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Corrine Boggs, also known as Lindy, was in Washington DC on 7 December 1941 [Annotator's Note: the date of the Japanese...

Sara "Sally" Manning's life would have been completely different had she not volunteered for the Navy. It gave her the...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks George Wiswell what it was like when the war ended.] Thank goodness it was over...

John “Johnny” Pesky volunteered for the Navy because he did not want to be drafted. He got into a program where he was...

Guy Grenny feels good about his life helping veterans. Veterans have told him he helped them. It was good being in the...

Ora Hicks entered the military at Camp Livingston, Louisiana. She then went to Fort Huachuca [Annotator's Note: in...

Minnie Marcella Oleskey Shimp went into nurse training in Washington, D.C. They had a bomb scare and a friend told her...

Delano Brister's grandfather had a barn on his property that was used once during a military training operation by a...

Carl Nygren had to go on a 25-mile march with a full pack. He saw some people pass out afterward. After 20 miles, the...

Marie Rankart did not smoke but her sister did. Her sister would ask her to get her cigarettes when she came across...

James Lee could not fight in World War 2, but when the Korean War [Annotator's Note: Korean War, 25 June 1950 to 27...

It was raining one day on base [Annotator's Note: Camp Montford Point, Jacksonville, North Carolina]. Their mattresses...

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