Days the u. S. Army Heritage Education center in carlisle pennsylvania. ,at this event, this is a major complex on the Army Heritage trail. One can find living historians from all kinds of time periods, from the 17th century up to the present. My group is here this weekend to discuss the 75th anniversary of the normandy invasion, which is taking place this summer. And we thought it certainly fitting to commemorate that event. And us putting on these old uniforms, wearing old equipment, it certainly gives us a better perspective and appreciation of what the greatest generation went through. And if we can impart even a small inkling of that to passerbys and families who visit this place then we feel , like we have done a good job. The unit we portray is the Fourth Infantry Division. It is a unit that is sometimes overshadowed in the realm of world war ii history. Nevertheless, it was one of the spearhead units involved in the normandy invasion. It was some of the first amphibious troops
Museums gemma birnbaum. All right, it is august 2, 2008. Tommy lofton, i am here in california, the san diego area. Can you tell me your name for the camera . David david roderick. Tommy mr. Roderick, can you tell me a little bit about where you are born, where you grew up . David i was born in decatur, illinois on november 18, 1923. Decatur is located right in the central part of the state. So i am really a midwestern young man. And i had five brothers. And my mother and father died when i was quite young. And my father, matter of fact, was only 40, and my mother was 38. And nothing that was unnatural about it except that they would probably be living today, with the resources that we have in medicine. My father died even before penicillin. Died from pneumonia. My oldest brother was married and had a child. And then i had three younger brothers myself. And i was 16. And i decided that id better move out and have one less mouth to feed. And so i joined the army at 16. That was before t
History at the university of new orleans. He was a professor of history. He was collecting these as part of his work as a biographer. In the 1980s, he began seeking out all these personal accounts. Many of them are on audiotape. We have been keeping a lot of those records in cooperation with the university of new orleans. That was really the basis for how the museum started. These personal stories. Ambrose and our founding president , the ceo, dr. Nick mueller, really wanted a place where they could showcase these personal stories that ambrose had been collecting for all these years. So that is how it started and that is what we still continue today for our mission. It is all about those personal stories we have been able to collect. Steve because, of course, many of these world war ii veterans , now in their early to mid 90s, they were teenagers or early 20s when they fought in combat. How many oral histories have you collected and what stands out . Gemma the collection has about 7000
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