Dorothy Malone was born in June 1922 in Ware, Massachusetts. Her father passed away when she was a child. Her mother remarried. She went to Milton High School. She went to college for one year. When the Army Air Corps came out, she went to volunteer. Her mother gave her a pretty suitcase. Malone went to the airport and they took her picture standing on the wing of a plane with the pilot. They were trying to recruit more people for the service. She was on KP duty [Annotator's Note: kitchen patrol or kitchen police] on her first day in the service. She was transferred to Memphis, Tennessee. She had three jobs. One of the jobs was recruiting. She was a PFC [Annotator’s Note: Private First Class]. She loved the service.

Dorothy Malone enlisted on 7 December 1943. She was home when she heard about Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December 1941]. She did not think it was true. They heard it on the radio. They had to march and drill. It was muddy in Tennessee. When they were issued their shoes, they gave her a pair that was too big. She was in the 8th Air Force Command in Memphis, Tennessee. Malone worked in recruiting between other jobs. She was paired with a GI [Annotator's Note: government issue; also a slang term for an American soldier]. She was among the first 50 girls on the base. The men treated them like sisters. She used the GI Bill [Annotator's Note: the G.I. Bill, or Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, was enacted by the United States Congress to aid United States veterans of World War 2 in transitioning back to civilian life and included financial aid for education, mortgages, business starts and unemployment] to go to college. Her husband was a mechanical engineer.

Dorothy Malone remembers that they partied when they heard the war was over. She was married and lived on a boat. She met one general. They had offices on the base. Malone was in charge of the beauty salon. She had one brother who was in the Army stationed in India. He was in charge of supplies. When President Roosevelt [Annotator's Note: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States] died, every GI [Annotator's Note: government issue; also a slang term for an American soldier] had tears in their eyes. They loved him. She does not think the war changed her life. The discipline did not bother her. She liked going to New Orleans [Annotator’s Note: New Orleans, Louisiana] before Katrina [Annotator’s Note: Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, Louisiana on 29 August 2005]. A lieutenant got in trouble for almost knocking her over. She would do it again. She thinks it is important to teach about World War Two. If there is another war, people should join. She thought the Air Corps seemed glamorous. She liked her job. She met a lot of pilots. She had the chance to go to Alaska and India. She helped out at the Red Cross unit.

Dorothy Malone talked to her mother about her experiences in the war. There was one guy waiting to get a ride on one of the planes. He was getting married in New York. Malone gave him her month's pay. She got a letter from him thanking her and paying her back. There were 50 girls on the base. They were in the same barracks. One WAC [Annotator's Note: Women's Army Corps; women's branch of the United States Army, 1942 to 1978] was an excellent cook. They would invite the men over to eat. She lives in Gulfport [Annotator’s Note: Gulfport, Mississippi]. She works in the library.