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LINKS Museum Leaflet (pdf)
801st/492nd BG Association newsletter Harrington Aviation Museum newsletter Contact us: Cbaggermuseum@aol.com |
The following internet links
cover subject matter such as Operation Carpetbagger; the 801st /
492nd Bomb Group; Harrington; SOE; OSS; Jedburghs etc
Tom Ensminger's The Carpetbagger Pages:: http://home.comcast.net/~801492bg.historian/Index.html Arthur Brown’s archived web pages on Jedburgh
History, Jedburgh Team Composition and Jedburgh Operational Casualties: http://web.archive.org/web/20060429013202/freespace.virgin.net/arthur.brown2/teams.htm http://web.archive.org/web/20060429013846/freespace.virgin.net/arthur.brown2/casualties.htm The Combined Arms Research Library’s article on Jedburgh Team operations in support of the 12th Army Group August 1944: http://cgsc.leavenworth.army.mil/carl/resources/csi/Lewis/Lewis.asp Kim Juhler's website on the Carpetbaggers: http://juhlerdenmark.tripod.com/kimjuhlerdanishrepresentiveforthecarpetbaggers801st492ndbombgroupusaaf/index.html Website dedicated to the Tigers Revenge, B24H 42-94816 of the 492nd BG that crashed in Norway 21st April 1945: www.b24.no Website on the women of the S.O.E. http://www.64-baker-street.org/ Christopher Long's website including pages on SOE, OSS, MI9 etc: www.christopherlong.co.uk Website of the Allied Special Forces Association, http://www.alliedspecialforces.org/home.htm The Dutch Resistance and the OSS: https://www.cia.gov/csi/studies/spring98/Dutch.html OSS Operations in Norway by William E. Colby : https://www.cia.gov/csi/studies/winter99-00/art5.html CIA pages on the OSS: https://www.cia.gov/csi/books/oss/foreword.htm Camp X website: http://www.campxhistoricalsociety.ca/ Website on the 885th Bombardment Squadron (Heavy) (Special) and the 859th Bombardment Squadron (Heavy) which were assigned to the 2641st Special Group (Provisional) of the 15th Army Air Force at Brindisi and Rosignano, Italy January 1945 - May 1945 http://users.rcn.com/hugh.turner/2641st/2641st.htm |
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Office of Strategic Studies Society website: http://www.osssociety.org
Listing of WW 2 Special Operations Forces Code & Cover Names ETO: http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/Reference/etocode.html or http://www.army.mil/cmh/reference/etocode.html
Special Operations in the European Theater: http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/books/wwii/70-42/70-423.htm
Cross Channel Attack - The French Resistance: http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/books/wwii/7-4/7-4_6.HTM
Clipston School's Wartime web pages: http://clutch.open.ac.uk/schools/clipston99/war-years.html
Roger Day's website "Rambury at War" which includes details of the crash in which Lt Lawrence Berkoff of 856th BS 492nd BG was killed near Lambourn on the 8th September 1944: www.ramsburyatwar.com
The Belgian Aviation History Association web pages on the crash at Aaigem of Henry W. Wolcott's plane C for Charlie: http://users.skynet.be/Patriothaaltert/enaaigem.htm
Virgil R Marco Sr's webpage on the crash and aftermath of Henry W Wolcott's plane C for Charlie on May 29 1944: http://www.marcolowe.com/vrmsr/victims/victims_part_3/body_victims_part_3.html
A multimedia website on the SOE: http://www.btinternet.com/~m.a.christie/others.htm
SOE page generated by Clutch program : http://clutch.open.ac.uk/schools/emerson00/soe_title_page.html
Bob Body's page on the RAF's 161 (Special Duties) Squadron: www.161squadron.org
Commonwealth war graves commission web pages: www.cwgc.org
Royal Air Force History pages: http://www.raf.mod.uk/history/
US National Archives and Records Administration website: http://www.archives.gov
The American Battle Monuments Commission's web pages: http://www.abmc.gov/
A listing of MOS/SSNs (Military Occupational Specialities/Service Speciality Numbers) which personnel of an isolated heavy bombardment group would probably need during WWII: http://fairway.ecn.purdue.edu/IIES/PLAIC/380/HISTORY/partIV-fore.html
Website on RAF & USAAF Special Duty Squadrons : http://www.nlc.net.au/~bernie/raf__special_duties_squadrons.htm
Website tribute to the unsung heroes of 624 Special Duties Squadron RAF (formerly 1575 Flight) who were based at Blida, Algeria 1943-44 and flew agents and supplies behind enemy lines: http://www.624squadron.org
Tempsford Airfield Website: http://www.geocities.com/uksteve.geo/blunhistory2.html
Robert Body’s Tempsford website: http://www.geocities.com/fk790/
Roll of Honour website for Tempsford: http://www.roll-of-honour.com/Bedfordshire/TempsfordAircrewLost.html
The USAF Museum’s factsheet on Operation Carpetbagger http://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=1502
USAAF Resource center: http://www.warbirdsresourcegroup.org/URG/index.html
David Harrison’s website with listing of agents from French Section of SOE: http://members.tripod.com/soe_french/
Website on the Sussex Teams (in French at present) : http://www.plan-sussex-1944.net/
Tarrant Rushton Airfield Website: http://www.tarrant-rushton.ndirect.co.uk/index.html
Royal Air Force No 38 Group Squadrons website: http://www.raf38group.org
The following web pages include
information on clandestine radios, Bletchley Park - Station X and code-breaking
during WW2
Article on clandestine radios: http://militaryradio.com/spyradio/
The Official Website of Bletchley Park, Station X during WW2: http://www.bletchleypark.org.uk/
Bletchley Park Groups website: http://www.project-x.org.uk/bletpark.html
Tony Sale's website on codes and ciphers during WW2: http://www.codesandciphers.org.uk/
The following web pages include
information on the WW2 British Resistance organisation; The Home Guard; and
Civil Defence:
AUXUNIT News: www.auxunit.org.uk
Website on the Home Front civil defence organisations, CD, ARP and Home Guard: The Midnight Watch
The Home Guard - "Most of those men are now long gone and dead
but we, as a nation, should be proud of them."
