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One of the oldest and deepest websites on the internet related to German Panzers. |
His “American Military Aircraft” section is one of the finest collection of articles on aviation on the internet. Highly recommended. |
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A very excellent website on the various technical aspects of Russian military equipment in WWII. |
A excellent aviation website, which concentrates on a whole breadth of aircraft from WW2. Pop-up infested though. |
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Comprehensive website on all the German “Napkinwaffe” Paper Projects during WW2. |
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Website based around gathering as many primary source documents from World War II as possible. Extensive online collection of US Government official histories. |
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Website covering the experimental aircraft of the IJN and IJA. |
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Published in nine volumes (from 1959 to 1991), DANFS gives histories for virtually every US naval vessel. This online version is at Haze Gray. |
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Comprehensively covers virtually all US Missiles from the 40s to Present Day. |
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Shipbuilding under the US Maritime Commission, with a lot of detailed drawings and statistics. |
A group devoted to studying US Coastal Defense. They sell a quite significant quantity of digital copies of original documents from their store. |
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Covers the Army's insignia from the beginning to the present. |
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Website detailing just about every Army Patch made, with scans of them. |
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Government Archives |
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The British National Archives. A lot of stuff is now available as downloadable PDFs. |
The US Navy's official historical site. Very large and comprehensive, especially their photograph section. |
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The United States' National Archives. Not much is available online; mainly a starting point for your own research at their locations. |
The US Army's Combined Arms Research Library at Leavenworth. Has a very large and extensive PDF collection of operational documents and historic field manuals. |
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The USAF's History Office publishes many books on USAF heritage, which are available online. |
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Gives you relevant information on any ship the US Navy has owned since about World War II. |
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Farm Security Administration-Office of War Information Collection |
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U.S. Navy Naval Sea Systems Command's Online Virtual Damage Control Museum |
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Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System (National Park Service) |
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Semi-Governmental Museum and Foundation funded by the State of Alabama. Holds a lot of Marshall Spaceflight Center stuff online in PDF format. |
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Military Gaming |
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The 500 pound gorilla of computer wargaming. Their line-up of games is very comprehensive, covering all spectrums from ancient to modern. |
Developers of actual cardboard pen and paper wargames with very good artwork. |
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A smaller tier computer wargaming company. |
Subsim is the best site for any submarine related game, from Silent Hunter III/IV, Dangerous Waters, etc. |
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A Silent Hunter I/IV themed website. Has the most comprehensive online information available for the original Silent Hunter I. |
Concentrates on PBEM play for wargames. |
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Fred Prado's page on Wargame Construction Set II: TANKS! and how to get it running in DOSBOX, files etc. |
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One of the internet's main X-COM Pages, with a large amount of files for all three of the main turn-based games in the series (UFO/TFTD/APOC) |
Highly useful utility/editor for UFO/TFTD. |
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Open Source Flight Simulator. |
Open Source Remake of Transport Tycoon Deluxe. |
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Discussion Forums |
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Armor-themed message board. |
Covers a wide variety of “what if” projects from a variety of disciplines. Many published authors post there. |
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Modelling |
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What If Modellers – Based around Speculative Modelling of all types (air, land, ship). |
One of the best AFV modelling websites on the internet. |
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One of the best warship modelling websites on the internet. |
Devoted to drawing pixel art of various military equipment. Be warned though, they exaggerate height by about 20%. |
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Entertainment |
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Heavily Sci Fi-themed message board. One of my main hangouts. |
TEWTALLY HOT! |
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Booksellers |
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On-line Ebook Seller |
On-line Ebook Seller |
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On-line Ebook Seller |
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