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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...

When Belisario de Jesus "Bel" Flores got out of the Army, he still had a dream of being an officer. There was a...

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

When Higgins [Annotator's Note: Higgins Industries in New Orleans, Louisiana] advertised for openings in their aircraft...

Spencer Yancey remembers that all of their equipment was pretty basic, and there were not a lot of new improvements....

Leading up to the test [Annotator's Note: Trinity test, code name for the first detonation of a nuclear device, 16 July...

Herbert Weatherwax [Annotator's Note: Mr. Weatherwax's name is actually Clarence Herbert Weatherwax] was born in...

Bernard Allen Dearey was sent to Fort Snelling, Minnesota for induction, and then went to Fort Sheridan, Illinois for a...

Debra Stern [Annotator's Note: in the Women's Army Corps; women's branch of the US Army, 1942-1978] was at Camp Shanks...

Calvin Blank and the hospital staff [Annotator's Note: at Mason General Hospital in Long Island, New York] had to make...

James Johnson chose the Army because he had a brother lost overboard a ship in 1938. Johnson was the last of 11...

Louise Settles was born in Framingham, Massachusetts in June 1916. She was working for Bethlehem Steel at Fore River...

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