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Document Details
| Title: | Maria Fierro |
| Document type: | Oral history |
| Accessibility: | Free Only |
| Repository: | California State University, Long Beach. Virtual Oral/Aural History Archive |
| Collection: | Women's History: Rosie the Riveter Revisited |
| Description: | Maria Fierro had been an been an agricultural worker prior to her employment at Douglas. Fierro was the second of eleven children. After finishing grammar school, she began working in the fields of the ranch that her father and uncle leased in Fountain Valley and later did seasonal packing house work. |
| Original Language: | English |
| Audio: | [Audio available] |
| Speaker: | Fierro, Maria |
| Speaker gender: | Female |
| Speaker occupation: | Factory worker; Laborer |
| Document date: | Undated |
| Historical events discussed: | World War II, 1939-1945 |
| Locations discussed: | California; North America; United States |
| Topics discussed - ASP terms: | Aircraft industry; California; North America; Oral history; United States; Women employees; World War II, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Female; World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American; World War, 1939-1945--War work; World War, 1939-1945--Women |
| ASP release: | 2007-01 |
| Document code: | OHI0035395-38961 |