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World War 2

Click on Veteran's photo to see their service story. These Warriors served during the World War 2.

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Where can I donate?

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

Where are you located?

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


How Long is an Appointment?

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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US NAVY S1c World War 2 Jean Perro/Naddour was born on January 7th, 1925, and joined the Navy after graduating High School in 1943 in Newcastle, Pennsylvania. Jean served in the US Navy Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES) from 1945 to 1946 at the war's end. More than 100,000 women served in the WAVES during World War 2. Seaman Apprentice Perro attended the U.S. Naval Training Center (WR) at Hunter College in The Bronx, New York. She trained with hundreds of other WAVES for basic training. She reported to Pennsylvania State College and took classes in Applications of descriptive geometry to orthographic projection and Engineering Drafting, most likely to get into cartography. These intro courses required hundreds of hours of training. She attended the Key Punch Operator School run by IBM in the Bronx. A keypunch is a machine for precisely punching holes into stiff paper cards at specific locations determined by keys struck by the operator. The cards were strung together in a chain to form a program or data for early computer programs. Operators, mostly women, put the data onto the cards. After school, Jean reported to the Eleventh Naval District San Deigo, CA, where she operated a keypunch machine. The 11th Naval District was located at the head of the Broadway Pier. On 9 July 1946, at the end of the war drawdown, Jean was separated from active service at Naval Training Center San Diego, CA. Jean met Eddie Naddour, whom she married on 21 Dec 1947, at a dance at Cascade Park. Eddie served as a Radio Operator and gunner with a B-26 crew based in France with the 9th Air Force, 387th Bomb Group, 557th Bomb Squadron and flew 50 combat missions over Germany.
Jean Naddour - Mickey Strand - Veterans Series
US NAVY S1c World War 2 Jean Perro/Naddour was born on January 7th, 1925, and joined the Navy after graduating High School in 1943 in Newcastle, Pennsylvania. Jean served in the US Navy Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES) from 1945 to 1946 at the war's end. More than 100,000 women served in the WAVES during World War 2. Seaman Apprentice Perro attended the U.S. Naval Training Center (WR) at Hunter College in The Bronx, New York. She trained with hundreds of other WAVES for basic training. She reported to Pennsylvania State College and took classes in Applications of descriptive geometry to orthographic projection and Engineering Drafting, most likely to get into cartography. These intro courses required hundreds of hours of training. She attended the Key Punch Operator School run by IBM in the Bronx. A keypunch is a machine for precisely punching holes into stiff paper cards at specific locations determined by keys struck by the operator. The cards were strung together in a chain to form a program or data for early computer programs. Operators, mostly women, put the data onto the cards. After school, Jean reported to the Eleventh Naval District San Deigo, CA, where she operated a keypunch machine. The 11th Naval District was located at the head of the Broadway Pier. On 9 July 1946, at the end of the war drawdown, Jean was separated from active service at Naval Training Center San Diego, CA. Jean met Eddie Naddour, whom she married on 21 Dec 1947, at a dance at Cascade Park. Eddie served as a Radio Operator and gunner with a B-26 crew based in France with the 9th Air Force, 387th Bomb Group, 557th Bomb Squadron and flew 50 combat missions over Germany.