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Admiralty War Diary 1939-1945
Posted by: Mark C. Jones ()
Date: May 17, 2013 11:55PM

There is a wonderful on-line naval history resource that I thought members of this forum would find potentially useful. An American company www.fold3.com specializes in digitizing military, naval and aviation documents from the U.S. National Archives. Fold3 operates a subscription service with the documents available over the web. They have a wide variety of U.S. military records from different time periods but what I have made extensive use of is the Royal Navy’s Admiralty War Diary 1939-1945. This war diary is a compilation of enormous numbers of messages sent between various high ranking Royal Navy officers regarding a wide variety of topics. Among the most common types of messages were announcements that certain ships had departed from or arrived at a particular port, or been damaged or sunk. There are very large numbers of messages concerning the Atlantic submarine war. Many Allied escort vessels and merchant ships are mentioned by name. Individual U-boats are mentioned by number in May-June 1945 as they were sailed to the UK for surrender. This immense document with thousands of pages can be fully explored using the website’s search function. There is a free seven day trial available.

Mark C. Jones

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Admiralty War Diary 1939-1945 Mark C. Jones 05/17/2013 11:55PM
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