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John F. Ward was discharged from the service in late 1945 from in Rome, New York as a corporal. He was given a four-...

Francis John "Jack" Higgins was born in October 1922 in Omaha, Nebraska. He left there at two years of age and moved to...

Louis J. Brown, Jr. reflects on the B-29 [Annotator's Note: Boeing B-29 Superfortress very heavy bomber]. He first laid...

Carl Nygren was drafted before he graduated high school. He had to take an exam for basic English and arithmetic. He...

Michael Clancey did duck and cover drills in school and at home as a child because of the nuclear threat. He always...

Bowdre McDowell became a volunteer at the museum [Annotator's Note: The National World War Museum in New Orleans,...

Lloyd Duncan enlisted in the Navy. He had chosen the Navy because he wanted to fly. He was sent to Memphis, Tennessee...

Robert Francis Jones was a Chief Petty Officer stationed at Martha’s Vineyard Naval Air Station [Annotator’s Note:...

Florence Reynolds finished training on 6 June 1944. Afterwards, she was stationed in California. She was allowed to...

Debra Stern was born in Brooklyn, New York [Annotator's Note: is one of the five boroughs in New York, New York] in...

[Annotator's Note: The interview starts mid-sentence.] Alice Howie was born in February 1925 in Barrineau Park, Florida...

Bernice Williams was born in March 1921 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She had a normal life. Her father worked for an...

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