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Herbert Weatherwax was drafted into the military when he was 24 years old. He had a problem with alcohol while he was...

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

Mary R. Stricklan joined the WACs [Annotator's Note: Women's Army Corps; women's branch of the United States Army, 1942...

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

Carl Nygren remembers Washington, D.C. was a segregated town. Roosevelt [Annotator's Note: Franklin Delano Roosevelt,...

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

After returning to the camp [Annotator's Note: Fort Huachuca, Arizona], Ora Hicks was transferred to a German POW [...

Rosemary Elfer does not recall having any real issues while she was in the service. One issue that occurred at the end...

Harris H. Levee's most memorable experience of World War 2 was climbing up and down the nuclear reactor [Annotator's...

When they were finished building their positions [Annotator's Note: along the beaches of Oahu] Clarence Herbert...

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

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