They Called It the War Effort : Oral Histories from World War II Orange, Texas /

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,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Fairchild, Louis
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Denton : Texas State Historical Association, 2012.
Edición:2nd ed.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Social aspects.
Oral history.
Manners and customs.
Interviews.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Historical.
Entretiens > Texas > Orange.
Histoire orale > Texas > Orange.
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Aspect social > Texas > Orange > Anecdotes.
Interviews > Texas > Orange.
Oral history > Texas > Orange.
World War, 1939-1945 > Social aspects > Texas > Orange > Anecdotes.
World War, 1939-1945 > Texas > Orange > Anecdotes.
Texas > Orange.
Orange (Tex.) > Social life and customs > 20th century > Anecdotes.
Orange (Tex.) > History > 20th century > Anecdotes.
Orange (Tex.) > Biography.
Anecdotes.
Biographies.
History.
collective biographies.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: just the way it was
  • This is my town
  • Coming to Orange
  • Children at a unique time
  • Teenagers live forever
  • The women: very good, very strong
  • Being black in Orange
  • Top people in shipyard management
  • They got the job done: out in the yards
  • Buy anything, sell anything: doing business
  • Conclusion: like a hybrid
  • Epilogue
  • Appendices: Orange 1944 ; Seeing, remembering ; Procedure.

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