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[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks John McCarthy what he remembers about the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor,...

Gretchen Wronka’s father, Loren Hintz, was killed in action while serving in the Army Air Corps during World War 2....

Belisario de Jesus "Bel" Flores read that the brunt of the manpower in World War 2 came from the high school classes of...

John F. Ward was born in 1925 and raised in Pontiac, Michigan. He grew up with one brother and two sisters. His father...

David Klinepeter does not think that young people know enough about World War 2. He thinks young people need to know...

Virginia Hamilton was not content with just working in Alabama. She soon moved up to Washington DC and found work as a...

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

Lorraine Doroff signed up for the Women Auxiliary Army [Annotator's Note: Women's Army Auxiliary Army Corps or WAAC;...

After a brief furlough [Annotator's Note: an authorized absence for a short period of time], Eugene J. Gemperline was...

Betty Peak had never had a prior job when she went to work for Boeing [Annotator's Note: Boeing Aircraft Company,...

There was a young man with whom Violet Walsh corresponded throughout the war. He was her high school pen pal from...

Adelaide Benjamin remembers the first Christmas tree the family had out there [Annotator's Note: in El Paso, Texas]....

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