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Lavenia Hickman Breaux was born in Slidell, Louisiana in 1917. Breaux did not realize she was living through a...

Carl Nygren was stationed in Oklahoma for training. They had to become map readers. They would be dropped in the woods...

Ora Hicks has had an interesting life. If anything went wrong, she did not take it to heart. There is always another...

When he left Paris, Hans Courant went to the Berkeley labs. He stayed there for a while then went to CERN [Annotator's...

Charles Brightman Skinner was born in May 1926 in Jacksonville, Florida. He had an older brother who served in World...

After getting the alert prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor that Hawaii may be invaded by sea, Clarence Herbert...

Calvin Blank was drafted into the Army [Annotator's Note: in 1945]. He was five foot six and weighed 118 pounds. When...

Mary R. Stricklan celebrated V-E Day [Annotator's Note: Victory in Europe Day, 8 May 1945] with her future husband. His...

James Johnson would tell men what to do and not how to do it when he gave orders [Annotator's Note: during the Korean...

Alton Bourg entered service in the Army at Fort Meade, Maryland [Annotator's Note: Fort George Meade, Maryland] and was...

Lavenia Breaux wanted to go in the service after Pearl Harbor. She always had a dream of traveling and realized the...

Carl Nygren was delighted that the bombs were dropped on Japan [Annotator's Note: nuclear weapons dropped on Hiroshima...

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