"END OF WAR!” the headlines screamed on September 2, 1945. 70 years later, we continue to recognize the significance of the end of World War II. The Allied victories over Germany (in May 1945) and over Japan (in August 1945) brought forth worldwide jubilation: after years of deprivation, hardship, and separation, peace was finally at hand. Recovery would pose new challenges, however. By 1945, the world had utterly, and irrevocably, changed. Here, the Veterans History Project presents collections that explore what the war’s end meant to some of the over 16 million Americans who served, and the costs of war that they confronted once the fighting was over.
Violet C. Thurn Cowden
WASP
World War II
Audio Interview |
Arthur Eck
ARMY
World War II
Memoir |
Ernest E. Gallego
ARMY AIR CORPS
World War II
Video Interview, Photos, Other Materials |
Robert Wyatt Granston
NAVY
World War II
Audio Interview, Personal Correspondence |
Melford K. Jarstad
MARINE CORPS
World War II
Interview Transcript |
John Junji Katsu
ARMY
World War II
Video Interview |
Merle Korte
NAVY
World War II
Video Interview, Photos, Official Documents |
Evelyn Kowalchuk
ARMY
World War II
Audio Interview |
Charles Kittle Marlatt
ARMY AIR CORPS
World War II
Archival Film Footage, Other Information |
Frank H. Morrison, II
ARMY
World War II
Photos, Official Documents, Personal Correspondence |
Charles S. Stevenson
NAVY
World War II
Photos, Memoirs, Diaries, Correspondence, Official Documents |
Lester Irwin Tenney
ARMY
World War II
Video Interview |
Robert J. Tweed
ARMY
World War II
Video Interview |
Charles E. Warford
NAVY
World War II
Video Interview |
Louis J. Zoghby
ARMY
World War II
Audio Interview |
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