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Medary G. Boudreaux was born in New Orleans, Louisiana in June 1921. Prior to the war, he attended Commercial High...

Louis J. Brown, Jr. and a friend bought a 1929 Model A convertible [Annotator's Note: 1929 Ford Model A convertible]...

Isabella Karle worked at the University of Chicago labs during the year 1942. She and her husband ended their tenure...

Isabella Karle heard on the radio that the atom bomb had been dropped. At first she was amazed that it actually worked...

In the months leading up to the United States' entry into the war, the country was isolationist. Fredrick Hollis was...

To Fredi Van Pelt, once a Marine always a Marine. They were trained they were the best. If she had her uniform she...

John “Johnny” Pesky learned to show up on time and be on time in the Navy. He found tough decisions when choosing...

Betty Peak was born October 1923 in a small town in Plains, Meade County, Kansas. Her grandfather was an Irish...

Roberta Randolph "Randy" Tidmore, and everybody else, was scared the Nazis were going to take over Europe. When VE-Day...

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

Florence G. Shutsy-Reynolds started flying in the Stearman [Annotator's Note: Boeing-Stearman Model 75 Kaydet or PT-13...

Guy Grenny returned home to the United States from the Philippines via the Aleutian Islands to San Francisco [Annotato'...

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