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During the war, there were signs all over the city [Annotator's Note: New Orleans, Louisiana]. The most impressive to...

Rita Hymel was born in Killona, Louisiana. They had a little schoolhouse and went to school barefoot. They had a pot-...

Calvin Elliott was born in February 1918 in Whitesville, Delaware. He grew up in Maryland after moving there when he...

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

At Puget Sound [Annotator's Note: Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Puget Sound, near Bremerton, Washington], Thomas W....

Gladys Anderson was born in 1922 in Lisbon, North Dakota and had two brothers and two sisters. Her grandmother gave her...

Janice Evenson was born in August 1922 in Grand Rapids, Minnesota. They had to walk a mile and a half to a country...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks John McCarthy to describe rescuing a Merchant Marine who had fallen off his...

Linda Hope realized that her father’s experience with servicemen during the war had a profound influence on his life [...

William Harvey grew up in Algiers near New Orleans, Louisiana. His family never went hungry because his father worked...

John F. Ward volunteered for service in December 1943 and took his basic training at Jefferson Barracks, Missouri. He...

Alice Howie cannot remember what dress she wore for her wedding. She got married at a minister's home in Selma, Alabama...

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