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Edwin McAuliffe was more interested in the war in Europe. He was also interested in the air war in England because his...

T. Toby Kafka enlisted in the Women's Army Corps (WAC) in 1944 at the age of 20. Her family, particularly her brother,...

Betty Peak had one year of college when the war started. She was 14 in October [Annotator's Note: 1937] and the war...

John F. Ward volunteered for service in December 1943 and took his basic training at Jefferson Barracks, Missouri. He...

Snapp was born in Washington D.C. She lived there for about two years and then moved to Colorado. She eventually moved...

Sara "Sally" Manning's husband [Annotator's Note: William Henry Manning] was a POW [Annotator's Note: prisoner of war...

William B. Hughes was born in April 1927 in Nashville, Tennessee. Nashville was a country town at that time. His father...

During World War 2, the term PTSD [Annotator's Note: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder] did not exist, it was called...

John “Johnny” Pesky was born in Portland, Oregon and went off to play baseball rather than going to college. He has a...

Ralph Gay was born in September 1918 in Oakland, California. He was an only child and was spoiled rotten. He got...

Calvin Elliott was born in February 1918 in Whitesville, Delaware. He grew up in Maryland after moving there when he...

Minnie Marcella Oleskey Shimp was born in Johnstown, Pennsylvania [Annotator's Note: in November 1923], but grew up in...

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