Dorothy Roggeveen is interviewed by Karen Brewster and Leslie McCartney on September 5, 2014 in Anchorage, Alaska.
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Dorothy Roggeveen is interviewed by Karen Brewster and Leslie McCartney on September 5, 2014 in Anchorage, Alaska.
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Recorded in Anchorage, Alaska on September 5, 2014.
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Dorothy Roggeveen talks about her personal background, joining the Women's Army Corps in 1948, training in dental mechanics, returning to Detroit in 1950, joining the reserves and being called up for the Korean War, being assigned in Okinawa, working as a clerk in the Corps of Engineers in Okinawa, learning construction contracting, the state of Okinawa after the war, military construction on Okinawa, her husband, Adrian Roggeveen, her husband's engineering profession, the bridges he built, responsibilities of the Corps of Engineers in the Pacific, staying in Okinawa for eighteen years, retiring to Arizona, her husband designing the clamshells for Nike missile sites, the medal her husband received for his work on the missile housing, coming to Alaska, working at Camp Tonsina as a commissary attendant, deciding to stay in Alaska and working again for the Corps of Engineers as a contract specialist.
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