They Called It The War Effort
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They Called It The War Effort
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Author : Louis Fairchild
language : en
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Release Date : 2012-02-22
They Called It The War Effort written by Louis Fairchild and has been published by Texas A&M University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-22 with History categories.
Over the course of World War II, Orange, Texas’s easternmost city, went from a sleepy southern town of 7,500 inhabitants to a bustling industrial city of 60,000. The bayou community on the Sabine became one of the nation’s preeminent shipbuilding centers. In They Called It the War Effort, Louis Fairchild details the explosive transformation of his native city in the words of the people who lived through it. Some residents who lived in the town before the war speak of nostalgia for the time when Orange was a small, close-knit community and regret for the loss of social cohesiveness of former days, while others speak of the exciting new opportunities and interesting new people that came. Interviewees tell how newcomers from rural areas in Louisiana and East Texas tried to adjust to a new life in close living quarters and to new amenities–like indoor toilets. People from all walks of life talk of the economic shift from the cash and job shortages of Depression era to a war era when these things were in abundance, but they also tell of how wartime rationing made items like Coca-Cola treasured luxuries. Fairchild deftly draws on a wide array of secondary sources in psychology and history to tie together and broaden the perspectives offered by World War II Orangeites. The second edition of this justly praised book features more interviews with non-white residents of Orange, as Japanese Americans and especially African Americans speak not only of the challenges of wartime economic dislocations, but also of living in a southern town where Jim Crow still reigned. Publication of this book was supported by a generous grant from the Nelda C. and H. J. Lutcher Stark Foundation
Investigation Of The Progress Of The War Effort
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Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Naval Affairs
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1943
Investigation Of The Progress Of The War Effort written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Naval Affairs and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1943 with Defense contracts categories.
Investigation Of The Progress Of The War Effort Brewster Investigation
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Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Naval Affairs
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1943
Investigation Of The Progress Of The War Effort Brewster Investigation written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Naval Affairs and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1943 with Defense contracts categories.
Investigation Of The Progress Of The War Effort Hearings H Res 30 March 25 1943
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Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Naval Affairs
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1943
Investigation Of The Progress Of The War Effort Hearings H Res 30 March 25 1943 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Naval Affairs and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1943 with categories.
Investigations Of The National War Effort
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Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Military Affairs
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1944
Investigations Of The National War Effort written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Military Affairs and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1944 with Defense industries categories.
Investigation Of The Progress Of The War Effort Renegotiation Of War Contracts
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Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Naval Affairs
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1943
Investigation Of The Progress Of The War Effort Renegotiation Of War Contracts written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Naval Affairs and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1943 with Defense contracts categories.
Investigations Of The National War Effort Hearings Before The Special Committee On Draft Deferment H Res 30 March15 31 1944
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Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Military Affairs
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1944
Investigations Of The National War Effort Hearings Before The Special Committee On Draft Deferment H Res 30 March15 31 1944 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Military Affairs and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1944 with categories.
Mobilizing America Robert P Patterson And The War Effort 1940 1945
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Author : Keith Eiler
language : en
Publisher: Plunkett Lake Press
Release Date : 2022-12-14
Mobilizing America Robert P Patterson And The War Effort 1940 1945 written by Keith Eiler and has been published by Plunkett Lake Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-12-14 with History categories.
Judge Robert P. Patterson resigned from the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in New York City in 1940 to join the War Department to help prepare the country for a war he knew was coming. As Under Secretary of War he was responsible under Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson for industrial mobilization and procurement for the army and the army air force. The study documents Patterson’s extraordinary and largely unrecognized contributions to the war effort, recounts how the federal government transformed itself for war and converted a vast market-oriented economy into an effective war machine, and documents numerous issues about the evolution of civil-military relations during the emergency. Patterson emerges as a self-effacing public servant of unusual ability and character. “This splendid biography does belated justice to one of the unsung heroes of the Second World War. Robert P. Patterson, a quiet man of commanding ability and sturdy purpose, played a key role in the mobilization of American men and resources that made victory possible. Mobilizing America illuminates both the integrity of the man and the complexity of his achievement.” — Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. “In Mobilizing America, Keith E. Eiler... makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the mobilization by describing the contributions of Robert P. Patterson, a heretofore neglected yet pivotal figure in making President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s vision of America as the Arsenal of Democracy into a reality... Mobilizing America is a worthy work of scholarship. Gracefully written... it deftly examines Patterson’s style and numerous issues of wartime policy and reminds us that a ‘purposeful’ individual can make a difference in a vast national endeavor.” —The Journal of Military History “Students of the Second World War, even professional military officers, are often woefully uninformed about the vast and complex war effort waged on the home front to provide the supplies, trained manpower, and munitions necessary to ultimate victory. Keith Eiler has found a way to portray this mobilization effort vividly by telling the story through the eyes of Undersecretary of War Robert P. Patterson, a modest but dynamic man whose contributions, in the author’s words, were ‘comparable only to those of the army’s chief of staff, General George C. Marshall, and of the president himself.’ I recommend this book to anyone seeking to attain a full understanding of the entire United States war effort.” — John S. D. Eisenhower “As a study of the domestic economy during WWII, this book is unparalleled.” — Choice “Eiler has written a comprehensive account of Patterson’s Herculean efforts (largely unrecognized then or later), which were so essential for the final victory. Patterson emerges as a patriot and ideal public servant.” — Library Journal “This account of the career of one of the 20th century’s great public servants... is a dramatic story, ably narrated and documented, about a side of World War II — the domestic war against entrenched bureaucracy — in which Patterson played an heroic role.” — Washington Times “[A] detailed, well-researched book.” —The Journal of American History
Arming The Nation For War
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Author : Robert P. Patterson
language : en
Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
Release Date : 2014-05-15
Arming The Nation For War written by Robert P. Patterson and has been published by Univ. of Tennessee Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-15 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A decorated World War I veteran, Federal Judge Robert P. Patterson knew all too well the needs of soldiers on the battlefield. He was thus dismayed by America’s lack of military preparedness when a second great war engulfed Europe in 1939–40. With the international crisis worsening, Patterson even resumed military training—as a forty-nine-yearold private—before being named assistant secretary of war in July 1940. That appointment set the stage for Patterson’s central role in the country’s massive mobilization and supply effort which helped the Allies win World War II. In Arming the Nation for War, a previously unpublished account long buried among the late author’s papers and originally marked confidential, Patterson describes the vast challenges the United States faced as it had to equip, in a desperately short time, a fighting force capable of confronting a formidable enemy. Brimming with data and detail, the book also abounds with deep insights into the myriad problems encountered on the domestic mobilization front—including the sometimes divergent interests of wartime planners and industrial leaders—along with the logistical difficulties of supplying far-flung theaters of war with everything from ships, planes, and tanks to food and medicine. Determined to remind his contemporaries of how narrow the Allied margin of victory was and that the war’s lessons not be forgotten, Patterson clearly intended the manuscript (which he wrote between 1945 and ’47, when he was President Truman’s secretary of war) to contribute to the postwar debates on the future of the military establishment. That passage of the National Security Act of 1947, to which Patterson was a key contributor, answered many of his concerns may explain why he never published the book during his lifetime. A unique document offering an insider’s view of a watershed historical moment, Patterson’s text is complemented by editor Brian Waddell’s extensive introduction and notes. In addition, Robert M. Morgenthau, former Manhattan district attorney and a protégé of Patterson’s for four years prior to the latter’s death in a 1952 plane crash, offers a heartfelt remembrance of a man the New York Herald-Tribune called “an example of the public-spirited citizen.”
The Best War Ever
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Author : Michael C. C. Adams
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2015-05-15
The Best War Ever written by Michael C. C. Adams and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-05-15 with History categories.
The most readable—and searingly honest—short book ever written on this pivotal conflict. Was World War II really such a "good war"? Popular memory insists that it was, in fact, "the best war ever." After all, we knew who the enemy was, and we understood what we were fighting for. The war was good for the economy. It was liberating for women. A battle of tanks and airplanes, it was a "cleaner" war than World War I. Although we did not seek the conflict—or so we believed—Americans nevertheless rallied in support of the war effort, and the nation's soldiers, all twelve million of them, were proud to fight. But according to historian Michael C. C. Adams, our memory of the war era as a golden age is distorted. It has left us with a misleading—even dangerous—legacy, one enhanced by the nostalgia-tinged retrospectives of Stephen E. Ambrose and Tom Brokaw. Disputing many of our common assumptions about the period, Adams argues in The Best War Ever that our celebratory experience of World War II is marred by darker and more sordid realities. In the book, originally published in 1994, Adams challenges stereotypes to present a view of World War II that avoids the simplistic extremes of both glorification and vilification. The Best War Ever charts the complex diplomatic problems of the 1930s and reveals the realities of ground combat: no moral triumph, it was in truth a brutal slog across a blasted landscape. Adams also exposes the myth that the home front was fully united behind the war effort, demonstrating how class, race, gender, and age divisions split Americans. Meanwhile, in Europe and Asia, shell-shocked soldiers grappled with emotional and physical trauma, rigorously enforced segregation, and rampant venereal disease. In preparing this must-read new edition, Adams has consulted some seventy additional sources on topics as varied as the origins of Social Security and a national health system, the Allied strategic bombing campaign, and the relationship of traumatic brain injuries to the adjustment problems of veterans. The revised book also incorporates substantial developments that have occurred in our understanding of the course and character of the war, particularly in terms of the human consequences of fighting. In a new chapter, "The Life Cycle of a Myth," Adams charts image-making about the war from its inception to the present. He contrasts it with modern-day rhetoric surrounding the War on Terror, while analyzing the real-world consequences that result from distorting the past, including the dangerous idea that only through (perpetual) military conflict can we achieve lasting peace.