Here you can find links to other Korean War sites. Of the many sites listed below there are two that are unquestionably the best Korean War sites I have seen. These are the Korean War Project and Kimsofts' Korean War Eyewitness. I daresay these sites (sights?) are even better than mine. Both are massive, constantly updated, useful for research on a variety of Korean War issues, informative, and easy to navigate through on-line. I can only hope, in vain, that my site may someday match these. Last updated July 21, 2000.
Here is a personal page of a marine in the 20th Infantry Battalion during the Korean War.
For an online book by James Schnabel, US Army during the Korean War, click here. I will do a review of this book soon.
Veterans of the Korean War Journal. A big, useful site. Its purpose is to provide links and snail mail addresses to help in Korean War veterans networking. It provides a directory of active KWV groups by state, and by the events that they hold. Especially useful are links to contact persons in these organizations. The site is soliciting memoribilia, photos, etc., for a Korean War documentary.
Korean War Veterans Memorial Virtual Visitors Center. This site is a subpage of the National Park Service, which maintains the KWV Memorial in Washington, D.C. Pictures of the site, testimonials, technical specifications. No word on when when problems with the sidewalk and trees around the reflecting pool will be remedied.
Korean War Project. This massive, well illustrated and organized site has its own search engine contained within it which you can use to search Yahoo for korean war related topics. A search under the name "Chosin", for example, reveals a full screen of sites where that famous reservoir is mentioned. To the authors' credit, many of the references are on his own site! Its all here: the traditional "find" list; POW/MIA/KIA databases, Photographs, an extensive bilbiography, and links to KWV groups. Some of the links could be a little tighter-- i fail to see how a link to NYTimes.com is useful when obviously my research needs are far more specific. . Maintaining and upgrading this massive site costs a pretty penny, and your check should be in the mail. Mine is. This site is even better than it was two years ago before I left on my world cycling tour.
Fiftieth Anniversary of the Korean War Less ambitious than the Korean War Project above. Veterans directory and reunion file; a few short stories and commentary, and of course links; A brief synopsis of headlines from the Korean Peninsula from WWII to the signing of the armistice at Panmunjom in 1953. Contrast this Korean War timeline with that of Kimsoft, below.
Dawn's Korean War Airplane Nose Art Page Exactly as the name suggests, photos of Airplane nose art from the Korean War. Basically cartoons, women, or both. The pictures are in black and white, and could be larger. But they download quickly. Hard to imagine such imagery being sketched in todays politically charged military. A subpage of Dawn's home page, and he appears to be one wild and crazy guy. "Nose Art" is an example of what the internet is capable of with a little creative thinking.
Korea 1935-1955 An Eye Witness This is the internet, free speech locus of the Galaxy. I wish Mr. Kimsoft all the luck getting this North Korean chronology published. It is a powerful, gripping saga, if occasionally preachy and doctrinal. Compare this site with 50th Anniversary, above. It certainly is a perspective at variance with what we westerners have been told, although Mr. Kimsoft is hardly alone in his contempt for the arrogance of Douglas McArthur and Dean Acheson. This site is a virtual internet textbook, but each subchapter is readable, if you can slump into a cushy chair in front of your monitor.
I will say this to Mr. Kimsoft and all war historians. A chronology is a tempting format for a war history text: sort of a 'let them tell it in their own words' approach. But a history book should be more than just excerpts from Newspapers, Letters/Diaries, and military communiques, just as a website should be more than just links. (are you listening out there, ye mighty webmasters?). At some risk, the author must take a chance and organize the material into a meaningful whole. Mr. Kimsofts' site occasionally takes those risks and thus is rewarding reading. I am grateful for Mr. Kimsofts' webpage and happily provide a link to it.
Examining the Korean War Project from Pacific University designed to provide resources for learning and research about the war. They have a few book reviews...but mine are better!!!
Korean War Reference Library. This is a brand new site apparently. I don't recall finding it on my YAHOO searches lately. Anyway, it has alot of documents that relate the Korean War: the Armistice Agreement in its entirety; the Secuity Council resolution that enabled the UN forces to intervene, etc.
Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgendered Disabled Veterans Association of America. This is the site you will go to if ya click on the banner at the top of my main Korean War homepage. A large collection of services available to vets from all branches of the service, young and old. For those of you who read books like Conduct Unbecoming or Barrack Buddies and Soldier Lovers and think that material about gays in the military is all kiss and tell stories, I urge you to look at this site. It is first class, from top to bottom.
Military Sexual Slavery A website designed to publicize and remediate the problems caused by Japanese soldiers impressing Korean "comfort women" during WWII and the Korean occupation. Peacenet is a larger site which publicizes social environmental issues from a Korean perspective.
Any Flyboys out there? Read about your cockpit buddies! This site is devoted to the Aces of the Korean War.
