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Raymond F. Downs was born in March 1934 in San Antonio, Texas. He and his brother played sports in school. Downs grew...

The events of history that Christa Schneider lived through gave her strength, and a "fullness" for the great men who...

[Annotator's Note: Lauren Swinney was a student at Northwestern University and worked as an entertainer for troops...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Dr. Norman Francis how he feels about receiving the American Spirit Awards'...

Margaret Brewer Henry's husband, John [Annotator's Note: John R. Henry, war correspondent for International News...

When the war broke out [Annotator's Note: Downs is referring to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7...

Peggy Upham was born in January 1924 in Dallas, Texas. She remembers the Great Depression. Her family did alright. They...

Everything in speech begins with the ear and Lauren Swinney had a good ear for languages. She does fairly well with...

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

Raymond Downs had gone through a storm when he noticed the ship was zig-zagging [Annotator's Note: a naval anti-...

Peggy Upham was in an accelerated program [Annotator's Note: in the Curtiss-Wright Engineering Cadettes at Purdue...

Lauren Swinney wrote an hour long show called Lauren Does Bacall. She has been planning to perform the show but Jim [...

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