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After completing basic training in New York [Annotator's Note: New York, New York] and more training in Memphis,...

Jack A. Gillis was born in February 1923 in Mound City, Missouri. He had no brothers or sisters. At age two, Gillis...

Bernice Williams [Annotator's Note: in the US Marine Corps Women's Reserve at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton in San...

Linda Hope recalls "the Yellow Ribbon Party" which occurred after her father’s last tour when he was 87 years old [...

Reverend Doctor Lamar Edward Smith's oldest brother, John Joseph, whose nickname was "Jody", enlisted in the Navy prior...

Bane Cook was born in August 1925 in Illinois. He had an older brother. [Annotator’s Note: Cook talks about his brother...

Zeno St. Cyr received his draft notice, but he found that he was rejected during his physical examinations because of...

Stella Sarnacki found out that her father died from causes of the war like the gas. She does not remember her...

President Roosevelt [Annotator's Note: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States] passing away was...

[Annotator's Note: Birds and muffled conversation can be heard in the background throughout this segment.] After...

The training was on the job. Erickson learned most of her secretarial duties on the job. They did not study outside of...

Joseph A. Cardinale was born in Syracuse, New York in 1925, and raised in Rochester, New York. His parents were Italian...

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