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Fredi Van Pelt was on furlough [Annotator's Note: an authorized absence for a short period of time] in Wilmington,...

John “Johnny” Pesky was in baseball his whole life. It enabled him to see a lot of things and play with some great...

Harris H. Levee reported to the University [Annotator's Note: Metallurgical Laboratory at the University of Chicago,...

Men returning from the Pacific would come in for R...

Marion Meredith Beal was born in October 1922 in Jefferson, Texas. He had a small family. He was the only child for a...

Carl Nygren was born in March 1927 in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. It was a colony town. They had a radio. There were...

They [Annotators Note: women of the WASPs, Womens Airforce Service Pilots in Washington D.C.] were told at the...

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

The USCGC Storis (WMEC-38) was a brand-new ship. Traina reported to it in Duluth, Minnesota. They sailed it to Boston [...

Prior to the Pearl Harbor attack [Annotator's Note: The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December 1941],...

Linda Hope recalls "the Yellow Ribbon Party" which occurred after her father’s last tour when he was 87 years old [...

Alice Howie did not get involved in anything in the war effort other than in Arlington, Virginia. She worked for IBM [...

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