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When William Hussey graduated from high school he was too young to enter the Naval Academy, so he signed up for the...

[Annotator’s Note: People in the background talk throughout the segment.] In August 1945, the Japanese surrendered...

During the war years, Diana Belliard was in the United States. She lived in Chicago until 1940 then left to go to...

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

When the WASPs [Annotator's Note: Women Airforce Service Pilots] first started out, they had to have 200 hours [...

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

Dolores McInnis Libby applied to work [Annotator's Note: at Consolidated Aircraft Corporation] because she had a friend...

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

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

Calvin Blank was drafted into the Army [Annotator's Note: in 1945]. He was five foot six and weighed 118 pounds. When...

Flournoy was born in Wheaton, Missouri on March 30th, 1921. The Depression affected her family but as a kid she did not...

Adelaide Benjamin knows the preservation of the memory of the war by The National WWII Museum is important. She has...

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