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Author : Sarah McCulloh Lemmon
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.M/5 ( download)
Download or read book North Carolina's Role in World War II. written by Sarah McCulloh Lemmon and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Julian M. Pleasants
Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 0813063841
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Home Front written by Julian M. Pleasants and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2018-10-03 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the outset of World War II, North Carolina was one of the poorest states in the Union. More than half of the land was rural. Over one-third of the farms had no electricity; only one in eight had a telephone. Illiteracy and a lack of education resulted in the highest rate of draft rejections of any state. The citizens desperately wanted higher living standards, and the war would soon awaken the Rip Van Winkle state to its fullest potential. Home Front traces the evolution of the people, customs, traditions, and attitudes, arguing that World War II was the most significant event in the history of modern North Carolina. Using oral history interviews, newspaper accounts, and other primary sources, historian Julian Pleasants explores the triumphs, hardships, and emotions of North Carolinians during this critical period. The Training and Selective Service Act of 1940 created over fifty new military bases in the state to train two million troops. Citizens witnessed German submarines sinking merchant vessels off the coast, struggled to understand and cope with rationing regulations, and used 10,000 German POWs as farm and factory laborers. The massive influx of newcomers reinvigorated markets--the timber, mineral, textile, tobacco, and shipbuilding industries boomed, and farmers and other manufacturing firms achieved economic success. Although racial and gender discrimination remained, World War II provided social and economic opportunities for black North Carolinians and for women to fill jobs once limited to men, helping to pave the way for the civil and women's rights movements that followed. The conclusion of World War II found North Carolina drastically different. Families had lost sons and daughters, fathers and mothers, and brothers and sisters. Despite all the sacrifices and dislocations, the once provincial state looked forward to a modern, diversified, and highly industrialized future.
Author : Reid Chapman
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738543420
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (434 download)
Download or read book Asheville and Western North Carolina in World War II written by Reid Chapman and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World War II served as a rallying call in Asheville and Western North Carolina, putting the citizens back to work. Asheville's two strongest economic sectors, tourism and medicine; its beautiful isolation; and advanced hospitals served the nation's needs during the Second World War. The United States secreted German and Japanese businessmen, federal agencies, and valuable art in these mountains, and recuperating soldiers found solace in the camps and inns. Meanwhile our citizens-black and white men, women, and children-offered themselves up for service. Images of America: Asheville and Western North Carolina in World War II tells their stories, from Pearl Harbor's bombing to the study of the long-term effects of radiation on the Japanese, from the far Pacific to stateside support groups and local sacrifices.
Author : Spencer Bidwell King
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Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Selective Service in North Carolina in World War II. written by Spencer Bidwell King and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The official history of the North Carolina administration of the Selective training and service act of 1940, as amended.
Author : Shepherd W. McKinley
Publisher : Univ Tennessee Press
ISBN 13 : 9781621904144
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (41 download)
Download or read book North Carolina's Experience During the First World War written by Shepherd W. McKinley and published by Univ Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As America's involvement in World War I approached its centennial, state-level histories and commemoration of the Great War abounded. While North Carolina's role in the First World War has yet to attract such intense scholarly interest, a much-needed picture of the wartime Tar Heel state has nevertheless begun to emerge from newly published firsthand accounts of the war and sustained attention to the state's wartime politicians. The essays in North Carolina's Experience during the First World War, skillfully edited by Shepherd W. McKinley and Steven Sabol, provide in-depth interpretation of the state's involvement in WWI. As topics range from soldiers and the military, to women and the home front, to politics and labor issues, a detailed picture emerges of the war's influence on the developing modern state and the ascendant bureaucratic social order. As this anthology makes clear, wars provide the opportunity for unsettling old patterns of power and culture. Unlike the Civil War and Second World War, however, the First World War would have relatively little effect on North Carolina's race relations, class arrangements, gender roles, economic order, and political leadership. What changed more dramatically was the relationship between business and government. Indeed, government took an unprecedented place in the fabric of society and the economy as the "war to end all wars" left its indelible mark on the individuals and families who served. SHEPHERD W. MCKINLEY is a senior lecturer in the Department of History at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He is the author of Stinking Stones and Rocks of Gold: Phosphate, Fertilizer, and Industrialization in Postbellum South Carolina and North Carolina: New Directions for an Old Land. STEVEN SABOL is an associate professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He is the author of Russian Colonization and the Genesis of Kazak National Consciousness.
Author : Anita Price Davis
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476619921
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book North Carolina and World War II written by Anita Price Davis and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-11-19 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: North Carolina did more than its part during World War II. This Southern state trained more troops than any other state in the nation. Can one still find the military posts and shipyards, the cemeteries and memorials, the convalescent units and R&R facilities today? This volume describes in detail both the state's 20-plus military sites and the eight little-known North Carolina prisoner of war camps. Images and memories tell the story of service personnel and their families who contributed to the war effort at much personal sacrifice. The book reminds readers of how those Carolinians who remained behind did their part through supporting the troops, rationing, salvaging metals, growing Victory Gardens and purchasing War Bonds.
Author : Sally Baumann-Reynolds
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780578107592
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (75 download)
Download or read book We Remember written by Sally Baumann-Reynolds and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Pamela C. Freeman
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Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (34 download)
Download or read book A Teacher's Guide to World War II and the Role North Carolina Played in the Global Conflict written by Pamela C. Freeman and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : C. Russell Reynolds
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780578091488
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (914 download)
Download or read book We Remember written by C. Russell Reynolds and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : University of North Carolina Television Network
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Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (122 download)
Download or read book North Carolina's WWII Experience written by University of North Carolina Television Network and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Honor list of dead and missing from the state of North Carolina during World War II, from United States Department of War, 1946.
