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Richmond Hamilton characterizes his aviation training as very thorough and shares a pair of anecdotes illustrating this...

Charlotte Combs went to school for drawing maps. She got a job at the Higgins factory [Annotator's Note: Higgins...

[Annotator's Note: Rosemary Ramsey learned of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December 1941 from her...

[Annotator's Note: Calvin Elliott consults some notes to see if he left anything out of his story.] Calvin Elliott was...

John “Johnny” Pesky found himself lost while flying during flight training. Landing in a farmer’s field, he admitted...

James Jeter worked for Higgins Shipyard in New Orleans, Louisiana. He welded on different vessels but did not know...

Dorothy Ehlers wants future generations to remember how the soldiers of World War 2 loved their country as much as her...

The Navy made Eileen Noll a different person. She wanted to be better so that went along with the role the Navy played...

Minnie Marcella Oleskey Shimp [Annotator's Note: a Pharmacist's Mate in the United States Navy Nurse Corps] returned...

James Lee says censorship was the worst thing about martial law [Annotator's Note: after the Japanese attack on Pearl...

Florence Reynolds finished training on 6 June 1944. Afterwards, she was stationed in California. She was allowed to...

Paul Gibfried grew up in Park Ridge, Illinois, near Chicago [Annotator's Note: Chicago, Illinois]. His family arrived...

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