pictures for a better view.

 Virtual Library

Time archives/World War II

Time archives/Iwo Jima
      Highlights from TIME's coverage of World War II's bloodiest battle in the Pacific:

George C. Marshall: Soldier of Peace
     Remembering Marshall and the leaders with whom he helped shape history for much of the twentieth century

 July 1942: United We Stand
     In July 1942, magazines across the U.S. displayed the American flag on their covers

Produce for Victory
     Posters to mobilize the American Home Front during World War II

 Stephen Ambrose: Victory in Europe: May 1945
     Historian reviews the Allied strategy to end World War II in Europe

 Enola Gay
     The bomber used in the atomic mission that destroyed Hiroshima

Historical Text Archives
    Articles, diaries, memoirs, books, documents, and photographs about World War II

Auschwitz
     The home page of the Auschwitz Memorial and Museum

Where the Goonie Birds Are
    Visit the Albatross on Midway island, see monk seals, learn the island's WWII role, read 'Rime of  the Ancient Mariner'

Authentic History
Primary sources from popular culture

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