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

Charlotte Combs went to school for drawing maps. She got a job at the Higgins factory [Annotator's Note: Higgins...

Minnie Marcella Oleskey Shimp was born in Johnstown, Pennsylvania [Annotator's Note: in November 1923], but grew up in...

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

Dorothy Ehlers wants future generations to remember how the soldiers of World War 2 loved their country as much as her...

[Annotator's Note: Calvin Elliott consults some notes to see if he left anything out of his story.] Calvin Elliott was...

Roberta Randolph "Randy" Tidmore was discharged in August 1946 as a sergeant. She used the G.I. Bill twice. She went to...

The Navy made Eileen Noll a different person. She wanted to be better so that went along with the role the Navy played...

James Johnson would tell men what to do and not how to do it when he gave orders [Annotator's Note: during the Korean...

Marilyn Strelow Groel did not feel like she as breaking the gender barrier, she was just happy to be part of the Marine...

Calvin Moret became interested in flying when he was about eight years old. Before the war started, he found himself...

When the war was over, a lot of women stayed on in the factories. Helen Kushnir went to work for Western Union as a...

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