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San Francisco in World War II

Author : John Garvey
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738530505
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book San Francisco in World War II written by John Garvey and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everything changed on the morning of December 7, 1941, and life in San Francisco was no exception. Flush with excitement and tourism in the wake of the 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition, the city was stunned at the severity of the Pearl Harbor attack, and quickly settled into organized chaos with its new role as a major deployment center for the remainder of the war. "Frisco" teemed with servicemen and servicewomen during and after the conflict, forever changing the face of this waterfront city. Warships roamed the bay, and fearsome gun embankments appeared on the cliffs facing the sea, preparing to repel an invasion that never happened.

San Francisco in World War II

Author : John Garvey
Publisher : Arcadia Library Editions
ISBN 13 : 9781531616632
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (166 download)

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Download or read book San Francisco in World War II written by John Garvey and published by Arcadia Library Editions. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everything changed on the morning of December 7, 1941, and life in San Francisco was no exception. Flush with excitement and tourism in the wake of the 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition, the city was stunned at the severity of the Pearl Harbor attack, and quickly settled into organized chaos with its new role as a major deployment center for the remainder of the war. "Frisco" teemed with servicemen and servicewomen during and after the conflict, forever changing the face of this waterfront city. Warships roamed the bay, and fearsome gun embankments appeared on the cliffs facing the sea, preparing to repel an invasion that never happened.

World War II Shipyards by the Bay

Author : Nicholas Veronico
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738547176
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (471 download)

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Download or read book World War II Shipyards by the Bay written by Nicholas Veronico and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the dark, frenzied years of World War II, the San Francisco Bay Area was the geographic center of a $6.3 billion West Coast shipbuilding industry. Stretching from the Golden Gate to Vallejo to Sunnyvale, 14 Bay Area yards launched many of the ships that helped save the free world. Basalt Rock of Napa, Bethlehem Steel of San Francisco and Alameda, Hunters Point and Mare Island Naval Shipyards, Joshua Hendy Iron Works of Sunnyvale, Marinship of Sausalito, Permanente Metals in Richmond, and Western Pipe and Steel in South San Francisco are names that still conjure memories for many locals of one of the most impassioned war efforts in human history. Offering new opportunities for African Americans and women, recruiters searched the nation for workers who relocated here by the thousands. These motivated men and women delivered Liberty cargo ships like the SS Robert E. Peary, built in seven and a half days, a shipbuilding record that stands to this day.

The History of the U.S.S. San Francisco in World War II

Author : Heber A. Holbrook
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (558 download)

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Download or read book The History of the U.S.S. San Francisco in World War II written by Heber A. Holbrook and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

San Francisco in World War II

Author : John Garvey
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439630992
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (396 download)

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Download or read book San Francisco in World War II written by John Garvey and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2007-01-10 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everything changed on the morning of December 7, 1941, and life in San Francisco was no exception. Flush with excitement and tourism in the wake of the 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition, the city was stunned at the severity of the Pearl Harbor attack, and quickly settled into organized chaos with its new role as a major deployment center for the remainder of the war. Frisco teemed with servicemen and servicewomen during and after the conflict, forever changing the face of this waterfront city. Warships roamed the bay, and fearsome gun embankments appeared on the cliffs facing the sea, preparing to repel an invasion that never happened.

The Second Gold Rush

Author : Marilynn S. Johnson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520207017
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book The Second Gold Rush written by Marilynn S. Johnson and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1996-12-29 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "At last, a close-in account of California during its moment of rebirth, World War II. . . . A book that helps us to understand California's past and also its present."—James N. Gregory, author of American Exodus

Artillery at the Golden Gate

Author : Brian B. Chin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780929521855
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book Artillery at the Golden Gate written by Brian B. Chin and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The San Francisco Nexus in World War II

Author : Philip E. Meza
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1666941581
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (669 download)

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Download or read book The San Francisco Nexus in World War II written by Philip E. Meza and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-09-05 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The San Francisco Nexus in World War II: Freedoms Found, Liberties Lost, and the Atomic Bomb, Meza tells the story of important events in the San Francisco Bay Area that have consequences still felt to date. He traces the invention of the atomic bomb, from a speculative design for a nuclear weapon sketched on a chalkboard at Berkeley by theoretical physicist Robert Oppenheimer and helped made real by “Big Science” that was pioneered by his friend and colleague, experimental physicist Ernest Lawrence. During this time, Black Americans migrated to San Francisco to escape the Jim Crow South, finding new freedoms, good jobs, and a leader in a singer-turned-welder named Joseph James. Meza shows how James fought for and won an end to segregation in his union, taking a large step toward the civil rights movement. At the same time, Japanese Americans were forced from their homes by a tragically misguided presidential executive order, upheld by the US Supreme Court, illustrating the fragility of liberty in America. These events continue to shape the world today.

The Bad City in the Good War

Author : Roger W. Lotchin
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253000484
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book The Bad City in the Good War written by Roger W. Lotchin and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2003-03-03 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Riders were very appropriate to a western war, but these horsemen could not have been more different. One group patrolled the oceanfront of 'The City' after dark. While the residents of the nearby Sunset District and Seacliff huddled around the radios in their living rooms, curtains pulled and blinds lowered, listening to war news or to 'One Man's Family,' other residents rode the beaches. Mounted on their own ponies, the men of the San Francisco Polo Club labored through the sands of China Beach, Baker Beach, and the Ten Mile Beach, looking for Imperial Japanese intruders." -- from the book In the mythology of the West, the city was seen as a place of danger and corruption, but the "bad" city proved its mettle during the "Good War." In this book, Roger W. Lotchin has written the first comprehensive study of California's urban home front. United by fear of totalitarianism, the diverse population of California's cities came together to protect their homes and to aid in the war effort. Whether it involved fighting in Europe or Asia, migrating to a defense center, writing to service personnel at the front, building war machines in converted factories, giving pennies at school for war bonds, saving scrap material, or pounding a civil defense beat, urban California's participation was immediate, constant, and unflagging. Although many people worked in offices, factories, or barracks, the wartime community was also fed by a vast army of volunteers, which until now has been largely overlooked. The Bad City in the Good War is a comprehensive local history of the California home front that restores a little-known part of the story of the Second World War.

