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Rosemary Elfer does not recall any instances of discrimination either while working for Higgins Industries or while...

When the war was over, a lot of women stayed on in the factories. Helen Kushnir went to work for Western Union as a...

Murray Glass had a resentful band master who took offense at Glass not playing the French horn according to his MOS [...

Murray Glass went to Poland in 1933 with his family. They visited relatives there. The summer was spent in Ostrołe̜ka,...

Coleen Landry went into law enforcement part-time to help with public relations. It was not easy being one of the first...

[Annotator's Note: Geraldine Nyman was a member of the Women Airforce Service Pilots, or WASPs, and transported...

Constance Negrotto attended USO dances after work. The girls would eat dinner and then hop into their formal gowns....

The V-12 program [Annotator’s Note: V-12 US Navy College Training Program, 1943 to 1946] disbanded when the war was...

Arthur Kuhn was born in 1926 in Chicago, Illinois and grew up in Hammond, Indiana. He grew up with one brother. His...

Nita Fay Overby began working for an aircraft plant [Annotator's Note: The Midwest City Douglas Aircraft Company Plant...

While Ruth Knutson was in WAVES, her husband-to-be was drafted. He was a baseball player for the Chicago White Sox....

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