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[Annotator's Note: Rosemary Ramsey learned of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December 1941 from her...

James Jeter worked for Higgins Shipyard in New Orleans, Louisiana. He welded on different vessels but did not know...

Carl Nygren was drafted before he graduated high school. He had to take an exam for basic English and arithmetic. He...

Joseph Traina met a girl in New York [Annotator's Note: New York, New York] and got married there. They moved to...

James Lee says censorship was the worst thing about martial law [Annotator's Note: after the Japanese attack on Pearl...

Michael Clancey did duck and cover drills in school and at home as a child because of the nuclear threat. He always...

Paul Gibfried grew up in Park Ridge, Illinois, near Chicago [Annotator's Note: Chicago, Illinois]. His family arrived...

James Johnson would tell men what to do and not how to do it when he gave orders [Annotator's Note: during the Korean...

After basic training, Jack Vandervort got two weeks' vacation. He went to ASTP [Annotator's Note: Army Specialized...

William Harvey worked in the Commandant's office [Annotator's Note: of the Eighth Naval District headquartered in New...

When the war was over, a lot of women stayed on in the factories. Helen Kushnir went to work for Western Union as a...

Calvin Moret admits that the Tuskegee Airman flying experiences did not affect his life until the movie was released [...

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