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Smith, Larry

 Person

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Smith, Larry b. 1937: Interview and Memoir

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: O-SM61
Scope and Contents

Larry Smith, farmer, discusses the central Illinois rural community of Bismarck during WWII; German prisoners of war as farm laborers; family attitudes toward the war and the de-emphasis of their German heritage; rationing; victory celebrations; life on the homefront; war crimes trials; and family life and farming.

2 tapes, 155 mins., 45 pp. Interview by John Cockrell, 1981 OPEN See collateral file

Dates: Other: Dummy Date