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James Gooch had an ice box on the outside porch. It was his job to put a signal out on the window, so the ice man knew...

Betty Peak had never had a prior job when she went to work for Boeing [Annotator's Note: Boeing Aircraft Company,...

Doctor James B. Heneghan went to patriotic events at Soldier Field [Annotator's Note: in Chicago, Illinois]. That...

Shirley Chase Kruse was born in June 1922 in Kearny, New Jersey and grew up in Newark, New Jersey. Her father was a...

Norman Mineta visited relatives while he was stationed in Japan [Annotator's Note: during the Korean War]. The...

Francis Higgins recalls the story of how Philippine mahogany wood was secured to build the PT boats. He [Annotator's...

At Northwestern University, Lauren Swinney's speech fraternity, Zeta Phi Eta, was sent to Glenview Naval Air Station....

Elizabeth Bedson Wehner was born in Nebraska and then moved to South Dakota and then Iowa. When she was 12 years old,...

Four days prior to Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December 1941],...

Dr. Sharon Estill Taylor [Annotator's Note: who decided to search for her father's remains; he was US Army Air Forces...

[Annotator's Note: There is an odd tape break at the beginning.] The family of Coleen Landry learned to be frugal and...

George Kearney was living on Magazine Street [Annotator's Note: in New Orleans, Louisiana] when he went to work for...

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