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Minnie Marcella Oleskey Shimp was born in Johnstown, Pennsylvania [Annotator's Note: in November 1923], but grew up in...

[Annotator's Note: Calvin Elliott consults some notes to see if he left anything out of his story.] Calvin Elliott was...

Carl Nygren was drafted before he graduated high school. He had to take an exam for basic English and arithmetic. He...

James Lee says censorship was the worst thing about martial law [Annotator's Note: after the Japanese attack on Pearl...

Wagner was checking in after dinner when a guard stuck a gun in her back. She identified herself as Lieutenant Wagner...

[Annotator's Note: From December 1940 until 1949, Marie Rankart worked for the General Motors Company facility in...

Florence Reynolds finished training on 6 June 1944. Afterwards, she was stationed in California. She was allowed to...

Michael Clancey did duck and cover drills in school and at home as a child because of the nuclear threat. He always...

Paul Gibfried grew up in Park Ridge, Illinois, near Chicago [Annotator's Note: Chicago, Illinois]. His family arrived...

Alice Howie cannot remember what dress she wore for her wedding. She got married at a minister's home in Selma, Alabama...

Mildred Loscalzo Vanderpool heard about the atomic bombs [Annotator's Note: nuclear weapons dropped on Hiroshima, Japan...

Coleen Landry remembers when her parents were told that her brother Reed was missing in action. It took about a month...

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