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No one encouraged Roberta Randolph "Randy" Tidmore to join the Marines. She chose the Marines because they did not have...

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

Corrine Boggs notes that it is good that the museum [Annotator's Note: The National WWII Museum in New Orleans,...

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

Carl Nygren was drafted before he graduated high school. He had to take an exam for basic English and arithmetic. He...

After an airplane engine had flown a certain number of times it would be due for an overhaul. If it was in good...

[Annotator's Note: Calvin Elliott consults some notes to see if he left anything out of his story.] Calvin Elliott was...

Michael Clancey did duck and cover drills in school and at home as a child because of the nuclear threat. He always...

[Annotator's Note: The interview starts mid-sentence.] Alice Howie was born in February 1925 in Barrineau Park, Florida...

Jack A. Gillis was a member of the Army Air Defense observation teams on Hawaii. He was a PFC [Annotator's Note:...

William Harvey grew up in Algiers near New Orleans, Louisiana. His family never went hungry because his father worked...

When James Lee was a young kid, he was close buddies with a Japanese boy whose name was Toshi Yamamoto. They were...

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