Author: Meg Jones
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1467117625
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1
Book Description
Thanks to the city's large industrial base, factories quickly retooled and mobilized for wartime production. Locals sacrificed their lives for the cause. Through past interviews and archival materials, author Meg Jones reveals these and other patriotic stories.
World War II Milwaukee
Author: Meg Jones
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1467117625
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1
Book Description
Thanks to the city's large industrial base, factories quickly retooled and mobilized for wartime production. Locals sacrificed their lives for the cause. Through past interviews and archival materials, author Meg Jones reveals these and other patriotic stories.
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1467117625
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1
Book Description
Thanks to the city's large industrial base, factories quickly retooled and mobilized for wartime production. Locals sacrificed their lives for the cause. Through past interviews and archival materials, author Meg Jones reveals these and other patriotic stories.
Black Milwaukee
Author: Joe William Trotter
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252060359
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Other historians have tended to treat black urban life mainly in relation to the ghetto experience, but in Black Milwaukee, Joe William Trotter Jr. offers a new perspective that complements yet also goes well beyond that approach. The blacks in Black Milwaukee were not only ghetto dwellers; they were also industrial workers. The process by which they achieved this status is the subject of Trotter's ground-breaking study. This second edition features a new preface and acknowledgments, an essay on African American urban history since 1985, a prologue on the antebellum and Civil War roots of Milwaukee's black community, and an epilogue on the post-World War II years and the impact of deindustrialization, all by the author. Brief essays by four of Trotter's colleagues--William P. Jones, Earl Lewis, Alison Isenberg, and Kimberly L. Phillips--assess the impact of the original Black Milwaukee on the study of African American urban history over the past twenty years.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252060359
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Other historians have tended to treat black urban life mainly in relation to the ghetto experience, but in Black Milwaukee, Joe William Trotter Jr. offers a new perspective that complements yet also goes well beyond that approach. The blacks in Black Milwaukee were not only ghetto dwellers; they were also industrial workers. The process by which they achieved this status is the subject of Trotter's ground-breaking study. This second edition features a new preface and acknowledgments, an essay on African American urban history since 1985, a prologue on the antebellum and Civil War roots of Milwaukee's black community, and an epilogue on the post-World War II years and the impact of deindustrialization, all by the author. Brief essays by four of Trotter's colleagues--William P. Jones, Earl Lewis, Alison Isenberg, and Kimberly L. Phillips--assess the impact of the original Black Milwaukee on the study of African American urban history over the past twenty years.
World War II Milwaukee
Author: Meg Jones
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1625855419
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Long before Japanese bombs rained down on Pearl Harbor, Milwaukee was the "Machine Shop to the World." Thanks to the city's large industrial base, factories quickly retooled and mobilized for wartime production. Harley-Davidson produced thousands of military motorbikes, and Falk Corporation churned out gears that turned the propellers on hundreds of ships. Locals sacrificed their lives for the cause--Mayor Carl Zeidler went missing at sea, USS Arizona captain Franklin Van Valkenburgh refused to leave the bridge of his burning battleship and Mildred Harnack joined the Nazi resistance movement and was executed on direct orders from Hitler. Embedded with German and American troops, Milwaukee journalists H.V. Kaltenborn, Louis Lochner and Dickey Chapelle sent dispatches from the front lines. Through past interviews and archival materials, author Meg Jones reveals these and other patriotic stories.
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1625855419
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Long before Japanese bombs rained down on Pearl Harbor, Milwaukee was the "Machine Shop to the World." Thanks to the city's large industrial base, factories quickly retooled and mobilized for wartime production. Harley-Davidson produced thousands of military motorbikes, and Falk Corporation churned out gears that turned the propellers on hundreds of ships. Locals sacrificed their lives for the cause--Mayor Carl Zeidler went missing at sea, USS Arizona captain Franklin Van Valkenburgh refused to leave the bridge of his burning battleship and Mildred Harnack joined the Nazi resistance movement and was executed on direct orders from Hitler. Embedded with German and American troops, Milwaukee journalists H.V. Kaltenborn, Louis Lochner and Dickey Chapelle sent dispatches from the front lines. Through past interviews and archival materials, author Meg Jones reveals these and other patriotic stories.
Stalag Wisconsin
Author: Betty Cowley
Publisher: Badger Books Inc.
ISBN: 9781878569837
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Comprehensive look inside Wisconsin's 38 branch camps that held 20,000 Nazi and Japanese prisoners of war during World War II.
Publisher: Badger Books Inc.
ISBN: 9781878569837
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Comprehensive look inside Wisconsin's 38 branch camps that held 20,000 Nazi and Japanese prisoners of war during World War II.
