World War II Database

This year we celebrate a big one: WW2DB's 20th anniversary! This web project was started as a way to get some personal notes on WW2 out on the web, but it very quickly evolved into something with encyclopedic goals. Ambitious? Yes, it certain was! Have we come close? Not even close! But we sure learned quite a bit about the conflict during the process, and we hope we were able to successfully share some of the things that we learned with the site visitors.

As usual, we include a quick year-end tally of a few things at the site:

• 1,150 biographies (+13)
• 337 events (+1)
• 43,918 timeline entries (+598)
• 1,241 ships (+4)
• 350 aircraft models (+1)
• 207 vehicle models (+0)
• 375 weapon models (+3)
• 123 historical documents (+0)
• 260 facilities (+1)
• 470 books reviewed (+1)
• 28,579 photos (+274)
• 432 maps (+1)
• 25,291 visitor comments (+362)

And on the social media front:

• 17 Patreon supporters (+1)
• 140,222 Facebook followers (-1,971)
• 35,478 Twitter followers (+329)
• 708 Reddit members (+68)
• 124 Mastodon followers (+108)
• 22 Bluesky followers (+22)

Thank you all for the support you have given us over the past two decades, whether it is simply visiting WW2DB regularly or supporting us financially on Patreon.

Wishing you all a healthy and prosperous 2025!