You can search the Transcript Database a number of ways. If you know the name of the person, simply enter it below and click submit. If you wish to search all the interviews collected on a particular conflict or category, select your choice and click submit. If you wish to search using a keyword, for example: Lancaster or corvette, enter that word in the keyword field and click submit.

Further information on how to use the search facility

Search By Category
Searching within categories using the pull-down menus allows you to quickly narrow in on only the most relevant transcripts. For example, searching for transcripts that refer to Tobruk - If you select from the pull down menus > World War II > Tobruk, the return results will only be from within that category.

Choosing Keywords
For best results, it's important to choose your keywords wisely. Try the obvious first. If you're looking for transcripts about Lancaster bombers, enter "Lancaster" rather than "planes". To only return results that include all of your search terms tick the check box to include all keywords.

Automatic Exclusion of Common Words
We ignore common words and characters such as "where" and "how", as well as all single digits and single letters, because they tend to slow down your search without improving the results. Another method for doing this is conducting a phrase search, which simply means putting quotation marks around two or more words. Common words in a phrase search (e.g., "where are you") are included in the search. For example, to search for Lancaster Bombers use:
"Lancaster Bombers"

Capitalization
Our searches are NOT case sensitive. All letters, regardless of how you type them, will be understood as lower case. For example, searches for "lancaster bombers", "LANCASTER Bombers", and "LanCaster BomBers" will all return the same results.