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Dabney Montgomery remembers the night that Mount Vesuvius erupted [Annotator’s Note: he was serving with the Tuskegee...

Linda Hope saw the tremendous feelings her father had toward service people and those that worked so hard to give back...

Calvin Moret admits that the Tuskegee Airman flying experiences did not affect his life until the movie was released [...

Mary Edwards saw the world change dramatically as a result of World War 2. It was important to all the nations of the...

Patrick Russell is not certain of the importance of teaching World War 2 history to the younger generation. He would be...

Dracos Burke said that at the beginning of the war, there were a lot of things going on at once. Boeing was building...

Freeman Dyson was an admirer of the pre-World War 1 physicist Henry Moseley. The British Army was all volunteer until...

Frank Fontana was a supply sergeant [Annotator's Note: in the 93rd Medical Gas Treatment Battalion]. He had access to...

On Sunday, 7 December 1941, Donald Popham was in a movie theater when the demand flashed on the screen for all military...

There was not much down time for Class 44-7, but Bernice Haydu remembers spending a few weekends swimming at nearby...

Robert Gurr was hesitant to use the term genius in relation to Walt Disney. Disney had the DNA and the instinct to come...

Wilbur Rogers moved easily from civilian to military life because his pre-enlistment days were more strenuous than that...

John Finn lucked out. He was the right rating and got transferred to the heavy cruiser USS Houston (CA-30),...

Robert Gurr could see that Walt Disney was intimidating to certain people. Some of those people were very important...

Constance Negrotto worked at the huge facility built by Andrew Jackson Higgins at Michoud [Annotator’s Note: near New...

Donald Popham wanted to be out on the field so he put in his application for work on an engine crew. His five-months'...

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