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Jean "Marian" Alva Yancey Landry has nearly always been known as Marian Y. Landry with the Y representing her maiden...

Homer Johnson remembered that during his two years of service, his mother's hair turned from black to white. People...

Nancy Lynch Castellano was born in January 1924 in Belleville, New Jersey, with three siblings. Her father worked for...

Anthony “Tony” Gallego’s most memorable experience of World War 2 was graduating as a pilot and marrying his wife. He...

Clarence Herbert Weatherwax rose through the ranks quickly [Annotator's Note: while assigned to Fort Shafter as an...

Orrin Welty was born in December 1922 in Lima, Ohio. He grew up during the Great Depression and spent summers working...

Bernice Trotter was assigned to Camp Pendleton [Annotator's Note: Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton in San Diego County...

On the day she was discharged [Annotator's Note: from the Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES);...

John McCarthy was on a regular enlistment and not a draftee, so he did not automatically get out when the war was over...

Isabella Karle remembers that news of what was happening in Europe was heard on radio and reported in the newspapers....

Nelson Constant's company [Annotator's Note: Humble Oil Company] hired 13 colored boys [Annotator's Note: African-...

Lauren Swinney picked up words during the war like ersatz which meant a substitute for something. She recalls the pin-...

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