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Mildred Aupied worked in Shop 1 [Annotator’s Note: at Delta Shipyard in New Orleans, Louisiana]. There were two other...

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

Medary G. Boudreaux returned to Higgins at Michoud after his discharge and worked there for two years [Annotator’s Note...

Margaret Brewer Henry remembers prosperity after the war. There were more jobs and people had money for cars and other...

[Annotator's Note: Lauren Swinney was a student at Northwestern University and worked as an entertainer for troops...

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

[Annotator's Note: A woman off camera interjects throughout this segment.] Mary Julia Tarnow never felt any friction...

Norma Halberg does not recall how many hours of primary training she had. She went from the Stearman [Annotator's Note...

George R. Bolin did not understand what war was when it started. A lot of things were restricted during the war. His...

William Harvey served on a converted yacht named the USS Onyx (PYc-5). Onyx was 125 feet long with two diesel driven...

Ernest Jackson was sitting in a movie theater watching a musical when the movie was stopped and it was announced that...

Shirley Chase Kruse was born in June 1922 in Kearny, New Jersey and grew up in Newark, New Jersey. Her father was a...

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