World War II

SOLDIER SURVEYS PUBLISHED

VIRGINIA TECH UNIVERSITY published the transcripts of 65,000 pages of extraordinary wartime surveys of American G.I.s on December 7, the 80th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor. The comments at the heart of “The American Soldier in World War II” project, financed by the

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