****COOL**** National Archives lets Internet users have easy access to WWII documents

Stars and Stripes, Mid East Edition ^ | December 6, 2008 | Robin Hoecker,

[PeteePie]

One month before the bombing of Pearl Harbor, a seaman aboard the USS Arizona, Jay Wesley Young, wrote a letter to his sister thanking her for the birthday cake.

"I really made a pig of myself," he wrote. Thirty days later, both the cake and Young were gone.

The letter is one of 47 million documents now available online through a partnership of the National Archives and Footnote.com. The site, www.footnote.com/wwii, contains 200 terabytes of photographs, enlistment records, and interactive maps relating to World War II. Highlights include a searchable image of the USS Arizona Memorial in Hawaii, 80,000 photographs and nine million "Hero pages" that can be updated by users themselves.

[PeteePie]

If you have ANY interest at all in any facet of the WWII era, this is perhaps the coolest repository to date. GO now, while it's free!

[PistolPaknMama]

Ping for myself!

[Tanniker Smith]

This can be frickin' cool.
Checking it out later. ping.

[abb]

ping

[AirForceMom]

Thank you. I know where hubby will be every morning! ;)

[engrpat]

Thank you. Have to check this out.

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

Ping!

[oh8eleven]

Footnote.com ... The entire site is free for the rest of the month
The site is well worth more than a casual visit.
I spent most of last winter doing a genealogy project and discovered that my gggggg-Grandfather was commissioned during the American Revolution as captain of the brig Eagle.
The site even had the actual order signed by John Jay which I now have a copy of.

[InterceptPoint]

WW2 at Footnote

[Trteamer]

If it’s free, then why do they want my credit card information?

[PeteePie]

Hmm, not sure. I was exploring the site and was not solicited for any cc info.?? (But will probably provide it at the end of the month:-)

[autumnraine]

Oh MAN! Just when I thought the internet was getting boring, you go and turn me on to this!

Thank you!

[SunkenCiv]

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[autumnraine]

Check this out!!

Translated diary from Japanese soldier

http://www.footnote.com/image/27429474/

[Tainan]

Might be of interest to ya

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Might be of interest to ya

You bet! I wonder If 12/7/41 is the earliest material covered. Thanks for the heads up.

[Abigail Adams]

Bookmarking for later.

[Kevmo]

Thanks for posting this. I’m interested in some of the findings of the Combined Intelligence Objectives Subcommittee, especially in regards to aeronautical & boundary layer control projects in NAZI Germany. I hope those docs made it...