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"Remembering 'D-Day" collection, 1944-1994

 

Summary

Creator:
St. Petersburg Times
Abstract:
Collection has St. Petersburg Times' commemorative section titled, "D-Day Remembered", and represents the personal narratives relating to D-Day.
Extent:
1 boxes
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

Remembering 'D-Day' collection, Nelson Poynter Memorial Library Special Collections and University Archives, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, FL.

Background

Scope and content:

Collection offers a glimpse of the memories of a specific population: namely, current residents of the Tampa Bay area who wrote about their involvement in, or reaction to, the D-Day invasion of 1944.

Collection consists of two series: Background Information and Second-Hand Accounts, and D-Day Memories. Materials in Background Information series include letters, journal entries, and clippings submitted to the St. Petersburg Times for a commemorative section about the Allied invasion of Normandy (D-Day) and World War II. Materials in D-Day Memories series include first-hand accounts by participants in the D-Day liberation and whose who founght in World War II.

Biographical / historical:

In April 1994, the St. Petersburg Times asked interested readers to submit their recollections of the Allied invasion of Normandy during World War Il. The Times compiled the submissions and published a special section in the May 25, 1994, paper to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of D-Day on June 6, 1944.

Acquisition information:
The St. Petersburg Times newspaper donated some materials used in the D-Day Remembered section to the Nelson Poynter Memorial Library in August 1994.

Access and use

Terms of access:

None. The contents of the collection may be subject to copyright. Visit the United States Copyright Office's website at http://www.copyright.gov/ for more information.

Preferred citation:

Remembering 'D-Day' collection, Nelson Poynter Memorial Library Special Collections and University Archives, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, FL.

Location of this collection:
140 7th Avenue South
St. Petersburg
FL
33701
USA