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

George Mitchell was born in Albany, Georgia in 1924. His father owned a barbershop with his brothers and two other men...

Bane Cook was born in August 1925 in Illinois. He had an older brother. [Annotator’s Note: Cook talks about his brother...

Loraine Osborne was born in Prestonsburg, Kentucky in 1925. She grew up on a farm. They canned everything. When they...

Violet Walsh was born in 1920 in L'anse Au Tigres, or Tiger's Cove, a small settlement between Eunice and Basile in...

Charlotte Combs was born in April 1920 in New Orleans [Annotator’s Note: New Orleans, Louisiana]. She had two little...

Peggy Upham was born in January 1924 in Dallas, Texas. She remembers the Great Depression. Her family did alright. They...

Helene Minehira [Annotator's Note: a person of Japanese descent in Hawaii] worked at Fort Shafter [Annotator's Note: in...

Paul Gibfried was born in Park Ridge, Illinois in September 1924. When he joined the Navy, he was investigated by the...

Anthony “Tony” Gallego was born in November 1923 in Los Angeles, California. His father, a metalworker, made enough...

James Lee was in the Reserve [Annotator's Note: Army Reserve] program and got to serve in certain parts of the world....

Marietta Baham met Omar Bradley [Annotator's Note: US Army General Omar Bradley], who was meeting a colonel at Jackson...

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