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

After joining the Coast Guard [Annotator’s Note: in 1944], Eileen Noll was sent to West Palm Beach [Annotator’s Note:...

Adelaide Benjamin knows the preservation of the memory of the war by The National WWII Museum is important. She has...

Lauren Swinney picked up words during the war like ersatz which meant a substitute for something. She recalls the pin-...

Marion Meredith Beal was born in October 1922 in Jefferson, Texas. He had a small family. He was the only child for a...

James Lee was born in 1930 on Oahu [Annotator's Note: Oahu, Hawaii] in a little community called Kalauao. It is no...

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

Marie Rankart was at a dress shop in Elizabeth, New Jersey buying a dress when she heard the news that the war was over...

Debra Stern [Annotator's Note: in the Women's Army Corps; women's branch of the US Army, 1942-1978] was at Camp Shanks...

Helen Kushnir was born in February 1926 in Dearborn, Michigan and has been there all of her life. She had three sisters...

Marilyn Strelow Groel was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1924 and grew up in Maplewood, New Jersey. Groel moved to...

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

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