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John F. Ward volunteered for service in December 1943 and took his basic training at Jefferson Barracks, Missouri. He...

Betty Peak had one year of college when the war started. She was 14 in October [Annotator's Note: 1937] and the war...

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

Dorothy Malone remembers that they partied when they heard the war was over. She was married and lived on a boat. She...

During World War 2, the term PTSD [Annotator's Note: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder] did not exist, it was called...

Edwin McAuliffe was more interested in the war in Europe. He was also interested in the air war in England because his...

Fredi Van Pelt was born in July 1923 in Alameda, California. She has two sisters. Van Pelt was the baby in the family....

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

No one encouraged Roberta Randolph "Randy" Tidmore to join the Marines. She chose the Marines because they did not have...

Calvin Elliott did not use the G.I. Bill. He had an occupation. He worked with women all of his life. When he retired,...

Minnie Marcella Oleskey Shimp went into nurse training in Washington, D.C. They had a bomb scare and a friend told her...

Harris H. Levee's most memorable experience of World War 2 was climbing up and down the nuclear reactor [Annotator's...

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