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Louise Settles put in for overseas duty in 1943. She did not necessarily want to go overseas. It was more to get out of...

Joseph Mittelsdorf thought the Marine Corps was intense. They taught everyone learn how to follow orders. The training...

Walter Imahara was born in February 1937 in Florin, California, a farming community just outside of Sacramento. His...

Martha Tolles was born in Oklahoma City [Annotator’s Note: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma] in 1921. She grew up in New York...

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

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

Betty Peak worked at the Boeing Aircraft Company [Annotator's Note: in Wichita, Kansas]. Every plane had a letter...

Some of the wounded would talk to Amelia Taylor about their experiences, but some did not want to. They told her that...

After working at the PBY facility [Annotator’s Note: Constance Negrotto was a technical illustrator at the PBY Catalina...

Carolyn Bridgforth was going to be a dietician. There were very few jobs available to women. She did not finish her...

Betty Sue Drake [Annotator's Note: a paymaster in the US Marine Corps] was discharged after the war. She helped found a...

Francis Higgins had a business on Canal Street. It was originally Canal Marine owned by Lewis Waggoner and his brother...

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