FFSS Internship (Spring) Week 15

 Hello! Here is this week’s update on my internship with the Florida France Soldier Stories project:

This week has been largely focused on finishing the editing process for the Stafford Rimes' biography! I have been working to insert the missing information about his "Military Service" section, which I have been able to do because of historian Samuel de Korte's book on the 452nd AAA unit that Stafford served in. 

Like last week's update, I have been mostly reading through chapters 3 and 4 of the book to make sure I have the correct and relevant information about the unit to insert into the biography. A lot of the information in the research has to do with specific instances of movement within the unit and its separate Batteries throughout France and into Germany, so most of my focus was discerning what parts were important to include vs. what we did not necessarily need to include in the biography. I determined most of the broader movements and developments with the unit to include. I worked my way through the chapters in the beginning of the week, and I was able to insert the bulk of the information before our meeting on Wednesday. 

Our meeting on Wednesday consisted us discussing the final steps in the editing process, and going over questions we had remaining before the end of the semester. I had a few questions on details we were going to edit slightly or delete due to other developments in editing, and we were able to iron those out pretty quickly. We also determined that our next meeting would be next week on Wednesday to finish out the semester officially, so we can go over and reflect on everything we did throughout the semester, which I look forward to. 

In the meantime, I am tasked with continuing the editing process with picking the photos that we will include in the final published biography on the Florida France Soldier Stories website. I look forward to seeing it completed, especially since I was the original author! 

Since this is my last update of the semester, even though we will have a meeting next week, I will just say that my time with the FFSS project across the fall and spring semesters has been so incredible. I have learned so much from Dr. Lyons and the team about this kind of work and how important it is. I look forward to staying connected with the project and seeing how it develops in the future! 

Thank you for keeping up with my internship blogs! 


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