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Delano Brister came in contact with the 84th Infantry Division while it was in training from Camp Claiborne prior to...

[Annotator's Note: The interview starts mid-conversation.] Rosemary Ramsey was born in Levington, Michigan [Annotator's...

In the 1950s, Eileen Noll recognized the changes for women in the military. She felt more respected and leaned upon by...

To Fredi Van Pelt, once a Marine always a Marine. They were trained they were the best. If she had her uniform she...

Roberta Randolph "Randy" Tidmore, and everybody else, was scared the Nazis were going to take over Europe. When VE-Day...

Marion Meredith Beal felt the Marine Corps was an unusually strong outfit. Not many of his race were in the service and...

James Johnson chose the Army because he had a brother lost overboard a ship in 1938. Johnson was the last of 11...

Betty Soskin worked in a shipyard in a Jim Crow [Annotator's Note: Jim Crow laws; state and local laws that enforced...

Bernice Williams chose the Marine Corps [Annotator's Note: US Marine Corps Women's Reserve] because she did not want...

Bernie Smith’s husband was United States Army Captain William “Bill” Smith, an officer in an artillery battalion in the...

Norma Jean Ford Beard was born in Latrobe, Pennsylvania in June 1944. Her father was a B-24 pilot [Annotator's Note:...

Rosemary Fagot was born an American citizen, but she had never been to to the United States until she enlisted in the...

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