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Mary Torres was raised in Donora, Pennsylvania in a Russian family. She moved to California to work in the shipyards when the war broke out, where she eventually settled. She talks about her early life, her desire to join the war effort, moving to CA without her parents knowing, getting a job at the McClellan Air Base, moving to Oakland to work as a welder in the Kaiser shipyards in Richmond, California, workplace safety, meeting her husband, raising children, and getting involved with the National Parks Service and RORI.

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Title
Mary Torres: Rosie The Riveter World War II American Home Front Oral History Project
Creator
Torres, Mary, interviewee
Farrell, Shanna, interviewer
Published
Berkeley, CA, Oral History Center, 2016
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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
Torres, Mary. "Mary Torres: Rosie The Riveter World War II American Home Front Oral History Project." Interview by Shanna Farrell in 2016. Oral History Center, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, 2016.
Interview date(s) 2016
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