They came from all over ... and served all over the world - but some of them did not even wear uniforms

Pilots and nurses, sign-painters and ambulance-drivers, chaplains and radio-operators

They built engines and airfields. They defeated the enemy - and then they came home and built lives and families. They worked for social justice and reached for the stars!

Learn about the lives of ordinary but astonishing men and women in extraordinary times!

In this collection of brief biographies of men and women of the World War II generation, Barbara Bir lets them tell their stories in their own words.

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