Veterans Oral History Project

The Assisi Foundation of Memphis in 2006 awarded the Department of History in partnership with the Military Order of the World Wars, Memphis Chapter, $120,000 to support the World War II Veterans Oral History Project. Of that amount, $90,000 was allocated immediately. On the basis of the progress report, the Foundation in January 2007 allocated the remaining $30,000. This generous grant makes it possible to undertake the task of interviewing 1,000 West Tennessee veterans of the Second World War.

All interviews will be archived in the Mississippi Valley Collection at The University of Memphis ’ with the Library of Congress' Veterans History Project. There will be free access to these materials in the Mississippi Valley Collection at the Ned McWherter Library and in the Memphis Public Library and Information Center, where they will be broadly accessible and permanently available to the public.

List of participants in the project

Dr Janann Sherman, Chair, Department of History, is the project director. For further information, contact Dr Charles W. Crawford, Director of the Oral History Research Office, at 901.678.2524 or send e-mail to cwcrwfrd@memphis.edu; you may also send fax messages to 901.678.2720.

Veterans of World War II who would like to be interviewed are urged to contact the project.