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Ursula Pritham, Interviewed By Hillary Jackson, Part 3, Ursula A. Bobst Pritham
Ursula Pritham, Interviewed By Hillary Jackson, Part 3, Ursula A. Bobst Pritham
MF144 Women in the Military
Ursula Pritham, interviewed by Hillary Jackson, November 5, 2001. Pritham, who was born in New York City in 1955, talks about her background (Swiss); serving in the Army Nurse Core; serving stateside, in Germany, and in Korea; initial training; Vietnam; Gulf War; husband; typical day; toll on family; public support; funny moments; husband’s experiences in the military; his views of the military; travel; male/female relationships in the military; relationships among the women; harassment; her thoughts about the military. Text: 24 pp. transcript. Time: 01:30:05.
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Yvonne Roland, Interviewed By Hillary Jackson, Yvonne Roland
Yvonne Roland, Interviewed By Hillary Jackson, Yvonne Roland
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Yvonne Roland, interviewed by Hillary Jackson, November 26, 2001. Roland, who was born in Alabama, talks about the days when she was in the Air Force: being stationed in Turkey, Andrews Air Force Basin Maryland, and been to Colorado, Myrtle Beach Air Force Base, South Carolina, and Pease Air Force in new Hampshire; her start as a commissioned officer; Gulf War; benefits of military training; politics; changes she saw; funny moments; Egypt; travel; competitiveness in the military; feelings about the military; women in combat. Text: 13 pp. transcript. Time: 00:29:19.
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Phyllis Sprague, Interviewed By Kristen Frey, Part 1, Phyllis M. Wheeler Sprague
Phyllis Sprague, Interviewed By Kristen Frey, Part 1, Phyllis M. Wheeler Sprague
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Phyllis Sprague, interviewed by Kristen Frey on November 14, 2001. Sprague was born in Newbury, Vermont in 1943. Sprague talks about joining the Army in 1961; a typical day in basic training and then working for the Army; experience as a medical officer in the Army; Sprague’s attitude toward the military and government becoming more patriotic after her service; way soldiers were welcomed home after Vietnam compared to the Gulf War; relationship between men and women in the military in the 60s; having to leave the military for pregnancy; absence of sexual harassment in the Army. Text: 10 pp. transcript. …
Marion Townsend, Interviewed By Phyllis Von Herrlich, Marion Adell Townsend
Marion Townsend, Interviewed By Phyllis Von Herrlich, Marion Adell Townsend
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Marion Townsend, interviewed by Phyllis von Herrlich, January 6, 2002. Townsend talks about joining the service in 1942; twenty-eight when she joined the Navy; Hunter College for boot camp training; lived in dorms; went to store keeper school; ordered supplies; was in for two years; trained with just women; didn’t get trained to shoot a gun; it was either get out or go to Japan; naval reserve for two years; type a certain WPM to pass store keeper school; went to Gates Business College; went to the University of Maine for a year then to Farmington; teaching for thirty-seven years; …
Patricia Conlon, Interviewed By Kristin Taylor, Patricia Conlon
Patricia Conlon, Interviewed By Kristin Taylor, Patricia Conlon
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NA3227 Patricia Conlon, interviewed by Kristin Taylor, November 6, 2001. Conlon talks about her personal and family histories; her childhood in Newark, New Jersey; her parents, Joseph and Elizabeth Conlon; being a commissioned officer in the Air Force during the Gulf War; McGuire Air Force Base in New Jersey; hers and her family’s reactions to her enlistment in the Air Force; being a mother while serving in the military; Shephard Air Force Base in Texas; her experiences and duties as a flight nurse for Air Evac in Europe and the United States; her opinions on differences between men and women …
Susan “Sue” Murphy-Hammond, Interviewed By Phyllis Von Herrlich, Part 1, Susan Murphy-Hammond
Susan “Sue” Murphy-Hammond, Interviewed By Phyllis Von Herrlich, Part 1, Susan Murphy-Hammond
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Susan “Sue” Murphy-Hammond, interviewed by Phyllis von Herrlich, October 28, 2001, Augusta, Maine. Murphy-Hammond talks about the U.S. Navy: enlisting in 1970; basic training at 18; the strict list of what could be brought; barracks; having to walk paths that were unmarked, punishment if you went off; training with just women; having to have a physical twice; wearing dungarees; 3 uniforms; training with 28 or 30 girls; room standards; failing inspection too many times, didn’t graduate; wearing a wig so she didn’t have to cut her hair; her station in Quonset Point, RI; waves; black shoe; brown shoe; working in …
