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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...

James Gooch had an ice box on the outside porch. It was his job to put a signal out on the window, so the ice man knew...

Norma Jean Ford Beard only knew that her father was a pilot and was killed until she was 13 years old. [Annotator's...

Dorothy Malone remembers that they partied when they heard the war was over. She was married and lived on a boat. She...

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

Norman Mineta saw no newspapers in the camp. No radios were allowed. The only mail that arrived came from family...

John “Johnny” Pesky was born in Portland, Oregon and went off to play baseball rather than going to college. He has a...

Lydia Smith Grant was born in Bath, Maine. Her grandfather was a banker as was her father. Her stepfather was in the...

Minnie Marcella Oleskey Shimp was born in Johnstown, Pennsylvania [Annotator's Note: in November 1923], but grew up in...

Margaret Kerry was born in May 1929 in Springfield, Illinois. Then she moved to California and lived there for almost...

Robert Brown knew specifically what he was working on after being told. He worked on the electrical parts. Some of his...

Carl Nygren remembers December 1944 in Tulsa [Annotator’s Note: Tulsa, Oklahoma]. He went to the USO [Annotator's Note...

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