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Janice Benario met her future husband at a Latin seminar at Johns Hopkins. Benario’s husband took a position at Emory...

Betty Peak's most memorable experience of the war years is when the plane took off at Boeing [Annotator's Note: the...

Calvin Elliott was put onto a Limey [Annotator's Note: period derogatory term for British people] troop transport. Nazi...

Bowdre McDowell went home for three weeks [Annotator's Note: following the end of the war] and then returned to the...

Rosemary Ramsey says the boys returning from the war had changed a lot. They were all grown-up. [Annotator's Note:...

Harris H. Levee reported to the University [Annotator's Note: Metallurgical Laboratory at the University of Chicago,...

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

Carl Nygren was delighted that the bombs were dropped on Japan [Annotator's Note: nuclear weapons dropped on Hiroshima...

After completing basic training in New York [Annotator's Note: New York, New York] and more training in Memphis,...

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

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

James Jeter owns an apartment complex that serves military personnel. He has about two thirds of his 40 units used by...

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