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

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

Quintana did not talk about the war much when he got home. He did not talk about it with his kids, however with age he...

Henry Quinton Pike was assigned to a gun on the USS Hornet (CV-8) to transport civilians to Pearl Harbor [Annotator's...

Kenneth Killilea feels strongly that it is important to continue to study World War 2. It is essential that young...

Richard Greer left Guadalcanal on 5 or 6 January 1943 and went to Melbourne. He was very happy to be leaving the island...

Janice Evenson was shown how to do her job. [Annotator’s Note: Evenson worked at a munitions plant]. She looked at a...

Wicker was not fast enough so his buddy would help him swim along in the water [Annotators Note: during the attack on...

Boot camp was entirely foreign to Cyril de la Vergne. She had never seen so many dumb women in her life. They did not...

Jean "Marian" Alva Yancey Landry was glad to return home after the war. Adjustment was no problem as she obtained her...

As an executive officer [Annotator's Note: executive officer of 1st Battalion, 23rd Marine Regiment, 4th Marine...

Moving off the beach at Peleliu [Annotator's Note: Battle of Peleliu, codenamed Operation Stalemate II, September to...

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