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Lauren Swinney picked up words during the war like ersatz which meant a substitute for something. She recalls the pin-...

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

Amelia Taylor's father signed for her at the recruiting station [Annotator's Note: to join the Women Accepted for...

Roberta Randolph "Randy" Tidmore went into nurse's training. She did not like it. Two of her friends from school were...

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

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

Dr. Kenneth Arrow was doing research into statistical fitting with WACs [Annotator’s Note: Women's Army Corps] during...

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

Mallie Mellon heard that President Roosevelt [Annotator's Note: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United...

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

Catherine Long was born in 1924 in Dayton, Ohio. That was the home of her mother’s family. She soon moved to Pittsburgh...

Alice Howie did not get involved in anything in the war effort other than in Arlington, Virginia. She worked for IBM [...

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