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Violet Walsh served in World War 2 in order to do her part in the war, and she is glad she volunteered. She knows that...

[Annotator's Note: Margaret Stephensen was an administrative clerk at the Bureau of Naval Personnel in Washington, D.C...

Dorothy Malone remembers that they partied when they heard the war was over. She was married and lived on a boat. She...

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

Ora Pierce Hicks married John Hicks at a German prisoner of war camp in Arizona. She has a twin brother named Otis. She...

Constance Negrotto saw a lot during the war that she had never expected to see. She helped the war effort by working...

Betty Peak's husband got his early training in Victorville, California on the edge of the Mojave Desert. There were...

John “Johnny” Pesky was born in Portland, Oregon and went off to play baseball rather than going to college. He has a...

Edwin McAuliffe does not remember missing anything in particular during the war years however he knows his parents did...

[Annotator's Note: Rosemary Ramsey learned of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December 1941 from her...

Minnie Marcella Oleskey Shimp was born in Johnstown, Pennsylvania [Annotator's Note: in November 1923], but grew up in...

James Jeter worked for Higgins Shipyard in New Orleans, Louisiana. He welded on different vessels but did not know...

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