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Constance Negrotto attended USO dances after work. The girls would eat dinner and then hop into their formal gowns....

Things were still hard at the end of the war. Rationing continued for about three months. Materials started coming back...

Virginia Hamilton wanted to go visit some German POWs [Annotator's Note: prisoners of war] at a work camp. The POWs...

George Wiswell learned how to dive in the Navy. Wiswell was given a sheet of commands for line pulls under water as...

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

Ora Hicks went to Kansas [Annotator's Note: Kansas City, Missouri] for nursing training in 1933. She had taught school...

After Easter 1946, Bowdre McDowell returned home and pursued a college education. He graduated with a marketing degree...

Murray Glass was drafted and sent to the Fort Dix, New Jersey reception center for a few weeks. He then went to the...

Marion Meredith Beal felt the Marine Corps was an unusually strong outfit. Not many of his race were in the service and...

Carl Nygren went to training school at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. [Annotator’s Note: Nygren talks about going out with a...

Mrs. P.A. "Tippy" Foster's most memorable experience of World War 2 was hearing the news of Pearl Harbor [Annotator's...

James Johnson chose the Army because he had a brother lost overboard a ship in 1938. Johnson was the last of 11...

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