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Lauren Swinney always had at least three occupations at the same time. She wanted to learn everything and do everything...

Betty Soskin worked in a shipyard in a Jim Crow [Annotator's Note: Jim Crow laws; state and local laws that enforced...

Lawson Tracy Winslow, Junior completed the program [Annotator's Note: V-12 US Navy College Training Program, 1943 to...

David Dawson was born in October 1924 in Tampa, Florida. They moved to Gary, Indiana when he was two years old. His...

Shirley Chase Kruse was born in June 1922 in Kearny, New Jersey and grew up in Newark, New Jersey. Her father was a...

Norma Jean Ford Beard was born in Latrobe, Pennsylvania in June 1944. Her father was a B-24 pilot [Annotator's Note:...

Older male workers would cater to the young women like June Tinker who came into the work force. The men would flirt...

Betty Sue Drake [Annotator's Note: a paymaster in the US Marine Corps] was discharged after the war. She helped found a...

Richard Guthrie’s father was an officer stationed at Pearl Harbor during the Japanese attack [Annotator's Note: The...

Frances Meikrantz was with a girl from school. They talked a lot and looked into everything [Annotator's Note: branch...

Raymond Downs had gone through a storm when he noticed the ship was zig-zagging [Annotator's Note: a naval anti-...

At the time Rosemary Elfer's two brothers and a sister were serving in the military. Her brother Edward fought on Wake...

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