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

Henry "Buck" Weaver volunteered to assign himself to a new station, not knowing what the details involved. He found out...

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

Calvin Moret was still a 19 year old teenager when his mother pinned his wings on him. The war in the Pacific ended...

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

When the war ended, Lorraine Doroff [Annotator's Note: while serving in the Women's Army Corps; women's branch of the...

Dorothy Malone was born in June 1922 in Ware, Massachusetts. Her father passed away when she was a child. Her mother...

John F. Ward was stationed at San Angelo Airfield [Annotator's Note: San Angelo, Texas] when the war ended with Europe...

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

Janice Benario met her future husband at a Latin seminar at Johns Hopkins. Benario’s husband took a position at Emory...

Virginia Hamilton wanted to go visit some German POWs [Annotator's Note: prisoners of war] at a work camp. The POWs...

Sara "Sally" Manning met her husband while he was a hospital patient [Annotator's Note: Manning worked at Naval...

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