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Sara "Sally" Manning was born on 12 June 1925 in the small town of Lock Haven in Pennsylvania. Lock Haven was home to...

Louis J. Brown, Jr. was born in New Orleans, Louisiana in November 1925. His father was a welder by trade and stayed...

Margaret Stephensen was in Tucson, Arizona after she was discharged from the Navy. She had gone to San Diego [Annotator...

Delano Brister witnessed the Louisiana Maneuvers in 1941. The operations took up much of central Louisiana including...

Ralph Gay picked the Air Corps because it was easy to work. Once when flying by Shanghai [Annotator’s Note: Shanghai,...

After returning to the camp [Annotator's Note: Fort Huachuca, Arizona], Ora Hicks was transferred to a German POW [...

John “Johnny” Pesky volunteered for the Navy because he did not want to be drafted. He got into a program where he was...

Eileen Noll was born in 1924 in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. She grew up during the Depression [Annotator's Note: the Great...

Betty Masket was born in Cullowhee, North Carolina in 1923. The Depression did not affect Masket as much as it did...

Minnie Marcella Oleskey Shimp went into nurse training in Washington, D.C. They had a bomb scare and a friend told her...

Peggy Upham was in an accelerated program [Annotator's Note: in the Curtiss-Wright Engineering Cadettes at Purdue...

Bowdre McDowell was injured in December 1984 when he was hit by a streetcar. He became a lasting friend with his doctor...

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