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James Mather was born in February 1923 in Caddo, Texas. His father was in the oil business by maintaining the oil wells...

Constance Negrotto heard about the PBY job from the high school principal at Rabouin [Annotator’s Note: the PBY...

Frank Ragazzi's decision to serve in the armed forces was influenced by the propaganda he saw at the movies. He would...

Elizabeth Bedson Wehner was born in Nebraska and then moved to South Dakota and then Iowa. When she was 12 years old,...

William B. Hughes sailed on the hospital ship USAHS Wisteria on his second voyage. He was assigned a fire station but...

Mary Leisey was born in Honey Brooke, Pennsylvania. It was a small town of nearly 1,000 people. She enjoyed growing up...

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

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

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

Murray Glass hated the Nazis. For years after the war, he had no use for Germans. The German denial of the Holocaust...

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

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

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