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

Margaret Stephensen was in Tucson, Arizona after she was discharged from the Navy. She had gone to San Diego [Annotator...

George Wiswell was born in July 1926 in Arlington, Massachusetts. He grew up in Winchester [Annotator's Note:...

Prior to the Pearl Harbor attack [Annotator's Note: The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December 1941],...

On the day she was discharged [Annotator's Note: from the Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES);...

Richmond Hamilton was born in October 1921 in Richmond, Virginia. His father was self-employed as a paper wholesaler...

Paul Gibfried does not think he would have served if he had not been drafted. He did love being in the Navy. His first...

Richmond Hamilton's advanced flight training as very orderly and thorough. Each step in the process was very explicit...

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

Guy Grenny had a man as a patient who had grown up in California. The man was in the Signal Corps [Annotator's Note:...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Lawson T. Winslow, Junior, an engineer working for Standard Oil Company (later...

Helen Anderson Glass enlisted but could not enter active service until she was investigated by governmental security...

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