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Elsie Marie "Kitty" Rippin's her most memorable experience from World War 2 was getting out and meeting her husband at...

Nelson Constant was just out there working. It was like being locked up in a room. The trees did not talk. They were...

Bettylu Dennis served in the WAVES [Annotator's Note: Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service; United States...

After the war ended, Henry "Buck" Weaver spent the next six months disposing of airplanes at the Ground Forces...

William B. Hughes knew he wanted to be a soldier when he first saw his brother in uniform. He eventually joined the...

There was a young man with whom Violet Walsh corresponded throughout the war. He was her high school pen pal from...

George Wiswell learned how to dive in the Navy. Wiswell was given a sheet of commands for line pulls under water as...

Not all of them were happy to see women [Annotator's Note: Wagner is referring to US Naval Officers in San Francisco]....

James Johnson came back to the United States and was supposed to go to an advanced course. They pulled him out and put...

Ora Hicks went to Kansas [Annotator's Note: Kansas City, Missouri] for nursing training in 1933. She had taught school...

Jack Vandervort chose to leave the US Merchant Marine. He did not like it too well. He was drafted and went to Camp...

To Fredi Van Pelt, once a Marine always a Marine. They were trained they were the best. If she had her uniform she...

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