Our War (2009)
These video interviews with World War II veterans were collected and included with George Drake’s book, Our War: Stories from Poweshiek County’s Greatest Generation, in an accompanying DVD.
With permission, we have uploaded individual interviews to the library’s YouTube channel. On this page, you will also find the names of those interviewed in the book without available video. You can check out the book to explore more!
For more on Grinnell during World War II, see Dan Kaiser’s blog posts “When German POWs Canned Corn in Grinnell…” and “Japanese Americans Come to War-Time Grinnell…”
People Included in Book (without Video)
Check out the book to read these stories.
Benda, Ken
Donohoe, Donald
Fudge, Jim
Gregory, Keith
Kasimow, Harold
Kovar, Stanley
Loftin, Grover
Luebben, Ralph
Peters, Bob
Rabenold, John
Septer, Arnold
Strawser, Cleo L.
Willemsen, Everett
Youngbeck, Gerald H.