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Everybody knew what they were building there. Hans Courant was at Alamogordo for the bomb test since he had built some...

George Wiswell says the past is a prologue to the future. What you learn is important. The Navy taught him to pay...

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

John “Johnny” Pesky found himself lost while flying during flight training. Landing in a farmer’s field, he admitted...

Joseph Traina was born in Labadieville, Louisiana in June 1917. [Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks what he recalls...

Bowdre McDowell became a volunteer at the museum [Annotator's Note: The National World War Museum in New Orleans,...

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

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

Erickson had supportive parents. They were worried about her, especially after Claudia passed away. They were happy...

Minnie Marcella Oleskey Shimp [Annotator's Note: a Pharmacist's Mate in the United States Navy Nurse Corps] returned...

Debra Stern was born in Brooklyn, New York [Annotator's Note: is one of the five boroughs in New York, New York] in...

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

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