Susan “Sue” Murphy-Hammond, Interviewed By Phyllis Von Herrlich, Part 2, Susan Murphy-Hammond
Susan “Sue” Murphy-Hammond, Interviewed By Phyllis Von Herrlich, Part 2, Susan Murphy-Hammond
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Susan “Sue” Murphy-Hammond, interviewed by Phyllis von Herrlich, October 28, 2001, Augusta, Maine. Murphy-Hammond talks about the U.S. Navy: enlisting in 1970; basic training at 18; the strict list of what could be brought; barracks; having to walk paths that were unmarked, punishment if you went off; training with just women; having to have a physical twice; wearing dungarees; 3 uniforms; training with 28 or 30 girls; room standards; failing inspection too many times, didn’t graduate; wearing a wig so she didn’t have to cut her hair; her station in Quonset Point, RI; waves; black shoe; brown shoe; working in …
Deborah A. Lee, Interviewed By Kristin Taylor, Part 1, Deborah A. Lee
Deborah A. Lee, Interviewed By Kristin Taylor, Part 1, Deborah A. Lee
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Deborah A. Lee, interviewed by Kristin Taylor, November 8, 2001. Lee, a member of the Air National Guard and was born in Boston in 1957, talks about joining the National Guard and her family’s reaction; job of in-flight refueling of jets; experiences with basic training and specialty training; time in survival school; equality between men and women in the Air National Guard; quality of officers in the Guard; pros and cons of being in the Air National Guard; experiences overseas; how service changes attitude toward military and the government; life after service and keeping in touch with people afterward; what …
Deborah A. Lee, Interviewed By Kristin Taylor, Part 2, Deborah A. Lee
Deborah A. Lee, Interviewed By Kristin Taylor, Part 2, Deborah A. Lee
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Deborah A. Lee, interviewed by Kristin Taylor, November 8, 2001. Lee, a member of the Air National Guard and was born in Boston in 1957, talks about joining the National Guard and her family’s reaction; job of in-flight refueling of jets; experiences with basic training and specialty training; time in survival school; equality between men and women in the Air National Guard; quality of officers in the Guard; pros and cons of being in the Air National Guard; experiences overseas; how service changes attitude toward military and the government; life after service and keeping in touch with people afterward; what …
Deborah A. Lee, Interviewed By Kristin Taylor, Part 3, Deborah A. Lee
Deborah A. Lee, Interviewed By Kristin Taylor, Part 3, Deborah A. Lee
MF144 Women in the Military
Deborah A. Lee, interviewed by Kristin Taylor, November 8, 2001. Lee, a member of the Air National Guard and was born in Boston in 1957, talks about joining the National Guard and her family’s reaction; job of in-flight refueling of jets; experiences with basic training and specialty training; time in survival school; equality between men and women in the Air National Guard; quality of officers in the Guard; pros and cons of being in the Air National Guard; experiences overseas; how service changes attitude toward military and the government; life after service and keeping in touch with people afterward; what …
Sara Bilodeau, Interviewed By Phyllis Von Herrlich, Part 1, Sara Bilodeau
Sara Bilodeau, Interviewed By Phyllis Von Herrlich, Part 1, Sara Bilodeau
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Sara Bilodeau, interviewed by Phyllis von Herrlich, November 10, 2001. Bilodeau talks about going into service in 1986; marrying a man from Maine; being on active duty in 1992; United States Air Force; “slick sleeve” airman basic; family in military; a building designated for all women in 1986; the 60 other women in basic with her; open bay; guide on; law enforcement; selecting 1 woman a month; becoming a dog handler; training at Lackland Air Force base; 15 weeks of training; being the only female in her group of 6; going to Guam; PRP certification; walking the “red line”; “red …
Sara Bilodeau, Interviewed By Phyllis Von Herrlich, Part 2, Sara Bilodeau
Sara Bilodeau, Interviewed By Phyllis Von Herrlich, Part 2, Sara Bilodeau
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Sara Bilodeau, interviewed by Phyllis von Herrlich, November 10, 2001. Bilodeau talks about going into service in 1986; marrying a man from Maine; being on active duty in 1992; United States Air Force; “slick sleeve” airman basic; family in military; a building designated for all women in 1986; the 60 other women in basic with her; open bay; guide on; law enforcement; selecting 1 woman a month; becoming a dog handler; training at Lackland Air Force base; 15 weeks of training; being the only female in her group of 6; going to Guam; PRP certification; walking the “red line”; “red …
