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Francis Higgins became employed as an experimental test engineer at the Higgins Engine Company. They manufactured 200...

Helen Anderson Glass was discharged from the WAVES [Annotator's Note: Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service;...

Amelia Taylor's father signed for her at the recruiting station [Annotator's Note: to join the Women Accepted for...

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

Mary Cummings was on duty on the night shift when she got news that an atomic bomb [Annotator's Note: nuclear weapon...

Frederick Henry imagines he would enjoy military life today, as it is less restrictive than it was when he served. The...

Orrin Welty describes some of the differences between flying the B-17s [Annotator's Note: Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress...

When she was 20 years old, Gladys Anderson joined the WAVES [Annotator's Note: Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency...

Janice Evenson was shown how to do her job. [Annotator’s Note: Evenson worked at a munitions plant]. She looked at a...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks John McCarthy if they ever forced any German submarines, or u-boats, to surface...

Calvin Moret accumulated about 250 hours in cadet training. He would go on to have about 250 hours in the P-40 [...

Helen Ehlers idolized the Marines. She was anxious to go to boot camp. She thought she was going to fight. She was...

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