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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...

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

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

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

Mildred "Jean" Liparoto's husband was aboard ship when President Roosevelt [Annotator's Note: Franklin Delano Roosevelt...

Betty Soskin remembers the blackouts. She worked in San Francisco [Annotator's Note: San Francisco, California] in a...

Betty Peak's most memorable experience of the war years is when the plane took off at Boeing [Annotator's Note: the...

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

Norman Mineta joined his father in the insurance business after his military discharge. He was at Berkley University in...

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

Lauren Swinney went to Northwestern University. The nuns had taught her to type when she was in boarding school and...

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