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James Lee was born in 1930 on Oahu [Annotator's Note: Oahu, Hawaii] in a little community called Kalauao. It is no...

Gretchen Wronka was born in January 1944. Her parents were born in a farming area of Iowa. While her mother was in...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Dr. Norman Francis to talk about becoming the President of Xavier University of...

[Annotator's Note: Helen Kushnir was in grade school when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December 1941...

June Tinker was 16 years old and living in Pax, West Virginia when Pearl Harbor was attacked. She heard the news after...

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

Martha Tolles went to Florida in June [Annotator’s Note: of 1944] with her husband. They got a month off and went back...

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

Norman Mineta finished high school in San Jose. The same students he attended class with in the 5th grade before...

Lauren Swinney always had at least three occupations at the same time. She wanted to learn everything and do everything...

Dieter Martin Gruen was born in November 1922 in Walldorf, Germany. His father was a school principal and his mother...

Francis Higgins was a good draftsman. He took that position with his Uncle Andrew [Annotator's Note: Andrew Jackson...

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