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George Wiswell says the past is a prologue to the future. What you learn is important. The Navy taught him to pay...

Lloyd Duncan feels that the veterans of World War 2 and Korea received the respect and appreciation they deserved....

Gladys Anderson was born in 1922 in Lisbon, North Dakota and had two brothers and two sisters. Her grandmother gave her...

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

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

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

Rosemary Fagot was born in Nicaragua. Her father was an American citizen from New Orleans and she was registered as an...

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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