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Norma Halberg was born in 1923 and grew up in Los Angeles, California. It was a good life. It was during the Depression...

William Hussey feels World War 2 is still relevant today because it was an outstanding example of how the United States...

John “Johnny” Pesky volunteered for the Navy because he did not want to be drafted. He got into a program where he was...

Ernest Jackson received his draft notice. He did not know if he was going to qualify. He was amazed he passed that day...

Fredi Van Pelt went through basic training in Camp Lejeune, North Carolina [Annotator's Note: Marine Corps Base Camp...

Charlotte Combs returned to Louisiana when her husband got out of the service. They did not have children yet. Her...

Minnie Marcella Oleskey Shimp went into nurse training in Washington, D.C. They had a bomb scare and a friend told her...

Dr. Kenneth Arrow explains his ideas on the contingent market concept. Contingent markets could have softened the...

Roberta Randolph "Randy" Tidmore could go to officer's training after basic training [Annotator's Note: Marine Corps,...

Bettylu Dennis was born in April 1923 in Aurora, Indiana. Beginning in fifth grade, the family moved around several...

Catherine Long lived in a barracks with four other WAVES [Annotator's Note: Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency...

They [Annotator's Note: Walter Imahara and many of the other Japanese-Americans held at the Fresno Assembly Center]...

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