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Fredrick Hollis was born in January 1929 in Detroit, Michigan. The Great Depression started in October 1929 and his...

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...

Shirley Chase Kruse was taking flying lessons and she met a lady who she became friendly with. Her friend recommended...

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

Francis Higgins says a female off camera had his uncle in a spell. [Annotator's Note: His uncle was Andrew Jackson...

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

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

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 went into law enforcement part-time to help with public relations. It was not easy being one of the first...

Constance Negrotto saw a lot during the war that she had never expected to see. She helped the war effort by working...

Virginia Hamilton was not content with just working in Alabama. She soon moved up to Washington DC and found work as a...

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