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Alice Howie cannot remember what dress she wore for her wedding. She got married at a minister's home in Selma, Alabama...

Jean Lotter served as a WAC [Annotator's Note: Women's Army Corps; women's branch of the United States Army, 1942 to...

Lauren Swinney picked up words during the war like ersatz which meant a substitute for something. She recalls the pin-...

No one encouraged Roberta Randolph "Randy" Tidmore to join the Marines. She chose the Marines because they did not have...

Walter Imahara's father cried when he got an apology for what had happened to him. [Annotator's Note: Imahara gets...

Erickson was born in Richland Center, Wisconsin in 1918. Her father was still fighting in World War I in France. He...

Admitting to an "old story," Jean Terrell McCreery related the tale of how, because she was underage, she couldn't buy...

Grace Brown was born in November 1921 in a farm in Texas. Growing up on a farm was tough, but she enjoyed it. She liked...

Charlotte Combs returned to Louisiana when her husband got out of the service. They did not have children yet. Her...

[Annotator's Note: George Kearney grew up in New Orleans, Louisiana and was an employee of Higgins Industries from 1937...

The newspaper was a critical source of information. Frank B. Stewart, Jr.'s parents would read it to him until he could...

[Annotator's Note: From December 1940 until 1949, Marie Rankart worked for the General Motors Company facility in...

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