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Jean "Marian" Alva Yancey Landry first went to the Marine recruiter to merely find out what was involved with becoming...

Right after the attack [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December 1941], Thomas W....

Amelia Taylor had trained at Bethesda [Annotator's Note: Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda,...

Francis Higgins had a business on Canal Street. It was originally Canal Marine owned by Lewis Waggoner and his brother...

Gretchen Wronka’s father, Loren Hintz, was killed in action while serving in the Army Air Corps during World War 2. Her...

Belisario de Jesus "Bel" Flores read that the brunt of the manpower in World War 2 came from the high school classes of...

Lavenia Breaux had to find out through the grapevine that her friend had been killed. Sensitive information like that...

Lorraine Doroff signed up for the Women Auxiliary Army [Annotator's Note: Women's Army Auxiliary Army Corps or WAAC;...

Margaret Stephensen was born in March 1923 in Bradford, Pennsylvania. She grew up there and played in the band. After...

T. Toby Kafka was born in Kingston, New York in October 1924 and grew up in Manhattan [Annotator's Note: Manhattan is...

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

Betty Peak was born October 1923 in a small town in Plains, Meade County, Kansas. Her grandfather was an Irish...

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