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Websites
Warbird Alley
www.warbirdalley.com
Details of a huge number of fighter/attack planes, trainers, bombers,
transports, utility/observation/special duty planes, and jets.
Olive-Drab Military Information Resource
www.olive-drab.com/index.php
Virtually everything you want to know about military vehicles and much
more. Great military history links.
The Avro Lancaster & Manchester Archive
www.lancaster-archive.com/homeindex.htm
Enthusiast’s site that lists all losses for each Lancaster raid, date of
raid, target, raid general data, crew names and fates, cemeteries, crash sites
and aircraft service histories.
Project Liberty Ship
www.liberty-ship.com
Website dedicated to the preservation of the SS John W Brown, one
of only two Liberty Ships still in existence. Tells the history of the
Liberty Ships and of the Brown.
Stormbirds.com
www.stormbirds.com
A confederation of Luftwaffe-related websites, providing coverage of the
Messerschmitt 262 and other advanced combat aircraft of the Third Reich.
North American P-51 Mustang
www.acepilots.com/planes/p51_mustang.html
Short history of the aircraft, plus stories from and about those who flew
it and much else besides.
Panzer War Archive
www.geocities.com/Pentagon/1084/
Enthusiast’s site dedicated to the history of the tanks and people of the
Panzertruppe during World War II.
The Spitfire – An operational history
www.deltaweb.co.uk/spitfire
From delivery of the first operational Mk I Spitfire to the RAF in 1938, through
the aircraft’s illustrious career in many theatres of World War II, to
its final service days. Plus a list of flying examples in the UK and Spitfires
preserved in museums throughout the rest of the world.
The Soviet T-34 Tank
www.soviet-empire.com/arsenal/army/tanks/t34.php
Part of the Soviet-Empire.com site, this has a brief history, specifications
and pictures. Beware – as the webmaster says: 'This website is not
designed for your weak capitalist modems'!
V-1 Flying Bombs
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/2WWv1.htm
Excellent schools site with a short history of the V-1 bomb plus a selection
of quotes from those involved in the production of the doodlebug (Albert
Speer) and in Britain's defence against it (Bomber Harris), among others.
The V-1 Flying Bomb
www.vectorsite.net/twcruz2.html
Very detailed history of the buzz bomb.
V2 Guided Ballistic Rocket
www.constable.ca/v2.htm
Part of the 'Canadian Aces' site, this has a history of the development
of the rocket and a couple of pictures.
Books
Avro Lancaster
The Bombers by Robin Cross (Bantam, 1986). Out of print; available
from libraries or second-hand bookshops.
Lancaster at War 5: Fifty years on by Mike Garbett and Brian Goulding (Ian Allen, 1995) £19.99
Lancaster: RAF Heavy Bomber by Air-Vice Marshal Ron Dick (Airlife Publishing, 1996) £9.95
Douglas C-47 Skytrain
Dakota at War by Arthur Pearcy (Ian Allen, 1982). Out of print;
available from libraries or second-hand bookshops.
Douglas DC-3 Dakota by Michael O'Leary (Osprey, to be published March 2002) £15.99
Douglas DC-3: The survivors by Kengo Yamamoto (Airlife Publishing, 2000) £18.99
Liberty Ship
The Battle of the Atlantic by Terry Hughes and John Costello (Collins,
1977). Out of print; available from libraries or second-hand bookshops.
Liberty Ship: The voyages of the John W Brown 1942–1946 by Sherod Cooper (Airlife Publishing, 1997) £29.95
The Liberty Ships by L A Sawyer and W H Mitchell (LLP Professional Publishing, 1985) £45
M4 Sherman Tank
The Sherman Tank by Roger Ford (Spellmount, 1999) £14.99
The Sherman Tank in US and Allied Service by Steven J Zaloga (Osprey, 1982) £6.99
Messerschmitt 262
The Messerschmitt Me262 Combat Diary by John Foreman and Sid E
Harvey (Air Research Publications, 1995) £23.95
Messerschmitt Me262 Sturmvogel by Dennis Jenkins (Airlife Publishing, 1997) £11.99
The Rise and Fall of the Luftwaffe by David Irving (Purnell, 1973). Out of print; available from libraries or second-hand bookshops.
North American P-51 Mustang
The Mighty Eighth by Roger A Freeman (Cassell Military, 2000) £20
Mustang – North American P-51 by Paul Perkins (Airlife Publishing, 1995) £9.99
P-51 Mustang: A photo chronicle by Larry David (Schiffer Publishing, 1992) £16.95
PzKpfw VI Tiger Heavy Battle Tank
The Tiger Tank by Roger Ford (Spellmount Publishers, 1998)
£14.99
Tiger Tank by Renato Niemis (Publishing News, 2001) £18.99
Tiger I: Heavy Tank 1942–1945 by Hilary Doyle, Tom Jentz and Peter Sarson (Osprey, 1993) £8.99
Supermarine Spitfire
Handbook of Great Aircraft of World War II by Alfred Price and
Mike Spick (Abbeydale Press, 2000) £4.99
Spitfire: The history by Eric B Morgan and Edward Shacklady (Key Publications, 2000) £39.99
The Spitfire Story by Alfred Price (Cassell Military, rev ed 1995) £25
T-34 Tank
The T-34 Tank by Matthew Hughes and Chris Mann (Spellmount Publishers,
1999) £14.99
T-34/76 Medium Tank 1941–1945 by Steve Zaloga and Peter Sarson (Osprey, 1994) £10.39. Available only via online bookshops.
T-34/85 Medium Tank 1944–1994 by Steve Zaloga and Jim Kinnear (Osprey, 1996) £10.39. Available only via online bookshops.
V-1 and V-2
German Secret Weapons of the Second World War: The missiles, rocket,
weapons and new technology of the Third Reich by Ian V Hogg (Greenhill
Books, 1998) £19.95
Impact: The history of Germany's V-weapons in World War II by Benjamin King and Timothy Kutta (Da Capo Press, 2001) £21.99
The V1: The flying bomb by Joachim Engelmann (Schiffer Publishing, 1992) £7.95
V2: The dawn of the rocket age by Joachim Engelmann (Schiffer Publishing, 1991) £7.95
