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One night, Lois Meyer was coming back on base at Parris Island and was wondering where her husband was. There had been...

Edwin McAuliffe recalls everyone being involved in the shipping industry in New Orleans at that time. He would go with...

John F. Ward was very excited to find out that his commanding officer at San Angelo Airfield [Annotator's Note: San...

Violet Walsh was born in 1920 in L'anse Au Tigres, or Tiger's Cove, a small settlement between Eunice and Basile in...

Janice Evenson wanted to go back to college. When she returned home, the high school asked her to teach math. Then a...

William B. Hughes was in Wiesbaden during the occupation [Annotator's Note: Hughes was in Germany serving in the United...

Guy Grenny was a cadet in ROTC [Annotator's Note: Reserve Officer Training Corps]. He was preparing for going to war....

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

In early January [Annotator's Note: January 1944], Bowdre McDowell went to Great Lakes, Illinois [Annotator's Note:...

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

Harris H. Levee's most memorable experience of World War 2 was climbing up and down the nuclear reactor [Annotator's...

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

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