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Never having been in an airplane, Frank Ragazzi took his first ride in a Piper Cub [Annotator's Note: Piper J-3 Cub...

Lorraine Doroff drove for the War Department [Annotator's Note: as a member of the Women's Army Corps; women's branch...

Isabella Karle's research involved isolating a purer form of plutonium. The laboratory was getting the oxide from Oak...

Helen Ehlers was born in September 1923 in Cicero, Illinois. She had two brothers and one sister. Her father was a...

Betty Peak had one year of college when the war started. She was 14 in October [Annotator's Note: 1937] and the war...

Rosamund Naylor remembers 13 girls who graduated from the school. They went on the train together. They were proud to...

George Wiswell was made a third-class diver in the Navy. Most repair jobs are figured out as they are done. He was in...

Eugene J. Gemperline's most memorable experience of World War 2 was being operated on and the dizzy aftermath of post-...

During World War 2, the term PTSD [Annotator's Note: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder] did not exist, it was called...

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

Ora Hicks worked as a nurse for five years at Charity Hospital [Annotator's Note: in New Orleans, Louisiana], from 1936...

Frederick Hollis was drafted in August 1952. He had 16 weeks of Army basic training in Fort Bliss, Texas, eight weeks...

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