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Helen Ehlers idolized the Marines. She was anxious to go to boot camp. She thought she was going to fight. She was...

After about two months of flight test scheduling, Frank Ragazzi was tasked with training five women service pilots....

Rudy Huval was drafted into the Navy in 1955. He was in the Navy for two years. They would refuel ships at sea. They...

Sara "Sally" Manning was born on 12 June 1925 in the small town of Lock Haven in Pennsylvania. Lock Haven was home to...

Janice Evenson wanted to go back to college. When she returned home, the high school asked her to teach math. Then a...

Snapp met some of the women in the First Air Force class, some were astronauts. They had a tough time as well. Snapp's...

Lavenia Breaux wanted to go in the service after Pearl Harbor. She always had a dream of traveling and realized the...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks George Wiswell what it was like when the war ended.] Thank goodness it was over...

John “Johnny” Pesky volunteered for the Navy because he did not want to be drafted. He got into a program where he was...

Betty Peak feels that it is such a different feeling among the civilians now with the wars overseas. She never knew...

Ora Hicks entered the military at Camp Livingston, Louisiana. She then went to Fort Huachuca [Annotator's Note: in...

Minnie Marcella Oleskey Shimp went into nurse training in Washington, D.C. They had a bomb scare and a friend told her...

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