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When Edwin McAuliffe was a kid during the war there were things everywhere that reminded people that there was a war...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks John McCarthy what he remembers about the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor,...

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

Edna Davis did not pay particular attention to the war other than the loss of people. War has changed but she is not...

Isabella Karle heard on the radio that the atom bomb had been dropped. At first she was amazed that it actually worked...

William B. Hughes was born in April 1927 in Nashville, Tennessee. Nashville was a country town at that time. His father...

John F. Ward volunteered for service in December 1943 and took his basic training at Jefferson Barracks, Missouri. He...

After an airplane engine had flown a certain number of times it would be due for an overhaul. If it was in good...

Calvin Elliott was born in February 1918 in Whitesville, Delaware. He grew up in Maryland after moving there when he...

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

Fredi Van Pelt was born in July 1923 in Alameda, California. She has two sisters. Van Pelt was the baby in the family....

Mary Cummings [Annotator's Note: in the Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service; United States Naval Reserve (...

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