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Helen Ehlers idolized the Marines. She was anxious to go to boot camp. She thought she was going to fight. She was...

[Annotator's Note: George Kearney grew up in New Orleans, Louisiana and was an employee of Higgins Industries from 1937...

Judah Samet and his family were in a gathering place for Jews [Annotator's Note: between April and June 1944 they were...

Marvin A. Roslansky [Annotator's Note: a US Marine assigned to the Guam Insular Force Guard in Guam, Mariana Islands]...

Quintana did not talk about the war much when he got home. He did not talk about it with his kids, however with age he...

When Wallace Yip, Sr. came into New York Harbor [Annotator's Note: New York, New York] there were fireworks. He went to...

Russell Mayeur feels that every male should have mandatory military training. Women are a significant part of today's...

Basil Woolf returned to Digelli after dropping off women at Crete. [Annotator's Note: Woolf had taken part in a mission...

In addition to what Rena Greenup could provide her mother, who knew how to tell fortunes, traded her services from her...

Jerry LaMura remembers hitting the beaches in Normandy [Annotator's Note: D-Day; the Allied invasion of Normandy,...

When the war was over, a lot of women stayed on in the factories. Helen Kushnir went to work for Western Union as a...

Growing up, there were very few jobs for women. Lorene Auld's parents had ambition for her. They were living in a small...

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