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Delano Brister had a career in the United States Army. The Louisiana Maneuvers made a great impression on him. He...

Everything in speech begins with the ear and Lauren Swinney had a good ear for languages. She does fairly well with...

Calvin Elliott was born in February 1918 in Whitesville, Delaware. He grew up in Maryland after moving there when he...

Ora Hicks worked as a nurse for five years at Charity Hospital [Annotator's Note: in New Orleans, Louisiana], from 1936...

Bowdre McDowell was born in October 1923 in Amite County in southwest Mississippi. He grew up on a cotton farm and...

Charlotte Combs went to school for drawing maps. She got a job at the Higgins factory [Annotator's Note: Higgins...

John “Johnny” Pesky found himself lost while flying during flight training. Landing in a farmer’s field, he admitted...

Roberta Randolph "Randy" Tidmore was discharged in August 1946 as a sergeant. She used the G.I. Bill twice. She went to...

The Navy made Eileen Noll a different person. She wanted to be better so that went along with the role the Navy played...

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

On 11 September 2001, Norman Mineta was having breakfast with the Deputy Prime Minister of Belgium who was also that...

William Harvey grew up in Algiers near New Orleans, Louisiana. His family never went hungry because his father worked...

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