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Marilyn Strelow Groel enjoyed her boot camp experience, especially the instruction on how to salute, march, and obey...

James Johnson came back to the United States and was supposed to go to an advanced course. They pulled him out and put...

Irene Bartley and her twin sister, Jean, joined the WACs [Annotator's Note: Women's Army Corps; women's branch of the...

Lillian Drucker was born in July 1925 in Biloxi, Mississippi. She grew up there, attended school, and got married. Her...

Jack Vandervort chose to leave the US Merchant Marine. He did not like it too well. He was drafted and went to Camp...

Zeno St. Cyr was secretary for the CDD Board [Annotator's Note: the Certificate of Discharge for Disability Board at...

[Annotator's Note: Birds and muffled conversation can be heard in the background throughout this segment.] After...

Calvin Moret and the Tuskegee Airmen helped break down racial barriers. They did not realize at the time that they were...

Helen Kushnir is just beginning to realize that it mattered [Annotator's Note: being a woman working in a factory for...

Joseph Mittelsdorf enjoyed swimming and diving for lobsters at night in Hawaii [Annotator's Note: as part of the 5th...

William "Ted" Hussey was born in 1933 in Washington, D.C., and lived in that area five different times during his life...

Mary Leisey was born in Honey Brooke, Pennsylvania. It was a small town of nearly 1,000 people. She enjoyed growing up...

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