A captioned photo from the Nashville Times (1940): “These formidable-looking Army planes, above, swooped down from the sky over Nashville to take on more gas and oil at Berry Field before striking out for McComb, Miss., on their way to Uncle...
During the fall of 1933, WSM radio presented a radio "newsreel" of outstanding colleges in the nation. They broadcasted a total of 28 shows on Mondays and Fridays. The broadcasts recreated college life and sports events, complete with legitimate...
An edited excerpt with transcript and photograph from an interview with Christopher Hathaway, conducted on 20 October 2007 by StoryCorps Facilitator Cynthia Murphy at the Nashville StoryCorps StoryBooth, located in the Nashville Room of the...
An edited excerpt with transcript and photograph from an interview with D.J. Murphy, conducted on 29 September 2007 by his friend and band-mate Ben Elkins at the Nashville StoryCorps StoryBooth, located in the Nashville Room of the Nashville Public...
A photograph of three-time Olympic gold medal winner Wilma Rudolph and her parents as they rode in a parade after leading the Tennessee A & I University track team to victory in Rome. Rudolph agreed to participate only if the event was...
A captioned photo from the Nashville Times (1940), about “Roger Phillips, WSIX announcer of the Nashville Vols games in the Southern League, is shown in an interview with Connie Mack, veteran manager of the Philadelphia Athletics of the American...
Pictured: “Spain Avenue ‘Junior Cadets’ join scrap army: neighborhood friends on Spain Avenue have added patriotic activities to their playtime ones. This group of boys, now known as the Junior Cadets, are canvassing their neighborhood for...
Pictured: “Crowds wandered through the regimental area during the entire afternoon, and like the one shown above, they milled about, inspecting [?], mess halls, day rooms, and supply stores at will.” Source: Nashville Banner. A scene from...
Pictured: “Among the soldiers marching past the admiring crowd was Sergt. Dixon Johnson, Headquarters, Second Battalion, third from left in the line of march shown. Sergeant Johnson is a reporter for The Banner who is on leave of absence to...
Pictured: A scene from family day at Camp Forrest on April 20th, 1941. Camp Forrest was built near Tullahoma, Tennessee as a National Guard Camp in 1926. During World War II, Camp Forrest was one of the Army’s largest training bases for...
Pictured: “Privates Arthur Young and Joseph Matheney, both of Cookeville, Battery C., showed the interested spectators how one of the 155-mm howitzers would be loaded and fired in actual combat.” Source: Nashville Banner. A scene from family...
Pictured: A scene from family day at Camp Forrest on April 20th, 1941. Camp Forrest was built near Tullahoma, Tennessee as a National Guard Camp in 1926. During World War II, Camp Forrest was one of the Army’s largest training bases for...
Pictured: A scene from family day at Camp Forrest on April 20th, 1941. Camp Forrest was built near Tullahoma, Tennessee as a National Guard Camp in 1926. During World War II, Camp Forrest was one of the Army’s largest training bases for...
Pictured: “’Big Boy Sarg,’ a two-year-old Great Dane, the mascot of the Seventy-fifth Brigade, Field Artillery, condescended to look over the proceedings of the day accompanied by, left to right: Privates W. D. MacDonald, Howard Harrison, and...
Pictured: “… the Fire Direction Center, demonstrated by Headquarters Battery, First Battalion, Sergt. Leo Britt is shown explaining the working of a rangefinder to his mother, Mrs. L. J. Britt (left), and his fiancée, Miss Louise Harris. All...
Pictured: A scene from family day at Camp Forrest on April 20th, 1941. Camp Forrest was built near Tullahoma, Tennessee as a National Guard Camp in 1926. During World War II, Camp Forrest was one of the Army’s largest training bases for...
Pictured: The Great Dane mascot “Big Boy Sarg” of the Seventy-fifth Brigade, Field Artillery, with left to right: Privates W. D. MacDonald, Howard Harrison, and Dallas? Roberts, all of the Brigade Headquarters Battery, and all from Lebanon,...
Pictured: A scene from family day at Camp Forrest on April 20th, 1941. Camp Forrest was built near Tullahoma, Tennessee as a National Guard Camp in 1926. During World War II, Camp Forrest was one of the Army’s largest training bases for...
Pictured: A scene from family day at Camp Forrest on April 20th, 1941. Camp Forrest was built near Tullahoma, Tennessee as a National Guard Camp in 1926. During World War II, Camp Forrest was one of the Army’s largest training bases for...
Pictured: A scene from family day at Camp Forrest on April 20th, 1941. Camp Forrest was built near Tullahoma, Tennessee as a National Guard Camp in 1926. During World War II, Camp Forrest was one of the Army’s largest training bases for...