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Lillian Hoover was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana in August 1924. She grew up there. Her father was a contractor. She...

Carolyn Bridgforth's most memorable experience of World War 2 was the atomic bomb [Annotator's Note: nuclear weapons...

Isabella Karle was born of Polish immigrants in Detroit, Michigan in 1921. Her father was a Detroit city employee who...

At Northwestern University, Lauren Swinney's speech fraternity, Zeta Phi Eta, was sent to Glenview Naval Air Station....

Orrin Welty describes some of the differences between flying the B-17s [Annotator's Note: Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress...

[Annotator's Note: Edna Davis served with the Women Airforce Service Pilots, or WASPs.] Everybody liked the AT-6 [...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Moise S. Steeg, Jr. what basic training was like.] Moise S. Steeg, Jr....

The 2nd Infantry Division came back from fighting in Europe in the latter part of 1945. They went to Camp Swift, Texas...

Lorraine Doroff [Annotator's Note: while serving in the Women's Army Corps or WAC; women's branch of the Army from 1942...

Helen Ehlers idolized the Marines. She was anxious to go to boot camp. She thought she was going to fight. She was...

Rosamund Naylor wanted to stay home after her service. She went back to school under the G.I. Bill [Annotator's Note:...

Being a bush pilot in Alaska was a fun experience for Geraldine Nyman. One of their employees crashed a plane in the...

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