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James Johnson chose the Army because he had a brother lost overboard a ship in 1938. Johnson was the last of 11...

Benjamin Bederson's first job at Los Alamos, New Mexico was exploding steel tubes using a primer cord and strain gauges...

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

Spencer Yancey was older and he had a wife. He enjoyed the service magazines. He supported them over the years. He...

Ora Hicks went to Kansas [Annotator's Note: Kansas City, Missouri] for nursing training in 1933. She had taught school...

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

Bernard Allen Dearey was sent to Fort Snelling, Minnesota for induction, and then went to Fort Sheridan, Illinois for a...

Jack A. Gillis was drafted into the Army and went into the Army Air Corps. He was shipped to Los Angeles [Annotator's...

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

[Annotator's Note: Birds and muffled conversation can be heard in the background throughout this segment.] After...

Zeno St. Cyr received his draft notice, but he found that he was rejected during his physical examinations because of...

Mary R. Stricklan was born in May 1919 in Georgia [Annotator's Note: Gordon County, Georgia]. Growing up there was...

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