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Story Subject Category: Gender
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What would it have been like to be a woman posing as a male soldier in the U.S. Civil War?
Segment duration: 07:51
Producer: Maeve Reilly
Chief Camera - Segment: Tim Hartin
This segment is filed in these categories: Gender • History • Illinois Culture/History
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Segment duration: 12:55
Producer: Tim Hartin
Editor: Tim Hartin
This segment is filed in these categories: Family history • Gender • Illinois Culture/History
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At the old Sangamon ordnance plant, now covered with weeds, host Alison Davis talks to Sherman resident Lola Marbold, who worked there during World War II.
She attended beauty school each day and then rode the Inter-urban to work the 4 to midnight shift at the plant. Assembling artillery shells was
dangerous work. But the pay was good and the ammunition needed for the war.
Segment duration: 09:10
Producer: Alison Davis
This segment is filed in these categories: Business • Gender • History • Illinois Culture/History • Military
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