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Coleen Landry was surrounded by soldiers at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. She felt that her...

James Jeter worked for Higgins Shipyard in New Orleans, Louisiana. He welded on different vessels but did not know...

Coleen Landry went into law enforcement part-time to help with public relations. It was not easy being one of the first...

James Jeter was drafted in 1944 but did not pass the physical examination at Fort Humbug [Annotator’s Note: in...

Martha Tolles was born in Oklahoma City [Annotator’s Note: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma] in 1921. She grew up in New York...

George Mitchell wanted to be in the Coast Artillery, but that unit was deleted, and he was drifting from job to job. He...

Nita Fay Overby began working for an aircraft plant [Annotator's Note: The Midwest City Douglas Aircraft Company Plant...

Willis Broussard was born in May 1927 in Lafayette, Louisiana. His family had a small farm which he helped work with...

Joseph Mittelsdorf used the GI Bill [Annotator's Note: the G.I. Bill, or Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, was...

Dolores McInnis Libby was born in Buckatunna, Mississippi in May 1926. Her father was a disabled veteran of World War 1...

Arthur Kuhn separated from service with the rank of Lieutenant in 1954. Officers were required to buy their own...

Calvin Blank was born in January 1926 in Bronx, New York [Annotator's Note: the Bronx is one of the five boroughs in...

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