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

[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...

[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...

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...

Dawn Higgins Murphy ended up in New Orleans because of her father [Annotator's Note: Murphy was the daughter of Andrew...

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...

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

Having returned to the United States to become part of a cadre of experienced personnel who were tasked with preparing...

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