![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Now, through this gift from Iron Mountain’s Living Legacy Initiative – the company’s commitment to preserve and make accessible cultural and historical information – over 1,100 items that make up 4,900 pages of Ryan’s collection related to D-Day will be digitized, including many of those first-hand eyewitness accounts like this one from Private First Class Richard Cator of the 101st Airborne Division: Cornelius Ryan, a World War II war correspondent and best-selling author, solicited first-hand accounts of civilians and military personnel from the United States, Great Britain, France and Germany, for use in his best-selling books, like “The Longest Day.” In 1981, Ryan’s collection of primary source materials, a sought-after resource worldwide, was donated to Ohio University Libraries. Jmarks the 75th anniversary of D-Day, the 1944 invasion of Normandy. Alden Library, will begin with the D-Day Collection of Ryan’s records containing first-hand accounts and recollections of both military and civilian participants of the battle from across the world. The project, provided as a gift-in-kind service in support of Ohio University’s Vernon R. Iron Mountain today announced the start of a three-part digitization project of documents from world-renowned war correspondent Cornelius Ryan. ![]()
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