World War Two

On this page, we have gathered together general resources available online for the Second World War (1939-1945) for all branches of the armed and civilian services.

General Resources

• The Wartime Memories Project
• Age Concern Time capsule - Military Service
• Conscript Heroes
• Bletchley Park Archives
• Lesser Known Facts about WW2
• North African Campaign
• Nuremberg Trials Project
• Association of Dunkirk Little Ships
• World War Two and Japan
• WW2talk
• Schedule of Reserved Occupations (1939)

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The Home Front

• The Midnight Watch - The Home Front
• 'Home Sweet Home Front'
• Civilian Life in WW2
• Recollections of WW2
• Chesham in the Second World War
• Second World War in Northern Ireland
• The People's War
• West End at War
• The Bomb Sight project: Mapping the London WW2 bomb census.

Evacuation

• FTF Guide: Evacuation and Evacuees

The Home Guard

• The Story of the Home Guard
• The Home Guard
• Home Guard Pocket Manual

Land Army Girls

• Reminiscences of Land Army Girls
• Times past - Land Army Girls

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Allied Forces

• FTF Guide: The Royal Navy

• FTF Guide: The British Army

• FTF Guide: The Royal Air Force

• Special Operations Australia: Includes some members of the British SOE who belonged to Inter-Allied units.
• SPARROW FORCE: Dutch West Timor & Portuguese East Timor 1941-1942 - many names and photographs.

• Australia
• Canada
• India
• New Zealand
• United States of America

• Polish Links for WW2
• Kresy-Siberia Virtual Museum

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Cemeteries and Memorials

• War Memorials

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Merchant Shipping and Maritime History

• FTF Guide: Maritime History

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Medals and Decorations

• FTF Guide: Military History ~ Medals, Badges and Decorations

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Prisoners of War

• War Office: Japanese Index Cards of Allied Prisoners of War and Internees WW2
• findmypast: Prisoners Of War 1715-1945 £ - includes images of the above index cards

• FTF Guide: Military History ~ Prisoners of War and Internees

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