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Calvin Blank was drafted into the Army [Annotator's Note: in 1945]. He was five foot six and weighed 118 pounds. When...

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

Dr. Kenneth Arrow sees the most important lesson of World War 2 as it is related to the costliness of war. War can be...

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

Before graduating from high school, Dr. Norman Francis did very little in terms of working in the war effort. He was...

Frances Meikrantz was born in 1921 in Worcester, Massachusettes. It was a nice town. She grew up during the Depression...

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

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Lawson T. Winslow, Junior, an engineer working for Standard Oil Company (later...

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

Louise Settles worked in personnel, mostly making assignments. She had never left the United States before the Army....

Victor Befera was a replacement for those stationed overseas, and those stationed with the most points [Annotator's...

Spencer Yancey was older and he had a wife. He enjoyed the service magazines. He supported them over the years. He...

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