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T. Toby Kafka does not remember interacting with African Americans [Annotator's Note: while enlisted in the Women's...

Mary R. Stricklan celebrated V-E Day [Annotator's Note: Victory in Europe Day, 8 May 1945] with her future husband. His...

James Johnson came back to the United States and was supposed to go to an advanced course. They pulled him out and put...

Louise Settles had to leave the service once she was married. She knew that would happen. Her husband was to leave 20...

At the time Rosemary Elfer's two brothers and a sister were serving in the military. Her brother Edward fought on Wake...

Carl Nygren was stationed in Oklahoma for training. They had to become map readers. They would be dropped in the woods...

After leaving his post [Annotator's Note: in the Metallurgical Laboratory] at the University of Chicago [Annotator's...

Herbert Weatherwax was drafted into the military when he was 24 years old. He had a problem with alcohol while he was...

After World War 2, T. Toby Kafka reenlisted into the Women's Army Corps (WAC) Reserves and was attached to an...

Jack Vandervort was born in Bigheart, Oklahoma in December 1921. During the Depression [Annotator's Note: The Great...

Benjamin Bederson was born in New York, New York, the son of Russian immigrants. He grew up in The Bronx and Brooklyn...

James Johnson would tell men what to do and not how to do it when he gave orders [Annotator's Note: during the Korean...

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