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George Mitchell wanted to be in the Coast Artillery, but that unit was deleted, and he was drifting from job to job. He...

Dr. Kenneth Arrow was surprised when war came with Japan. Japan's actions had been terrible but the anticipation was...

While Ruth Knutson was in WAVES, her husband-to-be was drafted. He was a baseball player for the Chicago White Sox....

George R. Bolin could only go out to the shipyard [Annotator's Note: Brown Shipbuilding Company in Houston, Texas] on a...

For Tom Thurman [Annotator's Note: American filmmaker], "December 7" [Annotator's Note: "December 7: The Movie," 1943...

Adelaide Benjamin was born in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1932. She had a comfortable life and enjoyed outdoor activities...

Loraine Osborne was 16 years old when she moved. [Annotator’s Note: Osborne moved to Detroit, Michigan]. She worked at...

Dieter Martin Gruen was born in November 1922 in Walldorf, Germany. His father was a school principal and his mother...

Jack A. Gillis' most memorable event of the war was an errant landing of a disabled aircraft that was nearly wrecked....

At Northwestern University, Lauren Swinney's speech fraternity, Zeta Phi Eta, was sent to Glenview Naval Air Station....

Being a bush pilot in Alaska was a fun experience for Geraldine Nyman. One of their employees crashed a plane in the...

Betty Soskin was born in September 1921 in Detroit, Michigan. She was invited to be a panelist at The National WWII...

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