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Moise S. Steeg, Jr. has a Biblical first name; in French it means Moses. His family left Spain during the Inquisition [...

Lloyd Duncan enlisted in the Navy. He had chosen the Navy because he wanted to fly. He was sent to Memphis, Tennessee...

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...

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

Helen Ehlers was born in September 1923 in Cicero, Illinois. She had two brothers and one sister. Her father was a...

Nelson Constant remembers Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December...

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

Minnie Marcella Oleskey Shimp was born in Johnstown, Pennsylvania [Annotator's Note: in November 1923], but grew up in...

Eugene J. Gemperline's most memorable experience of World War 2 was being operated on and the dizzy aftermath of post-...

When the WASPs [Annotator's Note: Women Airforce Service Pilots] were dismissed, it had to be logical since there were...

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

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