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T. Toby Kafka enlisted in the Women's Army Corps (WAC) in 1944 at the age of 20. Her family, particularly her brother,...

Elizabeth Bedson Wehner was born in Nebraska and then moved to South Dakota and then Iowa. When she was 12 years old,...

Sara "Sally" Manning's husband [Annotator's Note: William Henry Manning] was a POW [Annotator's Note: prisoner of war...

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

Charlotte Combs went to school for drawing maps. She got a job at the Higgins factory [Annotator's Note: Higgins...

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

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

The Navy made Eileen Noll a different person. She wanted to be better so that went along with the role the Navy played...

[Annotator's Note: From December 1940 until 1949, Marie Rankart worked for the General Motors Company facility in...

Erickson was born in Richland Center, Wisconsin in 1918. Her father was still fighting in World War I in France. He...

[Annotator's Note: The interview starts mid-sentence.] Alice Howie was born in February 1925 in Barrineau Park, Florida...

James Johnson went to basic training for three months. Then he went to advanced individual training for two months. He...

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