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

Blaine Kern served in the Army for about two years. When he returned home, he was in a camp in California. In 1947, he...

George R. Bolin's father [Annotator's Note: Lodwick Timothy "LT" Bolin] never got involved in politics. He managed the...

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

When the WASPs [Annotator's Note: Women Airforce Service Pilots] first started out, they had to have 200 hours [...

Everything in speech begins with the ear and Lauren Swinney had a good ear for languages. She does fairly well with...

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

The training was on the job. Erickson learned most of her secretarial duties on the job. They did not study outside of...

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

Margaret Kerry felt special she had been chosen to play Tinkerbell [Annotator's Note: the sassy fairy in Disney's 1953...

Before graduating from high school, Dr. Norman Francis did very little in terms of working in the war effort. He was...

[Annotator's Note: George Kearney grew up in New Orleans, Louisiana and was an employee of Higgins Industries from 1937...

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