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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...

[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...

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

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...

Constance Negrotto heard about the PBY job from the high school principal at Rabouin [Annotator’s Note: the PBY...

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...

Oral History