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One night, Lois Meyer was coming back on base at Parris Island and was wondering where her husband was. There had been...

Philip Mayer had been in the Pacific for 30 months and was in the assault wave on Okinawa [Annotator's Note: Okinawa,...

Calvin Elliott did not use the G.I. Bill. He had an occupation. He worked with women all of his life. When he retired,...

Carl Nygren remembers Washington, D.C. was a segregated town. Roosevelt [Annotator's Note: Franklin Delano Roosevelt,...

Helmi McHardy thinks it is important for young women to know what she did. It should be the man and woman working...

Following VE-Day [Annotator's Note: Victory in Europe Day, 8 May 1945], Marvin Sussman was stationed in the town of...

David Dawson was in Hollywood, Florida at Navy gunnery school. He would pick up people that lived off the station and...

Shirley Chase Kruse recalled that during one of her assignments, a bird flew into her aileron, making the plane...

Morris Eugene Day was a happy-go-lucky boy before the war. When he returned, he found that life was the same, but it...

Hamilton gives a vivid description of growing up during the Great Depression. Times were tough but her family made it...

Lorraine Doroff drove for the War Department [Annotator's Note: as a member of the Women's Army Corps; women's branch...

World War 2 changed Richard Willett's life by making it possible for him to go to college. He learned how to discipline...

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