The News-Gazette is planning to release a book about World War II this fall.

The book will be largely based on the special section the newspaper published on the 50th anniversary of D-Day, in 1994.

For that 44-page, 50,000-word section, News-Gazette reporters interviewed more than 175 veterans and others who discussed their experiences at war and at home.

The book will include additional reporting on World War II issues and veterans from East Central Illinois, who were involved in every significant campaign of the war.

At the time of the special section, reporters tape-recorded almost every interview for the section. With the cooperation of the Museum of the Grand Prairie of the Champaign County Forest Preserve District, the newspaper will make those interviews available for listening and download online when the book is published.

Sadly, many of those who were interviewed have died in the intervening years. But the newspaper wants to invite those who are still with us to share in the unveiling of the book, which is planned for Veterans Day at a place still to be determined.

Below is a list of those who were interviewed. If you're on the list, or a family member of someone on the list, we'd love to hear from you. If you're a family member of someone who has died, please accept our condolences, but if you would take the time to drop us a note, we would appreciate knowing.

Also: If you have photos, both from the time of World War II and later -- for instance, a veteran in uniform during the war, and back at home later in life -- we would love to borrow them for possible inclusion in the book. We will return them.

You can send the information and photos via email to mhowie@news-gazette.com or by mail to Mike Howie, News-Gazette, 15 Main St., Champaign, IL 61820. Please send by Aug. 8.

Here is the list, by city where the person lived at the time of the interviews:

These are the names from a database created in 1994 of those contacted by The News-Gazette for a special project on World War II. The special sections appeared June 6, 1994, the 50th anniversary of D-Day. The names are preceded by the towns in which they lived at the time.

Arthur: Robert Dixon, James Pate, Bill Clemons, Martha Fleming and Delbert Albers

Atwood: Byron Dussler

Bayles Lake: Lucy Goff

Camargo: John A. Lamb

Catlin: Charles McGee

Champaign: Emmett and Evelyn Kirby, Mary and Roy Kruger, Dwight Watkins, William O. Carpenter, Paul Shedenhelm, Ray Quinlan, Frank Brya, John O'Connor, Stanley Rowland Smith, Terry Kizer, Wayne Armstrong, David Smith, James Mitsdarffer, Helen Bricker, Maurice "Sully" Sullivan, W.C. Hampton, Guy Main, Vladimir and Christine Kozlowski, Orrin Gould, Sam Weldon, Ray Smith, Marvin D. Hill, Joseph W. Moran, Richard Squire, Betty Restad, Donald Nelson, Louis Farruggia, Luke Joe Sterling, Jess and Dorothy Dowell, Clyde Lamkin, Charles Lamkin, Raymond Lamkin, Harold Colbert, Oliva Rhodes, Herschel Wilsky, G. Jay Stiehl, Clarence Berbaum, Eleanor Fuchs, Charles (Chuck) Flewelling, Robert Billing, Neal Morton, Bill Heffernan, Charles McArty, Charles F. "Chick" Bruns, Elmer Beachey, James W. Marchand, Edwin D. Williams, Charles M. Cook, Kathleen Payne and Seth Amanns, Richard Britt, Earl E. Smith, Steve Johnson, Chuck Casad, Isaac Neuman, Dick Burwash, Alberta Dixon, Robert and Geri Evans, Paul Hausmann, Justin McCarthy, Leo and Juanita Rector, Emmerson Dexter, Seeley Johnston, Jack Morgan, Arthur Shuler, Wanda Bash Whitsitt, Walter J. and Delores Tatar, Florene Smith

Danville: Theodore "Todge" Kopacz, Clifton Carpenter, Bob and Estelle Smalley, Freda Haworth Coate, Lucille Froman, Kenneth Clapper, James Howie, John Sant, Patricia Ann (George) Grider, Herman Pashe, Joe Blackwell

Dewey: Harold Lawler

Elmhurst: Joseph Begando

Fairmount: Ralph Lamb

Farmer City: John R. Dawson

Fithian: Woodrow and Thelma Wilson

Georgetown: Charles Dukes, Walter W. Wilson

Gifford: Julius Gehrt

Hardin: Janie and Thomas Bloomer

Henning: Zelbert Lytle

Hoopeston: Bill and Sandy Schuler, Larry Petry, Harold "Ray" Rapier

Loda: Elaine Busboom, Arlene Ogle

Mahomet: Faye I. Hughes, Lloyd Ozier, Paul Phillippee, Kenneth Knell, Jim Pasley, Willard Berger, Carl Hatcher, Rex Davis, William Colvin, Voyle Spence, Robert W. Hammack, Dorothy Knell, Warren Dunn, Robert Clapper Jr.

Mattoon: Carl Browning, John Wheeler, Harold Dean Cunningham

Monticello: Les Gadbury, William "Bill" Landsaw, Ken Gunji, Frank Mula, Ralph McInnes

Newman: Stephen Kish, Vera Kish

Oakwood: Earl Riggins

Paxton: Mary Lou Houston, Edwina Campbell

Potomac: Henry Thornton

Rankin: Lucinda Colteaux

Rantoul: James Gordon, Anton "Tony" Bilek, Otto Haack, Domenick Consalvo, Thomas Sellers, Dorothea Berger Kain, Frank Elliott, Myles E. Coolidge, Richard and Jean Quint, Joseph Wall

Rossville: Jay Prillaman, Harry "Jay" Seals

Royal: Lawrence Wantland, Albert V. Jordon, Francis Grussing

Savoy: Thurman L. Barham, Lois Barham, Walter Proksch, Gene and Evelyn Conn

Sidney: Quentin McCarrey, Tom Krumm, Doris Koeck

Springfield: Billie Vuylsteke

Sterling: Ralph Curry

Sullivan: William "Bill" Baumgartner, Joy Baumgartner, Chester Sharp, Allen Golden, John Nagy Jr.

Thomasboro: Merle Lype

Tolono: John L. Frothingham, Ralph Newberry, Bill Koester

Tuscola: Dick Lake, Wilbur Wetzel, Bill Iles, Harland Conner, Elmer J. Weber, Earl M. Pendergrass, Helen Wetzel

Urbana: Mark Arie, Maryesther Jackson, Luther G. Terry, Jim Kelly, Wesley Gillaspie, Richard Stouffer, Ralph Pierce, Fred Kallmayer, Bill Freeman, Kermit Michael "Mike" Clark, Dorothy Munger, Max Albin, Wanda Adams, Elsa "L.C." Utley, Dorothy Tatman, Chuck Ellis, Woodrow "Woody" Wilson, Patricia Tuggle Wilson, Takashi and Kazuko Sasamori, Frank Kuntz, Florence Dixon, Denzil Ellis Dees, Saburo and Yoko Muroga, Marjorie Eileen Stouffer, John Sechrest, Winifred Farmer, Paul Cain, Tom Krizan, Leo Drollinger

Villa Grove: Ned McNussen

Watseka: Mary Bricker

Weldon: Corwin Kingston

Westville: Wallace Wilson

Williamsport, Ind.: Earl Jackson

Town not available: Bill Huber, Ruth Weinard, Julia Wise