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Edwin McAuliffe remembers everyone having a Victory garden during the war. The McAuliffes also had chickens. McAuliffe'...

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

Jean "Marian" Alva Yancey Landry went to a huge building where she was assigned to a job with Marine Corps headquarters...

No one encouraged Roberta Randolph "Randy" Tidmore to join the Marines. She chose the Marines because they did not have...

Lloyd Duncan enlisted in the Navy. He had chosen the Navy because he wanted to fly. He was sent to Memphis, Tennessee...

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

John “Johnny” Pesky found himself lost while flying during flight training. Landing in a farmer’s field, he admitted...

Isabella Karle's research involved isolating a purer form of plutonium. The laboratory was getting the oxide from Oak...

Guy Grenny was born in April 1927 in Spokane, Washington. It was a blessing to live in Spokane in his circumstances....

[Annotator's Note: Margaret Stephensen was an administrative clerk at the Bureau of Naval Personnel in Washington, D.C...

The Navy made Eileen Noll a different person. She wanted to be better so that went along with the role the Navy played...

When James Lee was a young kid, he was close buddies with a Japanese boy whose name was Toshi Yamamoto. They were...

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