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Raising the flag on Mount Suribachi by Joe Rosenthal

Raising the flag on the Reichstag, Yevgeny Khaldei

Welcome to the WWII Archives!

We are dedicated to preserving, archiving, and collecting as much material and information from the WWII era, bring it all together, and create the most detailed accounts of every subject, from largest to smallest, of the era. As of recent, much of those who lived through the era have died or are quickly dying, their stories being lost along with them. Not only that, but many documents, photographs, items, etc are being lost, destroyed, sold, or kept stored away, by families and others, never to be seen or found again. However, if we are able to interview as many survivors, veterans, and others who lived during the era, digitize and archive as many photographs, documents, films, items, etc, and combine all of that with the existing sources, information, stories, interviews, digitized items, and more, we could create the biggest information center about the WWII era. In that case, the many stories, documents, and pieces of information, will no longer be lost, and many families (including yours), genealogists, scholars, academics, historians, history enthusiasts and others will forever have access to everything there is to know about each subject. These will range from every individual during the era, to geographic locations, certain events, battles, technologies, to even the war itself.

So if you’d like for your family history to be completely saved, or want to write about a subject you particularly are knowledgeable about, join our efforts by reading how to participate below!

Recent news

• 11 November 2022 - WWII Archives website launched!
  

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Current site statistics:

• Number of Pages: 4,014
  
• Number of Articles: 247
  
• Number of Files: 1,012
  
• Number of Edits: 5,949
  
• Number of Users: 24
  
• Number of Active Users: 1

Into the Jaws of Death, Robert F. Sargent

Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima, Charles Levy

How can I help?
The following list below is a basic list of ways that you could participate and contribute on the WWII Archives:

• Go out and interview surviving veterans, survivors, family members, those who have had stories from people who lived during the WWII era, and others
  
• Scan, digitize, archive, and upload the documents, items, photographs, films, etc that you are in possession of or get in possession of. See the Multimedia Guide for rules and requirements for doing so.
  
• Sign up to become a user in order to edit, write, and create articles. See the WAMoS for more information

Explore
If you are here to just search around the Archives, you can do the following:

• Use the search bar to the left
  
• Go to a random page by clicking here
  
• Search the list of Categories
  
• Search the list of Files