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Lorraine Doroff was born in December 1918 on a family farm near Long Prairie, Minnesota in a log cabin. She liked...

When William Hussey graduated from high school he was too young to enter the Naval Academy, so he signed up for the...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Moise S. Steeg, Jr. what basic training was like.] Moise S. Steeg, Jr....

One of George Kearney's friends, who lives not far from him, was a ban saw operator who cut the notches for the keel...

Margaret Stephensen was born in March 1923 in Bradford, Pennsylvania. She grew up there and played in the band. After...

Doctor James B. Heneghan's father was a civil engineer. He helped design the very first pre-stressed concrete arches...

The war was a new experience for Clarence Herbert Weatherwax. During the Vietnam War young people going to college were...

James Lee's parents said the attack [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December 1941]...

Lavenia Breaux wanted to go in the service after Pearl Harbor. She always had a dream of traveling and realized the...

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

Jack A. Gillis was a member of the Army Air Defense observation teams on Hawaii. He was a PFC [Annotator's Note:...

Once the United States entered World War 2, Adelaide Benjamin followed the progress of the war in a number of ways but...

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