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Paula Fidler describes how she heard news of the end of the war while working on a teletype machine.

Paula Fidler describes her father's work for the Works Progress Administration or WPA during the Depression.

Paula Fidler recalls her hasty wedding to a paratrooper after World War II.

Paula Fidler describes how her father's railroad job enabled her family to travel to California in the years before World War II.

Paula Fidler describes how she and her friends would serve coffee to troops traveling through her town by train at the start of World War II.

Paula Fidler describes the identification badge she had to wear when entering the Air Material Command facility, where she worked during World War II.

Paula Fidler describes how she had to start going by her first name when she took a job with the federal government during World War II.

Paula Fidler recalls the type of girl she was, growing up in a small Ohio town.

Paula Fidler explains why to her, the work she did at Air Material Command does not qualify her for the symbolic title "Rosie the Riveter."

Paula Fidler describes how her family moved to Georgia after her husband retired from the military and got a job at Rich's department store.

Paula Fidler describes how the federal government recruited her and other young people for wartime jobs.

Paula Fidler describes how she joined her husband in Austria, where he was stationed after World War II.

Paula Fidler describes her temporary, top secret assignment in St. Louis, Missouri, where she took dictation for military officials who contributed to the development of the atomic bombs.

Paula Fidler describes her military-related work in Germany after World War II.

Paula Fidler describes housing facilities for wartime workers at Air Material Command during World War II.