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[Annotator’s Note: People in the background talk throughout the segment.] In August 1945, the Japanese surrendered...

Delano Brister has had a fun run. Although he does not miss the uniform, he does not regret a bit. The soldiers laid...

Even though she was young, Marie Rankart paid attention to world events. At the time, young people had more of an...

Dolores McInnis Libby applied to work [Annotator's Note: at Consolidated Aircraft Corporation] because she had a friend...

Fredi Van Pelt was on furlough [Annotator's Note: an authorized absence for a short period of time] in Wilmington,...

Benjamin Bederson always knew he would be a scientist, but in 1942, he began his military career in the Army. He was 20...

Calvin Blank was drafted into the Army [Annotator's Note: in 1945]. He was five foot six and weighed 118 pounds. When...

[Annotator's Note: Dr. Norman Francis worked with the Congress of Racial Equality or CORE, an African-American civil...

Men returning from the Pacific would come in for R...

Helmi McHardy thinks it is important for young women to know what she did. It should be the man and woman working...

June Catherine Elliott Haggerty was 23 years old when she went into the Navy. Her brothers were in the service already...

Richard Guthrie was born in November 1933 at the Quantico Marine Corps Air Station in Quantico, Virginia. His father...

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