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Lauren Swinney picked up words during the war like ersatz which meant a substitute for something. She recalls the pin-...

[Annotator's Note: There is audio feedback noise throughout this clip.] Gilbert H. Howland was born in April 1923 in...

Boot camp was entirely foreign to Cyril de la Vergne. She had never seen so many dumb women in her life. They did not...

After the Japanese surrendered [Annotator’s Note: the surrender was announced by Japanese Emperor Hirohito on 15 August...

Edgar De Pue Osgood loved Great Britain because they had very attractive girls in the Red Cross. They were put in...

The captain was severely disliked. Bell remembers the captain being in the back all the time and he did not have much...

Robert Marich's unit [Annotator's Note: Company B, 1st Battalion, 511th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 11th Airborne...

Mallie Mellon heard that President Roosevelt [Annotator's Note: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United...

After two years in England and periodically being required to report to the police as a refugee, Howard Chandler heard...

Nancy Lynch Castellano authored a book entitled "Looking Back at the WAVES: A Chronicle of the 90,000 Navy Women of...

Theodore Wessen felt the war was a large experience. It provided him with the ability to see many different places. He...

Henry Armstrong never got concerned about Communism after World War 2. He had faith in his country that we would not be...

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