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Helmi McHardy was born on a dairy farm in Austin, Michigan in February 1927. She is one of nine children. On the farm,...

Hamilton gives a vivid description of growing up during the Great Depression. Times were tough but her family made it...

Stella Sarnacki found out that her father died from causes of the war like the gas. She does not remember her...

Thomas Crosby remembered soon after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, they attacked the Philippines. Using...

Wanda Damberg experienced the 7 December 1941 Pearl Harbor attack on 8 December [Annotator’s Note: the Philippines is...

Leonard Brooks got up to go to school on Monday [Annotator's Note: 8 December 1941] morning and that is when he and his...

Jennie Rosenzweig did not have a lot of friends who had husbands overseas. She had no one to share her experiences with...

Mary Leisey was born in Honey Brooke, Pennsylvania. It was a small town of nearly 1,000 people. She enjoyed growing up...

Frederick Hollis saw the mood of the country after Kasserine Pass as being very negative. With many ships lost at Pearl...

Once the United States entered World War 2, Adelaide Benjamin followed the progress of the war in a number of ways but...

The judges at the essay contest [Annotators Note: in New York] were distinguished writers and figureheads. Erickson...

Lauren Swinney was born in LaSalle, Illinois and grew up in Gary, Indiana. During that time, Gary had the Carnegie...

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