- Independent Research Group Orford Ness or IRGON for short. Orford Ness started out in WW1 as an RFC Experimental Flight and then right through to the Nuclear age. A place I have always wished to visit.
- RAF NETHERVON Facebook page mine.
- Wartime Airfields a website by Denis Sharp covering RAF Hunsdon, RAF Sawbridgeworth and the USAAF Bomber airfield at Matching Green, Essex, England.In association with the Hertfordshire Airfields Memorial Group.
- Graham Buchan Innes: two very good books, British Airfield Buildings and also Youtube link to Airfields re visited.
- Harry Melville Arbuthnot
"Wings" Day AM, DSO, OBE was OC at RAF Netheravon but also fought in WW1 in the Royl Navy and WW2 in the RAF.
- Wing Commander T G ´Jeff´ Jefferson DSO AFC AE. A very interesting chap and some good stories. Giving a picture of RAf life at the time of WW2.This website is dedicated to showing all manner of aviation related images. There will be photographs from operational military airfields, museums, airshows, disused airfields and from any other source with an aviation theme Richard Hall (e)
- RAF Ibsley by Terry a flight sim look at several airfields in the New Forest area.
- UK Airfields Richard Flagg's Facebook page (e)
- Cobbaton Combat Collection A Hobby which got out of hand. An outstanding collection --- of just all sorts Military.
- Airfield Reaserch Group ARG Forum is the respected and highly regarded internet forum dedicated to the exchange of airfield research information. There's also plenty of other military history and general discussion going on so why not come in for a chat? It's free to join the forum, but you need to be a paid up member of ARG to visit the member only areas of the site.
- CONTROL TOWERS Robert Truman's excellent site.
- Salisbury Plain the village of Imber. Residents were evicted with just 47 days notice during World War II as a training grounds for American troops.
- US Army Assault Training Center North Devon. We are a small not for profit group dedicated to educating and preserving history, relating to the use of the North Devon coastal area by the US army to rehearse for the liberation of Europe in 1944.
- RAF Holmsley South ''Home was a Nissen Hit'' by Adge. A history of the communal sites 1947-1961.
- Rougham Control Tower Museum (e) just east of Bury St Edmunds, in Suffolk.
- Roberts Armory (e) USA Chuck Roberts.
Museum, reenacting, restoration, R & D and much more.
- WWW.FightingThroughPodcast.co.uk
- Poole in the second world war a brief history of what is still there to this day
- Dartmouth in WW2 A very good website on the Dartmouth area.
- Historic Aviation Military His website is dedicated to the discussion and research of Historic Aviation and other Military subjects. Also a lot about RAF Burtonwood.
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- Royal Flying Corps (e) The period between May 1912 and March 1918, coinciding with the short life of the Royal Flying Corps.
- Blighty-at-War a very interesting site looks at items both sides of the channel around the south and east of England and opposite in France.
- Kingston AviationThis Kingston Aviation Centenary Project website celebrates the achievements of the 30,000 or more individuals who designed and built aircraft for the Sopwith, Hawker, Hawker Siddeley and British Aerospace organisations based in Kingston upon Thames from 1912 to 1992.
- Digital Archive Trench Maps, Western Front
- ZERO HOUR Z DAY XIII CORPS OPERATIONS BETWEEN MARICOURT & MAMETZ
1ST JULY 1916 website and also book details.
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- Www.atlantikwall.co.uk Facebook page Mine.
- MKB - BUNKERTOUR My great friends in Belgium's facebook page.
- Festung Boulogne by Ben Muller -The project Fortress Boulogne is intended for those interested in military history to be a reconstruction of the German Fortress Boulogne. The French town of Boulogne-sur-Mer with its harbour and surrounding area was in the Second World War a major element in the German coastal defence. It obtained as part of the defensive structure Atlantic Wall the military status of Fortress (Festung in German)-
Map of Boulogne North BM.
Map of Boulogne South BM.
- BATTLE OF SAINTE-MERE-EGLISE 1944 a very interesting story of the town in its liberation.
- Atlantikwall Relikte 1940-45 (g)
This site gives the Google Earth co ordinates so that you can find out where all the sites are.
