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 !
Enjoy browsing and hopefully visiting !!
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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.
Also, I can use all the help I can get, so if you want to bring places to my attention, please use the 'Help me' contact form for that !
IWM clips WW2
Just testing something here. One of my Sicilian friends found a bunch of royalty free Shutterstock videos on the war in Sicily. Just seeing if I can add the link to these here…… Well, that didn’t work yet. So how about IWM video clips? Since I am not a commercial…
Corona Virus Times
I am writing this on April 20, 2020, in our home in rural Italy, where we have been locked up now for more than 2 months already. We have been out 3 times, to the nearby intersection with the supermarket, and back. Many of you will suffer in the same…
Allied Armies in Sicily and Italy, 1943–1945 (Paperback)
By Simon Forty Images of War – Photographs from Wartime Archives And yet another book in the Images of War series. This one is a definite KEEPER in my library. For one, it provides pictures from MANY resources and lots of those I hadn’t seen yet in other publications. Always…
IoW – The Americans. From the Ardennes to VE Day
by Brooke S. Blades Yet another book in the excellent series of Images of War. This one is rather bulky, with over 250 pages ! It shows the story of the US Forces from the end of 1944, through the Battle of the Bulge (the German Ardennes offensive), and then…
The F-4 Phantom – book review
Rare Photographs from Wartime Archivesby Martin Bowman Usually I am very happy with this series of ‘Rare Images’ books from Pen & Sword, and the good old Phantom being one of my long-time favorite aircraft I was interested in this book.But truth be told, it was somewhat of a let-down….
The Second World War Explained
By Michael O’Kelly Here’s an excellent book explaining World War 2 in an overview fashion. Excellent for those who have never really looked into this part of history, excellent for younger readers too. Looking at the many 10’s of thousands of titles on this bit of our history their is…
A Spy in the Sky
A Photographic Reconnaissance Spitfire Pilot in WWII Very interesting book. I love all stories about WW2 written by the people who actually were there, and this one is no exception. It not only tells the story of a young man who joins the RAF (more or less by mistake, to…
Hungarian Armoured Fighting Vehicles
in the second world war Hungarian Armoured Fighting Vehicles in the Second World War (Paperback)Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives Recently I have been reading books about topics that are a little outside my ‘regular interest’, and this little book is one of them. This book by a Spanish(?) author is…
Christmas under fire, 1944
The last Christmas of World War 2By Kevin Prenger Here is a world war 2 book that is a little different from what we are used to. For once not about famous or unknown heroes, or battles and campaigns, or analyses of what caused which victory or defeat. No, this…
7th SS Mountain Division
by Ian Baxter7th SS Mountain Division Prinz Eugen At War 1941–1945 (Paperback) A History of the Division Another interesting book compiled by Ian Baxter on one of the German SS divisions. Lots of interesting archive photos make up the major part of the book.The 7th SS started in 1941 as…