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Ernest Jackson was sitting in a movie theater watching a musical when the movie was stopped and it was announced that...

June Tinker was 16 years old and living in Pax, West Virginia when Pearl Harbor was attacked. She heard the news after...

At Oak Ridge [Annotator's Note: Oak Ridge, Tennessee], there were three shifts running all the time. Dieter Gruen...

Doctor James B. Heneghan's father was a civil engineer. He helped design the very first pre-stressed concrete arches...

Norman Mineta saw no newspapers in the camp. No radios were allowed. The only mail that arrived came from family...

Betty Sue Drake went to paymaster school after basic training and was sent then to Washington [Annotator's Note:...

Frances Meikrantz was working in the office of the people who got the equipment. She worked for the quartermaster. They...

Spencer Yancey kept up with the war overseas. When Pearl Harbor was bombed [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on...

Lydia Smith Grant was born in Bath, Maine. Her grandfather was a banker as was her father. Her stepfather was in the...

Lora E. Daniel was born August 1917 in Florence, Alabama. She was the youngest of five children. They farmed and she...

Rosemary Elfer does not recall any instances of discrimination either while working for Higgins Industries or while...

Alexander Laughlin went out west in the summer times. His mother thought he had asthma. He went to St. Paul’s for four...

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