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There was a young man with whom Violet Walsh corresponded throughout the war. He was her high school pen pal from...

After the war ended, Henry "Buck" Weaver spent the next six months disposing of airplanes at the Ground Forces...

Joseph “Joe” Maynard went to Jacksonville, Florida for aviation school for three months. When he finished school, he...

Alvin Russo was 62 years old when he retired. During World War 2 he was in the Army. During the Korean War [Annotator’s...

James Mather was born in February 1923 in Caddo, Texas. His father was in the oil business by maintaining the oil wells...

Medary G. Boudreaux returned to Higgins at Michoud after his discharge and worked there for two years [Annotator’s Note...

Elizabeth Bedson Wehner was born in Nebraska and then moved to South Dakota and then Iowa. When she was 12 years old,...

George Wiswell says the past is a prologue to the future. What you learn is important. The Navy taught him to pay...

Bowdre McDowell was born in October 1923 in Amite County in southwest Mississippi. He grew up on a cotton farm and...

Richmond Hamilton characterizes his aviation training as very thorough and shares a pair of anecdotes illustrating this...

Norman Mineta visited relatives while he was stationed in Japan [Annotator's Note: during the Korean War]. The...

Joseph Traina was born in Labadieville, Louisiana in June 1917. [Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks what he recalls...

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