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Loraine Osborne was born in Prestonsburg, Kentucky in 1925. She grew up on a farm. They canned everything. When they...

George Allen says that instructors have to be rough on cadets by design. After they got their wings, they were nice to...

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

Doctor James B. Heneghan's father was a civil engineer. He helped design the very first pre-stressed concrete arches...

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

In 1942, Betty Soskin was a clerk in a segregated union hall in Richmond [Annotator's Note: Richmond, California]. She...

Betty Sue Drake went to paymaster school after basic training and was sent then to Washington [Annotator's Note:...

The newspaper was a critical source of information. Frank B. Stewart, Jr.'s parents would read it to him until he could...

They started flying and did not quit flying from that point on. Geraldine Nyman was stationed in Long Beach, California...

[Annotator's Note: This segment begins with the interviewer asking Walter Imahara to describe what is hanging on the...

Norma Jean Ford Beard only knew that her father was a pilot and was killed until she was 13 years old. [Annotator's...

Shirley Chase Kruse had many memorable experiences of World War 2. She decided to serve because she wanted a challenge...

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