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

Alton Bourg was stationed with men who were mostly from Pennsylvania and were professionals in their civilian lives....

Carl Nygren was drafted before he graduated high school. He had to take an exam for basic English and arithmetic. He...

Hans Courant and the others went back to Los Alamos where he was told that he would be released to go back to college....

Robert Brown knew specifically what he was working on after being told. He worked on the electrical parts. Some of his...

Clarence Herbert Weatherwax also joined the Pearl Harbor Survivors Association. When the building was built [Annotator'...

Debra Stern wanted to do her part to help win the war America but did not want to have a military job sitting behind a...

Mary R. Stricklan's uniform [Annotator's Note: in the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) then Women's Army Corps (WAC...

James Johnson remembers the combat was continuous. [Annotator’s Note: He is referring to the Korean War which was...

Alton Bourg does not remember where he heard about the atomic bombs [Annotator's Note: nuclear weapons dropped on...

Carl Nygren was stationed in Oklahoma for training. They had to become map readers. They would be dropped in the woods...

When he left Paris, Hans Courant went to the Berkeley labs. He stayed there for a while then went to CERN [Annotator's...

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