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When the war ended, they shot all the ammunition to celebrate. Rita Hymel thought that was stupid and told her husband...

Catherine Long was born in 1924 in Dayton, Ohio. That was the home of her mother’s family. She soon moved to Pittsburgh...

Carolyn Bridgforth met her husband at Camp Shelby [Annotator's Note: Camp Shelby near Hattiesburg, Mississippi] when he...

[Annotator's Note: This clip begins with Tom Thurman, an American filmmaker born in March 1962 in Christiansburg,...

At the conclusion of World War 2, there were celebrations, but Thomas W. Gillette did not participate because he had...

Older male workers would cater to the young women like June Tinker who came into the work force. The men would flirt...

[Annotator's Note: Lauren Swinney was a student at Northwestern University and worked as an entertainer for troops...

Moise S. Steeg, Jr. did not want to be in the infantry. He got in at a fortunate time when bases were being built for...

Nelson Constant was just out there working. It was like being locked up in a room. The trees did not talk. They were...

Loraine Osborne joined the war effort because a lot of her friends were going into the war. Her sister went to work in...

After the war ended, Henry "Buck" Weaver spent the next six months disposing of airplanes at the Ground Forces...

At the time Rosemary Elfer's two brothers and a sister were serving in the military. Her brother Edward fought on Wake...

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