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Marietta Baham worked at Jackson Barracks [Annotator's Note: Louisiana National Guard base in New Orleans, Louisiana]...

Calvin Moret was still a 19 year old teenager when his mother pinned his wings on him. The war in the Pacific ended...

Martha Tolles went to Florida in June [Annotator’s Note: of 1944] with her husband. They got a month off and went back...

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

George R. Bolin's father was born in Galveston [Annotator's Note: Galveston, Texas]. His name was Lodwick Timothy Bolin...

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

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

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

Arthur Kuhn's most memorable experience of his time in the military was learning "the mistrust of government." He...

Lauren Swinney was born in LaSalle, Illinois and grew up in Gary, Indiana. During that time, Gary had the Carnegie...

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

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

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