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Reverend Doctor Lamar Edward Smith's oldest brother, John Joseph, whose nickname was "Jody", enlisted in the Navy prior...

[Annotator's Note: Birds and muffled conversation can be heard in the background throughout this segment.] After...

Martha Tolles went to Florida in June [Annotator’s Note: of 1944] with her husband. They got a month off and went back...

Joseph Mittelsdorf was assigned to the 5th Marine Division. He was in the rear echelon for the Battle of Iwo Jima [...

Calvin Moret and other Tuskegee Airmen were awarded the Congressional Gold Medal in 2007 in Washington by President...

Jane Biestek remembers buses of sailors passing by the window of the Ford factory. She would dance with them at night....

George Allen was in New Orleans, Louisiana on a trip with his family when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. He was...

Doctor James B. Heneghan grew up in Chicago [Annotator's Note: Chicago, Illinois]. He was born in La Porte, Indiana in...

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

Dr. Kenneth Arrow shared the Nobel Prize in Economics with John Hicks in 1972. The prize had only been awarded for four...

[Annotator’s Note: Norma Halberg joined the Women Airforce Service Pilots or WASPs in January 1944 and went to Avenger...

Betty Sue Drake was born in November 1924 in Winston County, Alabama, where she graduated from high school. Pearl...

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