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Ruth Knutson thought World War 2 was “a necessary fun”, and she met her husband because of the war. She would not...

Catherine Long had boot training in the Navy. Her parents had no objection to her joining the service. Her father was...

George Wiswell says the past is a prologue to the future. What you learn is important. The Navy taught him to pay...

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

When she was 20 years old, Gladys Anderson joined the WAVES [Annotator's Note: Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency...

Mrs. P.A. "Tippy" Foster was born in December 1920 in Kaufman, Texas. She grew up in East Texas as one of seven...

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

In early January [Annotator's Note: January 1944], Bowdre McDowell went to Great Lakes, Illinois [Annotator's Note:...

Some of the wounded would talk to Amelia Taylor about their experiences, but some did not want to. They told her that...

Going on deployments after the war ended, the seas could get rough. Lawson T. Winslow, Junior's lieutenant [Annotator's...

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

Dorothy Wuestner Morgan joined the WAVES [Annotator's Note: Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service; United...

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