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Edwin McAuliffe remembers everyone having a Victory garden during the war. The McAuliffes also had chickens. McAuliffe'...

In 1942, Betty Soskin was a clerk in a segregated union hall in Richmond [Annotator's Note: Richmond, California]. She...

The newspaper was a critical source of information. Frank B. Stewart, Jr.'s parents would read it to him until he could...

Betty Sue Drake went to paymaster school after basic training and was sent then to Washington [Annotator's Note:...

Clarence Herbert Weatherwax returned to Hawaii, took advantage of the GI Bill and went to school. After he got home he...

Erickson had supportive parents. They were worried about her, especially after Claudia passed away. They were happy...

Norma Jean Ford Beard only knew that her father was a pilot and was killed until she was 13 years old. [Annotator's...

Victor Befera was born April 1926 in Hibbing, Minnesota. He grew up in the small iron mining town near Canada with his...

Mallie Mellon found that the men she worked with [Annotator's Note: at Briggs Manufacturing Company in Detroit,...

Leather was needed for the servicemen's shoes. Audrey Maduell had to have ballet shoes and others. She had to use extra...

Homer Johnson was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1924. During the Great Depression, his father worked for Ford Motor...

Frederick Hollis was drafted in August 1952. He had 16 weeks of Army basic training in Fort Bliss, Texas, eight weeks...

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