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Mary Cummings was on duty on the night shift when she got news that an atomic bomb [Annotator's Note: nuclear weapon...

[Annotator's Note: Cyril de la Vergne was stationed at the Mare Island Naval Shipyard in Vallejo, California.] They did...

After Thomas W. Gillette completed college, the Korean War [Annotator's Note: Korean War, 25 June 1950 to 27 July 1953...

Gretchen Wronka was born in January 1944. Her parents were born in a farming area of Iowa. While her mother was in...

Mary R. Stricklan was born in May 1919 in Georgia [Annotator's Note: Gordon County, Georgia]. Growing up there was...

The day the war was over is the most memorable for Amelia Taylor. She wanted to serve because her brothers were serving...

[Annotators Note: Janice Benario served in the navy as a member of the WAVES and worked with ULTRA intercepts decoding...

John McCarthy was born in December 1918 in Seattle, Washington. He lived on a little farm and he attended Highline High...

Delano Roosevelt Brister was born in Sieper, Louisiana in 1933. The town was an old logging camp area. Trains were used...

Isabella Karle remembers that news of what was happening in Europe was heard on radio and reported in the newspapers....

Moise S. Steeg, Jr. had a hard time believing that Mr. Eisenhower [Annotator's Note: General of the Army Dwight David "...

Fredrick Hollis was born in January 1929 in Detroit, Michigan. The Great Depression started in October 1929 and his...

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