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

Dr. Kenneth Arrow applied for Columbia University at 15 years old. The minimum age of acceptance was 16 years old....

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

Audrey Maduell found it sad to be at the train station where the families were watching their loved ones going off to...

Mary Leisey was born in Honey Brooke, Pennsylvania. It was a small town of nearly 1,000 people. She enjoyed growing up...

Calvin Moret and other Tuskegee Airmen were awarded the Congressional Gold Medal in 2007 in Washington by President...

Nancy Lynch Castellano was not old enough to join the WAVES [Annotator's Note: Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency...

Carolyn Bridgforth met her husband at Camp Shelby [Annotator's Note: Camp Shelby near Hattiesburg, Mississippi] when he...

Takea Iguchi thought Japan had a superior identity. Iguchi was in middle school when Tokyo [Annotator’s Note: Tokyo,...

When the war ended, they shot all the ammunition to celebrate. Rita Hymel thought that was stupid and told her husband...

Moise S. Steeg, Jr. did not want to be in the infantry. He got in at a fortunate time when bases were being built for...

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