Category 6: Modern Period

Post Napoleon Era which includes Victorian, Antebellum, and 20th century eras

Books

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The evolution of Naval Armament, by Frederic Leslie Robertson, 1921
Tags : navy, weapons, technology, XVIIIth century, XIXth centuty
Notes : Ch.1 : The Sailing Ship ; Ch.2 : The smooth-bore gun ; Ch.3 : The steam engine ; Ch.4 : New Principle of Gunnery ; Ch.5 : The carronade ; Ch.6 : The truck carriage ; Ch.7 : The shell gun ; Ch.8 : The rifled gun ; Ch.9 : propelling machinery ; Ch.10 : The Ironclad
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Internet Sites

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Uniform & Equipment

Plates describing uniform depending of French regulation.Les Uniformes de l'Armée Française : recueil d'ordonnances de 1690 à 1894
Plate from Richard Knotel (1857- 1914): Uniformenkunde von Richard Knötel

World War 1

http://www.worldwar1.com/ - World War one : Trenches on the Web http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/ - World War 1 Document Archive http://www.theaerodrome.com/ - A site concerning the aces of WWI

World War II

General Information http://www.paradoxian.org/hoi2wiki/i...Knowledge_Base - HoI 2 wiki knowledge site, contains a lot of information about WW2. http://www.ww2db.com/index.php - World War 2 Database http://english.pobediteli.ru/ - The Eastern Front (a bit pro-russan) http://www.abc.net.au/innovation/gal...gallipoli2.htm - An interactive 3d timeline type thing of the ANZAC landings at Gallipoli. Holocaust http://www.ushmm.org/ - (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum) Information about the Holocaust and stories told by people affected by the Holocaust. http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar.../timeline.html - Timeline http://www.oskarschindler.com/1.htm - A site dedicated to Oscar Schindler, who managed to recue many Jews under WW2. Axis- Germany http://www.feldgrau.com/index.html - German Military 1918-1945 http://www.hitler.org/ - Information about Hitler http://achtungpanzer.com/panzer.htm - German Tanks http://www.luft46.com/ - German Aircrafts http://uboat.net/- German U-boats Axis- Japan http://hikoma.lb.nagasaki-u.ac.jp/en/ - Nagasaki University old Picture Database http://zoomphoto.lb.nagasaki-u.ac.jp/en/main_menu.php - High definition picture database Italy http://www.regiamarina.it/eng_index.htm - Regia Marina Italiana (The Italyan Navy) Allied http://www.daveswarbirds.com/ - American Airforce (1939-1945) Forgotten Campaign: The Dutch East Indies Campaign 1941-1942 Forgotten Campaign: The Dutch East Indies Campaign 1941-1942 Index ... Admiralty Islands in 1942 " We were first ! " Unit History of Australian No.1 Independent Company Armoured Vehicles in the Pacific War Special Dutch East Indies 1941-1942 Bibliography BIOGRAPHIES The Dutch East Indies Campaign 1941-1942 Books & Bibliography The Chronology of the Dutch East Indies, December 1941 - March 1942 The Pacific War 1941-1945: THE LINKS Massacres of POWs, Dutch East Indies, 1941-1942 The Pacific War - The Untold Stories 1941-1945 The Submarine War Uniforms Veterans of the Dutch East Indies Campaign The War at Sea Air Force ... 201st Mexican Fighter Squadron US Patrol Wing 10 in the Dutch East Indies, 1942 During a little-known raid, Japan's newest four-engine flying boat was put to a challenging test: a flight of more than 3,000 miles to attack Hawaii. Save your life! An account of NAP 1/C Shinsaku Yamakawa during the attack on USS oiler Pecos, Java Sea 1942 Royal Air Force Ranks (RAF) Who sank IJN destroyer Shinonome, December 1941? The restless sky over Tarakan Island, January 13th 1942 Armour ... Alvis-Straussler Armoured Cars in the Netherlands East Indies The Use of Armoured Vehicles on Borneo, 1941-1942 British Armoured Units in the Dutch East Indies, 1941-1942 Vickers-Carden-Loyd