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Violet Walsh served in World War 2 in order to do her part in the war, and she is glad she volunteered. She knows that...

[Annotator's Note: Margaret Stephensen was an administrative clerk at the Bureau of Naval Personnel in Washington, D.C...

Boot camp was entirely foreign to Cyril de la Vergne. She had never seen so many dumb women in her life. They did not...

T. Toby Kafka enlisted in the Women's Army Corps (WAC) in 1944 at the age of 20. Her family, particularly her brother,...

Ora Pierce Hicks married John Hicks at a German prisoner of war camp in Arizona. She has a twin brother named Otis. She...

Some of the wounded would talk to Amelia Taylor about their experiences, but some did not want to. They told her that...

Erickson had supportive parents. They were worried about her, especially after Claudia passed away. They were happy...

Sara "Sally" Manning's husband [Annotator's Note: William Henry Manning] was a POW [Annotator's Note: prisoner of war...

Mildred Aupied worked on three Liberty ships at Delta [Annotator’s Note: she was a welder at the Delta Shipbuilding...

John “Johnny” Pesky was born in Portland, Oregon and went off to play baseball rather than going to college. He has a...

Carl Nygren was drafted before he graduated high school. He had to take an exam for basic English and arithmetic. He...

Isabella Karle's research involved isolating a purer form of plutonium. The laboratory was getting the oxide from Oak...

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