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

Frank Ragazzi's decision to serve in the armed forces was influenced by the propaganda he saw at the movies. He would...

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

Ora Pierce Hicks married John Hicks at a German prisoner of war camp in Arizona. She has a twin brother named Otis. She...

John “Johnny” Pesky was born in Portland, Oregon and went off to play baseball rather than going to college. He has a...

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

During World War 2, the term PTSD [Annotator's Note: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder] did not exist, it was called...

Bowdre McDowell was born in October 1923 in Amite County in southwest Mississippi. He grew up on a cotton farm and...

Charlotte Combs went to school for drawing maps. She got a job at the Higgins factory [Annotator's Note: Higgins...

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

Minnie Marcella Oleskey Shimp was born in Johnstown, Pennsylvania [Annotator's Note: in November 1923], but grew up in...

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

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