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While Ruth Knutson was in WAVES, her husband-to-be was drafted. He was a baseball player for the Chicago White Sox....

Jane Biestek was born in January 1925 in the Lamport Hotel Bear Creek, Montana. Her mother was working in the hotel and...

World War 2 changed Lavenia Breaux. Before the war Breaux had the chance to talk to a woman in her neighborhood who, in...

George Mitchell was in Escondido [Annotator's Note: Escondido, California] and received a letter from a General's [...

For Tom Thurman [Annotator's Note: American filmmaker], "December 7" [Annotator's Note: "December 7: The Movie," 1943...

William Hussey feels World War 2 is still relevant today because it was an outstanding example of how the United States...

George R. Bolin could only go out to the shipyard [Annotator's Note: Brown Shipbuilding Company in Houston, Texas] on a...

Jack A. Gillis' most memorable event of the war was an errant landing of a disabled aircraft that was nearly wrecked....

Catherine Long lived in a barracks with four other WAVES [Annotator's Note: Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency...

Wagner's other brother was also in the Pacific and would write to the family telling them that he was trying to meet up...

David Dawson remembers they did a lot of close order drilling. [Annotator’s Note: Dawson was training in Florida.] They...

Walter Imahara's father cried when he got an apology for what had happened to him. [Annotator's Note: Imahara gets...

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