Ultimately, all of these first-hand accounts of Pearl Harbor, D-Day, Germany fighting, surrender, Hiroshima, Japanese surrender and the home front will be online.
Founded in 2000, the National World War II Museum is one of New Orleans' top attractions. The digital collection is open to anyone, anywhere, but only about 250 of the oral histories are online so far. Uploading more will take time, partly because the museum's six historians are racing to interview the last veterans.
I'd have to say this recording the histories of the surviving veterans is much more important at this point.
--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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