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Clarence Herbert Weatherwax was at home on the morning of the attack. He heard a loud explosion but did not know what...

[Annotator's Note: Birds and muffled conversation can be heard in the background throughout this segment.] After...

Zeno St. Cyr received his draft notice, but he found that he was rejected during his physical examinations because of...

The 2nd Infantry Division came back from fighting in Europe in the latter part of 1945. They went to Camp Swift, Texas...

In Benjamin Bederson's estimation, his experience at Los Alamos, New Mexico, qualified him as a physicist. He worked...

Lavenia Breaux wanted to go in the service after Pearl Harbor. She always had a dream of traveling and realized the...

Spencer Yancey was born in Hunnewell, Missouri in 1910. He is 106 years old. He was born and raised on a farm. He...

Ora Hicks worked as a nurse for five years at Charity Hospital [Annotator's Note: in New Orleans, Louisiana], from 1936...

Hans Courant has many fond memories of going skiing on Sundays with his Army buddies while at Los Alamos. One of his...

Orville Clayton was interning at the hospital when he heard the atomic bombs were dropped [Annotator's Note: nuclear...

Jack A. Gillis returned home and used the G.I. Bill to go to college. He had problems with English in college [...

Clarence Herbert Weatherwax served in the 298th Infantry Regiment which was a National Guard unit in federal service....

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