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[Annotator's Note: The interview begins with Emma Keulegan already in conversation with the interviewer who then asks...

George Wiswell was made a third-class diver in the Navy. Most repair jobs are figured out as they are done. He was in...

Calvin Elliott was born in February 1918 in Whitesville, Delaware. He grew up in Maryland after moving there when he...

Fredi Van Pelt was born in July 1923 in Alameda, California. She has two sisters. Van Pelt was the baby in the family....

Marie Rankart was at a dress shop in Elizabeth, New Jersey buying a dress when she heard the news that the war was over...

Ora Hicks worked as a nurse for five years at Charity Hospital [Annotator's Note: in New Orleans, Louisiana], from 1936...

After the war ended, Peggy Upham went back home [Annotator's Note: to Dallas, Texas]. There was no money for her to go...

No one encouraged Roberta Randolph "Randy" Tidmore to join the Marines. She chose the Marines because they did not have...

Calvin Moret was born in the first house built on the square. His family would be the only black family in a...

Carl Nygren was drafted before he graduated high school. He had to take an exam for basic English and arithmetic. He...

Edwin McAuliffe's father was born in Ireland and was wounded during World War 1 at Gallipoli. His mother was born in...

Michael Clancey did duck and cover drills in school and at home as a child because of the nuclear threat. He always...

Oral History