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Loraine Osborne was 16 years old when she moved. [Annotator’s Note: Osborne moved to Detroit, Michigan]. She worked at...

Francis Higgins had a business on Canal Street. It was originally Canal Marine owned by Lewis Waggoner and his brother...

Elizabeth Bedson Wehner went to Purdue [Annotator's Note: Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana]. She had to...

Norman Mineta followed his father's lead following his military discharge. Mineta's father had made a career in the...

Right after the attack [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December 1941], Thomas W....

Lauren Swinney picked up words during the war like ersatz which meant a substitute for something. She recalls the pin-...

Erickson was born in Richland Center, Wisconsin in 1918. Her father was still fighting in World War I in France. He...

Jean Lotter served as a WAC [Annotator's Note: Women's Army Corps; women's branch of the United States Army, 1942 to...

Coleen Landry remembers when her parents were told that her brother Reed was missing in action. It took about a month...

Constance Negrotto had cousins and friends who were all over the place during the war. They kept her informed of what...

George R. Bolin could only go out to the shipyard [Annotator's Note: Brown Shipbuilding Company in Houston, Texas] on a...

[Annotator's Note: George Kearney grew up in New Orleans, Louisiana and was an employee of Higgins Industries from 1937...

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