Newly launched photo and document library The Wartime Archive currently promises 219,834 photographs, 3,741 maps and 4,977 military documents from before the First World War through to the Korean War.
The bulk of the content available on the platform comes from German, Russian, American, British, French, Canadian, Italian, Japanese and Commonwealth sources, official and press alike, and every picture can be searched by unit, aircraft, ship, place, date or name.
The German holdings include 16,732 photographs from the German press house in occupied Poland, the photographs the German army issued of its pursuit squadrons and anti-aircraft batteries in the First World War, and 2,699 situation maps drawn by German staffs at the time, one set for each campaign from 1939 to 1945. From the Allied side there are 35,293 photographs taken by the American air forces, 16,587 from the US Army Signal Corps, the 12th Army Group’s daily situation maps from Normandy to July 1945, and photographs of the RAF, the Royal Navy and the Eighth Army. Tanks, ships, airfields, nose art, propaganda posters, postcards, insignia, target charts and aerial reconnaissance photographs are all there.
This is very much an alive resource with an ongoing, almost daily, upload of content happening behind the scenes! …and Documents on the site run to 577,607 pages, each one a complete PDF. They include the histories and after-action reports of divisions, regiments, battalions and squadrons, field manuals, and the finding guides to the German military records captured at the end of the war. 112 are free to download.
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