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Grace Brown thought the war would end and she would go back to her normal life. She did not think her life changed much...

Norman Mineta, his mother, father, and two sisters moved to Evanston, Illinois rather than living in Chicago where his...

Francis John "Jack" Higgins was born in October 1922 in Omaha, Nebraska. He left there at two years of age and moved to...

Lauren Swinney was born in LaSalle, Illinois and grew up in Gary, Indiana. During that time, Gary had the Carnegie...

Helmi McHardy met several people of different nationalities in Detroit [Annotator’s Note: Detroit, Michigan]. She had...

Elizabeth Bedson Wehner went to Purdue [Annotator's Note: Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana]. She had to...

Right after the attack [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December 1941], Thomas W....

Isabella Karle heard on the radio that the atom bomb had been dropped. At first she was amazed that it actually worked...

Lydia Grant witnessed the attack on the American facilities at Pearl Harbor firsthand. The Japanese strafed the...

Constance Negrotto was born on 8 August 1924 to Ralph and Inez Hinkel. When she was five years old, the family moved to...

They started flying and did not quit flying from that point on. Geraldine Nyman was stationed in Long Beach, California...

Blaine Kern remembers listening to a boxing match when he came home on leave [Annotator's Note: an authorized absence...

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