Les Hannon World War II Interview

Les Hannon World War II Interview

World War, 1939-1945 -- United States.

World War, 1939-1945 -- Veterans -- Interviews.

Great Britain. Royal Air Force -- History -- World War, 1939-1945.

Les Hannon served in Britain’s Royal Air Force from 1941 to 1945. Interviewed as part of the Lawrence Remembers: The World War II Years Project, Hannon talked about his experiences during the Second World War. Hannon was born on December 31, 1923, in Ballymoney, Northern Ireland. He came to the United States in 1963 and moved to Lawrence, Kansas, in 1973.

Hannon, Les

Kansas Veterans of World War II Oral History Project / Lawrence Remembers: The World War II Years Project

Lawrence Public Library (Lawrence, Kan.)

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Kansas State Historical Society

The original copy of this video is available through the Lawrence Public Library. The Watkins Museum of History and the Kansas State Historical Society also have interviews associated with this project, which was funded through a grant program passed by the Kansas State Legislature in 2005. Researchers are responsible for obtaining any necessary permissions for uses other than educational or scholarly research. Contact the Watkins Museum of History for additional information: https://www.watkinsmuseum.org/

To access the video recording of this oral history, go to: https://archive.org/details/hannon-interview

A transcript of another interview with Hannon is available through the Kansas Memory Digital Collection: https://www.kansasmemory.org/item/218561

The Watkins Museum of History also holds items related to this collection.

Other resources for interviews with World War II veterans are available through the Library of Congress' Veterans History Project: https://www.loc.gov/vets/vets-home.htm

MP4

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Oral History

Hannon Interview

England

South Africa

1941 - 1945

VHS

0:50:58

317 kbit/s (audio)

10318 kbit/s (video)

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Hannon, Les

Douglas County (Kan.)