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Adelaide Benjamin and her family saw the war in the movie theaters on the Movietone News films. The graphic images...

George Allen says that instructors have to be rough on cadets by design. After they got their wings, they were nice to...

Ernest Jackson was sitting in a movie theater watching a musical when the movie was stopped and it was announced that...

John “Johnny” Pesky found himself lost while flying during flight training. Landing in a farmer’s field, he admitted...

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

Catherine Long had boot training in the Navy. Her parents had no objection to her joining the service. Her father was...

Minnie Marcella Oleskey Shimp [Annotator's Note: a Pharmacist's Mate in the United States Navy Nurse Corps] returned...

Carl Nygren remembers December 1944 in Tulsa [Annotator’s Note: Tulsa, Oklahoma]. He went to the USO [Annotator's Note...

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

June Tinker was 16 years old and living in Pax, West Virginia when Pearl Harbor was attacked. She heard the news after...

Michael Clancey and Greg Dust [Annotator's Note: phonetic spelling; unable to identify] once went together to fill a...

Shirley Chase Kruse had many memorable experiences of World War 2. She decided to serve because she wanted a challenge...

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