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Snapp enjoyed flying the PQ-8. It had tricycle landing gear and it was fun and easy to land. It was highly maneuverable...

Bane Cook went to Great Lakes, Illinois [Annotator's Note: Naval Station Great Lakes in Lake County, Illinois] for...

Betty Peak was born October 1923 in a small town in Plains, Meade County, Kansas. Her grandfather was an Irish...

T. Toby Kafka was born in Kingston, New York in October 1924 and grew up in Manhattan [Annotator's Note: Manhattan is...

Alvin Russo was 62 years old when he retired. During World War 2 he was in the Army. During the Korean War [Annotator’s...

Stella Sarnacki knew the work she was doing was important. Her brother [Annotator’s Note: who was serving in the Marine...

George Wiswell learned how to dive in the Navy. Wiswell was given a sheet of commands for line pulls under water as...

There was a young man with whom Violet Walsh corresponded throughout the war. He was her high school pen pal from...

Guy Grenny returned home to the United States from the Philippines via the Aleutian Islands to San Francisco [Annotato'...

Sara "Sally" Manning's duties at the hospital [Annotator's Note: Manning worked at Naval Hospital Boston, Chelsea,...

Things were still hard at the end of the war. Rationing continued for about three months. Materials started coming back...

Ora Hicks went to Kansas [Annotator's Note: Kansas City, Missouri] for nursing training in 1933. She had taught school...

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