THEY REMEMBER WAR

Robert B. Gentry, Jr. Interviewer/ Compiler

This section comprises true stories from World War I, World War II, the Korean War, Vietnam War and Cold War. Veterans give vivid accounts of what they endured in combat. Civilians tell of getting swept up in the trauma and tyranny of war. Veterans of military occupations reveal ruins and rebuilding in the aftermath of war. Some narrators portray what it was like on "home front" during World War II. Others relate intense military preparations during the Cold War. Presently, most narrators live at Oak Hammock at the University of Florida, a retirement community in Gainesville, Florida.  In 2012, while continuing to interview Oak Hammock veterans, I began adding narratives by people outside the community. Not every piece is strictly oral history. A few wrote their stories; others supplemented their oral accounts with written information. Wording in bold in these pieces is mine. In the future I hope to include narratives by veterans and civilians involved in the first Gulf War and in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Since I first recorded them, pictures and information have been added to the narratives of John Amott, Hal Bingham, Joseph Bradham, Rufus Broadaway, Bob Gentry, Jr., Dick Newberg, Bob Petzold, Frank Pierce, and William Tango.

Oral and written histories published by Writecorner Press remain the property of the narrators and may not be used in any way without their permission. Several narrators in this list are deceased. Requests for information on them will be referred to their next of kin.

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