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Lucy Elliot knew of the area off Gentilly Road where Higgins [Annotator's Note: Andrew Jackson Higgins, owner of...

John LeBure went to work at Higgins Industries after his uncle suggested that he apply there. His uncle was a policeman...

[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...

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

Constance Negrotto worked on the PBY Catalina flying patrol bomber [Annotator’s Note: Negrotto was a technical...

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

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...

Eugene DiSabatino had to return to his home in Wilmington, Delaware in order to find more civilian clothes that he...

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...

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