Light Tanks in the Netherlands East Indies Chinese Nationalist Armour in World War II 100th Indian Independent Light Tank Squadron, Malaya 1942 The Japanese Armoured Units in the Dutch East Indies 1941-1942 Japanese Armoured Units on Java Island, 1942 Dutch (KNIL) Armoured Units in the Dutch East Indies, 1941-1942 Japanese Armoured Units on Timor Island, 1942 Biography ... Lieutenant-General Gerardus Johannes Berenschot Brigadier Arthur Seaforth Blackburn Air Force Major-General Lewis Hyde Brereton Air Force Lieutenant-General George H. Brett Commodore John Augustine Collins Group Captain Sir Lawrence Darvall Rear-Admiral Karel W.F.M. Doorman Rear-Admiral Ruitaro Fujita Rear-Admiral William A. Glassford, Jr. Rear-Admiral Kenzaburo Hara Admiral Thomas Charles Hart Rear-Admiral Shintaro Hashimoto Rear-Admiral Kouichiro Hatakeyama Vice-Admiral Conrad Emil Lambert Helfrich Captain Jacob P. van Helsdingen Hero of the Dutch East Indies, 1942 Rear-Admiral Sueto Hirose Lieutenant-General Hitoshi Imamura Major-General Takeo Ito Rear-Admiral Kakaji Kakuta Major-General Kiyotake Kawaguchi Rear-Admiral Pieter Koenraad Vice-Admiral Nobutake Kondo Rear-Admiral Kyuji Kubo Rear-Admiral Takeo Kurita Air Vice-Marshal Sir Paul (Copeland) Maltby Lieutenant-General Masao Maruyama Vice-Admiral Chuichi Nagumo Rear-Admiral Shoji Nishimura Major-General Roelof T. Overakker Vice-Admiral Jisaburo Ozawa Rear-Admiral Sir Arthur Francis Eric Palliser Air Chief Marshal Sir Richard Edmund Charles Peirse Lieutenant-General Arthur Ernest Percival Major-General Jacob J. Pesman Major-General Ian Stanley Ord Playfair Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Royds Pownall Major-General Shizuo Sakaguchi Major-General Wijbrandus Schilling Colonel Toshishige Shoji Major-General Sir Hervey Degge Wilmot Sitwell Rear-Admiral Gerhard Wilhelm Stöve Rear-Admiral Takeo Takagi Vice-Admiral Ibo Takahashi Rear-Admiral Raizo Tanaka Lieutenant-General Hein Ter Poorten Report on a Grimness Major-General Yuitsu Tsuchihashi Vice-Admiral Nishio Tsukahara Air Force Lieutenant-General Ludolph H. van Oyen Rear-Admiral Johan Jasper Abraham van Staveren General Sir Archibald Percival Wavell Captain Leonard Walter Thomas Williams Land Combats ... The Japanese Invasion of Ambon Island, January 1942 The capture of Andaman Islands, March 1942 The capture of Bali Island, February 1942 The capture of Balikpapan, January 1942 The Banda Sea Operations 1941-1942 The capture of Bandjermasin The conquest of Borneo Island, 1941-1942 Buka Island, No. 3 Section, ’A’ Platoon, First Independent Company, AIF The Mystery of Christmas Island, March 1942 The Dutch Submarine Operations in the Dutch East Indies 1941-1942 "Diggers" on East Timor ! The East Timor Island, March 1942 to December 1942 The Japanese Invasion of Sumatra Island Pacific War 1941-1945 Guidelines The Japanese paratroopers in the Dutch East Indies, 1941-1942 The conquest of Java Island, March 1942 Photo Gallery - The Fall of Java Island, March 1942 The Fall of Kendari, January 1942 "Seventy minutes before Pearl Harbor" The landing at Kota Bharu, Malaya, on December 7th 1941 The Lesser Sunda Islands 1941-1942 The capture of Makassar, February 1942 The capture of Manokwari, April 1942 Manus Island, experience of No. 4 Section, 'B' Platoon, First Independent Company, Australian Imperial Force The Fall of Menado, January 1942 The last Dutch fortress in the East Indies - Merauke, Dutch New Guinea, 1942 The Fall of Dutch New Guinea, April 1942 An Abandoned Army - The KNIL and The Japanese Invasion of Northern Dutch Sumatra The Battle for Palembang, February 1942 The capture of Rabaul and Kavieng, January 1942 The capture of Riouw Archipelago The Japanese occupation of Sandakan, January 1942 The Invasion of British Borneo in 1942 The Italian Armed Forces in China, 1937-1943 The capture of Tarakan Island, January 1942 The