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Starting about 1940, Brown Shipyard [Annotator's Note: Brown Shipbuilding Company in Houston, Texas] began as a result...

When Tom Thurman [Annotator's Note: American filmmaker] produced the documentary film, "John Ford Goes to War" [...

Francis Higgins worked at Higgins Industries on St. Charles Avenue with his uncle [Annotator's Note: his uncle was...

Everything in speech begins with the ear and Lauren Swinney had a good ear for languages. She does fairly well with...

Norma Jean Ford Beard feels museums are important to show the cost and not just the glory of war. All the veterans that...

The training was on the job. Erickson learned most of her secretarial duties on the job. They did not study outside of...

Mildred "Jean" Liparoto's husband was aboard ship when President Roosevelt [Annotator's Note: Franklin Delano Roosevelt...

On a small island in the Pacific Ocean, some native peoples were fascinated by some crystal balls floating in the air...

Coleen Landry's brother Reed was married right after getting home from the war in the Pacific. He and his fiance had...

[Annotator's Note: George Kearney grew up in New Orleans, Louisiana and was an employee of Higgins Industries from 1937...

Betty Soskin remembers the blackouts. She worked in San Francisco [Annotator's Note: San Francisco, California] in a...

Constance Negrotto and her friend Dorothy Toups worked at a hospital after her shift at the PBY plant [Annotator’s Note...

Oral History