In this episode, I discuss some of the oral history sites and specific oral histories I've used to do background research for my novel about World War II.  There are numerous WWII oral history websites which have stories available online.

American Friends Service Committee Oral History Interview Series #400 https://www.afsc.org/sites/default/files/documents/AFSC%20Oral%20History%20Project%20-%20American-Japanese%20Internment.pdf
The American Friends were Quakers who helped Japanese-Americans to relocation from the internment camps in the West to work or educational opportunities in the Midwest or East Coast.

CSU Japanese American Digitization Project
http://digitalcollections.archives.csudh.edu/digital/collection/p16855coll4
The CSU Japanese-American Digitization Project includes oral histories as well as information about camp newsletters and more from the time during the Japanese-American internment during World War II.

Library of Congress- Veterans History Project, American Folklife Center 
loc.gov/programs/veterans-history-project/about-this-program/
This website includes recorded oral histories of individuals who served during World War II.  The site has many different interviews available.  

National Museum of the Pacific War
https://www.pacificwarmuseum.org/research-collections/oral-histories
Over 5,000 interviews of recordings and transcripts from World War II are available at this website.  

National Park Service
https://www.nps.gov/subjects/worldwarii/oralhistories.htm
These are stories of both men and women who served during the war, with a significant emphasis on service on the Aleutian Islands.

Rutgers Oral History Archives
https://oralhistory.rutgers.edu/military-history/conflict-index
Many of the names listed on this site relate to service during World War II. 

UC Berkeley Library.  Japanese American Confinement Sites.  Oral Interviews.  https://digicoll.lib.berkeley.edu/search?ln=en&amp;cc=Japanese+American+Confinement+Oral+Histories
This site includes interviews with Japanese-Americans who were interned at the Assembly Centers and War Relocation Authority Camps (internment camps) located throughout the Western United States during World War II.

Oral Histories of World War II

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