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Boot camp was entirely foreign to Cyril de la Vergne. She had never seen so many dumb women in her life. They did not...

Nancy Lynch Castellano [Annotator's Note: in the WAVES, Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service; United States...

Clarence Herbert Weatherwax returned to Hawaii, took advantage of the GI Bill and went to school. After he got home he...

Some of the wounded would talk to Amelia Taylor about their experiences, but some did not want to. They told her that...

Mildred Aupied worked on three Liberty ships at Delta [Annotator’s Note: she was a welder at the Delta Shipbuilding...

Bernice Trotter had graduated high school and she was working for an insurance company. It was a one-woman office....

When he was flying experimental missions, Orrin Welty said he never knew the nature of the business. He describes how...

Henry T. Meyer took boxing lessons under Jack Dempsey [Annotator's Note: William Harrison "Jack" Dempsey; American...

Rudy Huval and his four brothers went into the service. Ivan was the oldest brother [Annotator’s Note: Ivan was killed...

Edwin McAuliffe was more interested in the war in Europe. He was also interested in the air war in England because his...

Thomas W. Gillette's most memorable experience of World War 2 was seeing the Japanese planes fly over his house during...

Isabella Karle's research involved isolating a purer form of plutonium. The laboratory was getting the oxide from Oak...

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