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[Annotator's Note: Birds and muffled conversation can be heard in the background throughout this segment.] After...

Dr. Kenneth Arrow applied for Columbia University at 15 years old. The minimum age of acceptance was 16 years old....

When Calvin Moret was at Godman Field near Fort Knox [Annotator’s Note: Kentucky], he noted that Italian and German...

Things were still hard at the end of the war. Rationing continued for about three months. Materials started coming back...

Joseph Mittelsdorf enjoyed swimming and diving for lobsters at night in Hawaii [Annotator's Note: as part of the 5th...

Carl Nygren remembers Washington, D.C. was a segregated town. Roosevelt [Annotator's Note: Franklin Delano Roosevelt,...

Jane Biestek remembers buses of sailors passing by the window of the Ford factory. She would dance with them at night....

Bettylu Dennis served in the WAVES [Annotator's Note: Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service; United States...

George Allen was in New Orleans, Louisiana on a trip with his family when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. He was...

George Allen says that instructors have to be rough on cadets by design. After they got their wings, they were nice to...

Catherine Long had boot training in the Navy. Her parents had no objection to her joining the service. Her father was...

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

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