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Helen Holloway was born in 1925 in Chicago, Illinois. After graduating from high school in 1943, Holloway took a job as a functioner in a gun factory, where she tested firearms. She later worked as an inspector for Bendix Aviation, followed by a position working on aircraft at the Dodge Chicago plant. Holloway moved to California for a time and began a civil service job for Hoff General Hospital in Santa Barbara. During the Vietnam War, she worked for Boeing. In this interview, Holloway discusses growing up in a poor Polish family in Chicago, working during the war, race relations at work, her relationship with her husband Merle, and her son’s military service in the Vietnam War.