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Lauren Swinney picked up words during the war like ersatz which meant a substitute for something. She recalls the pin-...

After the attack on Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December 1941],...

Orville Clayton was interning at the hospital when he heard the atomic bombs were dropped [Annotator's Note: nuclear...

Nita Fay Overby worked for an aircraft plant [Annotator's Note: The Midwest City Douglas Aircraft Company Plant in...

When they [Annotator's Note: Walter Imahara and many of the other Japanese-Americans interned at the Jerome War...

Rationing was not hard for Jennie Rosenzweig. Oleo was used instead of butter, and it looked like lard. She added salt...

Martha Tolles went to Florida in June [Annotator’s Note: of 1944] with her husband. They got a month off and went back...

George R. Bolin's father was born in Galveston [Annotator's Note: Galveston, Texas]. His name was Lodwick Timothy Bolin...

Arthur Kuhn's most memorable experience of his time in the military was learning "the mistrust of government." He...

[Annotator's Note: The Women Airforce Service Pilots or WASPs were disbanded on 20 December 1944, which came as a...

Norman Mineta became involved in the Asian-American Caucus when President Clinton [Annotator's Note: President William...

Dieter Gruen graduated from Northwestern [Annotator's Note: Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois] and was...

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