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Flournoy was born in Wheaton, Missouri on March 30th, 1921. The Depression affected her family but as a kid she did not...

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

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

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

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

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

James Johnson remembers the combat was continuous. [Annotator’s Note: He is referring to the Korean War which was...

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

Coleen Landry's sisters were worried about their husbands who were at war. One sister had lived in Galveston, Texas for...

Bernie Smith was born in March 1919 in Columbus, Ohio. She graduated from high school and took some college courses at...

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

Jack Vandervort was born in Bigheart, Oklahoma in December 1921. During the Depression [Annotator's Note: The Great...

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