Howard remembers working at Vultee during the manufacture of the Vultee Vengeance Dive Bomber.

Howard:  "Dive bomber.  It was supposed to go in and dive like that you know and drop the bomb as it went up.  And we crated one of those, I think I told you about, we crated one of those.  I was in the shipping department, and we crated a whole dive bomber--wings, motor, everything complete in one big huge crate.  [ . . .]  We had to haul it down to the 
railroad (the railroad didn't come in to the plant at that time) on a special made trailer and get it loaded off, and strapped it down with big wide steel straps, and shipped them to where they went."

Gladys shares that she never knew the nature of the Oak Ridge project when she worked there during the war.

Gladys:  "I have to tell this one--to go back into Knoxville to stay all night (before we got those people to board with, Mr. and Mrs. Best, an old couple), and there was a gang of us on an army bus, and, of course, we were sitting there talking.  I was always shy and kind of backward anyway, but I said, 'Well, what are y'all doing out there?'  See, I wasn't supposed to talk.  And this one guy--this is the reason I have never forgotten--he said, 'We're making stringless yo-yos.'  A nice way to tell me to keep my mouth shut.  So that has always stuck with me."