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Raymond Downs was in the water for almost 20 hours with no food. On the horizon, he could see 27 shrimping boats. He...

Victor Befera learned of and passed the V-12 [Annotator's Note: V-12 US Navy College Training Program, 1943 to 1946]...

When Lawson T. Winslow, Junior [Annotator's Note: an engineer on loan to the government of Iran from Standard Oil...

Dr. Hans Courant was born in 1924 in Göttingen, Germany and lived there until he was nine. He had one bother and two...

Dr. Sharon Estill Taylor only once mentioned to her adoptive father that she was thinking about trying to find out more...

Edwin McAuliffe recalls everyone being involved in the shipping industry in New Orleans at that time. He would go with...

Around 1938, Shirley Sandy Schulman began dating her future husband, Hyman, while they were in high school. Her parents...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Dr. Norman Francis how he feels about receiving the American Spirit Awards'...

June Catherine Elliott Haggerty does not feel that the war changed her even though some of the times were a bit scary....

Margaret Kerry remembers the time when no one knew if television would take over the movies. The movie stars could be...

Jean Lotter served as a WAC [Annotator's Note: Women's Army Corps; women's branch of the United States Army, 1942 to...

Amelia Taylor's father signed for her at the recruiting station [Annotator's Note: to join the Women Accepted for...

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