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Irene Bartley and her twin sister, Jean, joined the WACs [Annotator's Note: Women's Army Corps; women's branch of the...

Shirley Chase Kruse had many memorable experiences of World War 2. She decided to serve because she wanted a challenge...

Samuel W. Smith remembers his flight engineer telling him that he dropped a screwdriver in the oil chamber. The B-24 [...

Bernice Williams was born in March 1921 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She had a normal life. Her father worked for an...

When Mildred Vanderpool received her orders to New Orleans [Annotator's Note: New Orleans, Louisiana] in May [Annotator...

Mildred Bonvillian Aupied was born in Bayou Black near Houma in Terrebonne Parish [Annotator’s Note: south of New...

On the day she was discharged [Annotator's Note: from the Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES);...

Charles White remembers traveling at night was bad. They could only proceed based on the exhaust from the tank in front...

Mary Konen worked for a Jewish dentist [Annotator’s Note: named Dr. Behrman] who performed dentistry work on German...

Zhanna Dawson felt her first encounter with an American was ridiculous. She did not know how to react to the American...

Rosemary Elfer does not recall any instances of discrimination either while working for Higgins Industries or while...

[Annotator's Note: Edward Kissam was serving in the US Marine Corps as a navigator on cargo planes in China after the...

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