World War II Resources
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AMERICAN GENERALS:
General George S. Patton
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THE BATTLE OF MIDWAY:
The Flying Tigers
(The official home page of "The Flying Tigers")
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Midway Islands
(historical, cultural, and vacation information)
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Midway Island's Undaunted Defenders
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Newport News Shipbuilding
(Information on the U.S.S. Yorktown from the company which built her.)
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The Japanese Imperial Navy
RELATED BOOKS ON THE BATTLE OF MIDWAY:
Fuchida, Mitsuo, and Masatake Okumiya., Midway: The Battle that Doomed Japan. Ballantine Books, 1982.
Walter Lord, Incredible Victory: The Battle of Midway. Burford Books, 1998.
Norman Polmar, Aircraft Carriers. Doubleday, 1969.
Gordon W. Prange, Miracle at Midway. McGraw-Hill, 1982.
Myron J. Smith, Battles of Coral Sea and Midway, 1942: A Selected
Bibliography. Greenwood Publishing Group, 1991.
Peter Charles Smith, The Battle of Midway: The Battle that Turned the Tide of the Pacific War. Howell Press, 1996.
RELATED NEWS ARTICLES ON THE BATTLE OF MIDWAY:
The Ghost Of The Battle Of Midway Is Silent No More, Sun-Sentinel
For decades, as chroniclers of the battle that turned the tide of World War II in the Pacific second-guessed Vice Adm. Stanhope Cotton Ring, his voice was silent. He had locked it away in his sea chest.
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MISCELLANEOUS:
Earthstation1's WWII Sounds & Pictures
(This is an archive of World War II naval ships.)
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National Archives
(The United States National Archives
has extensive offerings on World War II.)
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Naval Historical Center
(Maintained by the United States Department of the Navy, this site is devoted to "preserving, analyzing and interpreting" the history of the U.S. Navy.)
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The Japanese Imperial Navy
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United States Navy Memorial
(Visit this site's resources for Navy veterans
and reunion groups.)
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Zeno's Control Tower: World War II Aviation Links
(View this site's
exhaustive listing of World
War II airplanes from different countries.)
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