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Catherine Long had boot training in the Navy. Her parents had no objection to her joining the service. Her father was...

Sara "Sally" Manning's life would have been completely different had she not volunteered for the Navy. It gave her the...

Mrs. P.A. "Tippy" Foster was born in December 1920 in Kaufman, Texas. She grew up in East Texas as one of seven...

William Harvey worked in the Commandant's office [Annotator's Note: of the Eighth Naval District headquartered in New...

In early January [Annotator's Note: January 1944], Bowdre McDowell went to Great Lakes, Illinois [Annotator's Note:...

The Wagners served for about three and a half years. They got out of the service in 1946 and put the war behind them....

Some of the wounded would talk to Amelia Taylor about their experiences, but some did not want to. They told her that...

Going on deployments after the war ended, the seas could get rough. Lawson T. Winslow, Junior's lieutenant [Annotator's...

Stationed in New Orleans [Annotator's Note: New Orleans, Louisiana], Violet Walsh worked for the 8th Naval District...

Dorothy Wuestner Morgan joined the WAVES [Annotator's Note: Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service; United...

Reverend Doctor Lamar Edward Smith was born in Jasper, Texas in May 1927. He grew up in Mineola, Texas with his parents...

While Ruth Knutson was in WAVES, her husband-to-be was drafted. He was a baseball player for the Chicago White Sox....

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