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Dieter Martin Gruen was born in November 1922 in Walldorf, Germany. His father was a school principal and his mother...

Lauren Swinney always had at least three occupations at the same time. She wanted to learn everything and do everything...

Francis Higgins was a good draftsman. He took that position with his Uncle Andrew [Annotator's Note: Andrew Jackson...

During the war, Washington, DC was crowded. They had food rationing and gasoline rationing. Emma Keulegan and her...

Things were still hard at the end of the war. Rationing continued for about three months. Materials started coming back...

Ruth Ingram was born in Scarsdale, New York in November 1928. Ingram was 13 years old when the war broke out and has...

The Japanese attack [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December 1941] started at five...

Lydia Grant describes recreation and life as a young girl in the Navy Yard at Pearl Harbor. As a young girl, she...

Coleen Landry's sisters were worried about their husbands who were at war. One sister had lived in Galveston, Texas for...

Geraldine Nyman only knows one girl from the second graduating class of WASPs [Annotator's Note: Women Airforce Service...

Constance Negrotto attended USO dances after work. The girls would eat dinner and then hop into their formal gowns....

Blaine Kern served in the Army for about two years. When he returned home, he was in a camp in California. In 1947, he...

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