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Margaret Brewer Henry remembers prosperity after the war. There were more jobs and people had money for cars and other...

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

Norman Mineta and his family were transferred to the Japanese-American internment camp at Heart Mountain, Wyoming [...

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

Dieter Gruen graduated from Northwestern [Annotator's Note: Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois] and was...

Mary Leisey saw a lot of leg injuries to go with a lot of men in full body casts. She thought they were fun to be...

Francis Higgins became employed as an experimental test engineer at the Higgins Engine Company. They manufactured 200...

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...

Jean Lotter was born in December 1923 in Seattle, Washington. She and her twin sister, Irene, grew up in Kent,...

Lydia Smith Grant was born in Bath, Maine. Her grandfather was a banker as was her father. Her stepfather was in the...

Coleen Landry's sisters were worried about their husbands who were at war. One sister had lived in Galveston, Texas for...

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