View of San Francisco, California from the Harbor Shortly After World War II

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (111 download)

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Download or read book View of San Francisco, California from the Harbor Shortly After World War II written by and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Description: "San Francisco." View of San Francisco, California from the harbor.

Over Here!

Author : National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States. Western Regional Office
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (757 download)

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Download or read book Over Here! written by National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States. Western Regional Office and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Artillery at the Golden Gate

Author : Brian B. Chin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780976149477
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (494 download)

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Download or read book Artillery at the Golden Gate written by Brian B. Chin and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Artillery at the Golden Gate tells the story of the "concrete soldiers," the US Army coast artillerymen who manned the huge seacoast rifles and underwater minefields guarding the San Francisco harbor during World War II. Artillery at the Golden Gate recreates the atmosphere of wartime San Francisco and recounts in vivid detail the life of the Army coast artillerymen stationed in a world of full-alerts and combat discipline within sight of San Francisco. Based on interviews with veterans and supported by official records, press accounts, and over 170 historical photographs, this book paints a rich mosaic of memorable Army personalities and their intriguing experience in the wartime port city.

War Orphan in San Francisco

Author : Phyllis H. Mattson
Publisher : Stevens Creek Press
ISBN 13 : 0976165619
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (761 download)

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Download or read book War Orphan in San Francisco written by Phyllis H. Mattson and published by Stevens Creek Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In March of 1940, as Hitler plans to eradicate Jews,10-year-old Lizzi left Vienna on a small transport of children seeking refuge in America. Two weeks later she began her new way of life in San Francisco, getting a new name, Phyllis, and having to learn a new language. Although her family was scattered on three continents, they are linked by letters.This poignant coming-of-age story is told through the letters. Phyllis wrote her parents details of her new life as she grew into adolescence and became an American, while they tried to parent her long distance. During the next six years she moved in and out of foster homes and an orphanage due to her rebellious behavior, but as she defended herselfstoutly in her letters, she gained self-confidence and skills to become an independent, responsible adult. Though her parents tried desperately to join her, they were stopped by red tape. Her mother labored in German slave camps, while her father was erroneously incarcerated in Australia. The moods, hopes, fears, and accomplishments of all are recounted in the details of the letters. Interwoven between the letters is a narrative that depicts the times and places of that era.

Under the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, California During World War II

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (111 download)

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Download or read book Under the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, California During World War II written by and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Description: "Under the Golden Gate Bridge." San Francisco, California.

The San Francisco Nexus in World War II: Freedoms Found, Liberties Lost, and the Atomic Bomb

Author : Philip E Meza
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781666941593
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (415 download)

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The Gateway to the Pacific

Author : Meredith Oda
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022659274X
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (265 download)

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Download or read book The Gateway to the Pacific written by Meredith Oda and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2019-01-03 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the decades following World War II, municipal leaders and ordinary citizens embraced San Francisco’s identity as the “Gateway to the Pacific,” using it to reimagine and rebuild the city. The city became a cosmopolitan center on account of its newfound celebration of its Japanese and other Asian American residents, its economy linked with Asia, and its favorable location for transpacific partnerships. The most conspicuous testament to San Francisco’s postwar transpacific connections is the Japanese Cultural and Trade Center in the city’s redeveloped Japanese-American enclave. Focusing on the development of the Center, Meredith Oda shows how this multilayered story was embedded within a larger story of the changing institutions and ideas that were shaping the city. During these formative decades, Oda argues, San Francisco’s relations with and ideas about Japan were being forged within the intimate, local sites of civic and community life. This shift took many forms, including changes in city leadership, new municipal institutions, and especially transformations in the built environment. Newly friendly relations between Japan and the United States also meant that Japanese Americans found fresh, if highly constrained, job and community prospects just as the city’s African Americans struggled against rising barriers. San Francisco’s story is an inherently local one, but it also a broader story of a city collectively, if not cooperatively, reimagining its place in a global economy.

Golden Memories of the San Francisco Bay Area

Author : Steven Friedman
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738508757
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (87 download)

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Download or read book Golden Memories of the San Francisco Bay Area written by Steven Friedman and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: San Francisco, the flamboyant and cosmopolitan city by the bay and its neighboring municipalities, was born to tell stories upon stories. Ranging in ages from 68 to 91, the narrators reflect the ethnic and religious diversity of a metropolis that has been a pioneer of several social, political, and cultural movements. They also stretch across both ends of the economic spectrum. A Japanese-American woman describes the harsh humiliation of internment during World War II, while an Irish Catholic man fondly remembers being a paperboy in the same neighborhood for ten years--until he was 20. An African-American woman from Marin City explains why she'll never sell the quilts she makes. Another woman recalls kissing under the Golden Gate Bridge with the man who eventually became her husband. The book also utilizes more than 80 photographs from the narrators and the collections of local libraries, museums, and historical societies to complement the poignant, humorous, and revealing portraits of the people and places of the San Francisco Bay Area.