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

Betty Peak worked at the Boeing Aircraft Company [Annotator's Note: in Wichita, Kansas]. Every plane had a letter...

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

Kent Butzer Kellegrew was born in September 1923 in Duluth, Minnesota. After four years in Duluth, his family moved to...

Nita Fay Overby was born near Manitou, Oklahoma in 1925. During the Great Depression [Annotator's Note: the Great...

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

[Annotator’s Note: Birds can be heard chirping in the background throughout this clip.] Willard Johnson was born in...

The war required his father's canning business to step up production, and Randolph Trappey's help was enlisted in the...

After he graduated from school in 1941, Frank M. Heuer Sr. went to work for Higgins Industries [Annotator’s Note: in...

Peggy Upham went to work at the Columbus Plant of Curtiss-Wright [Annotator's Note: Curtiss-Wright Airplane Division of...

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

Betty Peak had one thing happen that made her life enjoyable. She met a service officer from World War 2. He had flown...

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