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George Wiswell learned how to dive in the Navy. Wiswell was given a sheet of commands for line pulls under water as...

William B. Hughes knew he wanted to be a soldier when he first saw his brother in uniform. He eventually joined the...

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

Mildred Aupied enjoyed working in the shipyard [Annotator’s Note: she was a welder at the Delta Shipbuilding...

Ora Hicks went to Kansas [Annotator's Note: Kansas City, Missouri] for nursing training in 1933. She had taught school...

Betty Peak had never had a prior job when she went to work for Boeing [Annotator's Note: Boeing Aircraft Company,...

Medary G. Boudreaux was drafted, but a subsequent high test score and his IQ allowed him to go to Sheppard Field north...

When Edwin McAuliffe was a kid during the war there were things everywhere that reminded people that there was a war...

The Wagner's hosted a student from Egypt and learned a lot about his religion.She feels that many people don't like...

Snapp was born in Washington D.C. She lived there for about two years and then moved to Colorado. She eventually moved...

[Annotator's Note: Rosemary Ramsey learned of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December 1941 from her...

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

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