{"id":518802,"date":"2019-06-03T09:32:16","date_gmt":"2019-06-03T16:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/?post_type=blog&p=518802"},"modified":"2020-02-19T08:51:44","modified_gmt":"2020-02-19T16:51:44","slug":"exploring-d-day-through-4-veterans-stories","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/story-maps\/mapping\/exploring-d-day-through-4-veterans-stories","title":{"rendered":"On the beach and beyond: Exploring D-Day through four veterans\u2019 stories"},"author":9232,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":""},"categories":[22941],"tags":[396642,232692,396662,396652],"industry":[],"product":[36551,36611],"class_list":["post-518802","blog","type-blog","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mapping","tag-d-day","tag-history","tag-library-of-congress","tag-world-war-ii","product-arcgis-online","product-story-maps"],"acf":{"short_description":"Following the lives of four men before, during, and after D-Day helped the Library of Congress share a new perspective on the infamous invasion.","flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":518812,"id":518812,"title":"Megan Harris","filename":"Megan-Harris-headshot.jpg","filesize":11216,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Megan-Harris-headshot.jpg","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/story-maps\/mapping\/exploring-d-day-through-4-veterans-stories\/megan-harris-headshot","alt":"A portrait of Megan Harris","author":"9232","description":"","caption":"","name":"megan-harris-headshot","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":518802,"date":"2019-06-03 15:00:38","modified":"2019-06-03 15:01:50","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":200,"height":236,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Megan-Harris-headshot-200x200.jpg","thumbnail-width":200,"thumbnail-height":200,"medium":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Megan-Harris-headshot.jpg","medium-width":200,"medium-height":236,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Megan-Harris-headshot.jpg","medium_large-width":200,"medium_large-height":236,"large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Megan-Harris-headshot.jpg","large-width":200,"large-height":236,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Megan-Harris-headshot.jpg","1536x1536-width":200,"1536x1536-height":236,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Megan-Harris-headshot.jpg","2048x2048-width":200,"2048x2048-height":236,"card_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Megan-Harris-headshot.jpg","card_image-width":200,"card_image-height":236,"wide_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Megan-Harris-headshot.jpg","wide_image-width":200,"wide_image-height":236}},"image_position":"right","orientation":"vertical","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"

About the author: Megan Harris is Senior Reference Specialist for the Veterans History Project (VHP) at the Library of Congress. She helps researchers and the general public access over 110,000 unique collections in the VHP archive, and is passionate about using historical materials to inspire a sense of connection to the past and an appreciation of the infinite stories it contains.<\/em><\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"

Robert Horr\u2019s flight log<\/a> is about the size of a steno pad. Beneath its brown, pebbled cover the log is filled with neatly hand-printed lists of locations, dates, and types of aircraft. Flipping through the pages, its contents might not catch your attention. That is, until you get to the last entry, dated June 6, 1944, which proclaims in big block letters, \u201cINVASION STARTED.\u201d<\/p>\n

Horr\u2019s flight log, which chronicles his training as a glider pilot in the months leading up to D-Day, is one of hundreds of thousands of items held by the Veterans History Project<\/a> (VHP) at the Library of Congress. Created by Congressional legislation in 2000, VHP\u2019s mission is to collect, preserve, and make accessible the personal accounts of U.S. veterans who served from WWI through the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. We at VHP invite the general public to contribute the stories of veterans in their lives and communities by donating materials ranging from oral history interviews to personal correspondence, diaries, scrapbooks, photographs, and even artwork.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":518822,"id":518822,"title":"DDayJourneysCover","filename":"DDayJourneysCover.png","filesize":70491,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2019\/06\/DDayJourneysCover.png","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/story-maps\/mapping\/exploring-d-day-through-4-veterans-stories\/ddayjourneyscover","alt":"The cover page of the D-Day story map, featuring a black-and-white illustration of soldiers storming the beach.","author":"9232","description":"","caption":"Click to launch the story","name":"ddayjourneyscover","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":518802,"date":"2019-06-03 15:05:03","modified":"2019-06-03 15:05:53","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/png","type":"image","subtype":"png","icon":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":800,"height":400,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2019\/06\/DDayJourneysCover-213x200.png","thumbnail-width":213,"thumbnail-height":200,"medium":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2019\/06\/DDayJourneysCover.png","medium-width":464,"medium-height":232,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2019\/06\/DDayJourneysCover.png","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":384,"large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2019\/06\/DDayJourneysCover.png","large-width":800,"large-height":400,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2019\/06\/DDayJourneysCover.png","1536x1536-width":800,"1536x1536-height":400,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2019\/06\/DDayJourneysCover.png","2048x2048-width":800,"2048x2048-height":400,"card_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2019\/06\/DDayJourneysCover.png","card_image-width":800,"card_image-height":400,"wide_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2019\/06\/DDayJourneysCover.png","wide_image-width":800,"wide_image-height":400}},"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":"https:\/\/www.loc.gov\/ghe\/cascade\/index.html?appid=c88d73171ff945d2a7538507b899bda6"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"

