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Snapp met some of the women in the First Air Force class, some were astronauts. They had a tough time as well. Snapp's...

Spencer Yancey remembers that all of their equipment was pretty basic, and there were not a lot of new improvements....

Lora E. Daniel's husband worked at Union Carbide [Annotator's Note: Union Carbide Metallurgical Plant in Sheffield,...

Raymond Downs was in the water for almost 20 hours with no food. On the horizon, he could see 27 shrimping boats. He...

Alexander Laughlin heard his stepfather, Tommy Hitchcock [Annotator’s Note: Thomas Hitchcock Jr. was an American polo...

On a small island in the Pacific Ocean, some native peoples were fascinated by some crystal balls floating in the air...

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

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

Corrine Boggs, also known as Lindy, was in Washington DC on 7 December 1941 [Annotator's Note: the date of the Japanese...

Rita Hymel was asked to be a teacher because she lived the closest to the schoolhouse in Killona [Annotator's Note:...

Nancy Lynch Castellano authored a book entitled "Looking Back at the WAVES: A Chronicle of the 90,000 Navy Women of...

Jean "Marian" Alva Yancey Landry was glad to return home after the war. Adjustment was no problem as she obtained her...

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