Project '44
The War, Mapped.
150,000 unit positions. Thousands of primary sources. One living archive.
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Photo Archive
250+ geotagged wartime photographs placed exactly where they were taken.
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One Canadian veteran's war — traced from enlistment to the liberation of Zwolle, mapped from war diaries and family photographs.
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News, research updates, and behind-the-scenes dispatches from the Project '44 team.
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Zoom from theatre to foxhole. Every formation. Every phase line. Every day of the war.
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Geotagged photographs placed exactly where they were taken.
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American and French armour onto Esperia!
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A M-7 Priest rockes through Chiusdino
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M-7 Priest advances Roccastrada
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'Bear Tracks' M-7 Priest "sights-in"
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M3 Stuart passing through Montaione
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10th Mountain and 1st Armoured take Corona
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1st Armoured Division navigate a winding mountain road
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1st Armoured Division at the Piazza Duomo
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Operations
Major operations of the Second World War — Overlord, Veritable, Market Garden, and more — mapped day by day.
Coming SoonTheatres of War
From Northwest Europe to the Pacific — explore every theatre of the Second World War on an interactive map.
Coming SoonUnits & Formations
Browse every infantry division, armoured brigade, and artillery regiment — tracked to the day.
Coming SoonCampaigns
Multi-operation campaigns from Normandy to the Rhineland, mapped with unit positions and primary sources.
Coming SoonWar Diaries
Digitized, indexed unit war diaries — the daily operational record kept by every formation in the field.
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