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Since 1999, the U.S. Latino & Latina WWII Oral History Project at the University of Texas at Austin has captured the untold stories of this WWII generation. Altogether, the project videotaped more than five hundred interviews throughout the country and in Puerto Rico and Mexico.
This volume features summaries of the interviews and photographs of the individuals. Among the people included are Mexican American civil rights leaders such as Pete Tijerina and Albert Armendariz of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF) and Virgilio Roel of the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC). Others are community leaders such as Pete and Elena Gallego of Alpine, Texas, and military leaders such as Colonel Hank Cervantes and flying ace Richard Candelaria. Women who served in the military are also included. There are academic trailblazers, too, such as Frank Bonilla, who became a major figure in Puerto Rican studies. And there are a few Latinos who describe serving in segregated "colored" units during the war, as their physical features placed them in African American communities.
Overall, the vast majority of the men and women interviewed in A Legacy Greater Than Words led private lives, and their stories chronicle the everyday existence of Latinos in the 1930s and 1940s-stories that generally have been omitted from historical accounts of either the Great Depression or World War II.
Contents
List of Illustrations
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part One. U.S. Latinos and Latinas in the Military
Chapter 1. The European Theater
North Africa and Italy
Fighting From the Air and the Sea
Normandy
The Battle of the Bulge
Witnesses to the Nazi Concentration Camps
Fighting into Germany
Germany Surrenders
Chapter 2. The Pacific Theater
The U.S. Enters the War
The Bataan Death March
Battles in the South and Central Pacific
Liberating the Philippines
Mexican Squadron
Invading Iwo Jima and Okinawa
Ending the War
Chapter 3. Beyond the Main Fronts
Panama
The China-Burma-India Theater
In the Pacific
In Europe
Stateside
Chapter 4. Latinas in the Military
Chapter 5. Brothers in Arms
Part Two. Latinos and Latinas on the Home Front
Chapter 6. Latina Civilians who Served
Chapter 7. Everyday Lives of Latinos and Latinas during WWII
Chapter 8. Mexican Civilians who Worked in the U.S. during WWII
Part Three. Post-War Opportunities and Contributions
Chapter 9. The Fight for Civil Rights
Chapter 10. The Value of Education
Chapter 11. Community Notables
Chapter 12. Military Service Beyond WWII
Epilogue
Selected References
Original Interviewers
Original Story Writers
Index
