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Geraldine Nyman only knows one girl from the second graduating class of WASPs [Annotator's Note: Women Airforce Service...

Loraine Osborne joined the war effort because a lot of her friends were going into the war. Her sister went to work in...

Walter Imahara had an uncle who farmed with his father in Florin outside of Sacramento. His uncle had a lot of children...

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

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

Edwin McAuliffe does not remember missing anything in particular during the war years however he knows his parents did...

Jane Biestek worked at Yellowstone National Park when she in Montana. Her father would log there during the summer when...

Blaine Kern was sent to Korea. People were taking the children and throwing them into the snow. The soldiers gave the...

Even though she was young, Marie Rankart paid attention to world events. At the time, young people had more of an...

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

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

Nelson Constant was born in December 1914 in Bayou Buff, Louisiana. He remembers a soldier that came back from World...

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