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Paul Gibfried grew up in Park Ridge, Illinois, near Chicago [Annotator's Note: Chicago, Illinois]. His family arrived...

Bowdre McDowell was injured in December 1984 when he was hit by a streetcar. He became a lasting friend with his doctor...

Catherine Long lived in a barracks with four other WAVES [Annotator's Note: Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency...

Guy Grenny was a cadet in ROTC [Annotator's Note: Reserve Officer Training Corps]. He was preparing for going to war....

Lawson Tracy Winslow, Junior decided to use the G.I. Bill [Annotator's Note: the G.I. Bill, or Servicemen's...

June Catherine Elliott Haggerty was 23 years old when she went into the Navy. Her brothers were in the service already...

The Wagners served for about three and a half years. They got out of the service in 1946 and put the war behind them....

James Mather joined the V-5 Program [Annotator's Note: V-5 US Navy Aviation Cadet Program, 1939 to 1943] and became a...

Lloyd Duncan remained in the service for 90 days after the war ended. He continued flying every day. He was one of only...

For the Reverend Doctor Lamar Edward Smith, the G.I. Bill was very important because his family did not have any money...

Eileen Noll was born in 1924 in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. She grew up during the Depression [Annotator's Note: the Great...

Victor Befera was born April 1926 in Hibbing, Minnesota. He grew up in the small iron mining town near Canada with his...

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