Author : Stephen H. Dew
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Queen City at War written by Stephen H. Dew and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Queen City at War reveals a complexity of experience on the Charlotte home front, and it supports much of the current research that exposes the myth behind the "Good War" concept. The story of Charlotte during World War II is a "tale of two cities: " for some, "it was the best of times," but for others, "it was the worst of times." This study draws upon much of the recent scholarship related to the home front, and it also utilizes a number of primary sources, especially the Charlotte Observer and the Charlotte News, as well as local documents and manuscript collections. The Queen City at War should appeal to historians, students of history, and the general public interested in World War II and the American home front, as well as those interested in Southern history and American urban history.
Author : Jennifer E. Brooks
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807875759
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)
Download or read book Defining the Peace written by Jennifer E. Brooks and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2011-01-20 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the aftermath of World War II, Georgia's veterans--black, white, liberal, reactionary, pro-union, and anti-union--all found that service in the war enhanced their sense of male, political, and racial identity, but often in contradictory ways. In Defining the Peace, Jennifer E. Brooks shows how veterans competed in a protracted and sometimes violent struggle to determine the complex character of Georgia's postwar future. Brooks finds that veterans shaped the key events of the era, including the gubernatorial campaigns of both Eugene Talmadge and Herman Talmadge, the defeat of entrenched political machines in Augusta and Savannah, the terrorism perpetrated against black citizens, the CIO's drive to organize the textile South, and the controversies that dominated the 1947 Georgia General Assembly. Progressive black and white veterans forged new grassroots networks to mobilize voters against racial and economic conservatives who opposed their vision of a democratic South. Most white veterans, however, opted to support candidates who favored a conservative program of modernization that aimed to alter the state's economic landscape while sustaining its anti-union and racial traditions. As Brooks demonstrates, World War II veterans played a pivotal role in shaping the war's political impact on the South, generating a politics of race, anti-unionism, and modernization that stood as the war's most lasting political legacy.
Author : Nell Wise Wechter
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469601362
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)
Download or read book Taffy of Torpedo Junction written by Nell Wise Wechter and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2012-05-15 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Back in print A longtime favorite of several generations of Tar Heels, Taffy of Torpedo Junction is the thrilling adventure story of thirteen-year-old Taffy Willis, who, with the help of her pony and dog, exposes a ring of Nazi spies operating from a secluded house on Hatteras Island, North Carolina, during World War II. For readers of all ages, the book brings to life the dramatic wartime events on the Outer Banks, where German U-boats turned an area around Cape Hatteras into 'Torpedo Junction' by sinking more than sixty American vessels in just a six-month period in 1942. Taffy has been enjoyed by young and old alike since it was first published in 1957.
Author : Kevin P. Duffus
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781888285420
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (854 download)
Download or read book War Zone written by Kevin P. Duffus and published by . This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Allan Bérubé
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 080789964X
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)
Download or read book Coming Out Under Fire written by Allan Bérubé and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2010-09-07 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During World War II, as the United States called on its citizens to serve in unprecedented numbers, the presence of gay Americans in the armed forces increasingly conflicted with the expanding antihomosexual policies and procedures of the military. In Coming Out Under Fire, Allan Berube examines in depth and detail these social and political confrontation--not as a story of how the military victimized homosexuals, but as a story of how a dynamic power relationship developed between gay citizens and their government, transforming them both. Drawing on GIs' wartime letters, extensive interviews with gay veterans, and declassified military documents, Berube thoughtfully constructs a startling history of the two wars gay military men and women fough--one for America and another as homosexuals within the military. Berube's book, the inspiration for the 1995 Peabody Award-winning documentary film of the same name, has become a classic since it was published in 1990, just three years prior to the controversial "don't ask, don't tell" policy, which has continued to serve as an uneasy compromise between gays and the military. With a new foreword by historians John D'Emilio and Estelle B. Freedman, this book remains a valuable contribution to the history of World War II, as well as to the ongoing debate regarding the role of gays in the U.S. military.
Author : David La Vere
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book North Carolina's Shining Hour written by David La Vere and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawn from the accounts of those who lived it, this powerful chronicle of our state during World War II commemorates the extraordinary actions of ordinary North Carolinians on the battlefield and the home front, the indomitable spirit of a patriotic people in a time of peril and sacrifice, and the ways in which the Good War changed us forever. An extensive collection of photographs the majority of which have never been published complements this snapshot of North Carolina in wartime and honors our states heroic contributions to the nations efforts to secure peace in the world.
Author : Jim Bunch
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467137677
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (671 download)
Download or read book U-Boats off the Outer Banks: Shadows in the Moonlight written by Jim Bunch and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2017 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From January to July 1942, more than seventy-five ships sank to North Carolina's "Graveyard of the Atlantic" off the coast of the Outer Banks. German U-boats sank ships in some of the most harrowing sea fighting close to America's shore. Germany's Operation Drumbeat, led by Admiral Karl Donitz, brought fear to the local communities. A Standard oil tanker sank just sixty miles from Cape Hatteras. The U-85 was the first U-boat sunk by American surface forces, and local divers later discovered a rare Enigma machine aboard. Author Jim Bunch traces the destructive history of world war on the shores of the Outer Banks.
