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John “Johnny” Pesky found himself lost while flying during flight training. Landing in a farmer’s field, he admitted...

George Wiswell was made a third-class diver in the Navy. Most repair jobs are figured out as they are done. He was in...

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

Lloyd Duncan was born in 1926 in Coffeyville, Kansas. His father worked for the Sinclair Refinery. Duncan had one...

David Dawson was in Hollywood, Florida at Navy gunnery school. He would pick up people that lived off the station and...

Sara "Sally" Manning met her husband while he was a hospital patient [Annotator's Note: Manning worked at Naval...

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

David Klinepeter worked Monday through Friday and had the weekends and evenings off. He rarely had to pull watch duty....

Amelia Taylor discussed the developments of the war while she was in high school. It was very real to them. They...

Minnie Marcella Oleskey Shimp [Annotator's Note: a Pharmacist's Mate in the United States Navy Nurse Corps] was on a...

Because Mary Cummings [Annotator's Note: in the Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service; United States Naval...

Mildred Loscalzo Vanderpool was born in July 1920 in Queens County, New York. She went to Connecticut College [...

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