Links

Dutch general navy links DutchSubmarines.com: the submarines of the Royal Netherlands Navy  (great info and pics) Dornier Do-24 K (excellent website about this seaplane, also used by the Dutch naval air service) Marine Verbindingsdienst (Very nice site about this Dutch Navy branch) Marineschepen.nl (brandnew site with all current RNN ships) United 'Netherlands Navy & Maritime Forum (brandnew forum for all Dutch maritime topics) Royal Netherlands Navy ships Museumship ex-Hr. Ms. Mercuur  (nice site about this former minesweeper) Hr.Ms. Potvis (Hr.Ms. Potvis was one of the unique 3-cylinder type submarines of Dutch design) Dutch merchant navy The unofficial Holland America Line Home Page  (with info and pics of their ships) The Oranjelijn   (nice site about this pre-WW II shipping firm) Auke Visser Esso Tankvaart Mij. Site (new site about those Esso tankers) Nederlandse koopvaardij 1940-1946 (Excellent site about the Dutch merchant navy during W.W.2 Dutch official sites The Dutch ministry of Defense homepage (official site of the Dutch ministry of Defence) Marinemuseum Den Helder   (official museum of the Royal Netherlands Navy) Nederlands Instituut voor Oorlogsdocumentatie (Netherlands Institute for War Documentation) Dutch veteran and personnel sites Koninklijke Vereniging van Marineofficieren  (nice site for and from Dutch naval officers) Veteranen Online (home for many veterans) Dutch Marine's Pages (by Wim van Wegen) Joop Westerhof in the N.E.I. 1947-1950 (the personal story of one of many Dutch soldiers in the N.E.I. 1945-1950) Other Dutch military links The Netherlands East Indies campaign 1941-1942  (excellent site about the fighting in the NEI) World War II Armed Forces Orders of Battle and Organizations Grebbeberg.nl (Excellent site about the fighting in this area in May 1940) Order of battle May 1940 (the complete OOB as of May 1940 in Holland, including naval units) Go2war2.nl (new Dutch site about World War II) Mini Marine International (site about model shipbuilding, really worth a visit) Defensieforum.nl (The place for discussions about the Dutch armed forces) Soldaten van Oranje (Dutch Commando units, the Irene Brigade and Dutch clandestine operations all in one site) Overvalwagens! (Dutch armoured vehicles in the Dutch East and West Indies) Onderscheidingen forum (brandnew forum where you can discuss Dutch military decorations and awards) Kriegsmarine (German navy) Kriegsmarine Encyclopedia (By Michael Emmerich) Chronik 1939-45 (a transcription of Hümmelchen and Rohwer's famous naval chronology) Prinzeugen.com (Kriegsmarine Online Photo Archive. Many rare photos) Uboat.net (THE site on the subject) Deutsche U-boote 1935-1945 (Excellent site about U-boats, in German) The U-boat archive (Many photos, by Jerry Mason) The Battleship Bismarck (leading site on this ship) The history of Bismarck and Tirpitz (by John Rasmussen) The history of Scharnhorst and Gneisenau (another excellent site by John Rasmussen) US Navy USS Erie (PG-50) (brand new site about this gunboat by Jon Balson) The Hyperwar project (Everything you need on the US armed forces in WW2) USS Marblehead (USS Marble was badly damaged in the Netherlands East Indies 1942) Japanese military Nihon Kaigun (highly recommended. Check out the articles) Kamikaze! (By T.I. from Japan) Forums Marine Archiv - das Forum für Historiker, Schiffsfreunde und Modellbauer (forum which covers all major navies, both in the first and second world war. In German) J-Aircraft.com (highly recommended, mainly for Japanese aircraft, ships and operations) Pacific War 1941-1945 forum (forum which belongs to this site) Commonwealth navies (including the merchant navy) HMS Rodney homepage (excellent site) World War II Cruiser Operarations (excellent site) HMS Hood organization (the official site of this giant) RMS Empress of Asia (The history of this British liner sunk off Singapore in February 1942) Miscellaneous sites Vincent P. O'Hara - writer of naval books and articles (personal website of this American author with some sample articles!) Norwegian Merchant Fleet 1939-1945 (Excellent site by Siri Lawson) Regiamarina.net (excellent site about the Italian Navy)

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