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Vandy Goes to War: World War II
| Title: | Vandy Goes to War: World War II |
| Author: | Jean and Alexander Heard Library. Special Collections and University Archives |
| Description: | Finding aid for the Vandy Goes to War: World War II Collection. This project records the histories and reminiscences of men and women who attended or had connections with Vanderbilt and Peabody during the war years and documents their experiences in the service and on the campus during that time and afterward when some came back to school and attended on the G.I. Bill. The interviews include eye witness accounts of soldiers fighting at the Battle of the Bulge in the winter of 1944 and early 1945, in the Far East at Okinawa, flying aerial reconnaissance in the European theatre, and medical and hospital work in North Africa and southern Italy. One soldier, a prisoner of war in a camp in Germany tells his story. Another tells of being an eighteen year old soldier liberating prisoners from Dachau Concentration camp in southern Germany. Women speak of taking leadership positions in campus life, when so many men had gone to war and of their efforts on the home front and of the realities of rationing and limited necessities. |
| Subject: |
Vandy Goes to War
World War II Oral History Battle of the Bulge Okinawa Liberation of Dachau Homefront Women in War Interviews |
| LCSH Subject: |
Vanderbilt University
World War, 1939-1945 World War, 1939-1945 -- Europe Veterans -- United States World War, 1939-1945 -- Women -- Tennessee -- Nashville |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1803/4202 |
| Date: | 2010-08-03 |
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