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In , I worked as a file clerk for the New York Shipbuilding Corporation at its facility in Camden. Twice a week, two of us girls, both just out of high school at age 17, would cross the street to the huge shipyard to pick up old battleship blueprints and bring them back to the office for shredding.

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Anderson—a man with connections. I happened to mention that the thing I missed most because of all the wartime shortages was nylon stockings. Without hesitation, we each ordered the nylons. Walking back to the office, we began to question our impulsive decision. Our boys are dying overseas.

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The next day, we went back to Mr. The truck will be in tonight. When we got back to the office a few hours later, our boss, Mr. Dilks, called us in and closed the door behind us. There were two men with him. These gentlemen are from the FBI.

They want to talk to you. We just about died. Is he in on this? It was the first time anyone had ever called me Miss Williams. Back at our desks, we continued to cry.

As we entered Mr. It turns out that Mr. Anderson had called our boss, who recruited the two men from the drafting department. My father, like everyone else at the shipyard, heard the story almost immediately.

How about it, girls? Edyth Montgomery lived in South Jersey for 81 years.

She now resides in Chalfont, Pennsylvania. Read more Historic Jersey , Jersey Living articles. By submitting comments you grant permission for all or part of those comments to appear in the print edition of New Jersey Monthly. By Edyth Montgomery April 28, Illustration by Edwin Fotheringham.

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