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On VJ-Day [Annotator's Note: Victory Over Japan Day, 15 August 1945] Betty Sue Drake [Annotator's Note: a paymaster in...

Bobby C. Wilson was born in West Monroe [Annotator's Note: West Monroe, Louisiana] in February 1925. His father was a...

Shirley Chase Kruse recalled that during one of her assignments, a bird flew into her aileron, making the plane...

In 1942, Betty Soskin was a clerk in a segregated union hall in Richmond [Annotator's Note: Richmond, California]. She...

James Gooch had an ice box on the outside porch. It was his job to put a signal out on the window, so the ice man knew...

Raymond Downs and a historian wrote a book about the experience. He collected his mother's, father's, and sister's...

Constance Negrotto worked on the PBY Catalina flying patrol bomber [Annotator’s Note: Negrotto was a technical...

Norma Jean Ford Beard only knew that her father was a pilot and was killed until she was 13 years old. [Annotator's...

William B. Hughes sailed on the hospital ship USAHS Wisteria on his second voyage. He was assigned a fire station but...

Lawson T. Winslow, Junior really enjoyed the Navy and would have been happy if they told him he had to stay on another...

Spencer Yancey kept up with the war overseas. When Pearl Harbor was bombed [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on...

Lauren Swinney always had at least three occupations at the same time. She wanted to learn everything and do everything...

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