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While Ruth Knutson was in WAVES, her husband-to-be was drafted. He was a baseball player for the Chicago White Sox....

Ernest Jackson could go off base on furlough. Some bases, like some of the little towns including Havelock and Cherry...

Janice Benario met her future husband at a Latin seminar at Johns Hopkins. Benario’s husband took a position at Emory...

Joseph Mittelsdorf used the GI Bill [Annotator's Note: the G.I. Bill, or Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, was...

For Tom Thurman [Annotator's Note: American filmmaker], "December 7" [Annotator's Note: "December 7: The Movie," 1943...

Grace Brown thought the war would end and she would go back to her normal life. She did not think her life changed much...

George Allen says that instructors have to be rough on cadets by design. After they got their wings, they were nice to...

James Gooch was born in Gilmer, Texas in May 1939. He clearly recalls sitting with the family in front of their large...

Marie Rankart believes that museums like The National WWII Museum are important in many ways. The Museum represents...

Loraine Osborne was 16 years old when she moved. [Annotator’s Note: Osborne moved to Detroit, Michigan]. She worked at...

[Annotator's Note: Norma Halberg graduated from her training for the Women Airforce Service Pilots or WASPs at Avenger...

Calvin Moret and the Tuskegee Airmen helped break down racial barriers. They did not realize at the time that they were...

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