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George Mitchell feels the training at Montford Point [Annotator's Note: Camp Montford Point, Jacksonville, North...

Grace Brown was born in November 1921 in a farm in Texas. Growing up on a farm was tough, but she enjoyed it. She liked...

Mary Leisey saw a lot of leg injuries to go with a lot of men in full body casts. She thought they were fun to be...

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

Walter Imahara was four years old when he went into the camp. They were first sent to an assembly center in Fresno...

Bobby C. Wilson was born in West Monroe [Annotator's Note: West Monroe, Louisiana] in February 1925. His father was a...

June Tinker met her husband when she was 16 years old. He was a neighbor near the water pump where Tinker had to draw...

In 1942, Betty Soskin was a clerk in a segregated union hall in Richmond [Annotator's Note: Richmond, California]. She...

James Gooch had an ice box on the outside porch. It was his job to put a signal out on the window, so the ice man knew...

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

Lawson T. Winslow, Junior really enjoyed the Navy and would have been happy if they told him he had to stay on another...

Peggy Hitchcock was born in June 1933. Her parents were happy. She enjoyed school. They would walk across the beach....

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