October 2002 CIA Intelligence report

Home page of the National DDay Museum located in New Orleans

Home page of the Australian Department of Defence, links include photo galleries.

New Zealand's Ministry of Defence's Link page

"Defend AMERICA" - US Department of Defense News About the War on Terrorism

Links to the missing "Gulflink" files can be found here along with multimedia files, links etc.

Welcome to BosniaLINK, the official Department of Defense information system about U.S. military activities in Operation JOINT FORGE, the NATO peacekeeping mission in Bosnia

The Sourcebook is a collection of public domain and copy-permitted texts for introductory level classes in modern European and World history. (still a valuable resource but doesn't appear to be well maintained, I encountered several dead links, Butch)

The Band of Brothers website contains an arsenal of information about the HBO series, World War II, as well as a Living Memorial with real stories and tributes by and about the generation that lived through the war.

"Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more;
Or close the wall up with our English dead!
In peace there's nothingso becomes a man
As modest stillness and humility:
But when the blast of war blows in our ears,
Then imitate the action of the tiger;
Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood,
Disguise fair nature with hard-favored rage;
Then lend the eye a terrible aspect."

William Shakespeare

Military.com, the largest online military destination, offers free resources to serve, connect, and inform the 30 million Americans with military affinity: active duty personnel, retirees, veterans, reservists, guard members, defense workers, family members, and those considering military careers.

Extensive Resource site with 7 million subscribers, hard to imagine not finding what you are looking for if it involves any branch of the United States Military.

 

Quick links:

UK Ministry of Defence's link page

Companion site to the PBS series American Experience look at the Vietnam War. Lots of features, including a chronology from 1945-1997, transcripts for the 13 part series "Vietnam: A Television History" (for which Karnow's book was written as a companion), a short "Who's Who" of the most prominent players on all sides, maps, documents, streaming videos and a whole host of other useful material.

Flash tribute composed by a NYC resident following the 9/11 attacks. It is a large file (7+ MB) but if you have never seen it, you should... very, very moving. We must never forget the pain and sorrow so many felt that day. So many "common" people showed us that heroes are not a thing of the past, but just the opposite, that they can exist in all of us...

Korean War Veterans National Museum and Library's link page

USHMM link page, in addition to Holocaust links you will also find links in regard to Nazi POW camps durring WWII.

This site is dedicated to promoting the health and well-being of Canadian veterans, to providing information on programs and services for those veterans, Canadian Forces members, qualified civilians and their families, and finally, to all Canadians, young and old �?especially those whose lives have been touched by the conflicts of the past and those who desire to learn more about the sacrifices that helped build Canada.

Detailed WW1 online resource, with links to timelines, documents, maps, multimedia files etc.

My online German WWII Militariashop with Paypal and ebaybidding

A website which a group of dedicated members, dig and search WW1 battlefields. some very interesting finds, and is worthwhile to have a look. - Wes

The purpose of this website is to honor the men of Mobile Support Team TWO, SEAL Teams ONE and TWO, and members of Underwater Demolition Team detachments that fought in Vietnam from 1966 to 1972.  These small detachments of "Brown Water Navy" sailors used the waterways of Vietnam to take the fight to their Viet Cong and Noth Vietnamese Army enemies.  The total number of these warriors was never more than 300 to 400 members on duty in RVN at a time.  When combined with the aviation assets of Light Attack Helicopter Squadron THREE [HA(L)-3] with UH-1B gunships and Light Attack Squadron FOUR [VA(L)-4] with OV-10 attack aircraft, these units took on a synergy that produced casualties among their opponets all out of proportion to their numbers.

 

Now declassified and removed from secrecy requirements, their story can be told.  This is a work in progress and I am proud to be a part of it.

 

MG

Before the American SEAL/UDT/MST-2 units were deployed to the rivers and canals in the Mekong River Delta of South Vietnam, there was MST-1.  Mobile Support Team ONE was a group of American and South Vietnamese Navy sailors working for the Studies and Observations Group (SOG) in Saigon.  Operating out of Da Nang, South Vietnam, beginning in early 1964, this unit employed U.S. Navy Fast Patrol Boats (PTF) to undertake maritime operations against North Vietnam. 

 

The PTF was Norwegian-designed boat that was very similar to the Patrol Torpedo (PT) boats of World War 2.  The PTF's used against North Vietnam were configured as gunboats.  From 1964 to 1972 they mounted over 1,000 operations against the North.  PTF's engaged North Vietnamese Navy patrol boats, carried out recon missions, attacked military installations, kidnapped enemy personnel for intelligence gathering purposes, and did other clandestine missions.  This site is dedicated to the men who manned these fast boats and provides the most extensive amount of information available on-line about the craft's unique propulsion system: the Napier-Deltic turbo-superchaged diesel engine.

Southern African Arms and Ammunition Collectors Association site contains much info relevant to the local scene but also local markings etc. andinfo of interest to international collectors.

Often overlooked and underappreciated, small boats of the U.S. Navy have been used extensively in combat since World War 2.  This website looks at past, present, and future small naval combatants.  There is information on many rare (and relatively unknown) types of small fighting craft described here.  Welcome aboard.

 

MG