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Nelson Constant remembers Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December...

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

Jean "Marian" Alva Yancey Landry has nearly always been known as Marian Y. Landry with the Y representing her maiden...

When the WASPs [Annotator's Note: Women Airforce Service Pilots] first started out, they had to have 200 hours [...

Rosemary Elfer does not recall having any real issues while she was in the service. One issue that occurred at the end...

The young men were gone, and women were needed to work. Mildred "Jean" Liparoto's sister-in-law started working at...

Loraine Osborne joined the war effort because a lot of her friends were going into the war. Her sister went to work in...

Stationed in New Orleans [Annotator's Note: New Orleans, Louisiana], Violet Walsh worked for the 8th Naval District...

Carolyn Bridgforth was going to be a dietician. There were very few jobs available to women. She did not finish her...

Helen Ehlers idolized the Marines. She was anxious to go to boot camp. She thought she was going to fight. She was...

During the war years, Diana Belliard was in the United States. She lived in Chicago until 1940 then left to go to...

June Catherine Elliott Haggerty was born in New Orleans [Annotator's Note: New Orleans, Louisiana]. She grew up in Pass...

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