This interview with Inez Sauer was conducted by Lorraine McConaghy for the Life on the Homefront Oral History Project on February 26, 1985. Sauer was born in West Seattle in 1910. She married in 1929 and moved to Akron, Ohio. The family returned to Seattle with three children at the start of World War II. During the war, Inez Sauer returned to Seattle to live in her parents’ small home with three children because her husband could no longer get rubber for his used tire company. She set out to find war work out of a sense of patriotism and found a job at Boeing as a tool clerk. She speaks about adjusting to factory life from a “gentle” upbringing, including a divorce from her husband who didn’t want her to work; she also details what she saw as a Boeing employee, including helping to uncover spies. She also discusses family life and entertainment.

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