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During the war years, James Lee went to USO [Annotator's Note: United Services Organization] shows and saw guys like...

Dorothy Malone was born in June 1922 in Ware, Massachusetts. Her father passed away when she was a child. Her mother...

Mary Konen worked for a Jewish dentist [Annotator’s Note: named Dr. Behrman] who performed dentistry work on German...

Mildred Aupied worked in Shop 1 [Annotator’s Note: at Delta Shipyard in New Orleans, Louisiana]. There were two other...

Paul Gibfried does not think he would have served if he had not been drafted. He did love being in the Navy. His first...

Jack Vandervort was discharged in Texas where he had also been drafted. [Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks...

Edwin McAuliffe graduated high school the year the war ended. When he started his first year of college at Southeastern...

Francis Higgins recalls the story of how Philippine mahogany wood was secured to build the PT boats. He [Annotator's...

Nelson Constant's company [Annotator's Note: Humble Oil Company] hired 13 colored boys [Annotator's Note: African-...

Henry "Buck" Weaver volunteered to assign himself to a new station, not knowing what the details involved. He found out...

While training on the newest version of the B-24 [Annotator's Note: Consolidated B-24 Liberator heavy bomber] as a...

Carl Nygren was delighted that the bombs were dropped on Japan [Annotator's Note: nuclear weapons dropped on Hiroshima...

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