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William Harvey was stationed on a big island named Burrwood [Annotator's Note: Burrwood, Louisiana]. The United States...

Bettylu Dennis served in the WAVES [Annotator's Note: Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service; United States...

Roberta Randolph "Randy" Tidmore, and everybody else, was scared the Nazis were going to take over Europe. When VE-Day...

James Johnson chose the Army because he had a brother lost overboard a ship in 1938. Johnson was the last of 11...

Helen Kushnir is just beginning to realize that it mattered [Annotator's Note: being a woman working in a factory for...

Snapp enjoyed flying the PQ-8. It had tricycle landing gear and it was fun and easy to land. It was highly maneuverable...

Bernice Williams chose the Marine Corps [Annotator's Note: US Marine Corps Women's Reserve] because she did not want...

Calvin Moret and the Tuskegee Airmen helped break down racial barriers. They did not realize at the time that they were...

William "Ted" Hussey was born in 1933 in Washington, D.C., and lived in that area five different times during his life...

Marilyn Strelow Groel enjoyed her boot camp experience, especially the instruction on how to salute, march, and obey...

Lillian Drucker was born in July 1925 in Biloxi, Mississippi. She grew up there, attended school, and got married. Her...

Bane Cook went to Great Lakes, Illinois [Annotator's Note: Naval Station Great Lakes in Lake County, Illinois] for...

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