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Posted by: Megan Harris
June 6, 2019, marks the 75th anniversary of D-Day, the Allies’ famed invasion of the beaches of Normandy. In honor of this momentous occasion, the Veterans History Project (VHP) is publishing a special series of blog posts revealing hidden facets of D-Day illuminated within VHP’s collections. This post is the fourth in a six-part series, …
Posted in: D-Day, Veterans History Project, Women's History, World War II
Posted by: Megan Harris
A shy but determined young teletype operator. An Air Force engineer with dreams of going into space. A spy with a talent for driving fast cars and getting thrown out of East Germany. The commander of a squadron of the elite Special Forces unit known as Delta Force. What’s the common thread tying together this …
Posted in: African Americans, Hispanic American History, Oral History, Serving: Our Voices, Veterans History Project, Women's History
Posted by: Megan Harris
The following is a blog post by Lisa Gomez and Sam Meier, Junior Fellows working for the Veterans History Project (VHP) this summer. To read their previous blog posts from this summer, go here and here. Lisa’s flashback to 2015: I have a vivid memory of listening to Ashton Carter, then-Secretary of Defense, announce that the …
Posted in: Oral History, Veterans History Project, Vietnam War, Women's History, World War I, World War II
Posted by: Megan Harris
You might have already seen Lisa Taylor’s blog post on female code breakers in World War II—but the topic is so rich, I couldn’t resist revisiting it in my own post! Read on for more details about VHP’s holdings of women cryptanalysts and an upcoming book talk by author Liza Mundy. This is the fourth …
Posted in: Veterans History Project, Women's History, World War I