The National Archives eStore
http://estore.archives.gov/
This site contains videos, books, posters, collectalbes and also a section for archivists, called Be Your Own Archivist.
http://estore.archives.gov/category.aspx?categoryID=27
Today I purchased the following:
World War II on Film: A Catalog of Select Motion Pictures in the National Archives
and
The Sounds of History: World War 2 -
Side One
American Radio Mobilizes the Homefront
Montage of WAR BOND and POPULAR SONGS
Excerpts of Speeches
News Reports
Side Two
Allied Turncoats Broadcast for The Axis Powers
Excerpts from wartime shortwave
propaganda
The Sounds of History is on cassette tape, so I will have to have it converted, but for $6.95 who can complain?
WWII UNIT DESIGNATIONS AND SIZES
This document has been corrected, re Todd's note to me below....
I didn't see regiment on the list. Normally, a regiment would be 3 (+/-) battalions. 3 (+/-) regiments in a Division. Was this just an oversite? I thought that Brigades were made up of regiments but less in size than a division. Not having brigades in the USMC, I must confess I don't know a lot about them from personal experience.
Good eye tonight. This was something I derived quite a while back and found a copy in a folder it didn't belong (ya it got lost). So I uploaded it quickly and didn't even check it out thoroughly. Bad girl.
Yes, I will correct the oversight. Thank you so much for bringing this error to my attention. I should have been more diligent.
Another cool one - U.S. Army World War II - Military Occupational Specialties - (By Job Area)
http://militaryyearb...-codes-wwii-era
This is a really great table, for most MOS's are clickable, and take you to another page which gives the definition of said MOS.
Very cool references!
I think it would be interesting to tell your grandkids you were a "560 Pidgeoneer". It seems everyone who was in the war is an infantryman - no one says, "Yep, back in the war I was a 358 Glassblower."
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