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Fredi Van Pelt went through basic training in Camp Lejeune, North Carolina [Annotator's Note: Marine Corps Base Camp...

Ora Hicks entered the military at Camp Livingston, Louisiana. She then went to Fort Huachuca [Annotator's Note: in...

John “Johnny” Pesky volunteered for the Navy because he did not want to be drafted. He got into a program where he was...

Roberta Randolph "Randy" Tidmore could go to officer's training after basic training [Annotator's Note: Marine Corps,...

Carl Nygren was stationed in Oklahoma for training. They had to become map readers. They would be dropped in the woods...

Minnie Marcella Oleskey Shimp went into nurse training in Washington, D.C. They had a bomb scare and a friend told her...

It was raining one day on base [Annotator's Note: Camp Montford Point, Jacksonville, North Carolina]. Their mattresses...

Michael Clancey followed the news of the Vietnam War [Annotator's Note: Vietnam War, or Second Indochina War, 1...

Marie Rankart did not smoke but her sister did. Her sister would ask her to get her cigarettes when she came across...

After war started, Alice Howie went to Arlington, Virginia to work for IBM [Annotator's Note: International Business...

James Jeter was drafted in 1944 but did not pass the physical examination at Fort Humbug [Annotator’s Note: in...

Coleen Perilloux Landry was born in February 1936 in New Orleans, Louisiana. Her family owned a sugarcane plantation in...

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