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Carl Nygren remembers Washington, D.C. was a segregated town. Roosevelt [Annotator's Note: Franklin Delano Roosevelt,...

Alton Bourg was stationed with men who were mostly from Pennsylvania and were professionals in their civilian lives....

Rosemary Elfer was born in Grand Bay, Alabama in 1924 even though all of her ancestors were born in Louisiana....

When Higgins [Annotator's Note: Higgins Industries in New Orleans, Louisiana] advertised for openings in their aircraft...

Mary R. Stricklan's uniform [Annotator's Note: in the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) then Women's Army Corps (WAC...

Robert Brown knew specifically what he was working on after being told. He worked on the electrical parts. Some of his...

Murray Glass went to Poland in 1933 with his family. They visited relatives there. The summer was spent in Ostrołe̜ka,...

James Johnson remembers the combat was continuous. [Annotator’s Note: He is referring to the Korean War which was...

Debra Stern wanted to do her part to help win the war America but did not want to have a military job sitting behind a...

Carl Nygren was drafted before he graduated high school. He had to take an exam for basic English and arithmetic. He...

Alton Bourg does not remember where he heard about the atomic bombs [Annotator's Note: nuclear weapons dropped on...

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

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