Japanese Invasion of Dutch West Timor Island, February 1942 The fighting on Portuguese East Timor, 1942 General ... Chronology of the Dutch East Indies, 1 December 1941 - 6 December 1941 Chronology of the Dutch East Indies, 7 December 1941 - 11 December 1941 Chronology of the Dutch East Indies, 12 December 1941 - 18 December 1941 Chronology of the Dutch East Indies, 19 December 1941 - 24 December 1941 Chronology of the Dutch East Indies, 25 December 1941 - 31 December 1941 Cocos Islands during World War II Japan's need for oil and the Embargo (1940-1941) Index of Indonesian-Dutch Geographic Names Medical Patrol on Manus Island, 1941 Portugal in War Weapons and Equipment during the Dutch East Indies Campaign 1941-1942 Japanese Propaganda Postcards Of WW2 Naval .... Allied Merchant Ship Losses in the Pacific and Southeast Asia "The Lost Oppurtunity !" The Badung Strait Battle, February 1942 "The Night Hawks of Balikpapan" The Balikpapan Raid, January 1942 British and Australian Warship Losses in the Dutch East Indies Dutch Warship Losses in the Dutch East Indies (December 7th, 1941 - March 8th, 1942) The USS Houston's Corner Italian submarines and surface vessels in the Far East: 1940-45 Imperial Japanese Navy Submarine Operations in the Dutch East Indies 1941-194 The Japanese Shipping Losses in the Pacific and Southeast Asia (December 7th, 1941 - March 9th, 1942) The Java Sea Battle Dutch Maritime Disasters in the Dutch East Indies, 1941-1942 Naval Ranks The Ondina Story The story of Dutch sloop Soemba " It seems almost impossible ! " Soviet Submarines sail across the Seven Seas The Japanese Submarine War, 1941-1942 The Sunda Strait Battle Home Is The Sailor The U-Boat War in the Indian Ocean The USN and Royal Navy Submarine Operations in the Dutch East Indies 1941-1942 The United States Warship Losses in the Dutch East Indies Units & Orders of Battle ... Never Unprepared - A History of the 26th Australian Infantry Battalion Dutch Air Force Order of Battle in the Dutch East Indies, 30 November 1941 Australian First Independent Company, 1942 The Gunners: A History of Australian Artillery Japanese garrisons on the by-passed Pacific Islands 1944-1945 Order of battle for Dutch, British, Australian, USA and Japanese Army Japanese Special Naval Landing Forces Structure of an Australian Independent Company, 1942 Order of Battle of the Asiatic Fleet and the 16th Naval District POWs, Internees, Massacres, Survivors & Brutality ... The Balikpapan Massacre, February 1942 The Bangka Island Massacre, February 1942 Why was the war in the Pacific so brutal? Execution of Allied Air Force Officer by the Japanese, New Guinea The death of Private Kauffman, USMC Sumay Barracks, Guam Island, December 10th, 1941 The Carnage at Laha, February 1942 Look back at us in mercy Why have the Japanese defeated us ? Veteran's Stories ... Interview with Ronald Ashton Interview with Felix Bakker Interview with Arie Biemond Interview with Christopher Briggs The story of Captain G.F. Stephan, Tarakan Island Island 1942 The Story of De Ruyter survivors, the flagship of Admiral Doorman, February 1942 The story of Cornelis de Wolf, sole survivor of O-16, December 1941 Interview with John Rodney Guidry Interview with Alfred Hansen Interview with Adriaan Kannegieter Interview with Raymond Kester Interview with Cyril J. Morris The story of Jack Sercombe, Ambon Island 1942 Interview with Franciscus Johannes Zantvoort

The Cold War

http://www.britains-smallwars.com/ - Britains Small Wars, All wars that Britain has been in since 1945. http://www.vietnamwar.org/ - The Vietnam War

Codex

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http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/ - World War 1 Document Archive
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/ - National Security Archive from USA

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