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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...

James Johnson would tell men what to do and not how to do it when he gave orders [Annotator's Note: during the Korean...

Hans Courant was assigned to a group working on electronics at Los Alamos. He worked in that capacity for the next two...

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

Carl Nygren was delighted that the bombs were dropped on Japan [Annotator's Note: nuclear weapons dropped on Hiroshima...

Carl Nygren went to training school at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. [Annotator’s Note: Nygren talks about going out with a...

Clarence Herbert Weatherwax returned to Hawaii, took advantage of the GI Bill and went to school. After he got home he...

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

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

Zeno St. Cyr was secretary for the CDD Board [Annotator's Note: the Certificate of Discharge for Disability Board at...

Jack Vandervort chose to leave the US Merchant Marine. He did not like it too well. He was drafted and went to Camp...

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