Website Index

Below is an alphabetical listing of some of the most popular and frequently viewed sections of this Website. You can use this index to quickly access topics that interest you. If you can't find what you are looking for here, try using the Website search to find it.

Aircraft photos (includes technical specifications)

Aircraft sounds and videos, crew recordings -- Sounds and videos of aircraft in flight, Lancaster crew recordings (these are all located amongst the respective aircraft photos)

Atomic bomb: The final days of the Pacific war, including the dropping of the atomic bombs

• The Potsdam Surrender Declaration of July 26, 1945, in which the Allies called upon Japan to unconditionally surrender (The Japanese ignored this declaration, resulting in the dropping of two atomic bombs several weeks later)
• A press release issued by the White House in Washington shortly after the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945
• Some leaflets that were dropped over major Japanese cities shortly after the Hiroshima bombing, warning of possible further atomic bomb attacks
• A series of letters exchanged between the Japanese and U.S. governments just after the second atomic bomb was dropped, resulting in unconditional surrender by the Japanese (includes audio file)
• The Instrument of Surrender signed by Japan and the Allied Powers aboard the battleship Missouri in Tokyo Bay on September 2, 1945 (VJ-Day), marking Japan's formal surrender (includes photos)
• Text of the radio address given by President Harry Truman immediately after the Instrument of Surrender was signed in Tokyo Bay on September 2, 1945
• Enola Gay Headed For Restoration and Display - Several news articles telling about the restoration of the famous B-29 bomber that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and giving details about its mission (includes photos, audio and video files at bottom of page)
• Some photos of Tinian, the island where the planes that carried the atomic bombs were based
  
  
  

Aztec Eagles -- News article about the Mexican 201st fighter squadron (Escuadron 201), which flew P-47 fighter planes and was formed after Germany attacked several Mexican ships (includes photos and video)

Battle of Britain video -- A video that tells the story of the Battle of Britain, which was Germany's attempt to occupy Britain during the war

Bombing balloons -- Japanese Fugo bombing balloons

Charlie and his Orchestra -- Nazi propaganda swing music

Enola Gay -- News articles about the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan (includes photos, audio and video files)

Eva Braun:

• Page containing color photo of Eva Braun, Hitler's companion and eventual wife
  
  
• A home movie filmed mostly by Eva Braun at Hitler's mountain retreat at Berchtesgaden -- she also appears in the movie
  
  

Glacier Girl -- News articles about recovery of a P-38 fighter plane from ice in Greenland and its restoration in the USA (includes photo and video)

Hiroshima -- Some news articles, photos, and audio and video files related to the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan

JB-2 rockets -- USA version of the German V-1 rocket

Journals:

• Training in the USA
  
  
• Combat in Europe
  
  
• Transport flights
  
  

Lady Moe -- Mascot of the 96th Bomb Group

Lancaster bomber crew recordings -- Audio recordings made by the BBC during actual bombing missions

Little Boy -- News articles, photos, and audio and video files related to the atomic bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan

Lord Haw-Haw -- Lord Haw-Haw (William Joyce) sent weekly pro-Nazi propaganda radio broadcasts from Germany to the UK throughout the war (includes his final broadcast)

Miscellaneous photos -- A collection of miscellaneous photos related to WW2

Music of WW1 and WW2 (includes some radio broadcasts and speeches)

Nazi propaganda:

• Propaganda swing music
  
  
• Infamous anti-Semitic propaganda film Der Ewige Jude (narrated in English)
  
  

News articles and miscellaneous items of interest

Personal accounts and stories -- News articles describing personal WW2 experiences

Photos:

• Aircraft (includes technical specifications and aircraft sounds, videos)
  
  
• Training in the USA
  
  
• Our combat crew
  
  
• Combat period in Europe
  
  
• Transport flights
  
  
• Miscellaneous
  
  

Pilot Training Manual -- excerpts from the official B-17 Pilot Training Manual

Poetry -- Some WW2 poetry

Posters -- WW2 patriotic/propaganda posters

Radio broadcasts from WW2, including speeches by Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Neville Chamberlain, Charles Lindbergh, etc.

Technical specifications for WW2 aircraft

Tinian Island -- Some photos of the island where the atomic bomb attacks on Japan were based and some atomic bomb photos

V-rockets -- German V-1 and V-2 rockets (photos, audio and video files)

World War II documentary video -- a video which gives a good summary of the events leading up to World War II in Europe and also summarizes the events of the war itself