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Betty Sue Drake [Annotator's Note: a paymaster in the US Marine Corps] was assigned to Washington [Annotator's Note:...

Dr. Norman Francis did not follow the war closely. He devoted his time to school and sports. His parents had said to...

Raymond F. Downs was born in March 1934 in San Antonio, Texas. He and his brother played sports in school. Downs grew...

Louise Settles put in for overseas duty in 1943. She did not necessarily want to go overseas. It was more to get out of...

Spencer Yancey remembers that all of their equipment was pretty basic, and there were not a lot of new improvements....

Hans Courant and the others went back to Los Alamos where he was told that he would be released to go back to college....

Rosemary Elfer does not recall having any real issues while she was in the service. One issue that occurred at the end...

Alexander Laughlin heard his stepfather, Tommy Hitchcock [Annotator’s Note: Thomas Hitchcock Jr. was an American polo...

Norman Mineta, his mother, father, and two sisters moved to Evanston, Illinois rather than living in Chicago where his...

Margaret Kerry spent most of her time isolated. When she heard about Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the Japanese...

Audrey Maduell had an air raid shelter right across from her house. Her father would bring coffee to the workers...

Rosemary Fagot remembers the difficulties she had translating for the United Fruit Company because of the cultural...

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