Short video gems. ME3Tv is a great place to see the ever interesting parade of life.
JIm MacGregor - a 90 year old volunteer explains how the school kids come once a week to work on two boats. This is a program at the Maritime Museum of Maine in Bath.
A vase with clear marbles in it attracted Skittles. After a few mornings waking up to find marbles on the floor and sometimes hearing marbles roll around the floor - we set up spy camera.
Vic Campbell's video from Buzz Creek of snow shot in the early winter season of November 2007 with music especially made for it by Glenn Zervas. See BuzzCreek.com to get lots of dvd copies for yourself to give away to friends. Visit Glennzervas.com to learn more about Glenn's music.
Starting in submarines, this navy veteran eventually came to a staff function that gave him a good deal of exposure to many outposts in Vietnam. His observations of events in Vietnam about 1970 are interesting and instructive.Ralph Fronczkowski is now retired from the Navy and lives in New Jersey.
Earl Mills tells his story about one particular raid over Germany. Eventually, Mill's B-17 was shot down on his 28th mission. He explains his disability in the full interview. He is 100 percent disabled for a chronic nervous condiion. His full interview from ME3TV.org is on an hour long DVD. These interviews are designed to become a part of the collection of Veteran Histories at the Library of Congress. Volunteers are encouraged to participate.
Alice Quick of New Jersey was a nurse in the Army in WWII. Her full interview for the "Veteran's History Project" is on a DVD and is provided to the Library of Congress, her family and the local library. Her service was in England -in Westminster (see the Chapel) and in France and Germany after the Allied Invasion. She did not work in surgery (wounded soldiers) but in the sick wards where she helped in the treatment of both American and German soldiers that came to her care. More veteran inter...
ABC Weatherman, Bill Evans is interveiwed on the campus of Sussex County Community College as he presents his view of the weather business and introduces his new book "Category 7". His presence on campus was arranged by the school's broadcast club.
I could not find a quick - simple video on the web to let novice historians learn how to make a reasonably good video interview. I wanted this to be 5 minutes - "Here You Go" Now go do it. The most important thing about interviewing veterans and the elderly is simply TO DO IT. So maybe this will help some of the people who learned of the Veterans History Project and wanted to volunteer to help. I started volunteering my time - a news feature got out and people called me to volunteer. ONE of my...
Howard Simon of New Jersey was a bombardier in B17's in WWII. On his 7th mission his plane was severely damaged by flak. By a stroke of luck they could glide to Sweden where he was interned for the rest of the war. Sweden was a neutral country but rules of war required downed crew to remain there.
Only one of the 17 ships that split off convoy PQ17 made it to Murmansk through the ravaging U-Boat wolfpacks. It was mid 1942. The Soviets were our wary allies and they needed materiale support. There were many more ships in PQ17. Most were lost in the attacks. The British Fleet command pulled support off PQ17 to bottle up the German Battleships - Tirpitz and Prinz Eugen. This left the convoy "naked" and totally exposed to destruction in the cold and deadly Barents Sea. Ivo Duvall was there. ...