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Irene Bartley and her twin sister, Jean, joined the WACs [Annotator's Note: Women's Army Corps; women's branch of the...

Helene Minehira [Annotator's Note: a person of Japanese descent in Hawaii] worked at Fort Shafter [Annotator's Note: in...

James Gooch was born in Gilmer, Texas in May 1939. He clearly recalls sitting with the family in front of their large...

Edwin McAuliffe was more interested in the war in Europe. He was also interested in the air war in England because his...

After the war, Dieter Gruen heard people talked about the atomic bombs all the time. People wanted to talk about atoms...

Francis Higgins worked at Higgins Industries on St. Charles Avenue with his uncle [Annotator's Note: his uncle was...

Loraine Osborne joined the war effort because a lot of her friends were going into the war. Her sister went to work in...

Things were still hard at the end of the war. Rationing continued for about three months. Materials started coming back...

The Japanese attack [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December 1941] started at five...

Coleen Landry's brother Reed was married right after getting home from the war in the Pacific. He and his fiance had...

Blaine Kern was sent to Korea. People were taking the children and throwing them into the snow. The soldiers gave the...

Constance Negrotto and her friend Dorothy Toups worked at a hospital after her shift at the PBY plant [Annotator’s Note...

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