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Interviewee
Subject
Description

A
Allen, Shirley 465 WWII US Marine Corps; Stateside (Camp Le Jeune, NC, Cherry Point, NC, Mojave, CA)
Ash, Clarke 1337 WWII US Army Air Corps; Stateside (flight instructor); European theater (bomber pilot)

B
Bailey, David R. 1501 WWII US Army Air Corps, fighter pilot, flight instructor); Stateside
Baldwin, Tom R. 572 WWII US Army Air Corps; primarily Stateside as a flight trainer for bomber pilots; 1930s anti-Nazi politics
Bandlow, Richard 1032 WWII US Army; Stateside (Dale Mabry Field, Tallahassee, FL, finance officer)
Bellafiore, Edward A. 440 WWII US Navy, VPB 117th Patrol Squadron; Pacific theater (USS Currituck); home front (wife)
Bennett, Ruth 492 WWII Secretary, Association of American Railroads; Charleston Navy Yard, Washington, DC
Bevis, Betty 1020 WWII Home front; Philadelphia Naval Hospital, pharmacist
Biddle, Hubert H. and Carol 1059 WWII US Army; European theater (War Criminals Prison, Mondorf, Luxembourg, Nuremberg) Home front
Brodie, Gretchen 809 WWII Home front; South Florida

C
Callis, Charles 806 WWII US Army Air Corps; Stateside (Aleutian islands)
Camp, Ann 578 WWII Home front; Tallahassee, Camp Gordon Johnston
Carron, Joyce S. 1589 WWII Home front; military wife(Miami, FL)
Case, Richard J. 990 WWII US Marine Corps; Stateside
Clark, John E. 688 WWII Home front, Civil Defense Force
Clark, Robert A. 1225 WWII US Army; Stateside (Finance Corps)
Clark, William J. and Glenda 1231 WWII Home front
Cole, David H. 835 WWII US Army Air Corps; Stateside; African American soldier
Coleman, Leonard 1598 WWII US Army Air Corps, clerk; Stateside
Conklin, Charles 852 WWII US Army, 102nd Infantry Division; Stateside, European theater
Coverston, Samuel Scott 747 WWII US Navy; Stateside
Cray, George 526 WWII US Army Air Corps; Stateside
Crew, Jeff 462 WWII US Army Air Corps; Stateside (ferry pilot, flight instructor)
Crone, David C., Sr. 1383 WWII US Navy; Stateside (aircraft mechanic)
Crow-Sargent, Mildred 662 WWII Home front; Woodall Industries, riveter, aircraft parts
Cunningham, Martha 1243 WWII Home front; (lab worker at Fort McPherson, GA); Army bride

D
Daniel, Robert C. 755 WWII US Army Air Corps; Stateside
Davisworth, Lillian Rudd 959 WWII Home front; Camp locator, Camp Murphy, FL
Delaney, Verma 1491 WWII Home front; Army Air Corps wife; parachute rigger at Dale Mabry Field
Dienstag, Leo 1033 WWII US Navy, US Marine Corps; Stateside
Dodson, Charles O. 1046 WWII US Navy; Stateside (flight instructor); Pacific theater (Wake Island, Japan)
Doster, Ernest 573 WWII US Marine Corps, aircraft maintenance; Stateside

E
Elmore, Mary E. 1685 WWII Home front; military widow
Ernst, Patricia 1465 WWII WAVES, Stateside (California)
Everitt, Sylvia 968 WWII Home front; welder in Brooklyn Navy Yard; husband killed at Battle of the Bulge

