World War II
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Oral histories pertaining to the topic of World War II2024-03-29T02:31:11ZJudy Benowitz Interview
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Judy Benowitz Interview
Langer, Adina.
Oral history interview with Judy Benowitz who was raised by two WWII veterans.
Born in Monroe, Georgia, in 1949, Judy Coker Benowitz was raised by two World War II veterans. Her mother, Ivah Ree Harris Coker, was a WAVE who served in the U.S. Navy in Washington, D.C. Her father, Daniel Coker, served in the U.S. Army, primarily in North Africa. A memoirist and actor, Benowitz discusses the ways in which she has used personal testimony and primary documents to piece together her parents’ wartime stories and shares some of her preliminary research into her family’s roots on a small 1825 plantation, the William Harris homestead, in Walton County, Georgia. Benowitz also discusses her experiences with the anti-war protest movement during the Vietnam War and reflects on her interfaith (Christian-Jewish) family. Benowitz recorded her Legacy Series testimony at the Museum of History and Holocaust Education on December 16, 2021.
2022-01-07T16:22:13ZClyde Ussery Interview
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Clyde Ussery Interview
Newberry, James
Oral history interview of WWII riveter Clyde Ussery
Born in 1923, Clyde Ussery grew up on a farm in Texas. During World War II she worked as a riveter building B-24 Liberator airplanes for the Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation in Fort Worth. After the war Ussery studied journalism at Texas Christian University and The University of Tennessee. She managed communications for Maryville College and later worked for the U.S. Postal Service. Today she lives in Marietta, Georgia.
2021-12-16T14:14:56ZDeryck Cook Interview
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Deryck Cook Interview
Langer, Adina
Oral history interview with Deryck Cook, who was attending school while air raids were common during the war.
Born in Exton, England, in 1938, Deryck Cook could not remember a time before the world was at war. Although the worst bombings of the Battle of Britain had ended by the time Cook was in school, gas masks remained compulsory and air raids were common. In his Legacy Series oral history, recorded with Adina Langer at the Museum of History and Holocaust Education on August 5, 2021, Cook recalls how his family played host to three evacuated children from Coventry, how ration stamps were required for purchases in the village shop run by his mother and aunt, and how the village children begged chewing gum from American troops stationed there between 1943 and 1944. After graduating from the University of London, Cook worked as an electronics engineer. Following his job, he left England in 1982 with his wife and three children, moving first to Toronto, Canada, and then to Detroit, Michigan, and finally to Georgia where he has lived for more than thirty years.
2021-08-18T16:58:54ZElizabeth (Liz) Campbell Interview
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Elizabeth (Liz) Campbell Interview
Langer, Adina.
Oral history interview with Elizabeth (Liz) Campbell, wife of SN-1 Ray Walton Campbell who was stationed in Norfolk, VA, and then aboard the destroyer USS Waldron in Algiers, LA.
Born on October 13, 1931, in northwest Fulton County, Georgia, Elizabeth (Liz) Alsobrook Campbell grew up in a rural area that has since been incorporated into the city of Atlanta. She married her husband, Ray Walton Campbell, who was known to friends and family as “Walt,” in 1957, and the couple settled in Smyrna. Having worked at Sears during World War II to support his family, Walt enlisted in the U.S. Navy in 1946 and served through 1948 in Norfolk, VA, and then aboard the destroyer USS Waldron in Algiers, LA. As a veteran, Walt was active in the American Legion for more than 70 years. He passed away on May 6, 2021. Liz Campbell recorded her Legacy Series interview at the Museum of History and Holocaust Education with Adina Langer on July 1, 2021.
2021-08-18T16:58:51Z