Table of Contents
A Common Purpose: The Residents of Brookhaven at Lexington Remember WWII and the Decades that Followed

Part One: War on the Horizon

• Helen C. Aronson June 23, 1938 - My War Begins
• Lilly Wolffers Szonyi A Hanukkah Memory
• Heidi White Cologne, Germany, 1942-1945
• Eva Gil My Life During World War II
• Jacqueline Villars Sheltering Refugees
• Susan Haller War in a Neutral Country
• Diana M. Bailey The Sound of Sirens
• Hanna Friedenstein Chandler D-Day

Part Two: Stranded Americans

• Allen C. West Evacuation, 1941
• Marnie Wengren A Ship Is Sunk at Sea

Part Three: War in Europe

• Eleanor Lane The Departure for World War II
• Albert D. Ullman A Casualty of D-Day, June 1944
• Charles B. Ketcham "Many of Us Who Are Here Carry Within Us Death"
• R. B. McAdoo A Special Education
• Hamilton R. James Where Do I Find a Cavalry Horse?
• Charles Vivian Shooting for Real
• John R. Roberts, Jr. Did Measles Change His Destiny?
• Sam Berman The Plane Was Diving Straight for the Ground
• Franklin A. Lindsay Behind Enemy Lines
• Nancy Sweezy How I Stumbled into the OSS
• Robert Solow In Real Time: Decoding-Translating-Recoding
• Anne M. Smiddy An Unusual Meeting
• Chankey Touart Winning the Bronze Star
• Al Quinzani War with the Quartermaster Corps
• June Odbert Smith A World War II "MASH" Unit
• George B. Starkey Interview

Part Four: Women in the Service

• Miriam McCue A Woman's Military Experience, 1944-1948
• Doris Eyges A Voice in the Night
• Joan Keenan The National Security Agency and Me
• Florence Trefethen The Secret of All Secrets

Part Five: Winning the War at Home

• Frederick L. Hafer A Flat Tire on the Way to West Point
• George Hanford The Battle of the Great Salt Lake
• Robert Preyer A Nagging World War II Memory
• Mary T. Simonds You've Got to Stop It!
• Harry Baldwin From the Journal of Harry Baldwin, Belmont, Massachusetts
• Eleanor Baldwin My Essential War Work
• Mary Stewart Hafer Defense Plant Work: A Wartime Education
• Lucien Theriault Seven Deferments
• Rosemary Fitzgerald I Did the Math, the Shopping and the Machining
• Barbara Kirchheimer Serving at Home and Abroad
• Mary Lou Touart College Years in World War II

Part Six: The Childrens' War

• Mary L. Bundy A Teenager Follows the War from the Home Front
• Phyllis Hinsey We Were All in This Together
• Jean Hall Never Buy Rationed Goods Without Ration Stamps
• Henry Hall Air Raid Warden and Plane Spotter
• Nancy Hubert Preparing for War in Kansas
• Barbara Rediker A Little Girl Gives Away Her Toy Teapot
• Janice Rittenburg Rossbach Jewish in America and Locating Survivors
• Janet Linn A Girl's War

Part Seven: Fighting in the Pacific

• Liz Toupin Young, Korean and Pearl Harbor
• Leonard Rothman Army Life at the Age of Eighteen
• Harry Foden My World War II Memoir
• Florence Wallach Freed My Cousin Jackie
• Will Cochran Chewing Gum
• Cliff Larson Twenty-Five Bombing Missions Over the Japanese Homeland
• Richard L. Gardner The Big Picture
• Richard Gilbert What Time Is It?
• Bob Rediker Adventures in Communications
• Robert Coquillette From Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay
• Benjamin T. Wright A Military Tourist in the Pacific: 1940-1965
• John C. Simons Beneath the Sea
• Ed Gilfix A G.I. in the CBI

Part Eight: Still Preparing for War

• Tom Sheridan Testing Survival Equipment for Air Force Test Pilots
• William F. Pounds Will I Be Able to Land?
• Norine Casey Snapshots of World War II and Vietnam

Part Nine: War Is Hell

• Ed Townsley The Ordeals of a Conscientious Objector
• Thorne Griscom Where Was I and What Was I Doing When Pearl Harbor Was Bombed?
• Ed Townsley War Is Hell-War Is Real
• Lilly Wolffers Szonyi School Days and Life in Nazi Germany (1927-1939)
• David Gil My War Experiences: World War II and Israel-Arab Wars
• Florence Wallach Freed A Memory
• Kathryn McCarthy War

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