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

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

While her husband, Hyman, was deployed overseas in Europe during World War 2, Shirley Sandy Schulman found a job as a...

Martha Tolles got a phone call saying her husband was coming home. He wanted her to fly out to LA [Annotator’s Note:...

As a kid, everything James Gooch knew about the military was through movies. As an adult, he stopped in a shop on base...

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

Constance Negrotto and her friend Dorothy Toups worked at a hospital after her shift at the PBY plant [Annotator’s Note...

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

World War 2 was when women entered the workforce in great numbers. Many women went back to the home after their...

Mallie Mellon was born in Hazard, Kentucky in October 1919. She had three sisters and one brother, and was the youngest...

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

Thomas W. Gillette's days were busy while he lived at the shipyard [Annotator's Note: Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Puget...

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