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Velma Theriot Plaisance knew Higgins was hiring women so she went there for work [Annotator’s Note: she left Delta...

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

Phyllis Lenhard grew up in the Detroit area, and she noticed that it changed during the war. The population increased,...

Mildred Aupied worked on three Liberty ships at Delta [Annotator’s Note: she was a welder at the Delta Shipbuilding...

Jane Biestek worked at Yellowstone National Park when she in Montana. Her father would log there during the summer when...

Betty Peak's most memorable experience of the war years is when the plane took off at Boeing [Annotator's Note: the...

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

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

Mary Edwards met Harry Truman [Annotator's Note: President Harry S. Truman] when he was a congressman in charge of the...

[Annotator's Note: A woman off camera interjects throughout this segment.] Mary Julia Tarnow never felt any friction...

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

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

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