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There was a lot of segregation at the beginning but Lavenia Breaux had the impression that it eased up. Breaux believes...

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

Carl Nygren had to go on a 25-mile march with a full pack. He saw some people pass out afterward. After 20 miles, the...

Murray Glass was drafted and sent to the Fort Dix, New Jersey reception center for a few weeks. He then went to the...

Harris H. Levee reported to the University [Annotator's Note: Metallurgical Laboratory at the University of Chicago,...

The war was a new experience for Clarence Herbert Weatherwax. During the Vietnam War young people going to college were...

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

Jack Vandervort was discharged in Texas where he had also been drafted. [Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks...

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

Dorothy Malone was born in June 1922 in Ware, Massachusetts. Her father passed away when she was a child. Her mother...

World War 2 changed Lavenia Breaux. Before the war Breaux had the chance to talk to a woman in her neighborhood who, in...

Ora Pierce Hicks married John Hicks at a German prisoner of war camp in Arizona. She has a twin brother named Otis. She...

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