AFHRA unveils online history submission process

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  • By Capt. Nicole M. Dubnicay-Wellen
  • Air Force Historical Research Agency
The Air Force Historical Research Agency recently unveiled its first ever online submission process for Airmen to give their eyewitness accounts of Air Force history.

AFHRA has established an online program called the Airmen's History Project where current and former Airmen can submit manuscripts or vignettes about their Air Force experiences.

The stories will be available to researchers to augment the historical documents on file at the agency. These personal descriptions will go beyond sortie counts, munitions reports and other official documents to reveal a more personal side of Air Force history.

According to the Airmen's History Project webpage, "Maintainers, missileers, pilots, chaplains, civil engineers, and men and women serving in a host of other capacities have put their personal concerns aside to preserve the freedom that all Americans enjoy. Each of these Airmen has a story that only he or she can tell, and those stories are uniquely valuable to historians and scholars."

The process for submitting information to the Airmen's History Project can be found on the agency's public webpage at www.afhra.af.mil. Submissions will be reviewed, and the authors will sign a waiver giving editorial rights for the submission to the Office of Air Force History.

Once a document is submitted online and has cleared the screening process it will be accessioned into the Historical Research Agency's electronic historical collection. Historians will be able to use this information for their research.

The Air Force Historical Research Agency is the repository for Air Force historical records and routinely services researchers from all over the world. According to the agency's homepage, "the Historical Research Agency provides research facilities for professional military education students, the faculty, visiting scholars, and the general public. It consists today of more than 70 million pages devoted to the history of the service, and represents the world's largest and most valuable organized collection of documents on U.S. military aviation."