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[Annotator’s Note: People in the background talk throughout the segment.] In August 1945, the Japanese surrendered...

Barbara Stables was in Mobile [Annotator’s Note: Mobile, Alabama] with her children visiting her parents when the news...

George Mitchell feels he was in an outfit that had always denied them being a part of it, the Marine Corps. He feels he...

Dolores McInnis Libby applied to work [Annotator's Note: at Consolidated Aircraft Corporation] because she had a friend...

Calvin Blank was drafted into the Army [Annotator's Note: in 1945]. He was five foot six and weighed 118 pounds. When...

George R. Bolin does not think Brown and Root [Annotator's Note: now KBR, Inc. in Houston, Texas] was in the pipeline...

There were two vacant lots near Frederick Hollis's home in Detroit. He decided to grow a Victory Garden in them. The...

[Annotator's Note: After graduating from the Women Airforce Service Pilot's program, Shirley Chase Kruse was assigned...

Margaret Brewer Henry remembers prosperity after the war. There were more jobs and people had money for cars and other...

Betty Soskin saw her work as being part of the war effort in some way, but it carried little significance. She was...

Raymond Downs and his family were taken to a hospital in Morgan City, Louisiana. They were not allowed to call their...

Calvin Moret was still a 19 year old teenager when his mother pinned his wings on him. The war in the Pacific ended...

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