Under a War-Torn Sky

Links to Learning More

Web Sites About WWII

Comprehensive and compelling, BBC's website on WWII
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/

PBS' moving exploration of America's WWII
http://www.pbs.org/wwii/

Educators’ index of WWII sites:
http://www.besthistorysites.net/WWII.shtml

The American Air Corps

Photos of an American Air Corps Base in England
http://www.b24.net/wendling44/index.html

Excellent, brief and powerful, BBC films on: (1.) the evacuation at Dunkirk when France fell to the Germans (2.) Bombers and the Bombed (a montage of raids on Coventry by the Nazis and Lubeck by the Allies); (3.) Evacuees, the story of London youth sent to the countryside for safety; the Secret Army (S.O.E. agents dropped behind lines to work with the Resistance); and (4.) D-Day footage.  http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/interactive/animations/wwtwo_movies/index.shtml

Watch a bomber at take-off
http://www.weye.com/archives/wwiib24.html

American Bombers of WWII
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/bomber/photos.html

Making the B-4 (requires Windows Media Player)
http://xa.yimg.com/kq/groups/15654030/1604819366/name/bomber_plant.wmv

POWs

Allied POWs in a Nazi POW camp, Stalag Luft 1
http://www.merkki.com/

The French Resistance

Amazing and inspiring personal accounts of the French Resistance:
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/2WWresistance.htm (click onto Lucie Aubrac, for example, an inspiration for Madame Gallouise)
http://charlottegraymovie.warnerbros.com/cmp/resistance.html

British S.O.E agents with the French Resistance
http://charlottegraymovie.warnerbros.com/cmp/time.html
http://charlottegraymovie.warnerbros.com/cmp/soelinks.html

Footage of Resistance fighters training
http://www.wpafilmlibrary.com/exhibit_1944.html