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After the war, Orrin Welty went back to Ohio worked for a Ford company where his father was the sales manager. He took...

Delano Roosevelt Brister was born in Sieper, Louisiana in 1933. The town was an old logging camp area. Trains were used...

David Klinepeter worked at a drugstore before he went into the service. After the service, the owner took him back and...

Alvin Russo was the head of OB-GYN [Annotator’s Note: obstetrician and gynecology] at Norton Air Force Base [Annotator’...

Alvin Russo was 62 years old when he retired. During World War 2 he was in the Army. During the Korean War [Annotator’s...

In the months leading up to the United States' entry into the war, the country was isolationist. Fredrick Hollis was...

Isabella Karle heard on the radio that the atom bomb had been dropped. At first she was amazed that it actually worked...

Joseph “Joe” Maynard went to Jacksonville, Florida for aviation school for three months. When he finished school, he...

After a brief furlough [Annotator's Note: an authorized absence for a short period of time], Eugene J. Gemperline was...

Things were still hard at the end of the war. Rationing continued for about three months. Materials started coming back...

Betty Peak had never had a prior job when she went to work for Boeing [Annotator's Note: Boeing Aircraft Company,...

Medary G. Boudreaux was drafted, but a subsequent high test score and his IQ allowed him to go to Sheppard Field north...

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