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Walter Imahara explains the meaning of the Japanese term shikata ga nai. He heard the word some in the camp because his...

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

June Tinker met her husband when she was 16 years old. He was a neighbor near the water pump where Tinker had to draw...

James Mather was born in February 1923 in Caddo, Texas. His father was in the oil business by maintaining the oil wells...

Ora Hicks worked as a nurse for five years at Charity Hospital [Annotator's Note: in New Orleans, Louisiana], from 1936...

Norman Mineta visited relatives while he was stationed in Japan [Annotator's Note: during the Korean War]. The...

No one encouraged Roberta Randolph "Randy" Tidmore to join the Marines. She chose the Marines because they did not have...

Elizabeth Bedson Wehner was born in Nebraska and then moved to South Dakota and then Iowa. When she was 12 years old,...

Lydia Grant describes recreation and life as a young girl in the Navy Yard at Pearl Harbor. As a young girl, she...

Peggy Upham was in an accelerated program [Annotator's Note: in the Curtiss-Wright Engineering Cadettes at Purdue...

Carl Nygren had to go on a 25-mile march with a full pack. He saw some people pass out afterward. After 20 miles, the...

During her tenure as newsletter editor [Annotator's Note: for the Women In Military Service For America Memorial...

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