Military Resources

The military is a vast subject and Olive-Drab.com is gradually adding pages to increase the depth of coverage for more topics. The Olive-Drab.com Directory will expand as new pages are created. In this section, you will find pointers to Olive-Drab.com pages called "Military Resources" in the Directory. These are primarily reference materials and pointers to places on the web where you can get more in-depth information, or subjects that don't fit easily into other categories on Olive-Drab.com.

Predator UAV ready for flight at Joint Operational Test Bed System (JOTBS), Norfolk, VA.

Today in WW II: 25 May 1940 Boulogne, France is captured by the Germans. More ↓

25 May 1941 King George of Greece abandons Crete, relocating to Cairo in a narrow escape from German forces.
25 May 1942 Japanese attack force leaves Hokkaido for invasion of the Aleutians Islands, Alaska.
25 May 1945 Chiefs of Staff of US military set 1 November 1945 as start date for invasion of Japan [Operation Downfall]. The huge casualties of Downfall avoided by use of Atomic Bombs in Aug 1945.
Visit the Olive-Drab.com World War II Timeline for day-by-day events 1939-1945! See also WW2 Books.

Index of Military Topics

Usenet for Multimedia

In addition to web pages, there is also a very active community of on-line forums on the Internet. They have evolved from the USENET newsgroups and are now easily managed through Google Groups (formerly USENET). Examples of some forums on military topics are:

can.community.military
rec.aviation.military
us.military.army
alt.binaries.pictures.military
soc.veterans

Marines with Battalion Landing Team, 1st Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit prepare an up-armored HMMWV to go on a convoy in Fallujah, Iraq, Christmas Day, 2004.

You can use the search capability of Google Groups to discover other forums and also to search the messages in any one forum to find things you are interested in. This Google web page tells more about how it all works.

Usenet services. Google is there for text message forums, but you probably want to see photos and movies. There are a number of ways to access Usenet for multimedia, reviewed on the linked Olive-Drab.com page.

Military Webrings

Be sure to visit the Olive-Drab.com page on Web Rings, potentially another fruitful source for finding military web pages grouped together. There are many rings which have been set up on the web which relate to military subject matter incuding military history, veterans, POW/MIA, aircraft, ships and others.