Remind World War 2

Since the inception of World War II, this web master has workedalone. This project is a labor of love. Itbegan eight years ago when I was working nights andhad to stay awake at night on my days off.
Currently, my time is being devoted toa number of other ongoing projects and they take the vast majority of my available time.
If you wish to submit a story to this site, please consider the following :
1) First hand account . Stories of events witnessed by a veteran, a civilian who wrote their account of their experiences of the war years. First hand accounts could include; but, are not limited to: diaries, letters, memoirs of the time that a person spent in the military, transcriptions fromaudio and video tapes, transcribed interviews with family or friends, and similar accounts.
2) Second hand accounts . They would consist of anauthor writing a novel or book and includes quotes from individuals who served in the military, etc. An ongoing family research project toinclude in story form what a veteran might have experienced by "tracing their footsteps" through documents, research, military records, unit histories, maps, etc. Unit histories, etc. that are historically accurate; but, are not first hand accounts of men and women who experienced first hand World War II.
Though the secondhand accounts are time consuming and may entail weeks, months or even years of painstaking research, they are not first hand accounts. There are numerous siteson the world wide web that such accounts can be displayed for the world to see and read.
Many sites offer free space and can be easily utilized toplace such historical accounts.
When I began this project, I envisioned interviewing veterans, and ordinary folks who lived during the turbulent war years and recording their experiences for the world to read and remember.
Such experiences like a B-17 navigator on a mission over Germany -- a lonelyGI who spends weeks in a muddy foxhole with only his foxhole buddy to keep him company -- a sailor aboard a ship in the middle of the Pacific scared out of his mind fearing that tomorrow he may be dead -- a young boy growingup in WWII America and watching as train after train loaded with troops,and military equipment move relentlessly off to some distant destination.
World War II Stories -- IN THEIR OWN WORDS! That is my goal.
I will happily place a link to your accounts should you wish to send me the web site where your account may be located, or review of your book, or where a unit history may be located. I have a page that lists each story on this web site and a newsection can easily be placed to include such labors of love.
Thank you.
the web master
WELCOME. On July 16, 2001, I decided as an extension to research work I had been doing on the military careersof my family members during the Civil War, that I might want to takemy search a step further and look into the events that took place with my family and their service duringWorld War II.
I had managed to listen to a few tales of things that had happenedto my father-in-law who served at Schofield Barracks and was there to see the events unfold thatled this country into World War II.
Additionally, I had heard a few brief accounts (mostly comical) with regards to my Dad and his experiences duringthe war years and eventual service during the last year of the war.
Still, most of what Ihad heard or read about the war came as a result of my love of reading and some of the events depicted during the early years of black and white television.
Seldom had I actually heard an account of what it was really like to be in combat, whether on the ground, on the sea or in the air. Virtually no one I had met had ever mentioned anything about those experiences.
As a young boy growing up in 1950's small town America, war was just something that we played as children with our toy soldiers, or with our friends as we pretended to do battle with an imagined enemy.
Many years passedand life went on. The Vietnam war came and went with its many facets. My first experiences away from home came during the time that this war was in its early stages. I spent four years serving my countryduring that era, but did not serve inVietnam. My country deemed it necessary that I serve elsewhere, including a year on the island of Iwo Jima.
Over the coming years, the war thatchanged the world began to emerge inmy mind as a possible endeavor in the form of a collection of stories. With the advent of the world-wide-web, this became a distinct possibility.
So, many years later, I have begun a journey. A journey to help tell a small part of the story that eventually encompassed the entire world.
World War II.
This web site makes no attempt to glamorize war.