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Hans Courant and the others went back to Los Alamos where he was told that he would be released to go back to college....

Helene Minehira and her family were on their property [Annotator's Note: in Ewa Beach, Hawaii] on the morning of 7...

Norma Jean Ford Beard lost her father in the war. His remains were only recovered recently. [Annotator’s Note: Beard's...

Spencer Yancey remembers that all of their equipment was pretty basic, and there were not a lot of new improvements....

Alexander Laughlin heard his stepfather, Tommy Hitchcock [Annotator’s Note: Thomas Hitchcock Jr. was an American polo...

Margaret Kerry spent most of her time isolated. When she heard about Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the Japanese...

In Benjamin Bederson's estimation, his experience at Los Alamos, New Mexico, qualified him as a physicist. He worked...

Charles Brightman Skinner was aboard a Liberty ship [Annotator's Note: a class of quickly produced cargo ship] heading...

On a small island in the Pacific Ocean, some native peoples were fascinated by some crystal balls floating in the air...

Francis Higgins became employed as an experimental test engineer at the Higgins Engine Company. They manufactured 200...

Leading up to the test [Annotator's Note: Trinity test, code name for the first detonation of a nuclear device, 16 July...

Linda Hope thanks God for the amazing secretary employed by her dad during the war [Annotator’s Note: Linda Hope is the...

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