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[Annotator's Note: Alice Howie's husband was killed in an aerial dogfight in Europe and was buried by a French prisoner...

Betty Masket was born in Cullowhee, North Carolina in 1923. The Depression did not affect Masket as much as it did...

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

George R. Bolin knew of the Browns [Annotator's Note: the founders of Brown and Root, now KBR, Incorporated, in Houston...

Walter Imahara explains the meaning of the Japanese term shikata ga nai. He heard the word some in the camp because his...

Lillian Drucker was born in July 1925 in Biloxi, Mississippi. She grew up there, attended school, and got married. Her...

Jane Biestek remembers buses of sailors passing by the window of the Ford factory. She would dance with them at night....

The events of the war that really stand out in Mildred "Jean" Liparoto's memory are Roosevelt's [Annotator's Note:...

The factory's [Annotator's Note: the General Motors Company plant in Newark, New Jersey where Marie Rankart worked]...

Doctor James B. Heneghan went to patriotic events at Soldier Field [Annotator's Note: in Chicago, Illinois]. That...

Betty Soskin worked in a shipyard in a Jim Crow [Annotator's Note: Jim Crow laws; state and local laws that enforced...

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

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