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Four days prior to Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December 1941],...

Orrin Welty was born in December 1922 in Lima, Ohio. He grew up during the Great Depression and spent summers working...

Jean "Marian" Alva Yancey Landry had a friendship with a future famous photographer, George Tames. Tames went on to...

Belisario de Jesus "Bel" Flores is from San Antonio, Texas. He served from January 1945 to August 1946. He remained...

[Annotator's Note: Nelson Constant worked for an oil company in Louisiana. He details the job.] Constant worried about...

Norman Mineta finished high school in San Jose. The same students he attended class with in the 5th grade before...

When Higgins [Annotator's Note: Higgins Industries in New Orleans, Louisiana] advertised for openings in their aircraft...

Lorraine Doroff was born in December 1918 on a family farm near Long Prairie, Minnesota in a log cabin. She liked...

When Edna Davis got to Sweetwater, Texas [Annotator's Note: Avenger Field], she was in the first group there. It was a...

After her time in the WAVES [Annotator's Note: Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service; United States Naval...

Lydia Grant witnessed the attack on the American facilities at Pearl Harbor firsthand. The Japanese strafed the...

Janice Evenson returned home. She got on the railroad and joined a group of women who were going to boot camp. They...

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