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George Wiswell started his own business after the war [Annotator's Note: Marine Contracting, Inc. followed by Southport...

Ralph Gay went into the construction business when he returned home. He built houses. He used the G.I. Bill [Annotator'...

Calvin Elliott was put onto a Limey [Annotator's Note: period derogatory term for British people] troop transport. Nazi...

John “Johnny” Pesky was in baseball his whole life. It enabled him to see a lot of things and play with some great...

Ora Hicks treated injured soldiers using physiotherapy [Annotator's Note: disease treatment by means other than drugs...

After joining the Coast Guard [Annotator’s Note: in 1944], Eileen Noll was sent to West Palm Beach [Annotator’s Note:...

Minnie Marcella Oleskey Shimp [Annotator's Note: a Pharmacist 's Mate in the United States Navy Nurse Corps] thought...

Delano Brister has had a fun run. Although he does not miss the uniform, he does not regret a bit. The soldiers laid...

Lois Meyer was born in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1920. She went to the Ursuline Academy there. She was listening to the...

James Lee was born in 1930 on Oahu [Annotator's Note: Oahu, Hawaii] in a little community called Kalauao. It is no...

Alice Howie did not get involved in anything in the war effort other than in Arlington, Virginia. She worked for IBM [...

Debra Stern [Annotator's Note: in the Women's Army Corps; women's branch of the US Army, 1942-1978] was at Camp Shanks...

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