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Mary Cummings was born in Dunkirk, New York in April 1921. It was the Depression [Annotator's Note: the Great...

Jean "Marian" Alva Yancey Landry has nearly always been known as Marian Y. Landry with the Y representing her maiden...

[Annotator's Note: Corrine Boggs, also known as Lindy, was the wife of Congressman Hale Boggs then later took his...

After getting the alert prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor that Hawaii may be invaded by sea, Clarence Herbert...

Frederick Henry was born in January 1923 in Chattanooga, Tennessee and raised in Detroit [Annotator's Note: Detroit,...

Lois Meyer was born in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1920. She went to the Ursuline Academy there. She was listening to the...

Isabella Karle remembers that news of what was happening in Europe was heard on radio and reported in the newspapers....

Nelson Constant's company [Annotator's Note: Humble Oil Company] hired 13 colored boys [Annotator's Note: African-...

Helen Ehlers started working before she joined the service. She went back to work for Western Electric after her...

Rosamund Naylor was born in April 1922 in Massachusetts. Her family lived in her grandfather’s house. Her father worked...

John McCarthy was on a regular enlistment and not a draftee, so he did not automatically get out when the war was over...

Stationed in New Orleans [Annotator's Note: New Orleans, Louisiana], Violet Walsh worked for the 8th Naval District...

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