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While Anthony “Tony” Gallego was in pilot training, he was married to his wife whom he had known since she was 14 years...

Catherine Long had boot training in the Navy. Her parents had no objection to her joining the service. Her father was...

Mary Cummings [Annotator's Note: in the Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service; United States Naval Reserve (...

Everything in speech begins with the ear and Lauren Swinney had a good ear for languages. She does fairly well with...

Rita Hymel was born in Killona, Louisiana. They had a little schoolhouse and went to school barefoot. They had a pot-...

The war was on and all of the men were being drafted. After the first year, women were allowed to join the military, so...

Boot camp was entirely foreign to Cyril de la Vergne. She had never seen so many dumb women in her life. They did not...

Frederick Henry's [Annotator's Note: a Military Police officer in the US Army, stationed at Tuskegee, Alabama] job...

Francis Higgins feels that the PT boat restoration by the Museum is wonderful. [Annotator's Note: The Higgins built PT-...

Henry T. Meyer took boxing lessons under Jack Dempsey [Annotator's Note: William Harrison "Jack" Dempsey; American...

At Puget Sound [Annotator's Note: Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Puget Sound, near Bremerton, Washington], Thomas W....

Some of the wounded would talk to Amelia Taylor about their experiences, but some did not want to. They told her that...

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