Massive World War II collection debuts online

December 10, 2008 By DAN SCHERAGA , AP Business Writer

(AP) -- An online collection of World War II documents, billed as the world's largest, debuted last week. Footnote.com, which archives historical documents on the Web, developed the collection with the National Archives and Records Administration.

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