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William B. Hughes was born in April 1927 in Nashville, Tennessee. Nashville was a country town at that time. His father...

Frederick Hollis was drafted in August 1952. He had 16 weeks of Army basic training in Fort Bliss, Texas, eight weeks...

George Wiswell says the past is a prologue to the future. What you learn is important. The Navy taught him to pay...

Fredi Van Pelt was born in July 1923 in Alameda, California. She has two sisters. Van Pelt was the baby in the family....

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

Joseph Traina was born in Labadieville, Louisiana in June 1917. [Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks what he recalls...

Carl Nygren was drafted before he graduated high school. He had to take an exam for basic English and arithmetic. He...

No one encouraged Roberta Randolph "Randy" Tidmore to join the Marines. She chose the Marines because they did not have...

Peggy Upham was born in January 1924 in Dallas, Texas. She remembers the Great Depression. Her family did alright. They...

[Annotator's Note: Calvin Elliott consults some notes to see if he left anything out of his story.] Calvin Elliott was...

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

Michael Clancey did duck and cover drills in school and at home as a child because of the nuclear threat. He always...

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