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James Gooch was born in Gilmer, Texas in May 1939. He clearly recalls sitting with the family in front of their large...

Barbara Stables remembers that the bombing of Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor,...

Things were still hard at the end of the war. Rationing continued for about three months. Materials started coming back...

Isabella Karle said that certain measures were taken to insure against radiation sickness, including the daily...

The Japanese attack [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December 1941] started at five...

Norman Mineta attended a cabinet meeting on Thursday, 13 September [Annotator's Note: two days after the 11 September...

Jean Lotter was born in December 1923 in Seattle, Washington. She and her twin sister, Irene, grew up in Kent,...

Norman Mineta joined his father in the insurance business after his military discharge. He was at Berkley University in...

Lauren Swinney went to Northwestern University. The nuns had taught her to type when she was in boarding school and...

William Hussey enlisted in the Navy because he grew up with it, and it seemed the thing to do once he reached adulthood...

Starting about 1940, Brown Shipyard [Annotator's Note: Brown Shipbuilding Company in Houston, Texas] began as a result...

Mildred Aupied was influenced by her work at the shipyard [Annotator’s Note: she was a welder at the Delta Shipbuilding...

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