The following web pages include information
on Thor Missiles and the Royal Observer Corps:
Thor IRBM History Website: http://www.geocities.com/thor_irbm/index.html
Thor fact sheet: www.spaceline.org/rocketsum/thor.html
Boeing - McDonnell Douglas's history on the Thor missile: www.boeing.com/history/mdc/thor.htm
Strategic Air Command's page on the Thor missile: http://strategic-air-command.com/missiles/Thor/Thor_Missile_Home_Page.htm
Thor launches pages during Operation Dominic at Johnston Island in the Pacific 1962: http://www.aracnet.com/~pdxavets/barrow1a.htm
National Royal Observer Corps Association Website: www.rocassoc.org.uk
Subterranea Britannica's website on the Royal Observer Corps: http://www.subbrit.org.uk/rsg/roc/
Truro Royal Observer Corps Association website: www.truroroca.co.uk
Steve Scanlon’s website on the UK Nuclear Attack Warning System: http://www.ringbell.co.uk/ukwmo/
Protect & Survive Archival website of UK Civil Defence material: http://www.cybertrn.demon.co.uk/atomic/index.htm
The UK Cold War Nuclear Attack Warning System: http://www.ringbell.co.uk/ukwmo/index.htm#idx
Brian Webb’s website on space and astronomy information including RAF Thor launches from Vandenberg AFB. http://www.spacearchive.info/
Web pages on the B24 Liberator
aircraft:
B-24 Research and/or to "Leave a
Comment" bulletin board: http://www.network54.com/Hide/Forum/183581
Stalag 13 Aviation Links: http://members.aol.com/dheitm8612/page2.htm
W.W.II B-24 Liberator Bombers "Image Archive and Research/Reference Center"... http://www.b24bestweb.com
Archived website on Bases of the 8th and 9th USAAF in the UK: http://web.archive.org/web/20060425092501/http://www.455th.ukpc.net/tomfeise/8thusaaf/bases2.htm
Website on the B24 with the USAAF http://home.att.net/~jbaugher2/b24_37.html
Webpage on radio callsigns of the 8th USAAF http://www.486th.org/Photos/Misc/CallSigns.htm
303rd BG Association website: http://www.303rdbga.com/
392nd
Bomb Group Website: www.b24.net
445th
Bomb Group, the Kassel Mission on 27th
September 1944 website: www.kasselmission.com
446th Bomb Group Website: www.446bg.com
486th BG website: http://www.486th.org/
491st BG website: http://www.491st.org
492nd BG at North Pickenham Website: http://www.492ndbombgroup.com/
USAAF website: http://www.armyairforces.com
Aviation Archaeology Investigation and Research website where MACR and other details on USAAF aircraft can be sourced: http://www.aviationarchaeology.com/default.htm
USAAF accident reports and MACR procurement website: http://www.accident-report.com/index.html
Other websites of interest
Website of the Airfield Research Group which gives special attention to the history, development and use of airfield buildings in addition to airfield history: www.airfield-research-group.co.uk
Grunt's Military Site - Dedicated to the military and military personnel, this site includes details on military rank insignia, medals and ribbons as well as images, forums, military quotes and glossaries.
www.HowardBlue.com - features the entire text of a WW2 era propaganda
radio play, which was produced by the US Office of War Information. It was part
of a series called "You can't do business with Hitler"
http://www.8thcontrails.com - Website of the Mighty 8th Air Force
Birthplace Chapter Newsletter that includes photo galleries of wartime 8th
Air Force bases etc
http://www.flensted.eu.com - Very informative Website on the Air War over
Denmark by Soren C Flensted
http://mighty8thaf.preller.us/
and http://384thBombGroup.com Fred Preller's informative websites on the US 8th
AF and the 384th BG at Grafton Underwood
http://www.topreference.com : Website designed to be a one-stop destination for
anything that you can think of that is about or related to reference
http://www.au.af.mil/au/afhra/ United
States Air Force Historical Research agency website containing a wealth of
downloadable information
http://pow.b24.net for the Stalag Lufts of Europe
www.merkki.com: Website on Stalag Luft 1
http://www.fawnaps.co.uk/ The Fenlands
and West Norfolk Preservation Society Museum website
http://www.psywar.org/index.php Website
on Psychological Warfare, Psychological Operations (PSYOP),
Black Propaganda, and Aerial Propaganda Leaflets
RAF No 218 (Gold Coast) Squadron website: http://www.goldcoastsquadron218.co.uk/index.htm
RAF No 218 (Gold Coast) Squadron Association website: http://host.raf38group.org/218squadron/
World War II Allied Aircraft Crashes in
the Netherlands database: http://ww2.texlaweb.nl/
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