The St. Cloud State University Library recently made over 100 veteran accounts available online. Visit the SCSU Library website to access the collection.
University Archives digitized 112 oral histories from Central Minnesota WWII veterans, both men and women. Each oral history includes audio with transcript, a short biographical sketch of the veteran and a written summary of the interview.
Nearly all of the interviews were done in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and it includes veterans that would later attend or be employed at SCSU.
This collection of veterans served in all kinds of capacities during WWII, including on ships, airplanes and infantry, as well as bases in the United States and hospitals in both the European and Pacific theaters of war.
There are veterans represented here who witnessed the attack on Pearl Harbor, participated in the Bataan Death March, liberated concentration camps, fought in the Battle of the Bulge, landed in France on D-Day, raised the first American flag at Iwo Jima, survived prisoner of war camps, served as a Tuskegee airmen and cared for the wounded in hospitals near the front.