G
Geelan, Jean 562 WWII Home front, Curtis-Wright air cadette
Goldberger, Ruth 1349 WWII Home front; Tyndall Air Force Base, parachute rigger
Goldbrum, Louis 1577 WWII US Army, photographer; Pacific theater (1st Aircraft Warning Company, Philippines; 121st Infantry, Luzon); POW
Golden, Alfred 1025 WWII US Army; Stateside; psychologist’s assistant (screening men for possible medical discharge)
Gooding, Eunice 1676 WWII Home front; military wife
Gordon, Conni 1095 WWII US Marine Corps; Stateside (Parris Island)
Green, Jenny & Profitt, Eunice 1345
WWII Green: Home front; WACs (mess sergeant); Profitt: Home front; nurse, NC
Greene, Geraldine 1008 WWII Home front; “Wandering Wife” (California, Florida, Mississippi); husband’s military experiences
Griswold, Ellen 560 WWII Home front (Army officer’s wife); volunteer with Red Cross psychiatric hospital
Guy, Daniel E. 1332 WWII Home front; Stateside (north Florida)

H
Hamm, Herb and Pearl 537 WWII US Army, 58th Station Hospital, 121st General Hospital; European theater (North Africa, southern Europe); home front
Hampton, Virginia 1220 WWII Home front; husband captured during Battle of the Bulge
Harp, Beulah 880 WWII Home front; Wright Aeronautical, milling machine operator, inspector; childcare problems
Heiland, Margaret (Peggy) 1403 WWII Home front; Western Union teletypist
Henschel, Frank 820 WWII US Navy; North Atlantic (Newfoundland, Iceland, Europe)
Hereford, Audra 920 WWII Home front
Herring, Catherine 1284 WWII Home front, North Carolina
Hoffman, Henrietta 1380 WWII Home front; Air Force wife
Holub, Dorothy C. 970 WWII Home front (welder, Higgins Shipyard, New Orleans, LA)
Hortin, David G. 691 WWII Teenage son of Army Air Corps base chaplain; Stateside (Massachusetts, Colorado)

J
Jefferson, Rufus 740 WWII US Navy, Stateside; electronics technician
Jenks, Mary 1373 WWII Home front; Stateside (Nebraska, ordnance depot)
Jordan, Earl 940 WWII Civilian, defense industry; Stateside (chemist, State Ordinance Works, Phillips Petroleum

K
Kaufman, Albert M. 1437 WWII Home front; teenager, sold war stamps to his paper route customers
Kidd, George 794 WWII US Marines Corps; Stateside
Kolhoff, Marvin 549 WWII Defense work deferred; Stateside; General Electric (tank design)
Kutner, Etta 1467 WWII Home front; (Wright Aeronautical)

L
Lamar, Sam 743 WWII US Navy, corpsman; Stateside
Lang, David 1494 WWII Civilian, teenager; Tallahassee, Florida
Leon, Roberto Eduardon 1395 WWII US Navy, USS Mississippi; Stateside
Levitz, Hilbert 1618 WWII Home front, teenager, Pennsylvania
Lindsey, Alfreda 1636 WWII Home front, pre-teen
Lindsey, Lucille Sparkman 1094 WWII Home front; Redstone Arsenal (ammunition inspection supervisor)
Loadholtes, Caroline 595 WWII WACs; Stateside (Washington, DC); European theater (France, Dachau, Germany)

M
Magidson, Melvin 828 WWII US Army Air Corps; Stateside
Marsh, Ray 714 WWII US Navy; Stateside (Jacksonville, Banana River)
Mattair, Norma Lee 976 WWII Home front; Archer Foundry (tested shell casings)
McCann, Florence 1468 WWII WAVE; Stateside (Washington, DC)
McCarthy, Ann 498 WWII US Army Nurse Corps; Stateside (Louisville, KY)
McClellan, Frances 1512 WWII Home front; North Florida
McConnell, W.V. 607 WWII Medical deferral; forester, Ouchita National Forest, Southern Forest Experiment Station [War Production Board]; rationing and price controls
McCulloch, Clarice 956 WWII Home front; clinical dietician
Middleton, Edward 1343 WWII US Army; Stateside (Coastal Artillery); European theater (Normandy D+2, Battle of the Bulge)
Miller, Charles R. 1096 WWII Civilian; Tampa Shipbuilding Company (TASCO)
Moore, Lois 667 WWII Home front; Huntsville Arsenal (mustard gas, white phosphorous, tear gas, napalm)

