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US Combat Engineer – 249th Engineer Combat Battalion Veteran Oral History interview for WWII Veteran Robert Shelato is now available. We conducted this interview on June 4, 2014, in St. Mere Eglise, Normandy, France. St. Mere Eglise is a small village in Normandy where paratroopers landed early during the D-Day invasion. St. Mere Eglise presently houses an impressive Airborne Museum dedicated …

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US Paratrooper – 82nd Airborne Veteran oral history interview for WWII Veteran Kenneth Rock Merritt is now available. This is part 1 of 2 interviews. We conducted part one of this interview in La Fiere, Normandy, France on June 5, 2014. La Fiere was the site of an important battle for a strategic bridge during the Normandy campaign. Rock is …

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Here are some recent articles of interest that I found this week for U.S. Veterans. Enjoy!   Finding History: A Metadata case study at Baylor University This case study is concerned with the use of descriptive metadata for online oral history collections created in a content management system, or CMS. It will highlight the Baylor University Institute for Oral History …

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