MAY 16, 2014 FARE MAIDEN: 1943-- June 1943. Washington, D.C. "Hattie B. Sheehan, a street car conductor for the Capital Transit Company. By Esther Bubley, OWI. Because men were away, women started doing former male jobs.
MAY 14, 2014, GOING PLACES: 1943-- September 1943. "A Greyhound bus trip from Louisville to Memphis and the terminals. Roberta Locker, going from Elora, Tennessee, to work. By Esther Bubley, OWI.
--GreGen
My Cooter's History Blog has become about 80% World War II anyway, so I figured to start a blog specific to it, especially since we're commemorating its 70th anniversary and we are quickly losing this "Greatest Generation." The quote is taken from Pearl Harbor survivor Frank Curre, who was on the USS Tennessee that day. He died Dec. 7, 2011, seventy years to the day. His photo is below at right.
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