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Betty Peak had one year of college when the war started. She was 14 in October [Annotator's Note: 1937] and the war...

Betty Peak worked at the Boeing Aircraft Company [Annotator's Note: in Wichita, Kansas]. Every plane had a letter...

Everybody knew what they were building there. Hans Courant was at Alamogordo for the bomb test since he had built some...

Some of the wounded would talk to Amelia Taylor about their experiences, but some did not want to. They told her that...

Betty Sue Drake [Annotator's Note: a paymaster in the US Marine Corps] was discharged after the war. She helped found a...

Catherine Long was born in 1924 in Dayton, Ohio. That was the home of her mother’s family. She soon moved to Pittsburgh...

Bobby C. Wilson was responsible for keeping inventory and books. He was sent to Pendleton [Annotator's Note: Marine...

Wagner grew up in Duluth, Minnesota. She attended high school and college in there.Her father was a ladies tailor. He...

Alexander Laughlin was born in April 1925. His parents were married in 1923. His father died in 1927 in a dental chair...

Blaine Kern remembers listening to a boxing match when he came home on leave [Annotator's Note: an authorized absence...

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

Lawson Tracy Winslow, Junior decided to use the G.I. Bill [Annotator's Note: the G.I. Bill, or Servicemen's...

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