How about some non-US perspectives?

The BBC as you might expect does an excellent job, and the Guardian newspaper also has a nice site:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/secondworldwar

Then there are the Canadian and Australian stories:

http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/remembers/sub.cfm?source=history/SecondWar
http://www.ww2australia.gov.au/

I would have loved to find German, Japanese, Russian and other sites, but couldn't find anything worth recommending. I guess the language issue would be a problem in finding material, and also the topic is a lot more sensitive in those countries.

But the Anne Frank Musuem tells a fascinating and moving story about the life of a Jewish family hiding from the Nazis in Holland.

http://www.annefrank.org/content.asp?pid=1&lid=2

Also, anything about WWII has to pay special attention to the Holocaust:

http://www.ushmm.org/
http://www.aish.com/holocaust/default.asp

And I think the Manhattan Project also deserves to be highlighted:

http://www.atomicmuseum.com/Tour/manhattanproject.cfm
http://www.atomicheritage.org/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1

Hopefully some of those are worthwhile additions to what you already have.

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