 <\/p>\n

A familiar story told in a new way<\/h2>\n

In late 2018, looking ahead to the 75th<\/sup> anniversary of D-Day in June 2019, my colleagues and I searched for an innovative way to interpret our holdings related to the invasion of Normandy. For an archive rooted in individual stories, what better way to explore D-Day than through a story made with Esri Story Maps?<\/p>\n

The result is D-Day Journeys: Personal Geographies of D-Day<\/a>, 75 years later (which, coincidentally, has been named the Story Map of the Month<\/a> for June). In the initial stages of its creation, we pondered how to present a new perspective on such a well-known and monumental historical event, and how to create a navigable and cohesive narrative out of source material derived from thousands of D-Day accounts in our archive. In the end, we decided to tell the larger story of D-Day by zooming in on four individual stories.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":518942,"id":518942,"title":"Horr and his flight log","filename":"ezgif.com-optimize-13.gif","filesize":1926983,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2019\/06\/ezgif.com-optimize-13.gif","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/story-maps\/mapping\/exploring-d-day-through-4-veterans-stories\/ezgif-com-optimize-13","alt":"An animation scrolling through the story, showing one of the D-Day soldiers and images of his flight log","author":"9232","description":"","caption":"Following the lives of four veterans before, during, and after D-Day provided a lesser-known perspective on the infamous event.","name":"ezgif-com-optimize-13","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":518802,"date":"2019-06-03 16:16:06","modified":"2019-06-03 17:22:55","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/gif","type":"image","subtype":"gif","icon":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":800,"height":469,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2019\/06\/ezgif.com-optimize-13-213x200.gif","thumbnail-width":213,"thumbnail-height":200,"medium":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2019\/06\/ezgif.com-optimize-13.gif","medium-width":445,"medium-height":261,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2019\/06\/ezgif.com-optimize-13.gif","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":450,"large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2019\/06\/ezgif.com-optimize-13.gif","large-width":800,"large-height":469,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2019\/06\/ezgif.com-optimize-13.gif","1536x1536-width":800,"1536x1536-height":469,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2019\/06\/ezgif.com-optimize-13.gif","2048x2048-width":800,"2048x2048-height":469,"card_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2019\/06\/ezgif.com-optimize-13-793x465.gif","card_image-width":793,"card_image-height":465,"wide_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2019\/06\/ezgif.com-optimize-13.gif","wide_image-width":800,"wide_image-height":469}},"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"

 <\/p>\n

We focused our story map on the wartime journeys of Preston Earl Bagent<\/a>, a combat engineer; Robert “Bob” Harlan Horr<\/a>, a glider pilot; Edward Duncan Cameron<\/a>, a rifleman; and John William “Bill” Boehne<\/a>, III, a sailor. Instead of simply discussing what they endured on D-Day, we mapped their service experiences from start to finish, from basic training to the end of the war.<\/p>\n

