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Soskin, Betty Homefront Park Creation
In 1942, Betty Soskin was a clerk in a segregated union hall in Richmond [Annotator's Note: Richmond, California].
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Soskin, Betty Not Being Allowed to Serve
Betty Soskin remembers the blackouts.
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Soskin, Betty Prewar Life to Pearl Harbor
Betty Soskin was born in September 1921 in Detroit, Michigan.
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Soskin, Betty Reflections on World War 2 America
Betty Soskin saw her work as being part of the war effort in some way, but it carried little significance.
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Soskin, Betty Working for Kaiser
Betty Soskin worked in a shipyard in a Jim Crow [Annotator's Note: Jim Crow laws; state and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the
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Spaetgens, William Becoming a Sailor
William Leo Spaetgens enlisted in the United States Navy [Annotator's Note: on 22 October 1942].
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Spaetgens, William Early Life
William Leo Spaetgens was born on a farm in Roberts Cove near Crowley, Louisiana in 1922. He had eight siblings but one was lost at birth.
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Spaetgens, William End of the War
William Leo Spaetgens was pulled out of the Navy Armed Guard in January 1945.
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Spaetgens, William Invasion of Sicily
William Leo Spaetgens and his Navy crewmates aboard the SS Leslie M.
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Spaetgens, William Pacific Duty
William Leo Spaetgens returned to Treasure Island near San Francisco after his leave at home.
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Spaetgens, William Postwar
William Leo Spaetgens was changed by World War 2. He hated school with a passion. After making it to the tenth grade, he stopped attending school.
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Spaetgens, William Reflections
William Leo Spaetgens had his life changed by the Second World War. If a person could not work for something or pay for it, he or she did without.