Sharon Blair, Interviewed By Caitlyn Barker, Part 1, Sharon Blair
Sharon Blair, Interviewed By Caitlyn Barker, Part 1, Sharon Blair
MF144 Women in the Military
Sharon Blair, interviewed by Caitlyn Barker, December 4, 2001, at her home in Augusta, Maine. Blair talks about her aspirations of becoming a legal secretary; attending Thomas College; reasons for joining the Marine Corps in 1965; struggles of boot camp at Paris Island, South Carolina; treatment of women in boot camp; the developed bond between members of Marine Corps, and those of the military; life at the base at Cherry Point in North Carolina; working at the Cherry Point base while fellow Marines were deployed to Vietnam; segregation; lessons of the Marine Corps, and its impact on her life; being …
Sharon Blair, Interviewed By Caitlyn Barker, Part 2, Sharon Blair
Sharon Blair, Interviewed By Caitlyn Barker, Part 2, Sharon Blair
MF144 Women in the Military
Sharon Blair, interviewed by Caitlyn Barker, December 4, 2001, at her home in Augusta, Maine. Blair talks about her aspirations of becoming a legal secretary; attending Thomas College; reasons for joining the Marine Corps in 1965; struggles of boot camp at Paris Island, South Carolina; treatment of women in boot camp; the developed bond between members of Marine Corps, and those of the military; life at the base at Cherry Point in North Carolina; working at the Cherry Point base while fellow Marines were deployed to Vietnam; segregation; lessons of the Marine Corps, and its impact on her life; being …
Luise Trost Cirillo, Interviewed By Angela Nickerson, Part 1, Luise Trost Cirillo
Luise Trost Cirillo, Interviewed By Angela Nickerson, Part 1, Luise Trost Cirillo
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Luise (Trost) Cirillo, interviewed by Angela Nickerson, March 17, 2002, Pittsfield, Maine. Cirillo (b. 1912) talks about being growing up in Germany; working as a cook; coming to the U. S. in 1936 to escape Hitler’s Germany; meeting the Von Trapp family; first impressions of America; training to be a nurse; treating patients with malaria; difficulty joining the Navy as a German; her leisure time; working in a military hospital; secret marriage; hearing about the end of WWII; her military leave; living in Boston with her husband; private duty nurse at Deaconess Hospital in Boston; public health nurse in Springfield, …
Luise Trost Cirillo, Interviewed By Angela Nickerson, Part 2, Luise Trost Cirillo
Luise Trost Cirillo, Interviewed By Angela Nickerson, Part 2, Luise Trost Cirillo
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Luise (Trost) Cirillo, interviewed by Angela Nickerson, March 17, 2002, Pittsfield, Maine. Cirillo (b. 1912) talks about being growing up in Germany; working as a cook; coming to the U. S. in 1936 to escape Hitler’s Germany; meeting the Von Trapp family; first impressions of America; training to be a nurse; treating patients with malaria; difficulty joining the Navy as a German; her leisure time; working in a military hospital; secret marriage; hearing about the end of WWII; her military leave; living in Boston with her husband; private duty nurse at Deaconess Hospital in Boston; public health nurse in Springfield, …
Jacalyn L. Ellingsen, Interviewed By Sarah Lawler, Part 1, Jacalyn Louisa Shope Ellingsen
Jacalyn L. Ellingsen, Interviewed By Sarah Lawler, Part 1, Jacalyn Louisa Shope Ellingsen
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Jacalyn L. Ellingsen, interviewed by Sarah Lawler, November 13, 2001, unknown location. Ellingsen talks about her experience as an information manager in the Air National Guard since 1979; basic training at Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas; tech school in MS; her reasons for joining; computer use; rules and regulations; the view of women in the military, Air Force, and administration; her experience as a hippie in Huntingdon, PA during the Vietnam War; patriotism; her view of the Persian Gulf War and the Iraq War; the role of the Air Nation Guard; the reaction of her family and friends …
Jacalyn L. Ellingsen, Interviewed By Sarah Lawler, Part 2, Jacalyn Louisa Shope Ellingsen
Jacalyn L. Ellingsen, Interviewed By Sarah Lawler, Part 2, Jacalyn Louisa Shope Ellingsen
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Jacalyn L. Ellingsen, interviewed by Sarah Lawler, November 13, 2001, unknown location. Ellingsen talks about her experience as an information manager in the Air National Guard since 1979; basic training at Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas; tech school in MS; her reasons for joining; computer use; rules and regulations; the view of women in the military, Air Force, and administration; her experience as a hippie in Huntingdon, PA during the Vietnam War; patriotism; her view of the Persian Gulf War and the Iraq War; the role of the Air Nation Guard; the reaction of her family and friends …
