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1943: Every day, Betty Bemir (Nashwauk, MN) and her sister WAVES—Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service—marched from cottages at Sugar Camp in Ohio to a cash register factory. They weren’t making cash registers but rotors for top-secret decryption devices. Here’s Britt Aamodt. [Read Transcript...]
November 26, 1943: Staff Sergeant Arthur Ferschweiler, a 34-year-old from Foley, Minnesota, was aboard the HMT Rohna, headed across the Mediterranean to his next duty station with the construction battalion. Suddenly, German bombers carrying state-of-the-art radio-operated torpedoes appeared. Here’s Britt Aamodt. [Read Transcript...]
1942: Betty Pack, a Minneapolis-born socialite, had convinced the guard at the Nazi-friendly Vichy Embassy to allow her and her boyfriend to use a room for their “lovemaking.” In reality, the Allied spy was there to steal codebooks that would be used in the invasion of North Africa. Here’s Britt Aamodt. [Read Transcript...]
June 4, 1942: It was a mad mission. Arnold Theodore Meuers from Osseo, Minnesota, was a rear gunner on one of the six Avenger torpedo bombers hurtling toward what looked like the entire Japanese fleet at the beginning of the Battle of Midway. Here’s Britt Aamodt. [Read Transcript...]
