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Tidmore, Roberta War Production Jobs
Roberta Randolph "Randy" Tidmore went into nurse's training. She did not like it. Two of her friends from school were...
Kidder, Remi War's End
Remi Kidder got the bed he always hoped he would have. [Annotator's Note: Kidder joined the Navy and served aboard the...
Tanner, Theodore War's End
Theodore Robert Tanner was in the Philippines when the nuclear bombs [Annotator's Note: nuclear weapons dropped on...
Labauve, Marion War's End
Marion Labauve went to Avondale Shipyard [Annotator's Note: in Bridge City, Louisiana] after the war. It was dangerous...
Overby, Nita War's End and Reflections
Nita Fay Overby worked for an aircraft plant [Annotator's Note: The Midwest City Douglas Aircraft Company Plant in...
Kushnir, Helen "Helen Preiss" Wars are Terrible
President Roosevelt [Annotator's Note: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States] passing away was...
Wesselhoeft, Adolf "Wes" Wartime and Postwar Life in Hamburg
At sea on the Gripsholm, Adolf Wesselhoeft had his first impression that the world was at war. When he arrived in...
Warne, Thomas Wartime in Hawaii
The day after the Pearl Harbor attack [Annotator's Note: The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December 1941...
Constant, Nelson Wartime Rationing
[Annotator's Note: Nelson Constant was working in oil exploration for the Humble Oil Company in Louisiana and had his...
Gaffney, James Wartime Summary
James Gaffney was born in 1924 in Texarkana, Texas. His family moved to several places in Texas. By the time he was six...
Carter, Frances "Frances Tunnell" War’s End & Reflections
Frances Tunnell Carter would hear about the progress of the war on her aunt and uncle's radio. She remembers a radio...
Tarnow, Mary Welding at Tinker Field
[Annotator's Note: A woman off camera interjects throughout this segment.] Mary Julia Tarnow was born in Mineral...
DiSabatino, Eugene Wendover Army Air Field
Eugene DiSabatino worked on Ballistic Tables as part of the delivery system for the Manhattan Project in the...
Hollis, Frederick Willow Run
Fredrick Hollis did not witness much family talk about the conflict during World War 2. Some of his relatives served in...
McHardy, Helmi Wing Rivetting
Helmi McHardy met several people of different nationalities in Detroit [Annotator’s Note: Detroit, Michigan]. She had...
Carter, Frances "Frances Tunnell" Working at Betchel-McCone-Parsons Aircraft Modification Center
After Frances Tunnell Carter taught one session as a schoolteacher from 1942 to 1943, she moved to Birmingham, Alabama...
Peak, Betty "Betty Taylor" Working for Boeing Aircraft
Betty Peak had never had a prior job when she went to work for Boeing [Annotator's Note: Boeing Aircraft Company,...
Libby, Dolores Working for Consolidated Vultee
Dolores McInnis Libby applied to work [Annotator's Note: at Consolidated Aircraft Corporation] because she had a friend...
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...
White, Alexander Working for Survival
Going east to Auschwitz, Treblinka, Sobibor, Maidanek, or Belzec, Alexander White said, meant going to the gas chambers...
Brown, Grace "Grace Janota" Working for the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation
After finishing school, Grace Brown was told she had a job at Consolidated [Annotator's Note: Consolidated Aircraft...
Wehner, Elizabeth Working for the Curtiss-Wright Corporation
Elizabeth Bedson Wehner started out in the drafting department at the plant [Annotator's Note: Curtiss-Wright...
Biestek, Jane "Jane Laird" Working for the Ford Motor Company
Jane Biestek worked at Yellowstone National Park when she in Montana. Her father would log there during the summer when...
Constant, Nelson Working in the Oil Business
[Annotator's Note: Nelson Constant worked for an oil company in Louisiana. He details the job.] Constant worried about...
Upham, Peggy Working on the SB2C Helldiver
Peggy Upham went to work at the Columbus Plant of Curtiss-Wright [Annotator's Note: Curtiss-Wright Airplane Division of...
Daniel, Lora Working with Men and Women
Working with the girls in the lab [Annotator's Note: at the Union Carbide Metallurgical Plant in Sheffield, Alabama],...
Roy, William Yorktown's Damage from Coral Sea
[Annotator's Note: William Roy was aboard the USS Yorktown (CV-5) and worked as the ship's photographer as she returned...
Arend, Aloysius "Al" Young Boy to Rifleman
Aloysius "Al" Arend was born in Chicago, Illinois in November 1925. He grew up and spent much of his life in nearby...
"Dry Tortugas" in water after launching ceremony at Pendleton Shipyards, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1942-43
"Dry Tortugas" in water after launching ceremony at Pendleton Shipyards; wood planks floating nearby. Personal Caption...
"Lighthouse" tubes for microwaves developed by General Electric, United States, 1945
Photograph. "Lighthouse" tubes for generating high-frequency radio waves developed by General Electric. Official...
A 20x20 magazine igloo at Camp Polk, Louisiana on 31 May 1941
A 20x20 magazine igloo at Camp Polk, Louisiana on 31 May 1941
A group of men pose with the fuselage of an unfinished plane in Ohio (probably) circa 1942-1945
A group of thirty men pose with the fuselage of an unfinished plane at a factory. "[illegible] - 45051635". Ohio (...
A Higgins landing craft being tested in Louisiana in the 1940s
A Higgins landing craft being tested in Louisiana in the 1940s. "Another photo by Popular Photo, 1927 Tulane Avenue,...
A large forming press in an airplane factory in Newark, Ohio circa 1942-1945
A large forming press in an airplane factory. Newark, Ohio. Circa 1942-1945
A man observes a woman at work in an airline factory in Alliance, Ohio circa 1942-1945
An unidentified man observes an unidentified woman at work in an airline factory. "James E. Willemin Photographer 225 W...
A stockrooom in an Alcoa factory in Alliance, Ohio circa 1942-1945
Interior view of a stockroom in an Alcoa factory. "Alcoa". "James E. Willemin Photographer 225 W. Main St. Alliance,...

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