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Lucy T. Elliot was born in 1924. Her father was Dennis Toups. There were five girls and two boys in the family. Her...

Dawn Higgins Murphy was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. She grew up there when times were different than presently....

Nita Fay Overby worked for an aircraft plant [Annotator's Note: The Midwest City Douglas Aircraft Company Plant in...

James Jeter worked for Higgins Shipyard in New Orleans, Louisiana. He welded on different vessels but did not know...

Mary Konen was born in April 1924 in New Ulm, Minnesota. Her family relocated to Pierz, Minnesota and her father opened...

While the family business was providing dehydrated sweet potatoes for the soldiers to eat, Randolph Trappey's family...

Helen Kushnir went to work for DeSoto [Annotator's Note: DeSoto-Warren Plant, Chrysler Corporation, Detroit, Michigan]...

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

Mary Edwards and the home front had to deal with rationing during World War 2. Often, her mother would go to the...

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...

Dawn Higgins Murphy [Annotator's Note: the daughter of Andrew Jackson Higgins, the owner of Higgins Industries in New...

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