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Minnesota in World War II:
Betty Bemir and the Waves at Sugar Camp

1943: Every day, Betty Bemir (Nashwauk, MN) and her sister WAVES—Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service—marched from cottages at Sugar Camp in Ohio to a cash register factory. They weren’t making cash registers but rotors for top-secret decryption devices. Here’s Britt Aamodt.