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Helene Minehira [Annotator's Note: a person of Japanese descent living in Hawaii] and her family were forces off their...

When Edwin McAuliffe was a kid during the war there were things everywhere that reminded people that there was a war...

Margaret Brewer Henry remembers prosperity after the war. There were more jobs and people had money for cars and other...

Grace Brown was at her sister's home when she heard about the attack on Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the Japanese...

Marie Rankart did not smoke but her sister did. Her sister would ask her to get her cigarettes when she came across...

Barbara Stables was in Mobile [Annotator’s Note: Mobile, Alabama] with her children visiting her parents when the news...

Things were still hard at the end of the war. Rationing continued for about three months. Materials started coming back...

The Japanese attack [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December 1941] started at five...

Isabella Karle said that certain measures were taken to insure against radiation sickness, including the daily...

Jean Lotter was born in December 1923 in Seattle, Washington. She and her twin sister, Irene, grew up in Kent,...

Norman Mineta attended a cabinet meeting on Thursday, 13 September [Annotator's Note: two days after the 11 September...

Starting about 1940, Brown Shipyard [Annotator's Note: Brown Shipbuilding Company in Houston, Texas] began as a result...

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