This choice was based on the premise that for those who landed in Normandy, World War II was about more than just June 6, 1944. Privileging what happened on a single day\u2014albeit a very important day\u2014over what came before and after excludes important parts of the participants\u2019 narratives. Shifting our attention from D-Day itself to these veterans\u2019 complete experiences let us design a story map that represents more fully what the invasion of Normandy meant to those who took part.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":518852,"id":518852,"title":"A letter to John Boehne from his father","filename":"CongressLetter-e1559578287695.png","filesize":234516,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2019\/06\/CongressLetter-e1559578287695.png","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/story-maps\/mapping\/exploring-d-day-through-4-veterans-stories\/congressletter","alt":"A letter to John Boehne from his father, on congressional letterhead, is embedded within the story map","author":"9232","description":"","caption":"The multimedia capabilities of story maps made it easy to feature a wide array of materials illustrating the personal narratives of veterans.","name":"congressletter","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":518802,"date":"2019-06-03 15:35:32","modified":"2019-06-03 15:38:47","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/png","type":"image","subtype":"png","icon":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":798,"height":468,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2019\/06\/CongressLetter-e1559578287695-213x200.png","thumbnail-width":213,"thumbnail-height":200,"medium":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2019\/06\/CongressLetter-e1559578287695-445x261.png","medium-width":445,"medium-height":261,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2019\/06\/CongressLetter-e1559578287695-768x450.png","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":450,"large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2019\/06\/CongressLetter-e1559578287695.png","large-width":798,"large-height":468,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2019\/06\/CongressLetter-e1559578287695.png","1536x1536-width":798,"1536x1536-height":468,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2019\/06\/CongressLetter-e1559578287695.png","2048x2048-width":798,"2048x2048-height":468,"card_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2019\/06\/CongressLetter-e1559578287695-793x465.png","card_image-width":793,"card_image-height":465,"wide_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2019\/06\/CongressLetter-e1559578287695.png","wide_image-width":798,"wide_image-height":468}},"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"

 <\/p>\n

Digging deeper with personal narratives<\/h2>\n

Limiting our view to four veterans also freed us to do a deep dive into four singular stories, and to explore the full range of primary sources in these veterans\u2019 collections.<\/p>\n

Consider the case of Bob Horr\u2019s flight log. I\u2019ve used this object in a number of exhibits, pointing viewers toward its gripping final entry, which narrates Horr\u2019s experiences on D-Day, including the loss of his best friend, Claude R. \u201cBuck\u201d Jackson. But it was not until we incorporated the log into the story map that I realized the full scope of the story it contains. My colleague Samantha (Sam) Meier undertook the painstaking task of mining location data from Horr\u2019s log and the other primary sources we utilized, marshalling the source material into a cohesive narrative, and then formatting our extracted data to create individual maps that show each veteran\u2019s locations before, on, and after D-Day.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":519012,"id":519012,"title":"Duncan Cameron's Journey","filename":"ezgif.com-optimize-12-1.gif","filesize":1786738,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2019\/06\/ezgif.com-optimize-12-1.gif","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/story-maps\/mapping\/exploring-d-day-through-4-veterans-stories\/ezgif-com-optimize-12-2","alt":"An animation of a globe zooming out from the United States' east coast, and rotating over to focus on North Africa","author":"9232","description":"","caption":"Using 3D scenes let us visualize just how far these soldiers traveled as they moved throughout the war. ","name":"ezgif-com-optimize-12-2","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":518802,"date":"2019-06-03 16:34:01","modified":"2019-06-03 16:34:27","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/gif","type":"image","subtype":"gif","icon":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":800,"height":470,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2019\/06\/ezgif.com-optimize-12-1-213x200.gif","thumbnail-width":213,"thumbnail-height":200,"medium":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2019\/06\/ezgif.com-optimize-12-1.gif","medium-width":444,"medium-height":261,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2019\/06\/ezgif.com-optimize-12-1.gif","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":451,"large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2019\/06\/ezgif.com-optimize-12-1.gif","large-width":800,"large-height":470,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2019\/06\/ezgif.com-optimize-12-1.gif","1536x1536-width":800,"1536x1536-height":470,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2019\/06\/ezgif.com-optimize-12-1.gif","2048x2048-width":800,"2048x2048-height":470,"card_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2019\/06\/ezgif.com-optimize-12-1-791x465.gif","card_image-width":791,"card_image-height":465,"wide_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2019\/06\/ezgif.com-optimize-12-1.gif","wide_image-width":800,"wide_image-height":470}},"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"

