Since May 2016, the National World War II Museum has collected 500 oral histories. But the war generation is fading fast. Even people who were children during the war are in their 70s and 80s.
The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., has about 10,000 oral histories available online. These are among the 66,000 that can be viewed or listened to on their site.
Putting oral histories online is not just a matter of uploading and linking to huge audio and video files. At the World War II Museum, their six historians also describe the contents for online searching.
Greatest generation. --GreGen
The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.
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