- Le débarquement de 1944 à Omaha Beach This file brings together many documents relating to the landings on Omaha Beach, especially on the beaches of Vierville: sectors Charlie, Dog Green and Dog White, with 2 chapters devoted to Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer and Colleville-sur-Mer.
- “OMAHA BEACH MEMOIRES” Telling the story of village life from 1940 to today. Its in French but its now eay to use Google translate. (f)
- The Royal Air Force at Omaha Beach - This website is dedicated to the 180 or so men of the RAF 1st Echelon of 21-BDS (Base Defence Sector) who landed at about 5.30pm on 6th June 1944 on Omaha Beach, Normandy.
- The German 15th Army at the Atlantikwall COMMANDS and UNITS
All commands within the area of the Armeeoberkommando 15 in June 1944 are discussed in detail, including the Kriegsmarine, Luftwaffe and Militärbefehlshaber. Every single unit present in June 1944 is analyzed in detail, its hierarchical position made clear in visuals
STRONGPOINTS and FORTRESSES
All strongpoints and fortresses along the coasts defended by the AOK15 in June 1944 are described in full detail
PHOTO REPORTS and BUNKERS
Detailed photo reports of remaining strongpoints as well as descriptions of types and tactical functions of bunkers
RADAR and UNIT HISTORIES
Full descriptions of radar technology, positions and organization.
Complete histories of ALL units stationed in the AOK15 area in the period 1940-1944
AFTER D-DAY, MOVIES AND SPECIALS
The history of the Armeeoberkommando 15 after D-Day is traced in detail from a German perspective.
Documentaries, archive footage and special projects covering WWII and the Cold War in Belgium
To contact 15th Army click here.
- WW2TV a very interesting TV channel Paul Woodadge, the creator of WW2TV spent 2 decades guiding visitors around the Normandy battlefields. Dedicated people and organisations around the globe have successfully been recording and archiving the testimonies of the WW2 veterans for years. Sadly, that era is now coming to a close. Now we need to think about recording the fields of combat before the inevitable march of time sees them lost to progress. WW2TV will preserve them on film. Throughout 2020 we have been live streaming from the battlefields of Europe with top historians and often on the exact anniversaires.
- Le Val de Saire 1940-44 (f) an amazing amount of information of the area around the North East of the Cotentin Peninsular.
- Books by Simon Forty on Amazon.
- Books by Anthony Tucker-Jones 'The History Press'.
- Omaha Beach Mémoirs (f) Lots of local histories.
- LE MUR DE L' ATLANTIQUE
DANS LE COTENTIN
- Forteresse Saint-Nazaire brand new 12 August 2016 it only has the bones laid out but will be updated very soon.
- Festung Lista Festung Lista was the name of all the fortifications and the airfield at Lista, during World War 2.
- THE GERMAN 15TH ARMY AT THE ATLANTIKWALL (e) a lot of information about the German command structure with lots of information.
- THE ASSAULT TRAINING CENTER (e) this is where nearly every American that landed on Omaha and Utah beaches and many airborne soldiers did their assault training prior to D-day. There is still a lot to see around the coastline from Woolacombe to to Braunton Sands. Also Richard Bass has written many books on the subject.
- Brix / Sottevast / Manche after captured an army film unit visited the site.
- Festung Saint-Malo Archives 21 photographic topics about bunkers and defences from the most complete Festung
( fortress ) built by Organisation Todt for German Occupation forces during World War II.
Over 500 bunkers, shelters, gun bunkers, Tobruk's built from march 1942 to august 1944.
- Der Atlantikwall-Frankreich.com (g) Marcus Engelbert
These pages give a glimpse of what was built under German occupation of France coast to protect an empire that had conquered this region and they sought to protect concrete and steel.
The myth of the invincible Atlantikwall but held only until Allied troops beginning with the invasion on June 06, 1944, the rebuttal competed and subdued in the Seine bay the Wall.
- bunkerSite.com (e)
Let us guide you along the Atlantikwall, Südwall, Westwall and other defensive lines in Europe and share our pictures, experiences and the obtained information with you.
- Stützpunkt Die02 - seceur 02 Dieppe. (f)
- germanbunkers.com This web site is to provide an entertaining and enjoyable place to visit. Those of you that are fascinated in World War Two especially the massive construction projects of the German Third Reich will find this web site very interesting.
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