Military History Links

General Reference:

• Military History Online
• The History of War Online
• Military History Encyclopedia on the Web
• Historic Battles: History Revisited Online
• The History Guy: War and Conflict Links

• Orbat.com - Orders of Battle
• Neil Baumgardner's Orders of Battle Page
• Twentieth Century Atlas - Death Tolls
• ARMIES! European armed forces from 1920 to 1950

• Google Books - has an extensive collection of downloadable military history books
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history

United States Military History:

• National Archives and Records Administration
• U.S. Army Center of Military History
  • Online Bookshelves
  • Lineage and Honors
  • Army Lineage Series
  • Organizational History Program
  • Combat Chronicles of U.S. Army Divisions in World War II
  • Order of Battle for U.S. Army Divisions in World War II European Theater of Operations
  • Component (Organic) Elements of U.S. Army Divisions in World War II
  • Army Units: Special Designations
• U.S. Army Military History Institute
  • Army Heritage Collection Online
• U.S. Army Institute of Heraldry
• U.S. Army Human Resources Command: Military Awards Branch
• U.S. Naval Historical Center
• U.S. Air Force History Support Office
• U.S. Air Force Historical Research Agency
• U.S. Marine Corps History and Museums Division
• U.S. Military Academy History Department
• U.S. Military Academy Library - Special Collections & Archives
• American Battle Monuments Commission
• The Price of Freedom: Americans at War, from the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History
• Combined Arms Research Library, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College

General U.S. Military History:

• Army Historical Foundation
• The United States at War
• NavSource Naval History: Photographic History Of The U.S. Navy

  The American Revolution:
  

• americanrevolution.org
• Revolutionary War Archives

  The U.S. Civil War:
  

• The American Civil War Homepage
• Shotgun's Home of the American Civil War
• U.S. Regulars Civil War Archive

  Spanish American War:
  

• Spanish American War Centennial Website

  World War I:
  

• Online World War I Indexes & Records: A Genealogy Guide
• Western Front Association, US Branch

  World War II:
  

• Lone Sentry: Photographs, Documents, and Research on World War II
• US Divisions - Regiments and Supporting Units (WW2)
• OSS Operational Groups
• Trigger Time - 101st Airborne WW2
• Merrill's Marauders

Korean War:


• Korean War Commemoration web site
• Korean War Project

Other Countries and General Resources:

General (not related to a specific conflict):

Britain and the Commonwealth:


• Britain's Small Wars
• Regiments.org - Land Forces of Britain, the Empire and Commonwealth
• Air of Authority - A History of RAF Organisation
• Australians At War, from the Australian War Memorial
• Canadian Forces Directorate of History and Heritage
• Canadian Military History Gateway
• Canadiansoldiers.com

  Germany:
  

• Wehrgeschichtliches Museum Rastatt
• Deutsche Militärgeschichte
• Preussische Militärgeschichte
• Deutsche Schutzgebiete
• Lexikon der Deutschen Generale

  France:
  

• Service historique de la Défense, French Ministry of Defense

  Other:
  

• Österreichische Militärgeschichte / Austrian Military History
• Danish Military History / Dansk Militærhistorie
• Web.genealogie: Les militaires - biographical information on generals and admirals in various armies and wars

World War One:

General:


• World War I - Trenches on the Web
• First World War.com
• World War I Document Archive
• GreatWar - Western Front battlefield guide and home to the Poppy Umbrella
• WW1 Resource Centre
• World War I overview

  Canada:
  

• The First World War - Veterans Affairs Canada
• First World War, from the Library and Archives Canada's Canadian Genealogy Centre
• The Canadian Great War Homepage
• For King and Empire: Canada's Soldiers in the Great War

  Great Britain:
  

• Centre for First World War Studies at the University of Birmingham (UK)
• First World War: Sources for History, UK National Archives
• The Long, Long Trail: The British Army in the Great War

  France:
  

• Association 1914-1918
• Mémoire des hommes French Ministry of Defense casualty database
• La première guerre mondiale
• La Deuxième Bataille de la Marne - The Second Battle of the Marne

  Germany:
  

• Der erste Weltkrieg - 1914-18.info von Malte Znaniecki
  • Armee (Deutschland)
  • Tageschroniken
• Themenportal Erster Weltkrieg
• Interessen- und Arbeitsgemeinschaft Weltkrieg 1914-1918 (AGW14-18)
• Alte Armee
• The Imperial Iron Cross 1914-1918
• Militaerpass.net - German military documents
• Pocket German Army
• Das Deutsche Reich und der 1.Weltkrieg 1914-1918
• THe Prussian Machine: German Imperial Army
• Offz.Ver.d.Deutschen Armeekorps 1914

  Austria-Hungary:
  

• Austro-Hungarian Land Forces 1848-1918

  Australia and New Zealand:
  

• Australians At War: First World War
• New Zealand World War I History, from the New Zealand Electronic Text Centre

World War Two:

General:


• HyperWar: World War II on the World Wide Web
• "Armies of the Second World War" online database
• OrdersofBattle.com: Second World War Military Unit Database
• World War 2 Multimedia Database

  Germany:
  

• Feldgrau.com - The German Armed Forces 1919-1945
• Axis History Factbook
• Die Deutsche Wehrmacht
• Axis Biographical Research
• Lexikon der Werhrmacht
• Gedenkstätte Deutscher Widerstand / German Resistance Memorial Center
• Ostbataillonen (mostly in Russian)
• Deutsche Geschichte 1919 - 1945
• German Fallschirmjäger 1936-1945
• Aces of the Luftwaffe

  Soviet Union:
  

• Russian State Archives World War Two Exhibition (in Russian)

  France:
  

• France 1940
• Ordre de la Libération / Order of the Liberation
• Histoires de Français Libres ordinaires / Free French

  Other Countries:
  

• Australians At War: Second World War
• Comando Supremo - Italy at War 1940-43
• New Zealand World War II History, from the New Zealand Electronic Text Centre
• The Poles on the Fronts of World War II
• WorldWar2.ro - Romanian Army in the Second World War

Korean War:

• UN Forces/Allies in the Korean War
• EuroKorVet: European Korean War Veterans website
• Het Belgisch Bataljon in Korea
• Australians At War: Korean War

Vietnam War:

• Vietnam War Bibliography
• Allied Participation in Vietnam
• Australians At War: Vietnam War
• AATVA (Australian Army Training Team Vietnam) Association

Other Conflicts:

• Crimean War Research Society
• Boxeraufstand 1900-1901 (German site on the Boxer Rebellion and the China Relief Expedition)
• Russo-Japanese War Research Society

• Note: These are very incomplete lists. There are hundreds of military history sites, especially those specific to a country, time period, war, battle or unit.