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Joseph “Joe” Maynard went to Jacksonville, Florida for aviation school for three months. When he finished school, he...

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

Bowdre McDowell became a volunteer at the museum [Annotator's Note: The National World War Museum in New Orleans,...

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...

Rosemary Fagot was born in Nicaragua. Her father was an American citizen from New Orleans and she was registered as an...

William Harvey worked in the Commandant's office [Annotator's Note: of the Eighth Naval District headquartered in New...

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

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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