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Dorothy Decker Ehlers was born in December 1931 in Long Beach, California and grew up there during the depression years...

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

Nelson Constant was just out there working. It was like being locked up in a room. The trees did not talk. They were...

Norma Jean Ford Beard feels museums are important to show the cost and not just the glory of war. All the veterans that...

After the war, Dieter Gruen heard people talked about the atomic bombs all the time. People wanted to talk about atoms...

Frederick Hollis was drafted in August 1952. He had 16 weeks of Army basic training in Fort Bliss, Texas, eight weeks...

Francis Higgins worked at Higgins Industries on St. Charles Avenue with his uncle [Annotator's Note: his uncle was...

Audrey Maduell had an air raid shelter right across from her house. Her father would bring coffee to the workers...

Mildred "Jean" Liparoto's husband was aboard ship when President Roosevelt [Annotator's Note: Franklin Delano Roosevelt...

Betty Soskin remembers the blackouts. She worked in San Francisco [Annotator's Note: San Francisco, California] in a...

Coleen Landry's brother Reed was married right after getting home from the war in the Pacific. He and his fiance had...

When Dr. Sharon Estill Taylor [Annotator’s Note: who worked for years to locate the crash site and remains of her...

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