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When Belisario de Jesus "Bel" Flores got out of the Army, he still had a dream of being an officer. There was a...

Margaret Stephensen was born in March 1923 in Bradford, Pennsylvania. She grew up there and played in the band. After...

Joseph “Joe” Maynard went to Jacksonville, Florida for aviation school for three months. When he finished school, he...

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

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

Lorraine Doroff's most memorable experience of World War 2 is signing up and training [Annotator's Note: with the...

John F. Ward was discharged from the service in late 1945 from in Rome, New York as a corporal. He was given a four-...

William B. Hughes knew he wanted to be a soldier when he first saw his brother in uniform. He eventually joined the...

Medary G. Boudreaux was drafted, but a subsequent high test score and his IQ allowed him to go to Sheppard Field north...

Lavenia Breaux had to find out through the grapevine that her friend had been killed. Sensitive information like that...

Rosemary Ramsey feels that there should be institutions like The National WWII Museum [Annotator's Note: in New Orleans...

Right after the attack [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December 1941], martial law...

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