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Delano Brister has had a fun run. Although he does not miss the uniform, he does not regret a bit. The soldiers laid...

Marion Meredith Beal was born in October 1922 in Jefferson, Texas. He had a small family. He was the only child for a...

The USCGC Storis (WMEC-38) was a brand-new ship. Traina reported to it in Duluth, Minnesota. They sailed it to Boston [...

Prior to the Pearl Harbor attack [Annotator's Note: The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December 1941],...

Robert Francis Jones joined the Coast Guard on his 18th birthday. He was very disappointed at first [Annotator’s Note:...

The ship Lawson T. Winslow, Jr. was assigned to [Annotator's Note: the USS Monrovia (APA-31)] had seen a lot of combat...

Marie Rankart was at a dress shop in Elizabeth, New Jersey buying a dress when she heard the news that the war was over...

Flournoy was born in Wheaton, Missouri on March 30th, 1921. The Depression affected her family but as a kid she did not...

Alice Howie did not get involved in anything in the war effort other than in Arlington, Virginia. She worked for IBM [...

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

Coleen Landry's sisters were worried about their husbands who were at war. One sister had lived in Galveston, Texas for...

Arthur Kuhn owed the government service and received a commission after he completed medical school [Annotator's Note:...

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