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Leona Foringer Interview
Newberry, James
Newberry, James
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Oral history interview of Lee Foringer, home front worker during WWII.
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Born in Texas in 1919, Lee Foringer married at the start of World War II and moved to Long Beach, California. When her husband joined the Army Air Corps, she found a job at Douglas Aircraft as a riveter building B-17s and B-19s. Foringer continued to work after she became pregnant with her first child. After the war she worked as a buyer for women’s dress shops. She recorded her oral history interview at Kennesaw State University in December 2016.
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2017-09-29T20:28:53Z
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Foringer, Leona., Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941., World War, 1939-1945--War work., Women aircraft industry employees., World War, 1939-1945--Social aspects--United States., Oral histories.
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Leona Foringer Interview, 2016-12-05, Legacy Series Oral History Program, 2013-, KSU/14/05/03/001, Museum of History and Holocaust Education, Kennesaw State University.