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Helmi McHardy was born on a dairy farm in Austin, Michigan in February 1927. She is one of nine children. On the farm,...

Thomas W. Gillette was born in Bath, Maine in 1931. When he was a small child, his mother left him and his father. As a...

Shirley Chase Kruse recalled that during one of her assignments, a bird flew into her aileron, making the plane...

Isabella Karle remembers that news of what was happening in Europe was heard on radio and reported in the newspapers....

Blaine Kern’s father was an artist. Kern was a bad soldier. He did not want to follow orders or pass inspections. He...

Roberta Randolph "Randy" Tidmore, and everybody else, was scared the Nazis were going to take over Europe. When VE-Day...

Norma Jean Ford Beard only knew that her father was a pilot and was killed until she was 13 years old. [Annotator's...

In the days leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor, William Hussey's father was about 400 miles to the south with a...

Mildred Aupied worked in Shop 1 [Annotator’s Note: at Delta Shipyard in New Orleans, Louisiana]. There were two other...

Norman Mineta visited relatives while he was stationed in Japan [Annotator's Note: during the Korean War]. The...

Mildred Aupied enjoyed working in the shipyard [Annotator’s Note: she was a welder at the Delta Shipbuilding...

Norman Mineta followed his father's lead following his military discharge. Mineta's father had made a career in the...

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