Jacalyn L. Ellingsen, Interviewed By Sarah Lawler, Part 3, Jacalyn Louisa Shope Ellingsen
Jacalyn L. Ellingsen, Interviewed By Sarah Lawler, Part 3, Jacalyn Louisa Shope Ellingsen
MF144 Women in the Military
Jacalyn L. Ellingsen, interviewed by Sarah Lawler, November 13, 2001, unknown location. Ellingsen talks about her experience as an information manager in the Air National Guard since 1979; basic training at Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas; tech school in MS; her reasons for joining; computer use; rules and regulations; the view of women in the military, Air Force, and administration; her experience as a hippie in Huntingdon, PA during the Vietnam War; patriotism; her view of the Persian Gulf War and the Iraq War; the role of the Air Nation Guard; the reaction of her family and friends …
Marjorie C. Hall, Interviewed By Robin Arnold And Molly Maclean, Part 1, Marjorie H. Clarke Hall
Marjorie C. Hall, Interviewed By Robin Arnold And Molly Maclean, Part 1, Marjorie H. Clarke Hall
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Marjorie C. Hall, interviewed by Robin Arnold and Molly MacLean, November 15, 2000. Hall talks about completing her basic training at Hunter College in New York City in 1944; joining the Hospital Corps upon completion; being stationed at Bethesda Naval Hospital; and later at Great Lakes, Illinois as part of the WAVES (Women Accepted for Voluntary Emergency Service). Text: 18 pp. partial transcript. Time: 00:59:27. Photographs: p14507-p14512, p14561.
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Marjorie C. Hall, Interviewed By Robin Arnold And Molly Maclean, Part 2, Marjorie H. Clarke Hall
Marjorie C. Hall, Interviewed By Robin Arnold And Molly Maclean, Part 2, Marjorie H. Clarke Hall
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Marjorie C. Hall, interviewed by Robin Arnold and Molly MacLean, November 15, 2000. Hall talks about completing her basic training at Hunter College in New York City in 1944; joining the Hospital Corps upon completion; being stationed at Bethesda Naval Hospital; and later at Great Lakes, Illinois as part of the WAVES (Women Accepted for Voluntary Emergency Service). Text: 18 pp. partial transcript. Time: 00:59:27. Photographs: p14507-p14512, p14561.
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Annie (Mcneil) Mccarthy, Interviewed By Robin Arnold And Molly Maclean, Annie Mcneil Mccarthy
Annie (Mcneil) Mccarthy, Interviewed By Robin Arnold And Molly Maclean, Annie Mcneil Mccarthy
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Annie (McNeil) McCarthy, interviewed by Robin Arnold and Molly MacLean, November 17, 2000, at her home in Bangor, Maine. McCarthy talks about being a member of a detachment of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps assigned to the Air Force; working as a Radio Operator in Daytona, Florida; serving with Air Force Intelligence under General George Stratemeyer in the 8th Air Force, Strategic Air Command in China and India, and being one of the first 13 women sent to South East Asia during World War II as an experiment. Text: 23 pp. transcript only. Photographs: p14513-p14515.
Evelyn Mcphee, Interviewed By Jaime Ferris, Evelyn Marie Ames Mcphee
Evelyn Mcphee, Interviewed By Jaime Ferris, Evelyn Marie Ames Mcphee
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Evelyn McPhee, interviewed by Jaime Ferris, November 28, 2000, Bangor, Maine. McPhee talks about her childhood in Bangor, Maine; her decision to enlist in the Navy; her family’s reaction; her education; her reasons for enlisting in the Waves (Navy) in 1941; serving stateside during World War II; boot camp at Hunters College in New York; her tour of New York; Milledgeville State Teacher’s College in Georgia; transferring to Atlanta, Georgia; her duties as a storekeeper; typing orders; Tyrone Power; Kate Smith; her opinions about segregation and integration; Southern attitudes towards Northern Yankees and African-Americans; the prejudice she endured as a …
Ruth O’Neil, Interviewed By Jamie A. Ferris, Part 1, Ruth Wardwell Brown O'Neil
Ruth O’Neil, Interviewed By Jamie A. Ferris, Part 1, Ruth Wardwell Brown O'Neil
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Ruth O’Neil, interviewed by Jamie A. Ferris, a student in WS201, November 27, 2000, Old Town, Maine. O’Neil talks about joining the Army in 1953; serving as a field medic; completing her basic training at Fort McClellen in Alabama. For the class’s Women and War project. Text: 3 pp. partial transcript. Time: 01:23:38.
