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

Fredi Van Pelt was born in July 1923 in Alameda, California. She has two sisters. Van Pelt was the baby in the family....

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

George Wiswell says the past is a prologue to the future. What you learn is important. The Navy taught him to pay...

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

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

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

Joseph Traina was born in Labadieville, Louisiana in June 1917. [Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks what he recalls...

Carl Nygren remembers December 1944 in Tulsa [Annotator’s Note: Tulsa, Oklahoma]. He went to the USO [Annotator's Note...

Rosemary Fagot would not go into the u-boat [Annotator's Note: German submarine] because she is claustrophobic. [...

Michael Clancey and Greg Dust [Annotator's Note: phonetic spelling; unable to identify] once went together to fill a...

[Annotator's Note: From December 1940 until 1949, Marie Rankart worked for the General Motors Company facility in...

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