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Adelaide Benjamin had returned to New Orleans, Louisiana from El Paso, Texas by the time the war ended. When the...

James Lee went to Dachau [Annotator's Note: Dachau concentration camp complex near Dachau, Germany] on a tour. He can...

Carolyn Bridgforth was going to be a dietician. There were very few jobs available to women. She did not finish her...

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

Marietta Estopinal Baham was born in Arabi, Louisiana. The depression [Annotator's Note: Great Depression] was very sad...

There were two vacant lots near Frederick Hollis's home in Detroit. He decided to grow a Victory Garden in them. The...

Older male workers would cater to the young women like June Tinker who came into the work force. The men would flirt...

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...

Martha Tolles was born in Oklahoma City [Annotator’s Note: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma] in 1921. She grew up in New York...

At Oak Ridge [Annotator's Note: Oak Ridge, Tennessee], there were three shifts running all the time. Dieter Gruen...

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

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