 <\/p>\n

Presented this way, alongside original photographs from his collection, Horr\u2019s flight log takes on a new life. Instead of a confusing mix of unfamiliar place names and aeronautic terminology, the log now offers an intimate view into the life of a young glider pilot as he crisscrossed the country on training flights and made side trips to visit the young woman who would become his wife.<\/p>\n

Mapping the places that Horr and the other three veterans visited also viscerally conveys the arduousness of their travels. We used a 3D web scene to illustrate the veterans\u2019 travels from the U.S. to their overseas deployment. While at first glance, this seems like just another fun, eye-catching feature, it also demonstrates just how much ground the men covered during the war as they traveled from camp to camp and country to country.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":518872,"id":518872,"title":"D-Day veteran locations, mapped","filename":"DDayMap.png","filesize":231551,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2019\/06\/DDayMap.png","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/story-maps\/mapping\/exploring-d-day-through-4-veterans-stories\/ddaymap","alt":"A screenshot of a map showing bright-color circles which represent groups of veterans in position on D-Day","author":"9232","description":"","caption":"This interactive map shows the exact locations of 238 veterans on D-Day, clustered and color-coded for legibility.","name":"ddaymap","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":518802,"date":"2019-06-03 15:56:02","modified":"2019-06-03 16:03:34","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/png","type":"image","subtype":"png","icon":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":2844,"height":1674,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2019\/06\/DDayMap-213x200.png","thumbnail-width":213,"thumbnail-height":200,"medium":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2019\/06\/DDayMap.png","medium-width":443,"medium-height":261,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2019\/06\/DDayMap.png","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":452,"large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2019\/06\/DDayMap.png","large-width":1835,"large-height":1080,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2019\/06\/DDayMap.png","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":904,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2019\/06\/DDayMap.png","2048x2048-width":2048,"2048x2048-height":1205,"card_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2019\/06\/DDayMap-790x465.png","card_image-width":790,"card_image-height":465,"wide_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2019\/06\/DDayMap-1835x1080.png","wide_image-width":1835,"wide_image-height":1080}},"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"

 <\/p>\n

More than just four journeys<\/h2>\n

Though we chose to follow the journeys of Bagent, Horr, Cameron and Boehne, we also wanted to illuminate the experiences of other D-Day veterans whose stories are preserved in VHP\u2019s archive. First, we scoured our Normandy collections to determine the veterans\u2019 exact locations on D-Day. Then, we visualized this data in a map, featured in the \u201cOn D-Day\u201d section of our story map, which includes data points for over 238 individual veterans. \u00a0To improve the legibility of this map, we clustered the data points to show broad location trends while still allowing users to narrow in on a particular veteran\u2019s experience.<\/p>\n

Ultimately, the process of constructing \u201cD-Day Journeys\u201d took us on our own journey through these four veterans\u2019 narratives and collections, during which we made a number of unexpected discoveries. For example, Sam unearthed the record of a veteran whose name was eerily familiar\u2014Claude R. Jackson<\/a>. Though Horr had reported Jackson\u2019s death in his flight log, in fact, he had been evacuated to a hospital in England, surviving the invasion. Tragically, Horr was killed in a glider accident a few weeks after D-Day, and never knew his best friend\u2019s true fate. Both Horr\u2019s and Jackson\u2019s collections were donated to the Veterans History Project by Horr\u2019s daughter, who was born four months after Horr\u2019s death.<\/p>\n

Discoveries such as these are part of the joy of archival research. The beauty of Esri Story Maps, and the Story Map Cascade template in particular, is that they invite the reader to engage in this process of discovery simply by scrolling through the story. We hope that our story map helps to forge a new understanding of D-Day, of the power of individual stories, and of the importance of preserving oral histories and archival material through the Veterans History Project.<\/p>\n"}],"authors":[{"ID":9232,"user_firstname":"StoryMaps","user_lastname":"Community","nickname":"SMCommunity","user_nicename":"smcommunity","display_name":"Story Maps Community","user_email":"storymapsdev@esri.com","user_url":"http:\/\/esri.com\/storymaps","user_registered":"2019-03-20 20:27:37","user_description":"Every day, story map authors are raising the bar when it comes to compelling storytelling powered by place. 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