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[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks George Wiswell what it was like when the war ended.] Thank goodness it was over...

William Harvey grew up in Algiers near New Orleans, Louisiana. His family never went hungry because his father worked...

David Dawson was in Hollywood, Florida at Navy gunnery school. He would pick up people that lived off the station and...

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

David Klinepeter worked at a drugstore before he went into the service. After the service, the owner took him back and...

Amelia Taylor's father signed for her at the recruiting station [Annotator's Note: to join the Women Accepted for...

Minnie Marcella Oleskey Shimp [Annotator's Note: a Pharmacist's Mate in the United States Navy Nurse Corps] returned...

Mary Cummings [Annotator's Note: in the Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service; United States Naval Reserve (...

When Mildred Vanderpool received her orders to New Orleans [Annotator's Note: New Orleans, Louisiana] in May [Annotator...

Janice Benario did not think about her job too much while she was doing it. Every once in a while they got excited when...

After the attack on Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December 1941],...

George Wiswell started his own business after the war [Annotator's Note: Marine Contracting, Inc. followed by Southport...

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