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Corrine Boggs, also known as Lindy, was in Washington DC on 7 December 1941 [Annotator's Note: the date of the Japanese...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks George Wiswell what it was like when the war ended.] Thank goodness it was over...

John “Johnny” Pesky volunteered for the Navy because he did not want to be drafted. He got into a program where he was...

Dorothy Malone talked to her mother about her experiences in the war. There was one guy waiting to get a ride on one of...

Calvin Elliott decided he wanted to try and be an airplane pilot. He was fascinated by the B-25s [Annotator's Note:...

Ora Hicks entered the military at Camp Livingston, Louisiana. She then went to Fort Huachuca [Annotator's Note: in...

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

Rosemary Fagot remembers the difficulties she had translating for the United Fruit Company because of the cultural...

Bowdre McDowell was injured in December 1984 when he was hit by a streetcar. He became a lasting friend with his doctor...

Debra Stern wanted to do her part to help win the war America but did not want to have a military job sitting behind a...

Linda Hope thanks God for the amazing secretary employed by her dad during the war [Annotator’s Note: Linda Hope is the...

After war started, Alice Howie went to Arlington, Virginia to work for IBM [Annotator's Note: International Business...

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