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Norma Jean Ford Beard lost her father in the war. His remains were only recovered recently. [Annotator’s Note: Beard's...

James Gooch ate a lot of sweet potatoes during World War 2 because they were readily available. It was difficult to...

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

Norman Mineta, his mother, father, and two sisters moved to Evanston, Illinois rather than living in Chicago where his...

When Lawson T. Winslow, Junior [Annotator's Note: an engineer on loan to the government of Iran from Standard Oil...

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

Life in Hawaii was wonderful for Lydia Grant before the war. The island was at its pristine best at that time. Grant...

Around 1938, Shirley Sandy Schulman began dating her future husband, Hyman, while they were in high school. Her parents...

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

Margaret Kerry spent most of her time isolated. When she heard about Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the Japanese...

Homer Johnson made many friends with people from the South. They taught Johnson how to treat White people. Many of the...

[Annotator's Note: Clarence Herbert Weatherwax served in the Army as a communications specialist in Headquarters...

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