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The hardest part of the Marines Corps for Ernest Jackson was basic training and learning to obey orders. But it was a...

Dolores McInnis Libby applied to work [Annotator's Note: at Consolidated Aircraft Corporation] because she had a friend...

Calvin Blank was drafted into the Army [Annotator's Note: in 1945]. He was five foot six and weighed 118 pounds. When...

Loraine Osborne knew that they had to get the planes out so they could be shipped overseas. The harder they worked, the...

[Annotator's Note: Lauren Swinney was a student at Northwestern University and worked as an entertainer for troops...

Walter Imahara was into sports and attended the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City. He learned that some of the politicians...

Frank B. Stewart, Jr. was born in New Orleans [Annotator's Note: New Orleans, Louisiana] in September 1935. He is a...

Older male workers would cater to the young women like June Tinker who came into the work force. The men would flirt...

Shirley Chase Kruse recalled that during one of her assignments, a bird flew into her aileron, making the plane...

Dr. Norman Francis had a great interest in interacting with World War 2 veterans returning from the war and going to...

As a kid, everything James Gooch knew about the military was through movies. As an adult, he stopped in a shop on base...

Raymond Downs and a historian wrote a book about the experience. He collected his mother's, father's, and sister's...

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