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

Amelia Taylor was born in December 1923 in Santa Monica, California. She grew up there during the Great Depression....

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

Lillian Hoover was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana in August 1924. She grew up there. Her father was a contractor. She...

Mary Cummings was born in Dunkirk, New York in April 1921. It was the Depression [Annotator's Note: the Great...

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

Ruth Knutson was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in December 1921. She was an only child, but her mother and father had large...

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

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...

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

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

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