OH_3777 Flores
Narrator: Marty Flores
Interviewer: Miguel Garcia
Date: 6/22/2005
Description: Marty Flores was born in 1924 in El Paso, Texas and moved to Whitter, California
at an early age. Marty enlisted at Lockheed Aircraft in an effort to help her country.
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CLIP 1: War broke out/rivet training at HS
CLIP 2: Training/Lockheed signup
CLIP 3: 1st day at Lockheed
CLIP 4: Promoted/Raise at Lockheed
OH_3080 Armendariz
Narrator: John Armendariz
Interviewer: Raymond Alvarez
Date: 4/24/2003
Description: John Armendariz was born in Boyle Heights in 1918 and enlisted in the Marine
Corp in 1943. John joined the Marine Raider group for training at San Onofre near Camp
Pendleton where he experienced discrimination for being a Chicano. John states the GI Bill gave
him the opportunity to earn an education and helped him out after the war.
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CLIP 1: Enlist in Marine Corp 1943
CLIP 2: Patriotism in neighborhood/ enlisting
CLIP 3: Prejudice felt during Zoot Suit time
CLIP 4: Training and discrimination felt for being a Chicano
CLIP 5: 1st experience of war against Japanese
CLIP 6: Injury/discharge 1946
CLIP 7: War effects life/medals
CLIP 8: GI Bill and education—life takes different path because of war
OH_2995 Martinez
Narrator: Dolores Martinez
Interviewed: Gerald Marinez
Date: 3/20/2002
Description: Dolores Martinez grew up in the ethnically mixed community of Boyle Heights in
East Los Angeles. Both her father and her step-father served in the armed forces during World
War II.
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CLIP 1: Pearl Harbor description/men going to war/women going to work
CLIP 2: School racism/job racism prior and after Pearl Harbor/WWII
CLIP 3: Latino men coming home open door for Latinos—lifestyle changed with GI Bill
CLIP 4: WWII gave people opportunities with education and housing
OH_111 Diaz
Narrator: Lupe and Ofelia Diaz
Interviewer: Antonio Valle, Jr.
Date: January 27, 1969
Description: Lupe and Ofelia Diaz discuss their lives in Victorville, California and the
discrimination experienced. They experienced discrimination with speaking Spanish, housing,
and at local places such as the theater. Lupe is a Korean War Veteran and felt discrimination
amongst fellow American soldiers.
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CLIP 1: Discrimination in Victorville/Speaking Spanish in public discrimination
CLIP 2: Theater discrimination
CLIP 3: Housing Discrimination
CLIP 4: Vet discrimination/burial
CLIP 5: Korean War discrimination
OH_3182 Garcia
Narrator: Leonard J. Garcia
Interviewer: John-Paul Vargas
Date: 10/11/2002
Description: John-Paul Vargas grew up in Euclid Heights in East Los Angeles and joined the
Army in 1944. John-Paul experienced discrimination at Camp Roberts, and was shipped to the
Pacific where he was a Staff Sergeant.
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CLIP 1: Sleepy Lagoon trail/ Housing discrimination
CLIP 2: Military discrimination
CLIP 3: Neighborhood enlists in war efforts
CLIP 4: Attitude of country after the war