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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...

Medary G. Boudreaux returned to Higgins at Michoud after his discharge and worked there for two years [Annotator’s Note...

When the war was over, a lot of women stayed on in the factories. Helen Kushnir went to work for Western Union as a...

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...

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

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

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

Norman Mineta followed his father's lead following his military discharge. Mineta's father had made a career in the...

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

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