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Nelson Constant was born in December 1914 in Bayou Buff, Louisiana. He remembers a soldier that came back from World...

When the war broke out [Annotator's Note: Downs is referring to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7...

Mildred "Jean" Liparoto was born in Vincennes, Indiana in 1919. Her mother was 19 and her father was a widower with two...

Delano Brister came in contact with the 84th Infantry Division while it was in training from Camp Claiborne prior to...

[Annotator's Note: The Women Airforce Service Pilots or WASPs were disbanded on 20 December 1944, which came as a...

Everything in speech begins with the ear and Lauren Swinney had a good ear for languages. She does fairly well with...

Irene Bartley and her twin sister, Jean, joined the WACs [Annotator's Note: Women's Army Corps; women's branch of the...

The training was on the job. Erickson learned most of her secretarial duties on the job. They did not study outside of...

Rosemary Ramsey says the boys returning from the war had changed a lot. They were all grown-up. [Annotator's Note:...

Rita Hymel got married and moved to Biloxi [Annotator's Note: Biloxi, Mississippi] and went to work at the Keesler...

Adelaide Benjamin remembers the first Christmas tree the family had out there [Annotator's Note: in El Paso, Texas]....

[Annotator's Note: Dr. Norman Francis worked with the Congress of Racial Equality or CORE, an African-American civil...

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