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John “Johnny” Pesky found himself lost while flying during flight training. Landing in a farmer’s field, he admitted...

Carl Nygren was drafted before he graduated high school. He had to take an exam for basic English and arithmetic. He...

Norman Mineta was born in 1931 in San Jose, California. He had a great childhood in the agricultural community. His...

Florence Reynolds finished training on 6 June 1944. Afterwards, she was stationed in California. She was allowed to...

[Annotator's Note: From December 1940 until 1949, Marie Rankart worked for the General Motors Company facility in...

Bowdre McDowell became a volunteer at the museum [Annotator's Note: The National World War Museum in New Orleans,...

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

Snapp was born in Washington D.C. She lived there for about two years and then moved to Colorado. She eventually moved...

Michael Clancey did duck and cover drills in school and at home as a child because of the nuclear threat. He always...

For Diana Belliard, life in Berlin, Germany was wonderful. It was an easy life for a child. She was home schooled and...

Mildred Loscalzo Vanderpool heard about the atomic bombs [Annotator's Note: nuclear weapons dropped on Hiroshima, Japan...

Adelaide Benjamin and her family saw the war in the movie theaters on the Movietone News films. The graphic images...

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