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James Jeter worked for Higgins Shipyard in New Orleans, Louisiana. He welded on different vessels but did not know...

After finishing school, Grace Brown was told she had a job at Consolidated [Annotator's Note: Consolidated Aircraft...

Chester David was born in March 1924 in Lacassine, Louisiana. He was the youngest of one brother and two sisters and...

The day after the Pearl Harbor attack [Annotator's Note: The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December 1941...

James Jeter was drafted in 1944 but did not pass the physical examination at Fort Humbug [Annotator’s Note: in...

Grace Brown and some friends liked to go out after work. They would meet up with the different soldiers that came into...

Starting about 1940, Brown Shipyard [Annotator's Note: Brown Shipbuilding Company in Houston, Texas] began as a result...

Mary Konen was born in April 1924 in New Ulm, Minnesota. Her family relocated to Pierz, Minnesota and her father opened...

Francis John "Jack" Higgins was born in October 1922 in Omaha, Nebraska. He left there at two years of age and moved to...

Grace Brown thought the war would end and she would go back to her normal life. She did not think her life changed much...

George R. Bolin knew of the Browns [Annotator's Note: the founders of Brown and Root, now KBR, Incorporated, in Houston...

Francis Higgins was a good draftsman. He took that position with his Uncle Andrew [Annotator's Note: Andrew Jackson...

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