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Marilyn Strelow Groel enjoyed her boot camp experience, especially the instruction on how to salute, march, and obey...

Irene Bartley and her twin sister, Jean, joined the WACs [Annotator's Note: Women's Army Corps; women's branch of the...

William Harvey was stationed on a big island named Burrwood [Annotator's Note: Burrwood, Louisiana]. The United States...

Lillian Drucker was born in July 1925 in Biloxi, Mississippi. She grew up there, attended school, and got married. Her...

Ruth Knutson was in WAVES [Annotator's Note: Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service; United States Naval Women'...

In primary training they flew the PT-19. It was an open cockpit aircraft. Basic training was BT-13's and BT-15's. Her...

Marietta Baham met Omar Bradley [Annotator's Note: US Army General Omar Bradley], who was meeting a colonel at Jackson...

When Calvin Moret was at Godman Field near Fort Knox [Annotator’s Note: Kentucky], he noted that Italian and German...

[Annotator's Note: This clip begins with Tom Thurman, an American filmmaker born in March 1962 in Christiansburg,...

Starting about 1940, Brown Shipyard [Annotator's Note: Brown Shipbuilding Company in Houston, Texas] began as a result...

William Hussey enlisted in the Navy because he grew up with it, and it seemed the thing to do once he reached adulthood...

Edward Gerrits was born in Racine, Wisconsin, but was raised in Miami, Florida. He enjoyed going to the Florida...

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