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Heming, Barbara Working in Germany, England, and Holland
Barbara Heming got a job in Hamburg as a bilingual secretary. She had claimed that she was proficient in English and...
David, Chester Working in Occupied Germany
Chester David spent time after the war working as a truck driver in occupied Germany. He hauled firewood into Berlin [...
Constant, Nelson Working in the Oil Business
[Annotator's Note: Nelson Constant worked for an oil company in Louisiana. He details the job.] Constant worried about...
Negrotto, Constance Working on Consolidated PBYs
Constance Negrotto heard about the PBY job from the high school principal at Rabouin [Annotator’s Note: the PBY...
Upham, Peggy Working on the SB2C Helldiver
Peggy Upham went to work at the Columbus Plant of Curtiss-Wright [Annotator's Note: Curtiss-Wright Airplane Division of...
Francis, Norman Working with CORE
Dr. Norman Francis left the Army after two years. The men he was with were drafted after college. They were in from...
Reynolds, Holly Working with Locals, Caring for the Troops and Dating
Holly Reynolds remembers a lot of Army and Navy troops coming in. She also remembers Merchant Mariners there because...
Daniel, Lora Working with Men and Women
Working with the girls in the lab [Annotator's Note: at the Union Carbide Metallurgical Plant in Sheffield, Alabama],...
Rankart, Marie World Events and Pearl Harbor
Even though she was young, Marie Rankart paid attention to world events. At the time, young people had more of an...
MacCallum, Florence World War 1
Florence MacCallum [Annotator’s Note: a citizen of England working for the U.S. Army Joint Chiefs of Staff in London,...
Lewis, Karen Worsening Conditions & Liberation
Karen K. Lewis and her parents were interned at Santo Tomas Internment Camp [Annotator’s Note: Santo Tomas Internment...
Morse, Ralph Wounded Men and POWs
While Ralph Morse was in the hospital recovering from malaria, he was told he would not be going back to the Pacific [...
Downs, Raymond Writing his Memoirs
Raymond Downs and a historian wrote a book about the experience. He collected his mother's, father's, and sister's...
Sarnacki, Stella Writing to Marines
Stella Sarnacki knew the work she was doing was important. Her brother [Annotator’s Note: who was serving in the Marine...
Wronka, Gretchen Wronka's Family
Gretchen Wronka’s father, Loren Hintz, was killed in action while serving in the Army Air Corps during World War 2. She...
Weber, Norman Yellow Stars and Life in Berlin
As a child in Berlin [Annotator’s Note: Berlin, Germany in 1941], Norman Weber remembers seeing people walking on the...

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