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Benjamin Bederson always knew he would be a scientist, but in 1942, he began his military career in the Army. He was 20...

Helen Ehlers started working before she joined the service. She went back to work for Western Electric after her...

Sara "Sally" Manning met her husband while he was a hospital patient [Annotator's Note: Manning worked at Naval...

Norman Mineta became involved in the Asian-American Caucus when President Clinton [Annotator's Note: President William...

George Wiswell started his own business after the war [Annotator's Note: Marine Contracting, Inc. followed by Southport...

John “Johnny” Pesky was in baseball his whole life. It enabled him to see a lot of things and play with some great...

[Annotator's Note: George Kearney grew up in New Orleans, Louisiana and was an employee of Higgins Industries from 1937...

Louis J. Brown, Jr. and a friend bought a 1929 Model A convertible [Annotator's Note: 1929 Ford Model A convertible]...

Ralph Gay went into the construction business when he returned home. He built houses. He used the G.I. Bill [Annotator'...

Ora Hicks treated injured soldiers using physiotherapy [Annotator's Note: disease treatment by means other than drugs...

Clarence Herbert Weatherwax rose through the ranks quickly [Annotator's Note: while assigned to Fort Shafter as an...

Minnie Marcella Oleskey Shimp [Annotator's Note: a Pharmacist 's Mate in the United States Navy Nurse Corps] thought...

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