Links
WWII Veteran's Associations
2nd Infantry Division Association
3rd Armored Division Association
4th Infantry Division Association
5th Armored Division Association
7th Armored Division Association
8th Armored Division Association
8th Infantry Division Association
10th Armored Division Association
10th Mountain Division Association
11th Armored Division Association
20th Armored Division Association
25th Infantry Division Association
28th Infantry Division Association
29th Infantry Division Association
31st Fighter Group Association
33rd Infantry Division Association
42nd Infantry Division Association
65th Infantry Division Association
70th Infantry Division Association
71st Infantry Division Association
76th Infantry Division Association
78th Infantry Division Association
82nd Fighter Group Association
86th Infantry Division Association
87th Infantry Division Association
88th Infantry Division Association
89th Infantry Division Association
94th Infantry Division Association
99th Infantry Division Association
100th Infantry Division Association
104th Infantry Division Association
106th Infantry Division Association
250th Coast Artillery Association
274th Armored Field Artillery Battalion Site
325th Fighter Group Association
339th Fighter Group Association
352nd Fighter Group Association
353rd Fighter Group Association
356th Fighter Group Association
357th Fighter Group Association
361st Fighter Group Association
365th Fighter Group Association
368th Fighter Group Association
406th Fighter Group Association
419th Armored Field Artillery Battalion Site
475th Fighter Group Historical Foundation
486th Bomb Group (Heavy) Association
491st Bomb Group (Heavy) Association
555th Parachute Infantry Battalion Association
737th Tank Battalion Association
746th Tank Battalion Association
761st Tank Battalion Association
761st Tank Battalion Tribute Site
778th Tank Battalion Tribute Site
784th Tank Battalion Association
American Ex-Prisoners of War Association
Chemical Corps Regimental Association
LST Association -- Website contains visitor-submitted photos of LST's.
National WWII Glider Pilots Association, Inc.
WWII Museums, Societies, Sites, Memorials
4th Armored Division Memorial Website
8th Air Force Historical Society
29th Infantry Division (U.S.)
551st Parachute Infantry Battalion History
Camp Amache -- A Japanese Internment camp located outside Granada, Colorado.
Celebration of Freedom Memorial -- A veteran's memorial located in front of the Butler County Courthouse, El Dorado, KS.
Central Florida World War II Museum -- Another museum under development.
Combat Air Museum -- Topeka, Kansas
The Crime Museum -- DC Tours The Crime Museum in Washington, D.C. presents an excellent array of historical crime scenes accompanied by pages upon pages of literature.
The Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum
Eldred World War II Museum -- Eldred, Pennsylvania
Gyges Publishing Company -- A Danish website that covers some World War II aspects of: Command and control of Kriegsmarine units in Denmark. Luftwaffe fighter command and control facilities in all of occupied Europe. Radar stations and signal intelligence units related to these organizations (Flugmeldemess, Funkmessortung and Funkaufklärung Stellungen). Constructions related to these facilities and stations.
Harry S. Truman Library Institute
Holley Museum of Military History -- Topeka, Kansas
Jayhawk Wing of the Commemorative Air Force -- Wichita, Kansas - New!
Musee Airborne (Link updated 3/11/09)-- A museum dedicated to the American liberation of Sainte-Mere-Eglise, France, on the first day of D-Day. Located in Sainte-Mere-Eglise, France.
Museum of World War II -- Natick, Massachusetts
National Pacific War Museum -- Fredericksburg, Texas
National Showa Memorial Museum -- Tokyo, Japan
National World War II Memorial -- Washington, D. C.
National World War II Museum -- New Orleans, Louisiana
Pennsylvania Military Museum -- Boalsburg, Pennsylvania
Pratt Army Airfield -- Pratt, Kansas
Rosie the Riveter National Historic Park
The OSS, The Unknown Story of the Men and Women of World War II's OSS
Toronto ALPHA - Toronto Association for Learning and Preserving the History of WWII in Asia
Traces Museum -- St. Paul, Minnesota
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
World War II Historical Society -- United Kingdom
World War II Victory Museum -- Auburn, Indiana
WW2 Battlefield Relics -- United Kingdom
WWII History and Research
1st Infantry Division (U.S.)
2nd Armored Division Association
9th Infantry Division (U.S.)
506th Parachute Infantry Regiment (U.K.)
Das Reich 2nd SS Panzer Division (Germany)
Feldgrau.com -- All about the German Armed Forces from 1918-1945
Find the MIA.org -- Website/blog run by a Frenchman who looks for the remains of soldiers missing in action on French battlefields.
Guide to Online Schools -- An online resource of World War II Research websites.
Kilroy Was Here -- Unknown stories and forgotten places. WWII & Korean war Secrets. Unknown stories revealed & places rediscovered Personal stories of combat & home front, legends, Gremlins and foofighters.
Telling Their Stories -- Oral History Archives Project
The Avalon Project, Yale University - World War II Documents
The Battle of the Hurtgen Forest
WWII Reenacting Units and Associations
Reenacting Organizations
Mid-west Living History Association (MLHA). A reenacting association with members from Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Colorado.
WWII Airmens Preservation Society
WWII Historical Re-enactment Society, Inc.
Reenacting Units
American Units
4th Armored Division A U.S. unit based out of Great Bend, Kansas.
4th Armored Division, A Company, 53rd Armored Infantry Battalion
3rd Recon, 3rd Infantry Division
90th Infantry Division Preservation Group
105th Engineer Combat Battalion
German Units
5th Kompanie, II Battalion, 916th Infanterie Regiment, 352nd Infanterie Division
916th Grenadier Regiment A German unit based in England. - New!
Battlegroup South - A German unit based in Ireland.
WWII Retailers, Original and Reproduction Items
Miscellaneous Links
B-29 "Doc" Restoration Project
Hitler's Third Reich and World War II in the News
Kansas Museum of Military History
Mid-Kansas Military Vehicle Preservation Association
National Society of Daughters of the
Task Force Baum -- A German website (that can be read in English) that describes Patton's attempt to free his son-in-law from a German POW camp in 1945.
The War - PBS -- All about Ken Burn's documentary about World War II.
VeteransHistory.org - Documentary Filmmaker Larry Cappetto's website. His films are based on Oral Histories that he himself has gathered.
World War II Battlefield Relics -- A British website featuring relics found on European battlefields.
Local Attractions in and Around El Dorado, KS
Museums
Butler County History Center and Kansas Oil Museum
Attractions
Click on the link below to find a list of places to stay and eat in El Dorado, as well as other attractions.