In 2005, the Kansas Legislature awarded the Kansas Historical Society $150,000 to issue grants to nonprofit groups charged with collecting oral histories from WWII veterans. Each grant awardee focused on a unique scope or approach to capturing this information, for example, the Doniphan County Historical Society focused on the experiences of Pottawatomie, Kickapoo, and Sac and Fox tribal members.
Grant recipients were the Greater Barber County Historical Action Association and Barber County Veterans Memorial in Medicine Lodge, the Doniphan County Historical Society in Troy, the Center for Learning Tree Institute in Girard, the Ellis County Historical Society in Hays, the Department of Social Sciences at Emporia State University, the Frank Stull American Legion #152 in Ness City, the Gray County Veterans Memorial & Archives in Cimarron, the Rice County Historical Society in Lyons, and Watkins Community Museum of History in Lawrence. Original copies of the audio or video tapes are housed in safekeeping at the contributing institutions and at the Kansas Historical Society.
Over 500 interview transcriptions relating to experiences during WWII can be found here.