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A group of Corvallis High School students, about 80 strong, gather at the high school entrance ready to be taken to Benton County beet fields.

These two boys are picking up dairy farm pointers at the farm labor training program.

Strawberry VFV platoon working under the direction of leader, standing left.

Portland Victory Farm Volunteer raspberry picking platoon at lunch at a farm near Troutdale, Oregon.

Ed Castillo, 12, left, and Kent Bradshaw, 13 both of Salem, walking with strawberry carriers. Ed picked 18 carriers and Kent 16 in one six hour day, at 42 cents per carrier. L.W. Scoggin Farm, Grand Island district of Yamhill County.

Victory Farm Volunteers parade through Hillsboro, Oregon, streets as part of the VFV Field Day.

High school boys are working on prune washer and sizer in the Minty plant.

Three junior high school members of Lovina Wilson's platoon are eating lunch after working in the fields. There were 42 in this platoon.

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.