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Mary Konen’s most memorable experience of World War 2 was the people she met, and learning to drink beer and whiskey at...

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

Catherine Long lived in a barracks with four other WAVES [Annotator's Note: Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency...

George Allen says he was part of something that worked out well. He was worried that we [Annotator's Note: the United...

The experience of seeing the kids wanting American candy, and the subsequent revelation of the ship that had passed...

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

Margaret Stephensen was born in March 1923 in Bradford, Pennsylvania. She grew up there and played in the band. After...

While in Manila, Wim de Jonge was ordered to return to the Dutch Army to fight an uprising in the Dutch East Indies....

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

Trinidad Ledesma was present when MacArthur [Annotator's Note: US Army General Douglas MacArthur, Supreme Commander,...

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

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

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