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Mary Konen’s most memorable experience of World War 2 was the people she met, and learning to drink beer and whiskey at...

Nita Fay Overby was born near Manitou, Oklahoma in 1925. During the Great Depression [Annotator's Note: the Great...

Stella Sarnacki was laid off when the war ended. She met her husband through the mail. [Annotator’s Note: Sarnacki’s...

Coleen Landry was surrounded by soldiers at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. She felt that her...

Jennie Rosenzweig did not have a lot of friends who had husbands overseas. She had no one to share her experiences with...

Nagasaki [Annotator's Note: Nagasaki, Japan] was devastated [Annotator's Note: by the nuclear weapon dropped on...

There was a lot of segregation at the beginning but Lavenia Breaux had the impression that it eased up. Breaux believes...

Norma Halberg does not recall how many hours of primary training she had. She went from the Stearman [Annotator's Note...

Adelaide Benjamin and her family saw the war in the movie theaters on the Movietone News films. The graphic images...

Ernest Jackson was sitting in a movie theater watching a musical when the movie was stopped and it was announced that...

Dr. Kenneth Arrow introduced his ideas on the efficiency of competitive economies and the government should rely on...

Grace Brown thought the war would end and she would go back to her normal life. She did not think her life changed much...

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