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Carolyn Bridgforth was born in February 1923 in Aberdeen, Mississippi. It was wonderful growing up there. No crime,...

Marietta Baham worked at Jackson Barracks [Annotator's Note: Louisiana National Guard base in New Orleans, Louisiana]...

Medary G. Boudreaux was born in New Orleans, Louisiana in June 1921. Prior to the war, he attended Commercial High...

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

Edwin McAuliffe remembers everyone having a Victory garden during the war. The McAuliffes also had chickens. McAuliffe'...

Helene Minehira [Annotator's Note: a person of Japanese descent in Hawaii] worked at Fort Shafter [Annotator's Note: in...

James Gooch was born in Gilmer, Texas in May 1939. He clearly recalls sitting with the family in front of their large...

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

Barbara Stables remembers that the bombing of Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor,...

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

Frederick Hollis was drafted in August 1952. He had 16 weeks of Army basic training in Fort Bliss, Texas, eight weeks...

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

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