N
Nelson, Sara Barron 955 WWII Home front; Hawaii (Pearl Harbor attack)

P
Penfield, Betty V. 1277 WWII US Marine Corps; Stateside (Washington, DC)
Pfeiffer, Elizabeth Phillips 1583 WWII Home front; victory gardens, Civil Air Patrol, rationing, transportation
Pickett, Grace 1354 WWII Home front; Stateside (NC)
Piotrowski, Ron 1552 WWII Home front; youth in Milwaukee, WI
Ponce, James A. 1363 WWII US Army; Stateside (medical corpsman); Pacific theater (Philippines)
Powell, Rosemary 1298 WWII WAAC, WAC; Stateside (Fort Des Moines, Iowa); post-war Europe (Patton’s staff, Nuremberg trials)

R
Rivers, Rachel 1304 WWII Home front; INS; War Department (welder)
Roll, Russell 1358 WWII US Navy; Stateside (Little Creek, VA)
Rosenberg, Merwin 1628 WWII US Army; Stateside, weather forecasting, map-making

S
Schlitt, Edgar L. 889 WWII US Army; Stateside, post-war Explosive Ordinance Disposal unit (Hope, Arkansas)
Scott, Robert L. 799 WWII US Navy, mostly post-war Stateside
Seippel, Kober 807 WWII US Marine Corps; Stateside
Shapiro, Gertrude R. 1389 WWII WACs; Stateside
Shick, Jack N. 981 WWII US Marine Corps; Stateside (Parris Island, SC)
Shulman, Harriette 1393 WWII Home front; War bond coordinator, Washington, DC, Chicago, American anti-Semitism
Sickler, Bobbie 966 WWII Home front; teenager in Pennsylvania
Simmons, Hardee Lee 783 WWII US Navy; Stateside
Simpson, Jean 558 WWII Home front, war industry, San Francisco, career US Air Force 1951-1971
Smally, Jan 789 WWII WAACs; Stateside
Smith, Lorraine 1197 WWII Home front; Army wife
Spencer, Clyde E. 1154 WWII Civilian; employee of Seaboard Coastline and Florida East Coast railroad (troop movements to and from Camp Gordon Johnston, Carrabelle, FL)
Stafford, William H., Jr. 898 WWII Teenager; home front in Pennsylvania
Stidham, James A. 868 WWII US Army; Stateside

T
Tanner, Lucile 1666 WWII Home front
Tatum, Sam 726 WWII Corpsman; Stateside, Puerto Rico
Thibault, J. Rene 842 WWII US Marine Corps; Stateside
Torgler, Robert 1533 WWII Home front, Civilian teenager; US Army 1944; Stateside
Tribe, Irene 481 WWII WAVE; Stateside
Tull, Virginia 1568 WWII Home front; husband’s experiences

V
Veller, Don 781 WWII US Army Air Corps; Third Air Force Headquarters; Stateside
Vincent, Madeline A. 1204 WWII Home front, North Carolina

W
Walworth, Claire B. 1173 WWII US Army; MP, Stateside, Pacific theater
White, Armer E. 484 WWII Civilian contractor, South Florida (Boca Chica Naval Air Station, Florida Keys); post-war growth of Miami and south Florida
Whitehead, Margaret 943 WWII Home front; husband in Navy
Williams, Eldridge F. 908
WWII US Army; Stateside, Tuskegee Army Airfield; African American soldier
Wilson, Keith 1296 WWII US Army Air Corps; Stateside (helicopter research); Japanese Occupation forces, late 1940s
Wilson, W. W. (Bill) 1497 WWII US Army, Stateside
Woodworth, Julie G.521 WWII Homefront sacrifices and accommodations

Y
Young, Lee 1355 WWII US Navy; Stateside, Pacific theater (Russell Islands, Mindoro)

Z
Zachow, Otto 611 WWII WAVES; Stateside; European theater (Oran, Africa)

 
 
                                                                                  
                                                                            
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