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Linda Hope realized that her father’s experience with servicemen during the war had a profound influence on his life [...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks John McCarthy to describe rescuing a Merchant Marine who had fallen off his...

Janice Evenson was born in August 1922 in Grand Rapids, Minnesota. They had to walk a mile and a half to a country...

Eugene J. Gemperline was born in Portsmouth, Ohio in June 1923. [Annotator's Note: A telephone rings in the background...

Mary R. Stricklan's uniform [Annotator's Note: in the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) then Women's Army Corps (WAC...

Wagner was checking in after dinner when a guard stuck a gun in her back. She identified herself as Lieutenant Wagner...

John F. Ward volunteered for service in December 1943 and took his basic training at Jefferson Barracks, Missouri. He...

Marietta Estopinal Baham was born in Arabi, Louisiana. The depression [Annotator's Note: Great Depression] was very sad...

Zeno St. Cyr reflects on his 92 years of life and takes stock of surviving World War 2 without physical injury. His...

In the days leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor, William Hussey's father was about 400 miles to the south with a...

Charlotte Combs went to school for drawing maps. She got a job at the Higgins factory [Annotator's Note: Higgins...

Bowdre McDowell was born in October 1923 in Amite County in southwest Mississippi. He grew up on a cotton farm and...

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