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Here's a list of useful websites with in-depth information on WW2 naval history:
CANADA
Ready Aye Ready - Info on Canadian ships past and present.
FRANCE
Service Historique de la Défense - Drawings and technical data for all French ships of the 20th Century.
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German-Navy.de - History and technical data on all Kriegsmarine ships and submarines, including Plan Z.
uboat.net - The definitive source for U-boat data, including extensive war records.
KBismarck.com - Info on the battleship, including camouflage schemes as well as a detailed account of Operation Rheinübung.
Bismarck & Tirpitz - Info on the battleships. Also provides very detailed accounts of the Hilfskreuzer actions.
Scharnhorst & Gneisenau - Info on the battlecruisers.
Admiral Hipper & Blücher & Prinz Eugen - Info on the heavy cruisers.
Deutschland/Lützow & Admiral Scheer & Admiral Graf Spee - Info on the pocket battleships.
PRINZ EUGEN dot com - Photo archive of Prinz Eugen, Schnellboote and Kriegsmarine Frigates.
Kriegsmarine Camouflage 1939-1945 - Extensive article about the use of camouflage by German ships. Lots of diagrams.
ITALY
RegiaMarina.net - Info on the Italian fleet.
JAPAN
Combined Fleet - Detailed info on Imperial Japanese Navy ships, submarines and aircraft.
NETHERLANDS
Dutch Submarines - Royal Netherlands Navy submarines in WW2.
GENERAL
World War II Database - Extensive database of WW2 ships.
The Order Of Battle Page - Ship listings for all major naval battles of the 20th century.
Naval Weapons of the World - Comprehensive data for torpedos, naval guns and other weapons.
NAVIS2GM - French language page with info on all navies of WW2, with a fantastic collection of ship illustrations.
Warships of World War II - Czech site with technical data on warships of all nations.
Bob's Warships 1939-1945 - Extensive gallery of warship models; merchant ships available here.
Haze Gray & Underway - General naval photography, history and information site.
World War II in the Pacific - History of the Pacific War, from a US point of view.
HyperWar - Hypertext history of WW2 (not just naval).
Wikipedia's List of Museum Ships - Museum ships around the world.
Modernist Art in Camouflage - Photographs, diagrams and paintings of spectacular ship paint schemes.
If you know of other pages that deserve to be here, by all means let me know and I will add them.
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Some of these are nice, I look for pictures for screen-savers etc., and searches brought me to these, but many have informational in addition to picture content as well.
http://www.hazegray.org/
-not just WWII, strongest on USA
http://www.ww2pacific.com/
-just what the name says
http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/
-US centric with goal of providing actual documentary historical resource, not just naval
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I like that one 
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I've included these, and a couple more. Still I bet there's more good sites out there...
Shame RegiaMarina.net isn't working 
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| EvilKobra wrote: | I've included these, and a couple more. Still I bet there's more good sites out there...
Shame RegiaMarina.net isn't working |
Yeah, that is strange... :/
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Regina Marina is now working ! It was when I went there earlier today.
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Post subject: Here's one on Battleships
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I found this one a long time ago and recently rediscovered it:
http://www.battleship.org/
Has quite an extensive database on battleships. Primarily American, but definetly has a listing of international ones too.
Edit: I mispoke...guess it is only for the Iowa class battleships, but does have a few interesting comparisons of WWII battleships.
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That link doesn't seem to work...
Anyhow I've updated the list with a couple more sites. Of special note (to me anyhow) is the Kriegsmarine Camouflage link. Very, very interesting stuff!
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HazeGray has a better presentation format, but www.History.Navy.Mil/DANFS has every DANFS entry, while the other guys still have a lot missing.
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Bobs Warships are all large scale very expensive metal models many of which are not made any more. I highly recommend that scratch builders go look at these because there are details there that don't always show up as clearly in line drawings and smaller models. For example, the main differences between North Carolina and Washington are very visible.
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Here's something I found that might be new to you if you haven't been hanging out in the Dreadnought Rising forum. The link is to a Russian-language web-site that consists mostly of scans of military history magazines, they have a lot about naval history from the Russo-Japanese war up through the modern day, plus plenty of WWII aviation content as well. The links at the top take you to smaller categorized groups of links, but each issue is there in that big list on the front page.
Here's the link
http://www.wunderwaffe.narod.ru/
a site like Babel fish will translate the whole thing for you.
http://babelfish.yahoo.com/
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Hey guys ... I'm looking for some information about concept ships that never made it into production. I know there was a British idea for a mega-carrier and ice carriers, but what about some far-out ideas that may have inspired noire-science fiction?
I thought it'd be fun to play some games with a German uber-u-boat or Japanese super-carrier. American ace pilots in experimental craft and British submersible carriers would be interesting as well. And what if the French had not fallen to Germany? Would the Joffre carrier have been built? |
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Ships, get Conway's '22-'46. It's got everything that was seriously considered except the Pykrete-carrier.
Planes, the USAF Museum website lists everything they flew or ordered, even the prototypes like the IIRC-never-flown-POS Fisher P-75 "Eagle" (shoulda been called "Turkey"). All the weird birds you could want: the tailless XP-56 Black Bullet, the jet-powered bomber-rammer XP-79, more B-17 and B-29 mods than you can shake a stick at, including liquid-cooled power conversions (which may have helped performance, except that the re-engined B-17 was destroyed in a hangar-fire before they could get any real testing done) or insanely up-armed escort-gunships...
CombinedFleet.com lists Japanese navy prototypes (haven't found a good site on IJA Air Force or Luftwaffe yet).
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For the GAF and IJNAF/IJAAF my sources are "Japanese Aircraft of the Pacific War" by Rene' J. Francillion copywrite 1995 Naval Institute Press and "German Aircraft of the Second World War" by A. J. Smith and Antony L. Kay copywrite 1997 Putnam Aeronautical Books. not websites I know and hard to find but great books. Also, the MN website did not work a few moments ago.
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