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Barbara Stables was born in November 1926 in Mobile, Alabama. They were not affected too much by the Depression [...

Nagasaki [Annotator's Note: Nagasaki, Japan] was devastated [Annotator's Note: by the nuclear weapon dropped on...

Lauren Swinney went to Northwestern University. The nuns had taught her to type when she was in boarding school and...

Back in North Dakota after the war, Verna White waited for six months for her husband to return home from occupation...

Dr. Kenneth Arrow was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Siena in the 1990s. Arrow had always been interested in...

At Oak Ridge [Annotator's Note: Oak Ridge, Tennessee], there were three shifts running all the time. Dieter Gruen...

Ernest Jackson was born in Sumter, South Carolina. His family migrated [Annotator's Note: Great Migration, or Black...

John “Johnny” Pesky was born in Portland, Oregon and went off to play baseball rather than going to college. He has a...

Walter Imahara explains the meaning of the Japanese term shikata ga nai. He heard the word some in the camp because his...

After an airplane engine had flown a certain number of times it would be due for an overhaul. If it was in good...

Everybody knew what they were building there. Hans Courant was at Alamogordo for the bomb test since he had built some...

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

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