You might also want to contact the Veterans History Project at the Library of
Congress, which is currently collecting interviews, manuscripts, and other
materials to document "stories of service."

The contact information is as follows:
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
phone: (202) 707-4916
fax: (202) 252-2046
surface mail: Veterans History Project, Library of Congress, 101 Independence
Avenue, SE, Washington, D.C. 20540-4615

For anyone else interested, the VHP has a "Project Instruction Kit" that
contains more on the project itself, suggests how to conduct an oral history
interview, and tips for preserving interviews and documents. The VHP covers all
wars from WWI to the Persian Gulf, and includes soliders and civilians, front
line and home front, men and women.

Michelle Krowl
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In a message dated 8/23/2003 12:00:35 AM Eastern Standard Time,
[log in to unmask] writes:

> From: "Randy Cabell" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2003 5:05 AM
> Subject: WWII History
>
>
> >I have a friend at Virginia Beach who has her father's diary from WWII and
> believes it should be preserved and published.  He was an officer in the
> Army Air Corps, captured with the fall of Bataan and Corregidor, and spent
> the rest of his life as a POW.  He was the senior officer in camp.  He died,
> but his fellow POWs brought the diary back.
> >
> >As you may guess the pages are getting old and brittle, so if anything is
> to be done with the diary, it probably should be done in the next few years.
> >
> >Is there any organization in Virginia, the U.S. Army, or anyplace else who
> is interested in gathering such documents, with an eye toward preserving
> and/or printing them?
> >
> >Randy Cabell
> >Boyce, Virginia
>


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