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Arthur Harris
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/2WWharris.htm
Biographical information on the man most famous for orchestrating the blanket bombing of German cities.

Battle Stations
www.channel4.com/history/microsites/H/history/a-b/battle.html
Technology was a dominant and determining theme of World War II. Historian Robin Cross looks at examples, including the Avro Lancaster, that show how crucial technological innovation was to that conflict.

Forces Reunited
www.forcesreunited.org.uk
It's free to register on this site which claims to be the largest UK database of armed forces and ex-forces personnel on the web. It's aim is to help those who served in the forces get back in touch with old friends.

Sally B
www.sallyb.org.uk
Home of the UK's last remaining airworthy B-17 Flying Fortress aircraft, 'Sally B'. The B-17 Charitable Trust has now been set up to raise funds and its aim is to keep this plane in the UK for all time.

Wartime Memories
www.wartimememories.co.uk/airfields/waddington.html
Excellent resource for those interested in first-hand accounts of World War II. This page has the testimony of a wireless operator flying in Lancasters from RAF Waddington. He describes 'flak', what it feels like to go into a corkscrew, and much more.

World War II
www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/
Comprehensive site from BBC history with a timeline, soldiers' stories, campaigns and battles, Bomber Crews and much more.

World War II Images Online
www.channel4.com/news/2004/01/week_2/17_photo.html
These five million aerial photographs, depicting some of the key moments of World War II were taken by RAF reconnaissance pilots, offer a bird's eye view of history.

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	Bomber Crew by James Taylor and Martin Davidson (Hodder & Stroughton, 2004) The official book to accompany Bomber Crew, this has moving and gripping first person testimony from the veterans of RAF Bomber Command, following the history of the aircrews throughout the war. Get this book
	Air Power by Stephen Budiansky (Viking, 2003) The story of airpower, showing how it transformed warfare during the 20th century. Get this book from Amazon
	Avro Lancaster: The definitive record by Harry Holmes (Crowood Press, 2001) Everything there is to know about World War II's greatest heavy bomber. Get this book from Amazon
	Bomber by Len Deighton (HarperCollins, 1978) A documentary novel set in 1943 and covering 24 hours in the life of a bomber crew and the German town that is their target. Get this book from Amazon
	Bomber Command by Max Hastings (Pan, 1999) Traces the development of area bombing, using documents, letters, diaries and interviews with key surviving witnesses. Get this book from Amazon
	Bomber Command 1939-45: Reaping the whirlwind by Richard J Overy (HarperCollins, 1997) 55,000 RAF personnel died in the World War II bombing campaign. Survivors describe every aspect of their war, from training flights to special missions, and how it felt to bail out from a stricken bomber over the Ruhr. Get this book from Amazon
	Bomber Command Handbook 1939-45 by Jonathan Falconer (Sutton Publishing, 2003) A comprehensive overview of Bomber Command's wartime organisation and operations, fully illustrated with archive photographs. Get this book from Amazon
	'Bomber' Harris: His life and times by Henry Probert (Greenhill Books, 2003) This definitive biography offers a rounded picture of one of the great high commanders of modern times and an outstanding military personality of World War II. Get this book from Amazon
	Dresden by Frederick Taylor (Bloomsbury, February 2004) Highly readable account of the allied bombing raid on Dresden in 1945, offering archive and eye-witness accounts of the bombing itself. Get this book from Amazon
	Footprints on the Sands of Time: RAF Bomber Command prisoners of war in Germany 1939-45 by Oliver Clutton-Brock (Grub Street, 2003) Deals with the German PoW camps and gives an annotated list of all 10,995 RAF Bomber Command airmen who were taken prisoner. Get this book from Amazon

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The Aircrew Association
www.aircrew.org.uk
Letters, book reviews, links and a forum. Membership is optional and the site has archive information for pilots who flew in World War II.

Imperial War Museum
Lambeth Road
London SE1 6HZ
Tel: 020 7416 5320
E-mail: mail@iwm.org.uk
Website: www.imw.org.uk/
With sister museums in Manchester and Cambridgeshire, the IWM has an incomparable collection covering all aspects of 20th- and 21st- century conflict involving Britain and the Commonwealth.

Royal Air Force Museum London
Grahame Park Way
London NW9 5LL
Tel: 020 8205 2266 (general information)
E-mail: hendon@rafmuseum.org
Website: www.rafmuseum.org.uk
The museum houses a wide range of war artefacts and exhibitions. The Bomber Command Collection contains bomber aircraft such as the Halifax and the Lancaster of the Second World War.

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