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Rudy Huval was drafted into the Navy in 1955. He was in the Navy for two years. They would refuel ships at sea. They...

Helen Ehlers idolized the Marines. She was anxious to go to boot camp. She thought she was going to fight. She was...

John F. Ward was very excited to find out that his commanding officer at San Angelo Airfield [Annotator's Note: San...

Janice Evenson wanted to go back to college. When she returned home, the high school asked her to teach math. Then a...

Sara "Sally" Manning was born on 12 June 1925 in the small town of Lock Haven in Pennsylvania. Lock Haven was home to...

Betty Peak feels that it is such a different feeling among the civilians now with the wars overseas. She never knew...

William B. Hughes was in Wiesbaden during the occupation [Annotator's Note: Hughes was in Germany serving in the United...

At times, it was rough for Rosemary Ramsey as an Italian in America. The worst was Lancaster, Pennsylvania. She and her...

John “Johnny” Pesky volunteered for the Navy because he did not want to be drafted. He got into a program where he was...

Betty Masket was born in Cullowhee, North Carolina in 1923. The Depression did not affect Masket as much as it did...

Minnie Marcella Oleskey Shimp went into nurse training in Washington, D.C. They had a bomb scare and a friend told her...

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

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