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George Wiswell was made a third-class diver in the Navy. Most repair jobs are figured out as they are done. He was in...

Adelaide Benjamin and her family saw the war in the movie theaters on the Movietone News films. The graphic images...

During World War 2, the term PTSD [Annotator's Note: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder] did not exist, it was called...

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

Dr. Kenneth Arrow was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Siena in the 1990s. Arrow had always been interested in...

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

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

[Annotator's Note: Calvin Elliott consults some notes to see if he left anything out of his story.] Calvin Elliott was...

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

Carl Nygren was drafted before he graduated high school. He had to take an exam for basic English and arithmetic. He...

Michael Clancey did duck and cover drills in school and at home as a child because of the nuclear threat. He always...

Erickson was born in Richland Center, Wisconsin in 1918. Her father was still fighting in World War I in France. He...

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