- http://connections.smsd.org/veterans/wwii_sites.htm A link to many other websites about WWII
- http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/2WW.htm A hypertext history written by teachers and historians
- http://www.worldwariihistory.info/ a great general site about the war. A great place to start researching
Places to find Oral Histories of your events:
- The HFCSD World War II Living History Project website (http://www.hfcsd.org/ww2/Interviews/Interviews%20homepage.htm) and find interview accounts and/or artifacts for your chosen events. Click on THE PRINT INTERVIEWS link to get the text of read. This site also has interesting ARTIFACTS (primary sources) to view –click on them in the left hand margin.
- The “Voices of World War II” project. There are two documentaries composed of oral history interviews, one about soldiers and women involved in the war, and one focusing explicitly on women who fought during the war. Click on the Documentary titles at the following website (http://www.wwiihistoryclass.com/documentaries/index.html) and view/browse the DVD chapters. You can also view/download TEXT of the interviews (http://www.wwiihistoryclass.com/education/transcripts.html). Each of these is categorize by subject and location of the events they experienced.
- The “Voces Project” websites, a collection of interviews with Hispanic-Americans that were involved in the war (http://www.lib.utexas.edu/voces/). You can click on “BROWSE STORIES” or use the SEARCH box on the main webpage to find interviews that would go along with the events/topics you have chosen.
- The Georgia WWII Veterans Oral History Project Page (http://www.gpb.org/wwii). Oral history interviews are organized by location on the left hand side of the page. Click on the images of the videos to play the INTERVIEWS. There are also many DOCUMENTS that you can view to help you understand even more about the events you research.
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