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Raymond Downs was in the water for almost 20 hours with no food. On the horizon, he could see 27 shrimping boats. He...

Mildred "Jean" Liparoto just did what she had to do [Annotator's Note: to get by with nephews, brothers, and a husband...

Spencer Yancey remembers that all of their equipment was pretty basic, and there were not a lot of new improvements....

Norman Mineta followed his father's lead following his military discharge. Mineta's father had made a career in the...

When the war was over, Lora E. Daniel's job [Annotator's Note: at the Union Carbide Metallurgical Plant in Sheffield,...

Alexander Laughlin heard his stepfather, Tommy Hitchcock [Annotator’s Note: Thomas Hitchcock Jr. was an American polo...

When Snapp arrived at the hotel [Annotators Note: in Sweetwater, Texas for WASP training] there was roughly thirty to...

George Kearney was living on Magazine Street [Annotator's Note: in New Orleans, Louisiana] when he went to work for...

Leading up to the test [Annotator's Note: Trinity test, code name for the first detonation of a nuclear device, 16 July...

Audrey Maduell had an air raid shelter right across from her house. Her father would bring coffee to the workers...

Jean "Marian" Alva Yancey Landry has nearly always been known as Marian Y. Landry with the Y representing her maiden...

Nancy Lynch Castellano was born in January 1924 in Belleville, New Jersey, with three siblings. Her father worked for...

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