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John “Johnny” Pesky was in baseball his whole life. It enabled him to see a lot of things and play with some great...

Frederick Hollis contributed to the war effort through scrap drives held in Detroit. At the collection points, snow...

[Annotator's Note: Alice Howie's husband was killed in an aerial dogfight in Europe.] Howie was very sad when the war...

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

Geraldine Nyman was born in Emmett, Idaho in 1920. She grew up with a family that moved every year. Her father was a...

James Lee was born in 1930 on Oahu [Annotator's Note: Oahu, Hawaii] in a little community called Kalauao. It is no...

Debra Stern [Annotator's Note: in the Women's Army Corps; women's branch of the US Army, 1942-1978] was at Camp Shanks...

William Hussey enlisted in the Navy because he grew up with it, and it seemed the thing to do once he reached adulthood...

Bernie Smith was born in March 1919 in Columbus, Ohio. She graduated from high school and took some college courses at...

Marilyn Strelow Groel was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1924 and grew up in Maplewood, New Jersey. Groel moved to...

After he was discharged, Lloyd Duncan returned to Coffeyville, Kansas and went to junior college on the GI Bill. He...

Irene Bartley was born in December 1923 in Seattle [Annotator’s Note: Seattle, Washington]. She and her twin sister...

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