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Geraldine Nyman was born in Emmett, Idaho in 1920. She grew up with a family that moved every year. Her father was a...

Francis John "Jack" Higgins was born in October 1922 in Omaha, Nebraska. He left there at two years of age and moved to...

Blaine Kern was sent to Korea. People were taking the children and throwing them into the snow. The soldiers gave the...

Gregory Lawrence Nunnink was born in Kansas City [Annotator’s Note: Kansas City, Missouri] in 1927. He grew up with one...

Dorothy Wuestner Morgan joined the WAVES [Annotator's Note: Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service; United...

After graduation, Orrin Welty went home on a 14-day furlough [Annotator's Note: an authorized absence for a short...

After Henry T. Meyer graduated from high school, he enlisted in the service and went to boot camp where he received...

When the war ended, they shot all the ammunition to celebrate. Rita Hymel thought that was stupid and told her husband...

Mary R. Stricklan joined the WACs [Annotator's Note: Women's Army Corps; women's branch of the United States Army, 1942...

Mildred Aupied enjoyed working in the shipyard [Annotator’s Note: she was a welder at the Delta Shipbuilding...

Moise S. Steeg, Jr. received his commission and went to Keesler [Annotator's Note: Keesler Field; now Keesler Air Force...

Nelson Constant was born in December 1914 in Bayou Buff, Louisiana. He remembers a soldier that came back from World...

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