The Polish Experience through World War II
Author: Aleksandra ZiĆ³lkowska-Boehm
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 0739178202
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
The Polish Experience through World War II explores Polish history through the lives of people touched by the war. The touching and terrible experiences of these people are laid bare by straightforward, first-hand accounts, including not only the hardships of deportation and concentration and refugee camps, but also the price paid by the officers killed or taken as prisoners during WWII and the families they left behind. Ziolkowska-Boehm reveals the difficulties of these women and children when, having lost their husbands and fathers, their travails take them through Siberia, Persia, India, and then Africa, New Zealand, or Mexico. Ziolkowska-Boehm recounts the experiences of individuals who lived through this tumultuous period in history through personal interviews, letters, and other surviving documents. The stories include Krasicki, a military pilot who was on of around 22 thousand Polish killed in Katyn; the saga of the Wartanowicz family, a wealthy and influential family whose story begins well before the war; and Wanda Ossowska, a Polish nurse in Auschwitz and other German prison camps. Placed squarely in historical context, these incredible stories reveal the experiences of the Polish people up through the second World War.
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 0739178202
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
The Polish Experience through World War II explores Polish history through the lives of people touched by the war. The touching and terrible experiences of these people are laid bare by straightforward, first-hand accounts, including not only the hardships of deportation and concentration and refugee camps, but also the price paid by the officers killed or taken as prisoners during WWII and the families they left behind. Ziolkowska-Boehm reveals the difficulties of these women and children when, having lost their husbands and fathers, their travails take them through Siberia, Persia, India, and then Africa, New Zealand, or Mexico. Ziolkowska-Boehm recounts the experiences of individuals who lived through this tumultuous period in history through personal interviews, letters, and other surviving documents. The stories include Krasicki, a military pilot who was on of around 22 thousand Polish killed in Katyn; the saga of the Wartanowicz family, a wealthy and influential family whose story begins well before the war; and Wanda Ossowska, a Polish nurse in Auschwitz and other German prison camps. Placed squarely in historical context, these incredible stories reveal the experiences of the Polish people up through the second World War.
Manual for Air Raid Wardens
Author: United States. Office of Civilian Defense
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Air raid wardens
Languages : en
Pages : 718
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Air raid wardens
Languages : en
Pages : 718
Book Description
Nigeria and World War II
Author: Chima J. Korieh
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108425801
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
A sophisticated history of colonial interactions in Nigeria during World War II drawing on hitherto unexplored archival resources.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108425801
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
A sophisticated history of colonial interactions in Nigeria during World War II drawing on hitherto unexplored archival resources.
Alfred
Author: Louise Endres Moore
Publisher: Henschelhaus Publishing, Incorporated
ISBN: 9781595987105
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
For 57 years, Alfred told his family he had been a barber, chauffeur, and translator in World War II. Following the death of his wife, he shared glimpses into his actual wartime experiences as a reluctant front-line machine gunner in Europe, 1944-45 with his daughter during her weekly nursing home visits.
Publisher: Henschelhaus Publishing, Incorporated
ISBN: 9781595987105
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
For 57 years, Alfred told his family he had been a barber, chauffeur, and translator in World War II. Following the death of his wife, he shared glimpses into his actual wartime experiences as a reluctant front-line machine gunner in Europe, 1944-45 with his daughter during her weekly nursing home visits.
Final Victory
Author: Stanley Weintraub
Publisher: Da Capo Press, Incorporated
ISBN: 0306821133
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
A compelling narrative about FDR, preoccupied with winning the war and his deteriorating health, and the hard-fought presidential election for an unprecedented fourth term
Publisher: Da Capo Press, Incorporated
ISBN: 0306821133
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
A compelling narrative about FDR, preoccupied with winning the war and his deteriorating health, and the hard-fought presidential election for an unprecedented fourth term
Richard Bong
Author: Pete Barnes
Publisher: Wisconsin Historical Society
ISBN: 0870204343
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Wisconsin-born Richard Bong was the highest-rated flying ace in World War II, famous for having shot down 40 Japanese planes during a 3 year career as a fighter pilot. The recipient of a Silver Star and a Congressional Medal of Honor, Bong was killed after the war in a flying accident just months after marrying the love of his life, Marge Vattendahl. Badger Biographies is a series intended to integrate reading and Wisconsin history for 4th through 8th grade students or for ELL/ESL high school students.
Publisher: Wisconsin Historical Society
ISBN: 0870204343
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Wisconsin-born Richard Bong was the highest-rated flying ace in World War II, famous for having shot down 40 Japanese planes during a 3 year career as a fighter pilot. The recipient of a Silver Star and a Congressional Medal of Honor, Bong was killed after the war in a flying accident just months after marrying the love of his life, Marge Vattendahl. Badger Biographies is a series intended to integrate reading and Wisconsin history for 4th through 8th grade students or for ELL/ESL high school students.