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Stuart R.
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- March 6, 2018 at 10:28 am #16032
Bob Smith
ParticipantDo any of you know of a community or public history project concerning WW2 naval activity that uses oral history and whose archives are accessible? I want to carry out a case study report as part of an oral history module I am studying for an M.Litt.
Bob Smith
SNR memberMarch 12, 2018 at 7:20 pm #16060Mark Barton
ParticipantBob
Not completely directly but IWM has tapes that include RN personnel – some of those I think include WW2. Also BRNC Dartmouth, did Britannia’s Voices which includes the whole history they could track including WW2. Not directly just what you were after. But after a few days seeing no answer thought they might be helpful.
March 14, 2018 at 10:32 pm #16064Thomas B
ParticipantU.S. Naval Institute has an extensive oral history collection to include many prominent USN / USMC officers who served in WW II. See this page on the USNI website to determine if this is the kind of resource you would find useful: https://www.usni.org/heritage/oral-history.
March 15, 2018 at 8:26 am #16071Bob Smith
ParticipantThomas, thanks for this link. It’s exactly what I was looking for and will have a close look in the next few days. The only drawback I see is that access is not free so I might have to raid the piggy bank!
Bob Smith
April 11, 2018 at 9:28 pm #16122Stuart R
ParticipantI have found the BBC site useful:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/categories/
and the Legasee veterans website:
https://www.legasee.org.uk/oursecretwar/the-archive/Stuart
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