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I have created a way to accept donations to grow the project, use the WWII Veterans Portrait Series Go Fund Me.

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I live in the San Diego area but have traveled to many locations to interview and photograph Veterans.


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Appointments usually last an hour. But please free up time for Mickey to set up lights and cameras, hold the interview, and take some still photographers for in the project.

Do you accept reservations?

Yes is the simple answer to the question. Each appointment is set up as an individual session. Group sessions have been set up when I visited a senior living facility or many of the California Veterans Homes.

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United States Air Force Airman Second Class (A2c) Peacetime Service Eleanor G. Maiolo (Oliver) was born in Waterbury, Connecticut, on December 21, 1934. She grew up in Wolcott and graduated from Wilby High School in 1943. Eleanor was attending college to join the medical health care field, studying to specializing in labor and delivery. She was inspired to join when a recruiter for the Air Force came for a visit, talking about the opportunities in the Air Force to complete school and work in health care. Eleanor reported to Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas, on September 27, 1956 for Basic Military Training. She fondly remembered meeting all these new people in the service. She completed basic training and attended Medical Service Specialist School at Lackland AFB Medical Education and Training Campus (METC) for eight weeks. Eleanor elected to become an Enlisted personnel in the hospital maternity wards, primarily as a specifically medical technicians (MTs) in the Labor and Delivery Flight. These MTs support nursing staff, neonatologists, and medical-surgical nurse specialists. They are involved in patient care, to include assisting with labor and delivery, postpartum care, and newborn care. Eleanor’s first assignment was at the hospital at Eglin Air Force Base, Okaloosa County, Florida, in the Maternity and Nursing Ward for two years. Eleanore enjoyed working with all the new babies for the service members and dependents, and this became her life’s work. Airman Second Class Eleanor Oliver was honorably discharged on February 26, 1958 and returned home to Wolcott, CT. After returning to Wolcott, CA, she continued in health care, working with home care services, primarily with infants and new mothers. She moved back to Connecticut and married her husband, Frank, who was a television repairman, in December of 1962, and they had five children. After her kids were old enough, she took additional nursing coursework at Naugatuck Valley Technical School. She worked at St. Mary’s Hospital in Waterbury as a licensed practical nurse (LPN) for many years on the medical-surgical unit. Eleanor retired from nursing in 1995 but continued to volunteer and worked with elders for many years.
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Eleanor Maiolo - Peacetime Service - Mickey Strand - Veterans Series
United States Air Force Airman Second Class (A2c) Peacetime Service Eleanor G. Maiolo (Oliver) was born in Waterbury, Connecticut, on December 21, 1934. She grew up in Wolcott and graduated from Wilby High School in 1943. Eleanor was attending college to join the medical health care field, studying to specializing in labor and delivery. She was inspired to join when a recruiter for the Air Force came for a visit, talking about the opportunities in the Air Force to complete school and work in health care. Eleanor reported to Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas, on September 27, 1956 for Basic Military Training. She fondly remembered meeting all these new people in the service. She completed basic training and attended Medical Service Specialist School at Lackland AFB Medical Education and Training Campus (METC) for eight weeks. Eleanor elected to become an Enlisted personnel in the hospital maternity wards, primarily as a specifically medical technicians (MTs) in the Labor and Delivery Flight. These MTs support nursing staff, neonatologists, and medical-surgical nurse specialists. They are involved in patient care, to include assisting with labor and delivery, postpartum care, and newborn care. Eleanor’s first assignment was at the hospital at Eglin Air Force Base, Okaloosa County, Florida, in the Maternity and Nursing Ward for two years. Eleanore enjoyed working with all the new babies for the service members and dependents, and this became her life’s work. Airman Second Class Eleanor Oliver was honorably discharged on February 26, 1958 and returned home to Wolcott, CT. After returning to Wolcott, CA, she continued in health care, working with home care services, primarily with infants and new mothers. She moved back to Connecticut and married her husband, Frank, who was a television repairman, in December of 1962, and they had five children. After her kids were old enough, she took additional nursing coursework at Naugatuck Valley Technical School. She worked at St. Mary’s Hospital in Waterbury as a licensed practical nurse (LPN) for many years on the medical-surgical unit. Eleanor retired from nursing in 1995 but continued to volunteer and worked with elders for many years.