Resources
Veterans History Project
The mission of the Veterans History Project is to collect and archive the personal recollections of U.S. wartime veterans to honor their service and share their stories with current and future generations.
The Middle Tennessee Oral History Project
This project seeks to record the memories of people who live in or have roots in the Middle Tennessee regions, including war veterans.
Tennessee State Library and Archives
This program at the Tennessee State Library and Archives focuses specifically on linking educators with primary sources for educational use in classrooms.
Veterans History Project
This lists links to all the Veterans History Project Partners in the United States as well as partners across Tennessee.
Military Resources: World War II
The National Archives: Archives Library Information Center (ALIC)
Missions Remembered
Recollections of World War II Air War by the Men of Middle Tennessee WWII Fighter Pilot Published 1998 McGraw Hill Professional.
WWII Lessons Plans in Tennessee
East Tennessee Historical Society
The Nashville Public Library
The Nashville Public Library collects WWII stories as a partner in the Veterans History Project.
National Geographic
This is a site that focuses on the attack on Pearl Harbor.
WWII Memorial
The WWII Memorial honors the 16 million who served in the armed forces of the U.S., the more than 400,000 who died and all who supported the war effort from home.
East Tennessee Veterans Memorial Association
The Memorial is a public plaza with a formal arrangement of granite pillars bearing the names of 6,253 fallen heroes from 35 East Tennessee counties who died in military service during named conflicts since World War I. It was dedicated and officially unveiled November 15, 2008.East Tennessee Veterans Memorial Association
The Albert A. Gore, Sr., Research Center at Middle Tennessee State University
This center has numerous individual collections that relate to broad subject areas on World War II. Links to the various connections are on this site.
Related Documentaries
This original documentary from Nashville Public Television (NPT) follows the Tennessee Holocaust Commission (THC) in its efforts to interview and photograph all survivors and liberators of the Holocaust currently living in Tennessee. The one-hour documentary presents the powerful testimony of Tennessee's survivors and liberators as they remember the tragedy, loss and shock of the Holocaust.
The War
Directed and produced by Ken Burns & Lynn Novick, The War is the story of the Second World War through the personal accounts of a handful of men and women from four American towns. The war touched the lives of every family on every street in every town in America and demonstrated that in extraordinary times, there are no ordinary lives.