Search results

Map is loading...

Lauren Swinney picked up words during the war like ersatz which meant a substitute for something. She recalls the pin-...

Helmi McHardy thinks it is important for young women to know what she did. It should be the man and woman working...

Betty Soskin remembers the blackouts. She worked in San Francisco [Annotator's Note: San Francisco, California] in a...

When they [Annotator's Note: Walter Imahara and many of the other Japanese-Americans interned at the Jerome War...

Richard Guthrie was born in November 1933 at the Quantico Marine Corps Air Station in Quantico, Virginia. His father...

[Annotator's Note: After graduating from the Women Airforce Service Pilot's program, Shirley Chase Kruse was assigned...

As a veteran, Lawson Tracy Winslow, Junior is often thanked for his service. It surprises him. During World War 2, the...

Alton Bourg does not remember where he heard about the atomic bombs [Annotator's Note: nuclear weapons dropped on...

Mildred "Jean" Liparoto was born in Vincennes, Indiana in 1919. Her mother was 19 and her father was a widower with two...

Raymond Downs and his family were taken to a hospital in Morgan City, Louisiana. They were not allowed to call their...

Helene Minehira [Annotator's Note: a person of Japanese descent living in Hawaii] and her family were forces off their...

Lora E. Daniel knew what was going on with the war, but her life was so busy that she probably did not think about it...

Oral History