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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...

Helen Anderson Glass was discharged from the WAVES [Annotator's Note: Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service;...

William Harvey was stationed on a big island named Burrwood [Annotator's Note: Burrwood, Louisiana]. The United States...

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

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...

Wagner grew up in Duluth, Minnesota. She attended high school and college in there.Her father was a ladies tailor. He...

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...

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