A Soundtrack of World War II
Posted by: Mark Hartsell
A Library digitization project reveals parts of World War II as the Marines lived it and heard it.
Posted in: Preservation, Technology, Veterans History Project, World War II
Category: Veterans History Project
World War II: Voices of War
Posted by: Mark Hartsell
Diaries, letters and oral histories reveal the hardships and heartbreak of wartime service. They're captured in the Library's Veterans History Project.
Posted in: Veterans History Project, World War II
Love Letters Straight to Your Heart
Posted by: Mark Hartsell
Love letters dot the Library of Congress's collections — centuries of devotion, passion, longing, regret and heartbreak put down on paper.
Posted in: Civil War, Manuscripts, U.S. Presidents, Veterans History Project, World War II
Rare Survivor of Pacific War
Posted by: Mark Hartsell
Before he boarded the ship carrying prisoners of war across the ocean to a forced-labor camp, George Washington Pearcy divided his diary and gave the pieces to two comrades staying behind. If he didn’t survive the journey, Pearcy hoped, his story somehow would. Pearcy, a POW held by the Japanese during World War II, never …
Posted in: American Folklife Center, Collections, History, Manuscripts, Veterans History Project
Inquiring Minds: VHP Marks 15 Years Preserving Veterans’ Stories
Posted by: Mark Hartsell
A missing Air Crew Report, author Dennis Okerstrom says, provides plenty of facts about losses in air combat: type of aircraft, names and ranks of crew members, a flight plan. Those facts can’t, however, reveal war’s human dimension – what it’s like to actually get shot down in combat. “It cannot begin to convey the …
Posted in: American Folklife Center, Audiovisual, Capitol Hill, Collections, History, Researcher Stories, Veterans History Project