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Joseph A. Cardinale was drafted into the Army in the summer of 1945 and sent to Fort Knox [Annotator’s Note: Fort Knox...

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

Carl Nygren remembers December 1944 in Tulsa [Annotator’s Note: Tulsa, Oklahoma]. He went to the USO [Annotator's Note...

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

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

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...

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

After basic training, Jack Vandervort got two weeks' vacation. He went to ASTP [Annotator's Note: Army Specialized...

Joseph A. Cardinale’s most memorable experience of World War 2 was VE-Day [Annotator's Note: Victory in Europe Day, 8...

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

Lavenia Hickman Breaux was born in Slidell, Louisiana in 1917. Breaux did not realize she was living through a...

Carl Nygren had to go on a 25-mile march with a full pack. He saw some people pass out afterward. After 20 miles, the...

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