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Michael Clancey did duck and cover drills in school and at home as a child because of the nuclear threat. He always...

[Annotator's Note: From December 1940 until 1949, Marie Rankart worked for the General Motors Company facility in...

Florence Reynolds finished training on 6 June 1944. Afterwards, she was stationed in California. She was allowed to...

Paul Gibfried grew up in Park Ridge, Illinois, near Chicago [Annotator's Note: Chicago, Illinois]. His family arrived...

Mildred Loscalzo Vanderpool heard about the atomic bombs [Annotator's Note: nuclear weapons dropped on Hiroshima, Japan...

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

When the war was over, a lot of women stayed on in the factories. Helen Kushnir went to work for Western Union as a...

When he was flying experimental missions, Orrin Welty said he never knew the nature of the business. He describes how...

Coleen Landry was surrounded by soldiers at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. She felt that her...

Mary Konen’s most memorable experience of World War 2 was the people she met, and learning to drink beer and whiskey at...

Bane Cook lived a good life. His time in the service does not really cross his mind. [Annotator’s Note: Cook becomes...

Jennie Rosenzweig did not have a lot of friends who had husbands overseas. She had no one to share her experiences with...

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