How it Works

Students create a webpage that showcases a single WWII veteran or a group of veterans or an individual who worked in service to the home front or industry during the war. This individual could have contributed to the WWII effort in any way and can be of any race, gender or age.

The website must include photos of the showcased individual, text outlining the context and background of their unit/division/areas in which he/ she fought or served. It also must include a summary of the historical context of that theatre of the war, whether it be in combat or in a civilian capacity. Scans of primary documents such as letters home or letters of commendation/ discharge would be helpful to include on the site as well as written dialogue with the veteran or a summary of experience in the first person from personal memoirs if the individual is no longer living.

**Each web entry must be accompanied by an audio recording of an interview with the featured individual, if living or original memoirs of the veteran of at least 20 pages, if deceased. These requirements are mandatory to qualify as a story collection for the Veterans History Project.

The sites must be submitted on disk and will be viewed by the WVIA staff and/or officers of local historical societies. All submissions must accompany a statement of content accuracy from project advisor or the student's Social Studies teacher and the archival material will be sent to the Library of Congress for the Veterans History Project. The student will be given full credit for their archiving efforts and all students will have links to their sites from the education page of wvia.org for one year.