Time Frame | Artifact Type | Title | Description |
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ca. 1940's | Video | World War II Veteran: Donald R. Vaughn (Don) | Don Vaughn of Ottumwa, Iowa talks about his training after being drafted in the Army in March, 1943 and his service in Europe as Staff Sergeant in the coast artillery and field artillery. |
ca. 1940's | Video | World War II Veteran: Dean Lettington | As part of the 559th Field Artillery Battalion, Lettington had spent the last few months fighting across France. |
ca. 1940's | Video | World War II Veteran: Clifford Perry | Cliff Perry served in the Army with the 36th Mechanized Cavalry. Cliff was the company clerk for two years. When they ran short of replacements, Cpl. Perry lost his typewriter and gained a tank. After one hour’s instruction, he became a tank driver. |
ca. 1940's | Video | World War II Veteran: Billy Amos | On June 6, 1944 the Allies conducted the invasion of Normandy. Bill Amos describes preparing for this invasion, the actual invasion, and other missions during World War II. |
ca. 1940's | Video | World War II Veteran: Aurelio Barron | During the battle for Faid (fa-YEED) Pass, Sergeant Barron's mortar squad was nearby, perched on a hill, waiting to protect the retreating Allied troops. Barron began to survey the road below his position with binoculars. |
ca. 1940's | Video | World War II Veteran: Al Rolfes | After landing on Saipan in June of 1944, First Lieutenant Al Rolfes had dug in above Tannipeg harbor. |
1935-1941 | Video | World War II Concerns Come to Rural Iowa in the 1940s | In this segment of Iowa PBS’s "Picture Perfect: Iowa in the 1940s" documentary, Iowans from a small rural town recount their growing concerns leading up to World War II. |
ca. 1940's | Video | World War II and the Home Front: Vivian Schleihs Works at Aircraft Plant in Des Moines | During some of the breaks between flying missions there was time for relaxation and, of course, letter writing, the most common long distance communication device of the day. |
ca. 1940s | Video | World War II and the Home Front: Rex Holmes | As the battle raged on in Tunisia, 15-year old Rex Holmes of Red Oak waited in the Western Union Telegraph office in the Red Oak Hotel. |
ca. 1940's | Video | World War II and the Home Front: Helen Castle | Helen Castle was 19 years old when Company E from Shenandoah was called up. She talks about the parade of soldiers marching to the depot. At the front of the parade, the soldiers carried a banner: "Shenandoah is for Co. E Today and Forever." |