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Ernest Jackson was born in Sumter, South Carolina. His family migrated [Annotator's Note: Great Migration, or Black...

Frederick Henry was born in January 1923 in Chattanooga, Tennessee and raised in Detroit [Annotator's Note: Detroit,...

Constance Negrotto saw a lot during the war that she had never expected to see. She helped the war effort by working...

Verna White's first assignment was at Camp Pendleton [Annotator's Note: Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton in San Diego...

After her time in the WAVES [Annotator's Note: Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service; United States Naval...

Grace Brown was at her sister's home when she heard about the attack on Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the Japanese...

At Northwestern University, Lauren Swinney's speech fraternity, Zeta Phi Eta, was sent to Glenview Naval Air Station....

After finishing school, Grace Brown was told she had a job at Consolidated [Annotator's Note: Consolidated Aircraft...

Lauren Swinney picked up words during the war like ersatz which meant a substitute for something. She recalls the pin-...

Janice Evenson thought the food was good. [Annotator’s Note: Evenson was stationed at Marietta, Georgia.] She had her...

Betty Sue Drake [Annotator's Note: a paymaster in the US Marine Corps] was assigned to Washington [Annotator's Note:...

William B. Hughes was sent to Merchant Marine boot camp in St. Petersburg, Florida. Afterward, he went to New Orleans...

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