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Mary R. Stricklan celebrated V-E Day [Annotator's Note: Victory in Europe Day, 8 May 1945] with her future husband. His...

Benjamin Bederson's first job at Los Alamos, New Mexico was exploding steel tubes using a primer cord and strain gauges...

James Johnson came back to the United States and was supposed to go to an advanced course. They pulled him out and put...

There was a lot of segregation at the beginning but Lavenia Breaux had the impression that it eased up. Breaux believes...

Ora Hicks went to Kansas [Annotator's Note: Kansas City, Missouri] for nursing training in 1933. She had taught school...

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

Murray Glass was drafted and sent to the Fort Dix, New Jersey reception center for a few weeks. He then went to the...

Jack A. Gillis was drafted into the Army and went into the Army Air Corps. He was shipped to Los Angeles [Annotator's...

[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...

Jack Vandervort was born in Bigheart, Oklahoma in December 1921. During the Depression [Annotator's Note: The Great...

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

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