Getting Started
- Required Equipment
- Uniform Guidelines – Coming Soon!
- Ranger History
- Bylaws
Research
General
Ranger specific
Weapons
Equipment
Recommended Vendors
- “The big three” – you can’t go wrong with these
- What Price Glory – Cheapest of the three. Uniforms are serviceable but lower quality than the other two. Has the widest variety of equipment/uniforms
- At The Front – A good mid-range option.
- WWII Impressions – The highest quality of the three, but also the most expensive. All equipment made in the USA
- Soldier of Fortune Military
- Quartermaster Inspector
Recommended Reading
- Dog Company by Patrick O’Donnell
- Rangers Led the Way by Chris Ketcherside and George Despotis
- The Longest Day by Cornelius Ryan
- Smashing Hitler’s Guns by Steven Zaloga
- The Last Hill by Bob Drury and Tom Clavin
- Small Unit Actions by the US Army Center of Military History (section on the Rangers at Pointe du Hoc
- Beyond the Beach: The 2nd Rangers Fight Through Europe by the US Army Special Operations Historical Society
- Roughing it with Charlie: The Charlie Company, 2nd Ranger Bn, Landing on OMAHA Beach by the US Army Special Operations Historical Society
External links
- The US GI Reenactor Guide – An excellent Youtube channel that assumes no knowledge of WWII reenacting and explains everything needed to get started in an easy-to-understand format.
- 90th ID Preservation Group Articles – The 90th does excellent research on a wide variety of topics – everything from how helmets were worn to how to use your leggings
- World War II in Real Time by Timeghost History
- Descendents of WWII Rangers, Inc.
- WWII Ranger Roster
- Cornelius Ryan archive
- Cornelius Ryan was a famous author of WWII histories. He wrote three fantastic books: The Longest Day, A Bridge too Far, and The Last Battle. He solicited first hand accounts of those who were there that day, and received hundreds upon hundreds of responses.
- NOTE: All Ranger/Airborne material seems to have been contained in box 10. We have collected Ranger accounts on our external Ranger research page
- US Army Special Operations History Office
- We have collected Ranger resources on our external Ranger research page
- National Archives