A wartime journey
Subtitle: from Ottumwa, Iowa to the Richmond shipyards, 1942
By: interview conducted by Judith K. Dunning ; introduction by Jim Quay ; Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley,
Contributors: Dunning, Judith.; Quay, James.; Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office.; Online Archive of California.
Publisher: University of California
Published: 1990
Place of publication: Berkeley, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 46
Subjects: Kaiser Shipyards (Richmond, Calif.); Shipyards -- California -- Richmond.; World War, 1939-1945 -- War work -- California -- Richmond.; World War, 1939-1945 -- Women -- California -- Richmond.; Industries -- California -- Richmond -- History.; Richmond (Calif.) -- History.; Richmond (Calif.) -- Social life and customs.
Other titles: On the waterfront : an oral history of Richmond, California.
Description: She recalls leaving her children in Iowa as she joined her first husband in the Richmond shipyards, her work as a welder there, her romance with her crew's leaderman, Ray Cathey, and the general spirit of the times, including her observances of post-war Richmond.