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James Gooch ate a lot of sweet potatoes during World War 2 because they were readily available. It was difficult to...

Dr. Hans Courant was born in 1924 in Göttingen, Germany and lived there until he was nine. He had one bother and two...

Betty Sue Drake [Annotator's Note: a paymaster in the US Marine Corps] was assigned to Washington [Annotator's Note:...

Janice Martin Benario was born in Baltimore, Maryland and went through the public school system. She wanted to go away...

Norman Mineta followed his father's lead following his military discharge. Mineta's father had made a career in the...

George Kearney was living on Magazine Street [Annotator's Note: in New Orleans, Louisiana] when he went to work for...

In Benjamin Bederson's estimation, his experience at Los Alamos, New Mexico, qualified him as a physicist. He worked...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Dr. Norman Francis how he feels about receiving the American Spirit Awards'...

Mallie Mellon heard that President Roosevelt [Annotator's Note: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United...

Margaret Kerry spent most of her time isolated. When she heard about Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the Japanese...

Audrey Maduell had an air raid shelter right across from her house. Her father would bring coffee to the workers...

June Catherine Elliott Haggerty does not feel that the war changed her even though some of the times were a bit scary....

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