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George Allen says the officer accommodations in New Mexico were okay. Most of the time they were in the field though....

The hardest part of the Marines Corps for Ernest Jackson was basic training and learning to obey orders. But it was a...

Loraine Osborne knew that they had to get the planes out so they could be shipped overseas. The harder they worked, the...

[Annotator's Note: George Kearney grew up in New Orleans, Louisiana and was an employee of Higgins Industries from 1937...

George R. Bolin does not think Brown and Root [Annotator's Note: now KBR, Inc. in Houston, Texas] was in the pipeline...

Margaret Brewer Henry remembers prosperity after the war. There were more jobs and people had money for cars and other...

As a veteran, Lawson Tracy Winslow, Junior is often thanked for his service. It surprises him. During World War 2, the...

Clarence Herbert Weatherwax rose through the ranks quickly [Annotator's Note: while assigned to Fort Shafter as an...

Before graduating from high school, Dr. Norman Francis did very little in terms of working in the war effort. He was...

Helene Minehira [Annotator's Note: a person of Japanese descent living in Hawaii] and her family were forces off their...

Mildred Aupied worked in Shop 1 [Annotator’s Note: at Delta Shipyard in New Orleans, Louisiana]. There were two other...

Benjamin Bederson always knew he would be a scientist, but in 1942, he began his military career in the Army. He was 20...

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