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Minnesota's Greatest Generation Oral History Project. Oral history interviews of the Minnesota's Greatest Generation Oral History Project : Part I, 2001-2003.

Title: Oral history interviews of the Minnesota's Greatest Generation Oral History Project : Part I, 2001-2003.

The emphasis in these thirty interviews, Part I of a continuing project, is on the experiences of veterans, people not in the military, and ethnic minorities. Some of the subjects discussed by the interviewees are the Great Depression years; economic conditions and life in the United States during the war, particularly bond drives, rationing, raising children during shortages, and the increase in women's employment; experiences of servicemen, including the draft, training camps, being wounded and rehabilitation, hospital care, captivity in European and Japanese prisoner of war camps, adjustment to life after the war, post-traumatic stress disorder, and GI Bill education opportunities; changes following the attack on Pearl Harbor; Japanese American internment camps; reaction to President Franklin D. Roosevelt's death and the atomic bomb; Japanese language training at Fort Snelling and Camp Savage; minorities' experiences during the war, including segregation, discrimination, and racism, both in and out of the military; religion and chaplaincy service; military and Red Cross nurses; and life in Japan during the war.

ArchivalResource: Sound recordings : 62 sound cassettes (60 min. each)Sound recordings : 2 sound cassettes (90 min. each)Transcripts : 30 v. in 30 folders ; 28 cm.

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