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Ruth Knutson was in WAVES [Annotator's Note: Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service; United States Naval Women'...

Lavenia Breaux had to find out through the grapevine that her friend had been killed. Sensitive information like that...

Dr. Kenneth Arrow applied for Columbia University at 15 years old. The minimum age of acceptance was 16 years old....

Joseph Mittelsdorf enjoyed swimming and diving for lobsters at night in Hawaii [Annotator's Note: as part of the 5th...

Lilian Drucker graduated [Annotator's Note: from high school] in 1943 and got married on 3 September 1944. Her husband...

[Annotator's Note: This clip begins with Tom Thurman, an American filmmaker born in March 1962 in Christiansburg,...

Jane Biestek remembers buses of sailors passing by the window of the Ford factory. She would dance with them at night....

Grace Brown was born in November 1921 in a farm in Texas. Growing up on a farm was tough, but she enjoyed it. She liked...

George Mitchell feels the training at Montford Point [Annotator's Note: Camp Montford Point, Jacksonville, North...

George Allen says that instructors have to be rough on cadets by design. After they got their wings, they were nice to...

Loraine Osborne was born in Prestonsburg, Kentucky in 1925. She grew up on a farm. They canned everything. When they...

Catherine Long had boot training in the Navy. Her parents had no objection to her joining the service. Her father was...

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