Group accounts
Unless marked with an asterisk (*), all books are available
for use at the Wisconsin Veterans Museum Research Center.
Arendt, Laurie. Back From Duty: Ozaukee County's Veterans
Share Their Stories. Ozaukee County Council of America Legion Posts,
2002. 187 p.
Oral history interviews of veterans conducted by Arendt and students from
Ozaukee County. Detailed accounts covering almost every service branch. Also
includes interviews from more recent military conflicts.
82nd Airborne Division Association, Badger State Chapter. As
You Were: A Book of Memories as Told by the Men Who Lived Through Them. 199-?.
244 p.
Includes photos, reminiscences, letters and certificates related to the World
War II service of the Badger Chapter of the 82nd Airborne Division Association.
Also includes materials from subsequent wars.
* Blackbourn, Mark and Charles Lee. Vivid Memories of War:
La Crosse Remembers World War II. La Crosse, Wis.: Central High School
of La Crosse, 1996. 70 p.
Carlisle, John M. Red Arrow Men: Stories About the 32nd
Division on the Villa Verde. Detroit, Mich.: Arnold-Powers, Inc., 1945.
215 p.
Carlisle, a 32nd Division veteran, interviewed other members of the Division
to compile the accounts in this book. The work focuses on the Villa Verde
campaign at Luzon as an excellent example of the teamwork of the 32nd.
Crowe, Kris. Augusta Remembers: The Greatest Generation,
a Local Look at WWII. S.l.: K. Crowe, 2002. 183 p.
Oral history interviews of Augusta, Wis., World War II veterans conducted
by high school seniors. Interviewees include soldiers and home front civilians.
Topics covered are military life, the draft, rationing, concentration camps,
combat experiences and Wisconsin during the war.
D.C. Everest Area School District. World War II: Stories
From Our Veterans. Weston, Wis.: D.C. Everest Area Schools, 2001. 298
p.
A collection of oral history interviews with area World War II veterans conducted
by D. C. Everest students. Some interviews have photographs, and there is
a discussion of the steps taken to produce the book.
Gilpatrick, Kristin. The Hero Next Door: Stories From Wisconsin's
World War II Veterans. Oregon, Wis.: Badger Books, 2000. 232 p.
The stories of 14 Wisconsin veterans, including airmen, bombers and gunners,
gathered through oral history interviews.
Gilpatrick, Kristin. The Hero Next Door Returns: More Stories
From Wisconsin's World War II veterans. Oregon, Wis.: Badger Books,
2001. 309 p.
Sequel to Gilpatrick's first book, this work has the stories of 14 Wisconsin
veterans, including nurses, pilots, medics and infantrymen.
Lewinnek, Walter, ed., WWII Remembered: Interviews of World
War II Veterans From Lincoln County, Wis. Merrill, Wis.: Merrill Historical
Society, 1994. 88 p.
Interviews of veterans conducted by Rose Marie Stevens to commemorate the
50th anniversary of the United States' entry into World War II. Also includes
a list of Lincoln County soldiers who died while in service.
McIntosh, James F. Wisconsin at War. Black Earth, Wis.:
Trails Books, 2002. 157 p.
Oral history interviews conducted by Dr. James McIntosh and Mark Van Ells
for the Wisconsin Veterans Oral History Project. Although the book encompasses
most of the military conflicts in which Wisconsin was involved, the majority
of included histories are of World War II veterans.
Martin, Adrian R. Brothers from Bataan, POWs, 1942-1945.
Manhattan, Kan.: Sunflower University Press, 1992. 334 p.
Oral history interviews of Wisconsin military personnel captured at Bataan
who endured the Bataan Death March. Topics included are basic training, fighting
in the Philippines, capture, survival techniques and forced labor. Also included
are sketches, photographs and maps of various prisons.
* Milwaukee County War Chest. If You Were There. Milwaukee,
Wis.: The Chest, 194-. 1 sheet
Milwaukee Jewish Archives. We Were There, World War II:
The Milwaukee Jewish experience. Milwaukee, Wis.: Milwaukee Jewish Archives,
1996. unpaged.
Compiled as a part of an exhibit at the Milwaukee Jewish Archives, this book
highlights the many roles of the
Milwaukee Jewish community during World War II. Included
are photographs and biographical sketches of soldiers as well as a memorial
list.
* Nelson, Evelyn Edythe. Appleton in World War II.
Appleton, Wis.: Veterans of Foreign Wars, Harvey Pierre Post No. 2778, 1946.
605 p.
Peterson, Lowell. The Sun Rose Clear:
Stories of WWII. Edited and told by Lowell Peterson. Appleton, Wis.:
Peterson House, 2002. 287 p.
Includes both oral histories Peterson conducted of area veterans and essays
he wrote reflecting on the home front as experienced by a child in northern
Wisconsin.
Stevens, Michael E. Women Remember
the War, 1941-1945. Madison, Wis.: State Historical Society of Wisconsin,
1993. 157 p.
Twenty oral history interviews with Wisconsin women highlighting different
roles for women during World War II. Topics discussed are factory work, women
in the service, raising children while men were overseas, stresses of having
a relative overseas, war-related volunteer work and VJ-Day celebrations.
* War Narratives by Student-veterans in La Crosse State Teachers
College. S.l.: s.n., 1946. unpaged.
* Voboril, Daniel Ray. Their Spirit Never Dies: Recollections
of Milwaukee
Veterans on the Fighting in New Guinea, 1940-1944. Thesis (M.A. in History)--University
of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1985. 96 pages.
