1941
Texas Goes to War
In 1941, when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor and the United States found itself in a total war, the people of Texas rallied to the war effort. Men and women rushed to join the armed forces. Those who remained behind--men, women, and children--were soldiers on the home front: They rolled bandages, spotted aircraft, trained for air raids, filled jobs left vacant by service men, collected scrap scrimped and saved and got by with rationed sugar, meat, shoes, tires, and gas. Texas became a center for training and equipping the greatest war machine the world had ever seen. World War II changed Texas from oil and cattle and cotton to industry and…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Crow, Laura (Hrsg.) / Lee, James W. (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-929398-29-7
- EAN: 9780929398297
- Produktnummer: 1393616
- Verlag: University Of North Texas Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1991
- Seitenangabe: 264 S.
- Masse: H28.0 cm x B21.0 cm x D1.4 cm 654 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 654
Über den Autor
James Ward Lee is former chairman of the English Department at the University of North Texas. He has written numerous articles, reviews, and bibliographies and is author of Texas, My Texas.
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