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Elizabeth Bedson Wehner was born in Nebraska and then moved to South Dakota and then Iowa. When she was 12 years old,...

George Wiswell says the past is a prologue to the future. What you learn is important. The Navy taught him to pay...

Bowdre McDowell was born in October 1923 in Amite County in southwest Mississippi. He grew up on a cotton farm and...

The only benefits they were eligible for was housing and medical benefits. The WASP [Womens Airforce Service Program]...

Joseph Traina was born in Labadieville, Louisiana in June 1917. [Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks what he recalls...

Peggy Upham was born in January 1924 in Dallas, Texas. She remembers the Great Depression. Her family did alright. They...

Roberta Randolph "Randy" Tidmore was discharged in August 1946 as a sergeant. She used the G.I. Bill twice. She went to...

Carl Nygren remembers December 1944 in Tulsa [Annotator’s Note: Tulsa, Oklahoma]. He went to the USO [Annotator's Note...

Michael Clancey and Greg Dust [Annotator's Note: phonetic spelling; unable to identify] once went together to fill a...

James Johnson went to basic training for three months. Then he went to advanced individual training for two months. He...

Admitting to an "old story," Jean Terrell McCreery related the tale of how, because she was underage, she couldn't buy...

Lavenia Hickman Breaux was born in Slidell, Louisiana in 1917. Breaux did not realize she was living through a...

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