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Ora Pierce Hicks married John Hicks at a German prisoner of war camp in Arizona. She has a twin brother named Otis. She...

Violet Walsh served in World War 2 in order to do her part in the war, and she is glad she volunteered. She knows that...

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

Frederick Hollis was drafted in August 1952. He had 16 weeks of Army basic training in Fort Bliss, Texas, eight weeks...

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

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

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

Carl Nygren was drafted before he graduated high school. He had to take an exam for basic English and arithmetic. He...

Florence Reynolds finished training on 6 June 1944. Afterwards, she was stationed in California. She was allowed to...

[Annotator's Note: The interview starts mid-sentence.] Alice Howie was born in February 1925 in Barrineau Park, Florida...

Michael Clancey did duck and cover drills in school and at home as a child because of the nuclear threat. He always...

Mildred Loscalzo Vanderpool heard about the atomic bombs [Annotator's Note: nuclear weapons dropped on Hiroshima, Japan...

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