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John “Johnny” Pesky volunteered for the Navy because he did not want to be drafted. He got into a program where he was...

Harris H. Levee was born in August 1919 in Sheepshead Bay in Brooklyn, New York [Annotator's Note: Brooklyn is one of...

Delano Brister's grandfather had a barn on his property that was used once during a military training operation by a...

Minnie Marcella Oleskey Shimp went into nurse training in Washington, D.C. They had a bomb scare and a friend told her...

[Annotator's Note: Joseph Traina served in the US Coast Guard as a radioman aboard the USCGC Comanche (WPG76).] In...

Calvin Elliott did not use the G.I. Bill. He had an occupation. He worked with women all of his life. When he retired,...

Peggy Upham was in an accelerated program [Annotator's Note: in the Curtiss-Wright Engineering Cadettes at Purdue...

Carl Nygren had to go on a 25-mile march with a full pack. He saw some people pass out afterward. After 20 miles, the...

James Lee could not fight in World War 2, but when the Korean War [Annotator's Note: Korean War, 25 June 1950 to 27...

Snapp met some of the women in the First Air Force class, some were astronauts. They had a tough time as well. Snapp's...

William Harvey was called to active duty in April 1941. There was the 1st Division, 2nd Division and the 6th Division [...

Michael Clancey felt anger about the ambushes carried out on American convoys [Annotator's Note: in Vietnam during the...

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