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Benjamin Bederson always knew he would be a scientist, but in 1942, he began his military career in the Army. He was 20...

James Johnson remembers the bomb [Annotator's Note: nuclear weapons dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, 6 and 9...

Ora Hicks was one of the nurses to attend Yale University [Annotator's Note: Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut...

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

Hans Courant and the others went back to Los Alamos where he was told that he would be released to go back to college....

Jack A. Gillis was born in February 1923 in Mound City, Missouri. He had no brothers or sisters. At age two, Gillis...

Clarence Herbert Weatherwax also joined the Pearl Harbor Survivors Association. When the building was built [Annotator'...

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

Mary R. Stricklan's uniform [Annotator's Note: in the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) then Women's Army Corps (WAC...

While Benjamin Bederson's buddies were being deployed overseas, he was being interviewed by three "obvious scientists"...

James Johnson remembers the combat was continuous. [Annotator’s Note: He is referring to the Korean War which was...

Ora Hicks went to Kansas [Annotator's Note: Kansas City, Missouri] for nursing training in 1933. She had taught school...

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