"The good war": an oral history of World War Two

A Sunday morning: John Garcia. Ron Veenker. Dennis Keegan. Peter Ota. Mayor Tom Bradley. Yuriko Hohri. Frank Keegan

A chance encounter: Robert Rasmus. Richard M. (Red) Prendergast

Tales of the Pacific: E.B. (Sledgehammer) Sledge. Maurice E. (Jack) Wilson. Robert Lekachman. Peter Bezich. Anton Bilek

The good Reuben James: Bill Bailey. David Milton

Rosie: Peggy Terry. Pauline Kael. Sarah Killingsworth. Evelyn Fraser. Dellie Hahne. Betty Basye Hutchinson

Neighborhood boys: Mike Royko. Mayor Tom Bradley. Paul Pisicano. Mickey Ruiz. Jack Short. Dempsey Travis. Don McFadden. Win Stracke. Johnny DeGrazio

Reflections on machismo: John H. Abbott. Roger Tuttrup. Ted Allenby

High rank: Admiral Gene LaRocque. General William Buster

The bombers and the bombed: John Ciardi. Akira Miuri. John Kenneth Galbraith. Eddie Costello and Ursula Bender. Jean Wood.

Growing up: here and there: John Baker. Sheril Cunning. Yasuko Kurachi Dower. Galatea Berger. Werner Burckhardt. Jean Bartlett. Oleg Tsakumov. Marcel Ophuls

D-day and all that: Elliott Johnson. Joe Hanley. Charles A. Gates. Timuel Black. Rosemary Hanley. Dr. Alex Shulman. Frieda Wolff

Boogie woogie bugle boy: Maxine Andrews

Sudden money: Ray Wax. George C. Page. A quiet little boom town. Lee Oremont

The big panjandrum: Thomas G. (Tommy the Cork) Corcoran. James Rowe. Hamilton Fish. John Kenneth Galbraith. Virginia Durr. Joe Marcus. Joseph L. Rauh, Jr. W. Averell Harriman. Earl B. Dickerson

Flying high: Lowell Steward

Up front with pen, camera, and mike: John Houseman. Herman Kogan. Henry Hatfield. Alfred Duckett. Milton Caniff. Garson Kanin. Bill Mauldin. Richard Leacock. Walter Rosenblum.

Crime and punishment: Alvin (Tommy) Bridges. Joseph Small. Hans Göbeler and James Sanders. Charlie Miller. Jacques Raboud. Walter and Olga Nowak. Erich Lüth. Vitaly Korotich. Joseph Levine

A turning point: Joseph Polowsky. Galina Alexeyeva. Mikhail Nikolaevich Alexeyev. Viktor Andreyevich Kondratenko. Grigori Baklanov

Chilly winds: Telford Taylor. Eileen Barth. Arno Mayer. Anthony Scariano. Erhard Dabringhaus. Irving Goff. Milton Wolff. Hans Massaquoi

Is you is or is you ain't my baby?: Philip Morrison. John H. Grove. Marnie Seymour. Bill Barney. Hajimi Kito and Hideko Tamura (Tammy) Friedman. Victory Tolley. John Smitherman. Joseph Stasiak

Remembrance of things past: Nancy Arnot Harjan. paul Edwards

Epilogue: boom babies and other new people: Nora Watson. Joachim Adler and Marlene Schmidt. Steve McConnell. Debbie Cooney. George Seymour. Street-Corner Kids.