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Military Oral History Conference:

Between Memory and History

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The Second Military Oral History Conference: Between Memory and History

Victoria, BC, Canada, 5-7 May 2010

Can Wartime Reporting be a Source of Second World War Oral History?

Tiimothy Balzer, University of Victoria

The BCATP Revisited: The Wartime Evolution of Flight Training in Canada.

Matthew Chapman, University of Victoria

"The Goal was the Leave": An Examination of the Individual Soldier's Experience in the Vietnam War.

Kelly E., Crager, Oral History Project at the Vietnam Center and Archive, Texas Tech University

Skulls of Our Grandfathers: The Social Life of Pacific War Trophies

Lucas Erickson, Independent Scholar

Choctaw Code-Talkers of WWI: Knowledge and Perceptions

Jessica Rae Mozelle Houser, University of California, Berkeley

“The best two years…”: Narratives of Royal Roads Military College (RRMC) Ex-cadets (1940-1995)

Karen Inkster, Royal Roads University

Memory and Oral Tradition on the Great Plains: The Plains Indian Wars of the Nineteenth Century

Robert Lang, University of Wyoming. 

Researching Vulnerable Groups in the Canadian Forces through Personal Interview: Methodological and Ethical Considerations

Craig Leslie Mantle, Canadian Forces Leadership Institute & Centre for Military and Strategic Studies, University of Calgary, and Justin C. Wright, Canadian Forces Leadership Institute.

Chinese Canadians in the First and Second World Wars

Maxwell, Judy Lam, Chinese Canadian Military Museum.

America’s Youngest Soldiers: Fighting Underage in the Second World War

Joshua Pollarine, Historical Research Associates, Inc. of Missoula, Montana.

The Soviet Female Experience as Soldiers in World War II

Roger Reese, Texas A&M University

Yet all shall be forgot…

Luke Reynolds,  Hunter College, CUNY

Building Partner Capacity in War: The Experience of US Army Special Forces Soldiers in Iraq, 2003-2009

Michael Richardson, University of California at Los Angeles.

The Making of The Veterans: A Documentary.  The Impact of War on the Evolution and History of Canada, Canadian Society, and the Canadian Forces as Told Through the Words of Veterans. 

Daniel R Rodrique and Colonel (Ret'd) Andrew Nellestyn.

 “God’s Gift to the Empire”: Canadian Veterans and the Memory of the British Commonwealth Air Training Program

Tyson Rosburg, University of Victoria

Sydney F. Wise and the Writing of Men in Arms

Roger Sarty, Wilfrid Laurier University

The Added Value of Oral History Sources in a Military Context:Experiences from the Dutch Veterans Oral History Project

Stef Scagliola, Dutch Veterans Interview Project, Netherlands Institute for Veterans

Soldiers Like Rules: An Examination and the Necessity and Desirability of ROE to Soldiers in the Field

Liz Williams, University of Victoria and CAF

Researching Military Families in the Canadian Forces: The Intersection of Social Science and History

Stefan Wolejszo, Department of National Defence.

"Get what you can in a week and come back": S.L.A. Marshall and the European Theatre Historical Interrogations of 1945

James Wood, University of Victoria 

The Origins of Asdic: The Transcripts of the Hearings of Royal Commissions on Awards to Inventors as a Source of Oral History.

David Zimmerman, University of Victoria