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

Alton Bourg was born in November 1926 in New Orleans, Louisiana. He was one of nine children. His father was a...

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

Ora Hicks has had an interesting life. If anything went wrong, she did not take it to heart. There is always another...

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

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

Charles Brightman Skinner was aboard a Liberty ship [Annotator's Note: a class of quickly produced cargo ship] heading...

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

Calvin Blank was a PFC [Annotator's Note: Private First Class] by the time the war ended. When he returned home, he...

Carl Nygren was delighted that the bombs were dropped on Japan [Annotator's Note: nuclear weapons dropped on Hiroshima...

Alton Bourg entered service in the Army at Fort Meade, Maryland [Annotator's Note: Fort George Meade, Maryland] and was...

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

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