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Doctor James B. Heneghan's father was a civil engineer. He helped design the very first pre-stressed concrete arches...

Just before she went into the WASPs [Annotator's Note: Women Airforce Service Pilots], Norma Halberg and another girl,...

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

Margaret Brewer Henry attended college from 1945 through 1949. She felt like she was well prepared because her...

Frederick Hollis was drafted in August 1952. He had 16 weeks of Army basic training in Fort Bliss, Texas, eight weeks...

Betty Sue Drake went to paymaster school after basic training and was sent then to Washington [Annotator's Note:...

Alton Bourg entered service in the Army at Fort Meade, Maryland [Annotator's Note: Fort George Meade, Maryland] and was...

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

Spencer Yancey kept up with the war overseas. When Pearl Harbor was bombed [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on...

The young men were gone, and women were needed to work. Mildred "Jean" Liparoto's sister-in-law started working at...

Alexander Laughlin went out west in the summer times. His mother thought he had asthma. He went to St. Paul’s for four...

Benjamin Bederson's first job at Los Alamos, New Mexico was exploding steel tubes using a primer cord and strain gauges...

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