"Womens Ordinance Worker"
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| My Mom the WOW "Womens Ordinance Worker" |
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| When WWII broke out Marie Froendhoff was a junior at Roosevelt High School in Dayton, Ohio. Then during her senior year, she applied for a job at Air Service Command at Patterson Field in Dayton. There she worked in the Aqusition Dept. When aircraft were damaged and needed replacement parts they would contact the Air Service Command, she would use Micro Film to order the correct parts and then send the order in. Every day after school mom would catch a bus and take it to 3rd and Main where she would get on another bus ( a big red one they nicknamed the cattle car ) and take it out to the base, she worked there until the summer of 43. After a few weeks off mom started her new job at Inland. Every day she would catch a city bus that would take her to her job. At Inland her job was to attach sites onto the Carbine Rifles. After she attached the sites the rifles they would be taken into a indoor firing range, where they would be tested and adjusted. On one occasion before mom was there they fired one of the rifles without closing the doors and one of the rounds ricocheted and hit and killed one of the plant workers. From then on the doors not only had to be closed but locked. Mom was employed at Inland through the end of the War. In less then a year a friend would introduce her to a WWII Vet by the name of James A. Corbitt and well lets just say the rest is history. | |||||||||