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George Wiswell says the past is a prologue to the future. What you learn is important. The Navy taught him to pay...

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

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

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

John “Johnny” Pesky found himself lost while flying during flight training. Landing in a farmer’s field, he admitted...

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

Richmond Hamilton describes squadron life as his first exposure to an integrated unit where he had real...

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

James Jeter worked for Higgins Shipyard in New Orleans, Louisiana. He welded on different vessels but did not know...

Minnie Marcella Oleskey Shimp [Annotator's Note: a Pharmacist's Mate in the United States Navy Nurse Corps] returned...

Clarence Herbert Weatherwax was in the town of Bad Ems, Germany. They located some alcohol and he got intoxicated. He...

Admitting to an "old story," Jean Terrell McCreery related the tale of how, because she was underage, she couldn't buy...

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