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Various parts rest on shelves in a stockroom at an Alcoa factory. "Alcoa". Ohio (probably). Circa 1942-1945

Garland Miller Gallaspy was born in Ottawa, Oklahoma in November 1922. His family moved all over the Southeast while he...

Asked about her most memorable experience during the war, Phyllis Lenhard said she was impressed with the people she...

Mary Edwards began working for the Army at Higgins Industries when she was 16 years old. She had finished high school...

Jane Biestek remembers buses of sailors passing by the window of the Ford factory. She would dance with them at night....

Velma Theriot Plaisance never thought much about her work as a female welder until the Houma Courier interviewed her....

Alfred Pierse Murphy was born in Dublin, Ireland in May 1922. He celebrated his third birthday on the boat taking him...

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...

Mildred Aupied was influenced by her work at the shipyard [Annotator’s Note: she was a welder at the Delta Shipbuilding...

Richard "Dick" Loges was born in January 1921 in in Dayton, Ohio [Annotator's Note: Interviewer pauses interview at 0:...

Donald Popham was born in Alvadore, Oregon. When he was three years old, his parents moved the family to Emmett, Idaho...

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