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

Calvin Elliott decided he wanted to try and be an airplane pilot. He was fascinated by the B-25s [Annotator's Note:...

Martha Tolles was born in Oklahoma City [Annotator’s Note: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma] in 1921. She grew up in New York...

Fredi Van Pelt went through basic training in Camp Lejeune, North Carolina [Annotator's Note: Marine Corps Base Camp...

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

When Snapp arrived at the hotel [Annotators Note: in Sweetwater, Texas for WASP training] there was roughly thirty to...

Harris H. Levee's most memorable experience of World War 2 was climbing up and down the nuclear reactor [Annotator's...

Roberta Randolph "Randy" Tidmore could go to officer's training after basic training [Annotator's Note: Marine Corps,...

James Jeter was drafted in 1944 but did not pass the physical examination at Fort Humbug [Annotator’s Note: in...

When Mildred Vanderpool received her orders to New Orleans [Annotator's Note: New Orleans, Louisiana] in May [Annotator...

Peggy Upham went to work at the Columbus Plant of Curtiss-Wright [Annotator's Note: Curtiss-Wright Airplane Division of...

Mary Konen worked for a Jewish dentist [Annotator’s Note: named Dr. Behrman] who performed dentistry work on German...

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