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

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

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

Alton Bourg was stationed with men who were mostly from Pennsylvania and were professionals in their civilian lives....

Rosemary Elfer was born in Grand Bay, Alabama in 1924 even though all of her ancestors were born in Louisiana....

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

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

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

Murray Glass went to Poland in 1933 with his family. They visited relatives there. The summer was spent in Ostrołe̜ka,...

Debra Stern wanted to do her part to help win the war America but did not want to have a military job sitting behind a...

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

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

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