University Park, PA -- Penn State University Libraries' Special Collections is a partner library of the Veterans History Project, sponsored by The Library of Congress, Folk Art Center. Students in Maria Cabrera-Baukus' course on production administration in the College of Communications are conducting oral histories with World War II veterans and recording first-person accounts of those who served the country during wartime. The recordings of these oral histories will be retained in the University Libraries' Special Collections Library.
The Veteran's History Project is a project of the Library of Congress to collect and preserve oral histories and documentary materials from veterans of World War I, World War II, and the Korean, Vietnam and Persian Gulf wars. The addition of these oral histories will complement Penn State Libraries' Eighth Army Air Force Association Archives, currently housed in Historical Collections and Labor Archives, the Special Collections Library.
There is an urgent need to collect veterans' stories and experiences to give future generations of Americans the opportunity to learn about those who fought in foreign wars.
Veterans who are interested in having their oral histories recorded should contact James P. Quigel at (814)-863-3181 or jpq1@psu.edu.