Welcome to my WW2 website
WW2Traces is non-commercial website dedicated to help find World War 2 musea, memorials, cemeteries and monuments. I use customized Google Maps to show you, per continent and per region (State, Country) where you can find locations of museums and other important sites.
This is a work in progress, set up, built and maintained by volunteers, so please bear with me and check back often. Also, if your favorite site is not shown here, PLEASE let me know! There's a special contact page set up for that !
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To know what is happening with the site you can look below, where you will always see the 10 most recent news items. If you want to go further back, click on the 'News' tab along the top and you'll get everything !I will be continually expanding the number of locations on the maps, so if you don't find your favorite museum or area of travel, maybe it will be there the next time you look.
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Attack on Lampedusa
Here is an interesting article (in Italian) about Operation Corkscrew. It is about the liberation of some Meditteranean isles (Lampedusa, Linosa, and Lampione) prior to attacking Sicily. The article is an excerpt from a book (PANTELLERIA LA “GIBILTERRA” ITALIANA) and shows text and photos from Lieutenant Gino Granata. Find the…
Interesting article on Desert Storm
I can’t believe it is already 30 years ago that we were watching in awe at the tracer bullets rising into the air over Baghdad, without hitting anything, while Saddam’s armed forces were annihilated from above….. At last some positive action into the cesspool of extremism in the Middle East,…
Mussolini’s Defeat at Hill 731, March 1941
by John Carr How the Greeks Halted Italy’s Albanian Offensive This is a fascinating book, especially for those of us not specialized in the Balkan part of World War 2. John Carr really has delivered a great story here, professionally researched, and written in a very grasping way.Although the title…
The Germans in Normandy
By Richard Hargreaves Here’s a book that will interest D-Day and other WW2 ‘aficionados’. Whereas most history is written by the conquerors, it is always refreshing to read books written by and about ‘the other side’.This book reads a little like Cornelius Ryan’s famous The Longest Day. It is comprised…
The LRDG in Action 40-43
by Brendan O’Carroll Brendan O’Carroll has put together an excellent and interesting book in the Images of War series, covering the Long Range Desert Group’s exploits and equipment during the period from 1940-1943. It is one of the many special activities that were carried out by small groups of armed…
Fighting in the Sky
By John Fairley This Pen & Sword book is indeed a little different from the books I normally read. My main interest is World War 2, globally, in all its facets. This book however is about military aviation, over various periods and hence in other battles than just WW2. What’s more,…
Mulberry harbor film
Here is the link to an awesome bit of film about the Mulberry harbor in Normandy, June 1944. Found it in the digital archives of the IWM and hadn’t seen it before. Click on the URL to watch it! https://film.iwmcollections.org.uk/record/4066
Ever heard of these?
Porpoise ammo sledges, to be hidden underneath a Sherman….. http://the.shadock.free.fr/sherman_minutia/porpoise/porpoise.html
Anzio – article from IWM
Here’s an excellent article on the Landings at Anzio in 1944, aimed at breaking the German’s opposition at Montecassino by attacking from the rear….. https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/anzio-the-invasion-that-almost-failed
From Arromanches to the Elbe
by Charles More Marcus Cunliffe and the 144th Regiment Royal Armoured Corps 1944–1945 Marcus Cunliffe was an officer of the 144th Regiment of the Royal Armoured Corps when it landed in Normandy back in June 1944. His notes and diaries are kept in the George Washington University in Washington DC…