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World War 2 changed Lavenia Breaux. Before the war Breaux had the chance to talk to a woman in her neighborhood who, in...

Murray Glass went to Poland in 1933 with his family. They visited relatives there. The summer was spent in Ostrołe̜ka,...

Blaine Kern remembers listening to a boxing match when he came home on leave [Annotator's Note: an authorized absence...

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

Gregory Lawrence Nunnink’s most memorable experience of World War 2 was when his ship [Annotator’s Note: SS Glenns...

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

George R. Bolin could only go out to the shipyard [Annotator's Note: Brown Shipbuilding Company in Houston, Texas] on a...

Adelaide Benjamin was born in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1932. She had a comfortable life and enjoyed outdoor activities...

Rosemary Fagot remembers the difficulties she had translating for the United Fruit Company because of the cultural...

Amelia Taylor's father signed for her at the recruiting station [Annotator's Note: to join the Women Accepted for...

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

Jack A. Gillis' most memorable event of the war was an errant landing of a disabled aircraft that was nearly wrecked....

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