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There was a lot of segregation at the beginning but Lavenia Breaux had the impression that it eased up. Breaux believes...

James Mather joined the V-5 Program [Annotator's Note: V-5 US Navy Aviation Cadet Program, 1939 to 1943] and became a...

World War 2 changed Lavenia Breaux. Before the war Breaux had the chance to talk to a woman in her neighborhood who, in...

Wagner's other brother was also in the Pacific and would write to the family telling them that he was trying to meet up...

Marietta Baham worked in the mail and communications department [Annotator's Note: at Jackson Barracks in New Orleans,...

Sara "Sally" Manning's life would have been completely different had she not volunteered for the Navy. It gave her the...

Charlotte Combs returned to Louisiana when her husband got out of the service. They did not have children yet. Her...

Elizabeth Bedson Wehner went to Purdue [Annotator's Note: Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana]. She had to...

Calvin Moret was in advance training ready room awaiting instructions for his mission. He was there with another...

Even though he was a small boy, William Hussey was aware that there was a fear that the Japanese would invade Hawaii....

Bettylu Dennis was born in April 1923 in Aurora, Indiana. Beginning in fifth grade, the family moved around several...

Harris H. Levee's most memorable experience of World War 2 was climbing up and down the nuclear reactor [Annotator's...

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