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[Annotator’s Note: There is a beeping sound throughout the segment.] Joel Arnold worked at Reading Clothing making pea...

During the early 1940s, the War Department took over Hudson Motors [Annotator's Note: Hudson Motor Car Company in...

Velma Theriot Plaisance went to New Orleans and obtained a job at Delta [Annotator's Note: Plaisance became a welder at...

Helen Kushnir is just beginning to realize that it mattered [Annotator's Note: being a woman working in a factory for...

Mildred Aupied enjoyed working in the shipyard [Annotator’s Note: she was a welder at the Delta Shipbuilding...

Betty Peak feels that it is such a different feeling among the civilians now with the wars overseas. She never knew...

Mrs. P.A. "Tippy" Foster was born in December 1920 in Kaufman, Texas. She grew up in East Texas as one of seven...

Lucy Elliot knew of the area off Gentilly Road where Higgins [Annotator's Note: Andrew Jackson Higgins, owner of...

[Annotator's Note: A woman off camera interjects throughout this segment.] Mary Julia Tarnow was born in Mineral...

Leo Terrebonne went to work in 1942 for Higgins Industries at the Industrial Canal Plant. He was out of school, and...

Richard Witaker recognizes the valuable role played by the American home front in winning the war. Without the...

Carl Constein was born in August 1920 in Fleetwood, Pennsylvania. He grew up with an older brother and an older sister...

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