The world that young Emily Drake was navigating in the spring of 1942, armed with an Aspinwall High School diploma, was awash in war — in Europe, Asia, Africa and throughout the South Pacific.
Source: The Tribune-Review
Female veteran from Greatest Generation: 'Best thing that ever happened to me'
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