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

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Tom Thurman, an American filmmaker, what made him want to do his film, "John...

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

George Mitchell feels he was in an outfit that had always denied them being a part of it, the Marine Corps. He feels he...

Loraine Osborne knew that they had to get the planes out so they could be shipped overseas. The harder they worked, the...

After the war, Dieter Gruen heard people talked about the atomic bombs all the time. People wanted to talk about atoms...

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

When the war broke out [Annotator's Note: Downs is referring to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7...

Frances Meikrantz was born in 1921 in Worcester, Massachusettes. It was a nice town. She grew up during the Depression...

Betty Soskin saw her work as being part of the war effort in some way, but it carried little significance. She was...

[Annotator's Note: George Kearney grew up in New Orleans, Louisiana and was an employee of Higgins Industries from 1937...

As a veteran, Lawson Tracy Winslow, Junior is often thanked for his service. It surprises him. During World War 2, the...

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