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Events
An Evening with Veterans, Families & Friends
Friday, September 21 at 7:00 PM
To honor our veterans of yesterday and today: An Intergenerational Appreciation. Welcome address by Lt. Col. Bryan Blue, Battalion Commander U.S. Army Recruitment Station. "Barbed Wire Brotherhood" documentary of the POW experience featuring WWII veterans. Reception in lobby following the program. Free and open to the public!
Cuyahoga Community College, Western Campus Theatre, 11000 Pleasant Valley Road.
For more information, call 216-987-5309.
Downloads
Companion guide to Ken Burns' The War broadcast, complete with episode descriptions.
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Learn more about the four towns featured in The War: Mobile, Alabama; Sacramento, California; Waterbury, Connecticut; and Luverne, Minnesota.
Download the town descriptions>
Preserve your family's history by conducting interviews with loved ones about their stories of World War II. This field guide offers tips from the filmmakers on documenting your stories.
Download the field guide>
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Web Sites
Ken Burns, Lynn Novick, and Florentine Films' main site for The War.
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National WWII Memorial in Washington, D.C.
The World War II 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.
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The Veterans History Project relies on volunteers to collect and preserve stories of wartime service. Learn how to submit your WWII stories at their web site.
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This site presents the American experience on D-Day as seen through film, timelines, maps, people and events. It also includes special features such as documents that detail the contents of the paratrooper's gear and letters sent home from the GI's detailing their experiences.
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This site has received numerous awards and recognition from, for example; the New York Public Library "Best of Reference" and USA Today Education Best Bet Award, to name a few. Moreover, it provides a garden variety of websites on World War II from authoritative resources.
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The Avalon Projects: Documents
The Avalon Project at Yale Law School provides access to primary source materials, links and other documents as it relates to WWII and much more.
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Simon Wiesenthal Center Multimedia Learning Center
This site contains reference resources on the Holocaust and on World War II. In addition, it includes exhibits, world responses, photos, text files and teacher resources that aid in documenting the history of the Holocaust.
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What Did You Do In the War Grandma
This site provides an oral history documenting interviews of Rhode Island women and what they did and contributed during World War II.
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This site offers periodicals on World War II that discuss well-known and little-known facts concerning military strategies, weaponry, battles, personalities and much more as it relates to the war.
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The Tuskegee Airmen - Overview: Legends of Tuskegee
This site features the Tuskegee Airmen, who overcame segregation and prejudice to become one of the most highly respected fighter groups of World War II.
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Bibliography
Bielakowski, Alexander & Ruggeri, Raffaele.
African American Troops in World War II
Osprey Publishing Company, 2007.
Bigelow, Barbara C. & Slovey, Christine.
World War II: Primary sources.
UXL, 2000.
Brinkley, Douglas.
World War II Memorial: A Grateful Nation Remembers
Smithsonian Books, 2004.
Chambers, John Whiteclay & Culbert, David.
World War II Film and History
Oxford University Press, 1996.
Iannarelli, Anthony N., Sr. & Iannarelli, John G.
The Eighty Thieves: American P.O.W.s in World War II Japan
Bridgewood Press, 2006.
Lyons, Michael J.
World War II: A Short History (4th ed.)
Pearson Prentice Hall, 2003.
Morris, Rob.
Untold Valor: Forgotten Stories of American Bomber Crews Over Europe in World War II
Potomac Books, 2006
O'neil, William L.
World War II: A student companion
Oxford University Press, 1999.
Yellin, Emily.
Our Mother's War: American Women at Home and at the Front during World War II.
Free Press, 2004
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