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Doris Whitt recalls her childhood in Oklahoma during the Depression, including experiencing the Dust Bowl. She describes her training to be a welder and her move with her new husband to southern California to work at Douglas Aircraft during World War II. She describes her welding experience, her move to the Bay Area and helping to build liberty ships. She reflects on the war, its end and how life has changed.

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Title
Doris Whitt: Rosie The Riveter World War II American Home Front Oral History Project
Creator
Whitt, Doris, interviewee
Redman, Sam, interviewer
Published
Berkeley, CA, Regional Oral History Office, 2013
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Full Collection Name
Rosie the Riveter World War II American Home Front Oral Histories
Subject (Topic)
Community and Identity
Commerce, Industry, and Labor
Type
Text
Format
Oral histories.
Archive
The Bancroft Library Oral History Center
Note
Whitt, Doris. "Doris Whitt: Rosie The Riveter World War II American Home Front Oral History Project." Interview by Sam Redman in 2012. Oral History Center, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, 2013.
Interview date(s) 2012
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