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National Archives lets Internet users have easy access to WWII documents
Stars and Stripes, Mid East Edition ^
| December 6, 2008
| Robin Hoecker,
Posted on 12/07/2008 4:27:19 PM PST by 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.
(Excerpt) Read more at stripes.com ...
TOPICS: History; Military/Veterans; Reference; Society
KEYWORDS: godsgravesglyphs; greatestgeneration; veterans; wwii
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!
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posted on
12/07/2008 4:27:20 PM PST
by
PeteePie
To: PeteePie
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posted on
12/07/2008 4:38:22 PM PST
by
PistolPaknMama
(Al-Queda can recruit on college campuses but the US military can't! --FReeper airborne)
To: PistolPaknMama
This can be frickin' cool.
Checking it out later. ping.
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posted on
12/07/2008 4:39:10 PM PST
by
Tanniker Smith
(Teachers open the door. It's up to you to enter. Before the late bell. When I close the door.)
To: indcons
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posted on
12/07/2008 4:40:11 PM PST
by
abb
("What ISN'T in the news is often more important than what IS." Ed Biersmith, 1942 -)
To: PeteePie
Thank you. I know where hubby will be every morning! ;)
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posted on
12/07/2008 4:40:45 PM PST
by
AirForceMom
(God Bless the USA)
To: PeteePie
Thank you. Have to check this out.
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posted on
12/07/2008 4:42:16 PM PST
by
engrpat
(End the National Nightmare on 1-20-2013)
To: Army Air Corps
To: PeteePie
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.
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posted on
12/07/2008 4:55:20 PM PST
by
oh8eleven
(RVN '67-'68)
To: PeteePie
To: PeteePie
If it’s free, then why do they want my credit card information?
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posted on
12/07/2008 5:03:43 PM PST
by
Trteamer
( (Eat Meat, Wear Fur, Own Guns, FReep Leftists, Drive an SUV, Drill A.N.W.R., Drill the Gulf, Vote)
To: Trteamer
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:-)
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posted on
12/07/2008 5:17:54 PM PST
by
PeteePie
(We Shall Overcome)
To: PeteePie
Oh MAN! Just when I thought the internet was getting boring, you go and turn me on to this!
Thank you!
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posted on
12/07/2008 5:40:58 PM PST
by
autumnraine
(Churchill: " we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall never surrender")
To: indcons
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posted on
12/07/2008 5:46:04 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_______Profile finally updated Saturday, December 6, 2008 !!!)
To: All
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posted on
12/07/2008 6:46:18 PM PST
by
autumnraine
(Churchill: " we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall never surrender")
To: Homer_J_Simpson
Might be of interest to ya
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posted on
12/07/2008 7:09:45 PM PST
by
Tainan
(Talk is cheap. Silence is golden. All I got is brass...lotsa brass.)
To: Tainan
Might be of interest to yaYou bet! I wonder If 12/7/41 is the earliest material covered. Thanks for the heads up.
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posted on
12/07/2008 7:46:09 PM PST
by
Homer_J_Simpson
("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
To: Abigail Adams
To: PeteePie
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...
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posted on
12/07/2008 11:35:56 PM PST
by
Kevmo
(Palin/Hunter 2012)
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