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Victory Farm Volunteers were made up of youth 11 to 17 years of age and were one of the largest groups in the Emergency Farm Labor Service work force.

Victory Farm Volunteers registering in Lane County. Lovina Wilson, farm labor assistant, routes the first three youngsters to register during the Mobilization Day program at the Frances Willard school in Eugene, Oregon. The youngsters are, left to…

School buses were a primary mode of transporting youth workers. O.E. Mikesell, county extension agent for Linn County, recalled hauling youth by bus: "[4-H club agent John Hansen] and I drove the bus, and we'd pick up about forty or forty-five…

Ray Streight, 14, from Gladstone, Oregon, is picking blackcaps on John Phillips farm in Carus community of Clackamas County.