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Carl Nygren was born in March 1927 in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. It was a colony town. They had a radio. There were...

Robert Francis Jones joined the Coast Guard on his 18th birthday. He was very disappointed at first [Annotator’s Note:...

James Jeter owns an apartment complex that serves military personnel. He has about two thirds of his 40 units used by...

Marion Meredith Beal believes that he and his peers [Annotator's Note: Montford Point Marines] were the beginnings of...

James Lee was born in 1930 on Oahu [Annotator's Note: Oahu, Hawaii] in a little community called Kalauao. It is no...

Prior to the Pearl Harbor attack [Annotator's Note: The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December 1941],...

Wagner grew up in Duluth, Minnesota. She attended high school and college in there.Her father was a ladies tailor. He...

The ship Lawson T. Winslow, Jr. was assigned to [Annotator's Note: the USS Monrovia (APA-31)] had seen a lot of combat...

Debra Stern [Annotator's Note: in the Women's Army Corps; women's branch of the US Army, 1942-1978] was at Camp Shanks...

Marie Rankart was at a dress shop in Elizabeth, New Jersey buying a dress when she heard the news that the war was over...

Alice Howie did not get involved in anything in the war effort other than in Arlington, Virginia. She worked for IBM [...

Jack A. Gillis was born in February 1923 in Mound City, Missouri. He had no brothers or sisters. At age two, Gillis...

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