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The USCGC Storis (WMEC-38) was a brand-new ship. Traina reported to it in Duluth, Minnesota. They sailed it to Boston [...

Robert Francis Jones joined the Coast Guard on his 18th birthday. He was very disappointed at first [Annotator’s Note:...

After completing basic training in New York [Annotator's Note: New York, New York] and more training in Memphis,...

Alice Howie did not get involved in anything in the war effort other than in Arlington, Virginia. She worked for IBM [...

Marion Meredith Beal believes that he and his peers [Annotator's Note: Montford Point Marines] were the beginnings of...

The ship Lawson T. Winslow, Jr. was assigned to [Annotator's Note: the USS Monrovia (APA-31)] had seen a lot of combat...

Calvin Moret volunteered for the Army Air Corps. Following testing, he was accepted on 14 October 1943. He was sent for...

Coleen Landry's sisters were worried about their husbands who were at war. One sister had lived in Galveston, Texas for...

William Harvey served on a converted yacht named the USS Onyx (PYc-5). Onyx was 125 feet long with two diesel driven...

Bernie Smith was born in March 1919 in Columbus, Ohio. She graduated from high school and took some college courses at...

Arthur Kuhn owed the government service and received a commission after he completed medical school [Annotator's Note:...

Irene Bartley was born in December 1923 in Seattle [Annotator’s Note: Seattle, Washington]. She and her twin sister...

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