Center for World War II Studies and Conflict Resolution
Welcome to The Center for World War II Studies and Conflict Resolution.
The purpose of the Center is to educate today's generation about World War II and its significance by providing a range of programs and services to stimulate and foster the study of the political, social, and military aspects of the war and the its impact on world history. The ultimate goal of the Center is to utilize the lessons learned from the war to prevent the recurrence of global armed conflict in a world of sovereign states with divergent interests, wants and needs.
Center News You Can Use
- CENTER FOR WORLD WAR II STUDIES AND CONFLICT RESOLUTION: The Center's Spring 2008 newsletter is available. Click hereto view a version in PDF format.
- TED J. NAROZANICK CWW2SCONRES RESOURCE CENTER: This WW II resource center, officially opened last September, is located in Brookdale’s Bankier Library. Its operational hours are 9:30 am to 4:30 pm, Monday through Friday when the College is in session. The Center provides all interested in World War II and its impact multiple sources to read, review, and research and several globally linked computers that enable one to access information on the war world wide. Material in the Center is for room use only. Click here for information about the Resource Center's new Family Research Service.
Phone number: (732) 224-2086.
- FALL 2008 WORLD WAR II STUDIES PROGRAM SERIES: Click here for full information on the Fall 2008 series. First program: October 23, 2008.
- FALL 2008 VIDEO AND VETS PROGRAMS: Click here for full information on the Fall 2008 programs. First program: October 14, 2008.
- NATIONAL PARK SERVICE REPORT: Recently completed for the U.S. National Park Service at Sandy Hook is an in depth research report on the development of radar at Fort Hancock between 1933 to 1942. Authored by Georgian Court University student Michael Eberhardt interning at the Narozanick Center as part of the Rutgers University History Department Internship program, Mike worked diligently with Sandy Hook Park historian Tom Hoffman, Fort Monmouth Museum authorities, and associates in Honolulu, Hawaii, to complete an informative account of radar development at Fort Hancock that sheds light on an important scientific event that helped the U.S. win World War II. Click here to read this original research accompanied by captioned photos, many being published for the first time.
- LATEST WAR MEMOIRS POSTED:
Clyde A. E. Snyder Jr., born July 3, 1924, graduated from Point Pleasant Beach High School, Point Pleasant Beach, NJ, in June 1942. He immediately enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Force and attended bombardier school at Ellington Field, Texas. Afterwards, assigned to the 95th Bomb Group, Eighth USAF, in Horam, England, he flew over Germany as a bombardier aboard B-17 bombers for an amazing total of 35 missions. On three of the missions, his planes did not make it back to England, each of which crash landed on the European mainland. He kept a record of each mission (i.e. target, map location, photos, and associated newspaper articles) and it is an edited version of the scrapbook record that one can view by clicking here. 1st Lieutenant Snyder on mission #31 volunteered to replace a navigator with a different crew and because of his valorous actions during that flight, he was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross. The introduction is written by his son Clyde A.E. Snyder III who donated his father’s scrapbook to the Center for World War II Studies and Conflict Resolution for all to view. The actual scrapbook is on file in the Center’s Narozanick World War II Studies Resource Center for public review. Click here to access his memoir.
