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While her husband, Hyman, was deployed overseas in Europe during World War 2, Shirley Sandy Schulman found a job as a...

Martha Tolles got a phone call saying her husband was coming home. He wanted her to fly out to LA [Annotator’s Note:...

Marietta Baham worked at Jackson Barracks [Annotator's Note: Louisiana National Guard base in New Orleans, Louisiana]...

As a kid, everything James Gooch knew about the military was through movies. As an adult, he stopped in a shop on base...

Dorothy Decker Ehlers was born in December 1931 in Long Beach, California and grew up there during the depression years...

Frederick Hollis was drafted in August 1952. He had 16 weeks of Army basic training in Fort Bliss, Texas, eight weeks...

World War 2 was when women entered the workforce in great numbers. Many women went back to the home after their...

Mallie Mellon was born in Hazard, Kentucky in October 1919. She had three sisters and one brother, and was the youngest...

After the war, Dieter Gruen heard people talked about the atomic bombs all the time. People wanted to talk about atoms...

Thomas W. Gillette's days were busy while he lived at the shipyard [Annotator's Note: Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Puget...

Francis Higgins worked at Higgins Industries on St. Charles Avenue with his uncle [Annotator's Note: his uncle was...

Francis Higgins recalls the story of how Philippine mahogany wood was secured to build the PT boats. He [Annotator's...

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