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In the months leading up to the United States' entry into the war, the country was isolationist. Fredrick Hollis was...

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

When the war broke out [Annotator's Note: Downs is referring to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7...

Jane Biestek worked at Yellowstone National Park when she in Montana. Her father would log there during the summer when...

[Annotator's Note: A woman off camera interjects throughout this segment.] Mary Julia Tarnow was born in Mineral...

Margaret Brewer Henry was born in Miami, Florida, but she grew up in Atlanta [Annotator's Note: Atlanta, Georgia]. She...

Jacqueline Bishop was born in March 1930 in Baltimore, Maryland. Her father was an electrician. During the Depression [...

Chester David was born in March 1924 in Lacassine, Louisiana. He was the youngest of one brother and two sisters and...

Blaine Kern went to Czechoslovakia to tour the glass industry. The secret police were following him. He has a factory...

Ruth Ingram was born in Scarsdale, New York in November 1928. Ingram was 13 years old when the war broke out and has...

June Tinker's mother started worrying about the impact of the war on her sons soon after Pearl Harbor. Tinker's two...

Ralph Morse was born in Manhattan in New York City [Annotator's Note: New York, New York] in October 1917. His father...

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