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Stella Sarnacki found out that her father died from causes of the war like the gas. She does not remember her...

[Annotator's Note: George Mitchell served on the Commandant's staff in Arlington, Virginia at Headquarters Marine Corps...

Wagner grew up in Duluth, Minnesota. She attended high school and college in there.Her father was a ladies tailor. He...

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: People in the background talk throughout the segment.] In August 1945, the Japanese surrendered...

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

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

Richmond Hamilton describes squadron life as his first exposure to an integrated unit where he had real...

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

Betty Soskin remembers the blackouts. She worked in San Francisco [Annotator's Note: San Francisco, California] in a...

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

Peggy Upham went to work at the Columbus Plant of Curtiss-Wright [Annotator's Note: Curtiss-Wright Airplane Division of...

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