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Rosemary Elfer does not recall any instances of discrimination either while working for Higgins Industries or while...

After leaving his post [Annotator's Note: in the Metallurgical Laboratory] at the University of Chicago [Annotator's...

Bernard Allen Dearey got married in 1950. When the Korean War [Annotator's Note: Korean War, 25 June 1950 to 27 July...

Herbert Weatherwax was drafted into the military when he was 24 years old. He had a problem with alcohol while he was...

After World War 2, T. Toby Kafka reenlisted into the Women's Army Corps (WAC) Reserves and was attached to an...

Mary R. Stricklan joined the WACs [Annotator's Note: Women's Army Corps; women's branch of the United States Army, 1942...

Benjamin Bederson always knew he would be a scientist, but in 1942, he began his military career in the Army. He was 20...

James Johnson remembers the bomb [Annotator's Note: nuclear weapons dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, 6 and 9...

After returning to the camp [Annotator's Note: Fort Huachuca, Arizona], Ora Hicks was transferred to a German POW [...

Carl Nygren remembers Washington, D.C. was a segregated town. Roosevelt [Annotator's Note: Franklin Delano Roosevelt,...

Rosemary Elfer does not recall having any real issues while she was in the service. One issue that occurred at the end...

Harris H. Levee's most memorable experience of World War 2 was climbing up and down the nuclear reactor [Annotator's...

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