The Repository @ St. Cloud State

Open Access Knowledge and Scholarship

 

This is a collection of material created and acquired from 129 mostly central Minnesota WWII veterans. The collection has 116 separate oral histories done from 1989 to 1993 for a project headed by St. Cloud State University History faculty member David Overy.

A few veterans had served solely during the Korean War and some served both in WWII and in Korea..

Users are advised that these interviews contain descriptions of violence, injury, disease, mental distress, and other trauma. This includes eyewitness accounts of wartime combat and its aftermath, as well as first-hand experiences of concentration camps and prisoner-of-war camps.

In addition, the interviews presented here reflect a wide range of the speakers’ experiences, viewpoints, and time periods. Users may encounter harmful language, including the depiction of racist or hateful attitudes toward minority or marginalized communities and the use of terms that are outdated, insensitive, or offensive. We reject these biased views. However, we recognize these viewpoints illustrate social mindsets and perspectives held by some individuals at the time.

The World War II Veterans Oral Histories are part of a larger collection of material in University Archives. See the finding aid for more information.

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Submissions from 1993

 

Arne Kowalzek Oral History, St. Cloud State University

 

Charles McGee Oral History, St. Cloud State University

 

Henry Hervey Oral History, St. Cloud State University

Submissions from 1992

 

Clayton Biller Oral History, St. Cloud State University

 

Raymond Haberman Oral History (Part 1 of 2), St. Cloud State University

 

Raymond Haberman Oral History (Part 2 of 2), St. Cloud State University

Submissions from 1991

 

Charles Lindberg Oral History, St. Cloud State University

 

Emmett Crouch Oral History, St. Cloud State University

 

Frank Hylla Oral History, St. Cloud State University

 

Richard Pierzina Oral History, St. Cloud State University

Submissions from 1990

 

(Dale) Richard MacCullom Oral History, St. Cloud State University

 

Dean Oggel Oral History, St. Cloud State University

 

Edward Jacobsen Oral History, St. Cloud State University

 

Frederick Stein Oral History, St. Cloud State University

 

Gerald Lundberg Oral History, St. Cloud State University

 

(Gerrit) Donald Pluimer Oral History, St. Cloud State University

 

Glenn A. Thornberg Oral History, St. Cloud State University

 

Harlan Norem Oral History, St. Cloud State University

 

Harold Hammerbeck Oral History, St. Cloud State University

 

Henry Peck Oral History (Part 1 of 2), St. Cloud State University

 

Henry Peck Oral History (Part 2 of 2), St. Cloud State University

 

Ignatius Nalewaja Oral History, St. Cloud State University

 

James L. Johnson Sr. Oral History, St. Cloud State University

 

John Schumacher Oral History, St. Cloud State University

 

Joseph Stein Oral History, St. Cloud State University

 

Lyle Sande Oral History, St. Cloud State University

 

Marion Lyons Clover Oral History, St. Cloud State University

 

Max Slater Oral History, St. Cloud State University

 

Ralph Krafnick Oral History, St. Cloud State University

 

Raymond Swedzinski Oral History, St. Cloud State University

 

Reuel Pietz Oral History (Part 1 of 2), St. Cloud State University

 

Reuel Pietz Oral History (Part 2 of 2), St. Cloud State University

 

Richard Oly Oral History, St. Cloud State University

 

Russell Swearingen Oral History, St. Cloud State University

 

Victor Stein Oral History, St. Cloud State University

 

William Lundberg Jr. Oral History, St. Cloud State University

Submissions from 1989

 

Bronko Smilanich Oral History, St. Cloud State University

 

Clementine Seifert Mace Oral History, St. Cloud State University

 

David Lamphere Oral History, St. Cloud State University

 

George McDowall Oral History, St. Cloud State University

 

Jerry Kigin Oral History, St. Cloud State University

 

John Kuehne Oral History, St. Cloud State University

 

Lloyd McCarney Oral History, St. Cloud State University

 

Mariette Landwehr Lodermeier Oral History, St. Cloud State University

 

Orville Moderow Oral History, St. Cloud State University

 

Ralph Sjogren Oral History, St. Cloud State University

 

Rosemary Perkins Krauel Oral History, St. Cloud State University

 

Rosemary Seifert Oral History, St. Cloud State University

 

Terhaar Hortense Oral History, St. Cloud State University

 

Wayne Nelson Oral History, St. Cloud State University

 

William Landgren Oral History, St. Cloud State University

Submissions from 1988

 

Donald A. Smith Oral History, St. Cloud State University