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Ruth O’Neil, Interviewed By Jamie A. Ferris, Part 2, Ruth Wardwell Brown O'Neil
Ruth O’Neil, Interviewed By Jamie A. Ferris, Part 2, Ruth Wardwell Brown O'Neil
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Ruth O’Neil, interviewed by Jamie A. Ferris, a student in WS201, November 27, 2000, Old Town, Maine. O’Neil talks about joining the Army in 1953; serving as a field medic; completing her basic training at Fort McClellen in Alabama. For the class’s Women and War project. Text: 3 pp. partial transcript. Time: 01:23:38.
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Louine Lunt Peck, Interviewed By Carol Toner And Mazie Hough, Part 1, Louine Lunt Connor Peck
Louine Lunt Peck, Interviewed By Carol Toner And Mazie Hough, Part 1, Louine Lunt Connor Peck
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Louine Lunt Peck, interviewed by Carol Toner and Mazie Hough, August 16, 2000, at her home in Northeast Harbor, Maine. Peck talks about serving as a Second Lieutenant as a nurse in the Navy Nurses Corps from 1938 to 1941; serving in the Army Nurses Corps from 1943 to 1945; serving on the USAHS Acadia, which sailed to the Bay of Naples and Normandy. Text: 53 pp. transcript. Time: 01:34:39.
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Louine Lunt Peck, Interviewed By Carol Toner And Mazie Hough, Part 2, Louine Lunt Connor Peck
Louine Lunt Peck, Interviewed By Carol Toner And Mazie Hough, Part 2, Louine Lunt Connor Peck
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Louine Lunt Peck, interviewed by Carol Toner and Mazie Hough, August 16, 2000, at her home in Northeast Harbor, Maine. Peck talks about serving as a Second Lieutenant as a nurse in the Navy Nurses Corps from 1938 to 1941; serving in the Army Nurses Corps from 1943 to 1945; serving on the USAHS Acadia, which sailed to the Bay of Naples and Normandy. Text: 53 pp. transcript. Time: 01:34:39.
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Mary Elliott, Interviewed By John Dunham, Part 1, Mary Downey Elliott
Mary Elliott, Interviewed By John Dunham, Part 1, Mary Downey Elliott
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Mary Elliott, interviewed by John Dunham, December 2, 2001, Camden, Maine. Elliott talks about training as a nurse in Massachusetts; becoming a member of the Red Cross; being called to serve in the Army following the attack on Pearl Harbor; being stationed at Camp Edwards, Massachusetts, Belfast, Northern Ireland, and Salisbury, England; being a Second Lieutenant nurse. Text: 18 pp. transcript. Time: 50 minutes.
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Mary Elliott, Interviewed By John Dunham, Part 2, Mary Downey Elliott
Mary Elliott, Interviewed By John Dunham, Part 2, Mary Downey Elliott
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Mary Elliott, interviewed by John Dunham, December 2, 2001, Camden, Maine. Elliott talks about training as a nurse in Massachusetts; becoming a member of the Red Cross; being called to serve in the Army following the attack on Pearl Harbor; being stationed at Camp Edwards, Massachusetts, Belfast, Northern Ireland, and Salisbury, England; being a Second Lieutenant nurse. Text: 18 pp. transcript. Time: 50 minutes.
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Barbara B. Collier, Interviewed By Elizabeth Lapierre, Part 1, Barbara Adalyn Balch Collier
Barbara B. Collier, Interviewed By Elizabeth Lapierre, Part 1, Barbara Adalyn Balch Collier
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Barbara B. Collier, interviewed by Elizabeth LaPierre, December 9, 2000, in Collier’s home in Kennebunk, Maine. Collier, 83 at the time of interview, talks about serving as a 2nd class storekeeper in the Naval Air Unit of the WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service), the women's branch of the United States Naval Reserve, during World War II; serving at the Opa-locka Naval Air Force Base near Miami, Florida. Text: 24 pp. partial transcript. Time: 01:34:44.
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