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George Wiswell says the past is a prologue to the future. What you learn is important. The Navy taught him to pay...

No one encouraged Roberta Randolph "Randy" Tidmore to join the Marines. She chose the Marines because they did not have...

One of George Kearney's friends, who lives not far from him, was a ban saw operator who cut the notches for the keel...

Carl Nygren was drafted before he graduated high school. He had to take an exam for basic English and arithmetic. He...

Joseph Traina was born in Labadieville, Louisiana in June 1917. [Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks what he recalls...

Janice Benario did not think about her job too much while she was doing it. Every once in a while they got excited when...

Marion Meredith Beal had a desk right next to the desk of Hashmark Johnson [Annotator's Note: US Marine Corps Sergeant...

Michael Clancey did duck and cover drills in school and at home as a child because of the nuclear threat. He always...

James Johnson went to basic training for three months. Then he went to advanced individual training for two months. He...

William Harvey served on a converted yacht named the USS Onyx (PYc-5). Onyx was 125 feet long with two diesel driven...

Helen Kushnir went to work for DeSoto [Annotator's Note: DeSoto-Warren Plant, Chrysler Corporation, Detroit, Michigan]...

Bernice Williams was in Milwaukee [Annotator's Note: Milwaukee, Wisconsin] and heard about the attack [Annotator's Note...

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