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Mildred "Jean" Liparoto had nephews being drafted or who volunteered. Four nephews were in and there might have been...

Jean "Marian" Alva Yancey Landry first went to the Marine recruiter to merely find out what was involved with becoming...

Lora E. Daniel read a lot about the celebrations of V-E Day [Annotator's Note: Victory in Europe Day, 8 May 1945] and V...

William Harvey was called to active duty in April 1941. There was the 1st Division, 2nd Division and the 6th Division [...

Audrey Maduell found it sad to be at the train station where the families were watching their loved ones going off to...

Calvin Moret accumulated about 250 hours in cadet training. He would go on to have about 250 hours in the P-40 [...

There were two vacant lots near Frederick Hollis's home in Detroit. He decided to grow a Victory Garden in them. The...

Nancy Lynch Castellano was not old enough to join the WAVES [Annotator's Note: Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency...

Blaine Kern served in the Army for about two years. When he returned home, he was in a camp in California. In 1947, he...

They started flying and did not quit flying from that point on. Geraldine Nyman was stationed in Long Beach, California...

Boot camp was entirely foreign to Cyril de la Vergne. She had never seen so many dumb women in her life. They did not...

Margaret Stephensen was born in March 1923 in Bradford, Pennsylvania. She grew up there and played in the band. After...

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