American Experience

Web Sites | Books

The National D-Day Museum
http://www.ddaymuseum.org/index.html
The National D-Day Museum in New Orleans offers a wealth of resources, including a minute-by-minute chronology of the cross-Channel invasion.

U.S. Army Campaigns of World War II: The Normandy Invasion
http://www.history.army.mil/brochures/normandy/nor-pam.htm
The Army's Center for Military History presents this thorough description of the Allied invasion of Normandy, along with a bibliography.

Normandy: D-Day
http://www.normandiememoire.com/NM60Anglais/nmeh/html/visite.php
This French site includes listings of World War II-related sites, museums and cemeteries that can be visited in Normandy today.

American Experience: Battle of the Bulge
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/bulge
This site provides harrowing details about the WWII battle that was the single biggest and bloodiest one American soldiers ever fought.

American Experience: Bataan Rescue
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/bataan
Six months after the Normandy invasion, American and Filipino commandos halfway around the world pulled off the most daring rescue mission of World War II.

American Experience: Fly Girls
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/flygirls
During World War II, more than a thousand American women signed up to fly for the military. This is their story.

American Experience: America and the Holocaust
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/holocaust/
Complex social and political factors shaped America's response to the Holocaust, from "Kristallnacht" in 1938 through the liberation of the death camps in 1945.

Web Sites | Books

Belchem, Major General David. Victory in Normandy. London: Chatto and Windus, 1981.

Bowen, Sidney. Dearest Isabel: Letters from an Enlisted Man in World War II. Manhattan: Sunflower University Press, 1992.

Cooper, John St. John. Invasion: The D-Day Story. London: Beaverbrook Newspapers Limited, 1954.

Easton, Robert and Jane. Love and War: Pearl Harbor Through V-J Day. Norman, Oklahoma and London: University of Oklahoma Press, 1991.

Goldstein, Donald M., Dillon, Katherine V., & Wenger, J. Michael. D-Day Normandy: The Story and Photographs. Washington: Brassey's (U.S.), 1994.

Kershaw, Robert J. D-Day: Piercing the Atlantic Wall. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1994.

Stevens, Michael E., editor. Letters from the Front: 1898 - 1945. Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1992.