Waging War on the Home Front: An Illustrated Memoir of World War II

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America’ entry into World War II necessitated rapid mobilization of the country’s shipbuilding industry. A massive national effort used to be needed to build ships faster than they were being sunk by the enemy. This book recounts how that need used to be met by the home-front personnel.
Chauncey French and his wife, Jessie, were a number of the hundreds of thousands of workers recruited by Henry Kaiser for the nation’s wartime emergency shipbuilding program. The memoir that French began even as working as a pipe fitter in the Kaiser shipyard in Vancouver, Washington, is a compelling account of how the war changed the lives of those at home. His first-hand stories relate the now and again tense and steadily humorous intermingling of people – including women and African Americans in unprecedented numbers – from different backgrounds who learned to work together for a common cause.
The editors have selected and annotated more than 150 illustrations that capture the human drama, teamwork, and camaraderie that made the implausible level of production at the shipyards imaginable. Introductory essays, an appendix, notes, additional reading, and an index augment the writer’s narrative.

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