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There was a young man with whom Violet Walsh corresponded throughout the war. He was her high school pen pal from...

George Wiswell learned how to dive in the Navy. Wiswell was given a sheet of commands for line pulls under water as...

Charlotte Combs was born in April 1920 in New Orleans [Annotator’s Note: New Orleans, Louisiana]. She had two little...

Things were still hard at the end of the war. Rationing continued for about three months. Materials started coming back...

Guy Grenny returned home to the United States from the Philippines via the Aleutian Islands to San Francisco [Annotato'...

To Fredi Van Pelt, once a Marine always a Marine. They were trained they were the best. If she had her uniform she...

Ora Hicks went to Kansas [Annotator's Note: Kansas City, Missouri] for nursing training in 1933. She had taught school...

In the 1950s, Eileen Noll recognized the changes for women in the military. She felt more respected and leaned upon by...

Roberta Randolph "Randy" Tidmore, and everybody else, was scared the Nazis were going to take over Europe. When VE-Day...

James Jeter was born in Jetertown, Louisiana [Annotator’s Note: near Leesville, Louisiana]. It was a small settlement...

The factory's [Annotator's Note: the General Motors Company plant in Newark, New Jersey where Marie Rankart worked]...

James Johnson chose the Army because he had a brother lost overboard a ship in 1938. Johnson was the last of 11...

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