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Stella Sarnacki was born in Poland in January 1923. She was born on a farm. She is one of four children. Her father...

June Tinker was born in Coal City, West Virginia in July 1925. She grew up there until she was six years old then moved...

Around 1938, Shirley Sandy Schulman began dating her future husband, Hyman, while they were in high school. Her parents...

James Gooch ate a lot of sweet potatoes during World War 2 because they were readily available. It was difficult to...

Grace Brown thought the war would end and she would go back to her normal life. She did not think her life changed much...

Helmi McHardy met several people of different nationalities in Detroit [Annotator’s Note: Detroit, Michigan]. She had...

Francis John "Jack" Higgins was born in October 1922 in Omaha, Nebraska. He left there at two years of age and moved to...

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

Hamilton gives a vivid description of growing up during the Great Depression. Times were tough but her family made it...

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

Blaine Kern remembers listening to a boxing match when he came home on leave [Annotator's Note: an authorized absence...

Isabella Karle heard on the radio that the atom bomb had been dropped. At first she was amazed that it actually worked...

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