The Home Front Festival starts tonight with a sold out
Gala Fundraising Dinner for Rosie the Riveter Trust in the
historical Ford Building Craneway. Public Festivities continue tomorrow
through Sunday.
Click here for a full schedule of events.
To view the video shown on ABC Channel 7 on September 27,
Click here.
New National Park To Honor WWII Workers
 By
Willie Monroe
RICHMOND,
Calif. Sep.27 2007 (KGO) - The city of Richmond is preparing for
a weekend celebration of those who worked on the home front during World
War II. At the center of that were millions of women who entered the
workforce for the war effort who came to be known as 'Rosie The Riveter'
or 'Rosies'.
During the war, millions of women worked traditionally men's jobs.
"I was a welder. I went to work there in 1942 shortly after Pearl
Harbor, soon as they started hiring women." says Agnes Moore.
Agnes Moore built ships at the Kaiser shipyards in Richmond. It was
hard work.
"Oh my! I've worked all my life, and still working hard. So it was
interesting."
Betty Reid Soskin now works with the park service. Back then, she
worked in the segregated Union Hall.
"At that point, the unions were still racially segregated, so African
Americans could not work in the unions," says Soskin.
Where the shipyards once stood is now the Rosie The Riveter World War
II National Historical Park. Rosies, now in their 80's, will gather
there for a reunion this weekend.
"It's a story that is not only about women, and opportunities for
women that opened up during world war two, but the power of the people
to make a difference to our nation's future during world war two," says
Martha Lee, park superintendent.
The celebration honors women, and also the men who worked alongside
them.
"I think it's nice. I think it's deserving, but not any more than
anybody else that worked," Marian Wynn, "Rosie".
The memorial itself stretches the length of a victory ship, more than
400-feet.
Concrete panels along the way tell the story of the war effort with
quotations from those who worked the home front. A quotation at the very
end says it all -- "You must tell your children, putting modesty aside,
that without us, without women, there would have been no spring in 1945.
For more information on weekend events for the new national park
activities,
click here.
For more information on the individuals who worked in the Bay Area
during WWII, read the
Back Story
Copyright 2007, ABC7/KGO-TV/DT.
Richmond’s Home Front Festival By-the-Bay Promises Fun in a Big Way
The City
of Richmond will celebrate its rich history on September 29th & 30th
with the first annual Home Front Festival By-the-Bay. The festival will
be held at three separate locations: Marina Bay Park, the Ford Building
and Shipyard #3.
A
traditional USO dance will be held on Saturday night, September 29th.
Marina
Bay Park
will be the site of the traditional two-day festival with music,
entertainment, food, arts and crafts vendors and an Arts Pavilion. Other
special activities planned include a Home Front workers reunion, 5K/10K
Fun Run/Walk sponsored by the YMCA, both on Sunday; demonstrations and
activities by the Richmond Sea Scouts on both days, and, on Saturday,
the annual PAL Battle of the Bikes Motorcycle Poker Run.
The
weekend kick-off is a Rosie Trust Gala fund raiser in the newly opened
Craneway section of the Ford Building on Friday, September 28th.
As a special attraction for the weekend, the Henry J. Kaiser
"Think Big" exhibit will be on display in the Craneway.
In honor
of the WWII Home Front theme, a traditional USO dance will be held at
the Craneway on Saturday night. The event will recreate the atmosphere
of a 1940s style USO dance and show complete with big band and swing
music provided by the Junius Courtney Orchestra and Muir Station Jazz
Band.
Admission
to the dance is free to anyone in military uniform or with a past or
present military ID. Cost for civilians is $20 per person and $15 for
seniors in advance, or $25 and $20 at the door, if space is available.
Two
separate vehicle shows will be featured over the weekend. On Saturday,
vintage military vehicles will be on display at Shipyard #3. On Sunday,
the Kiwanis Vintage Car Show will display American automobiles at least
35 years old with an emphasis on vehicles of the 1930s through 1950s at
Marina Bay Park.
One of
the most important and exciting of the special events planned is the
"Launch" of the Rosie the Riveter WWII Home Front National Historical
Park on Saturday at 11 a.m. at Shipyard #3, with all its attendant
activities – entertainment, food, visiting dignitaries and the actual
launch of a ship created for the occasion. The USS Red Oak
Victory Ship, berthed at Shipyard #3, will hold a Pancake Breakfast
before the launch and will be open for tours both days.
On
Sunday, the USS Potomac, which served as the floating white house
during the Franklin Delano Roosevelt presidency, will be docked in
Marina Bay. Docents will be available for tours and to describe what
life was like aboard the historic vessel. The trawler Delphinus
and the tall ship Alma will sail on historic tours around the
Inner Harbor. (There will be a charge of $10 on each ship.)
The Home
Front Festival By-the-Bay not only marks the official unveiling of the
Rosie the Riveter WWII Home Front National Historical Park and
the 10,000 square foot Craneway of the historic Ford Building,
but also 0.3 miles of new Bay Trail along the Harbour Way frontage of
the Ford Building. At completion, the new addition to the Bay
Trail extending to Hall Avenue will link the shoreline trail to Lucretia
Edwards Park and run in front of the Craneway. The newly opened Craneway
at the waterfront will eventually house the Rosie the Riveter WWII
Home Front National Historical Park Visitors Center, as well as
provide public space that will house future restaurant, entertainment
and retail establishments.
For
details on all these events or more information regarding the Home Front
Festival By-the-Bay, visit
www.homefrontfestival.com or call 510-234-3512.
Home Front Festival By-the-Bay
September 29 & 30, 2007
Marina
Bay Park Richmond, California
Schedule of Performances
Saturday, September 29, 2007
Mariachi Aquilas de Contra Costa 11:30
Opening Ceremony -- Welcome (City Officials) 12:20
Ben Oni Orchestra 12:30
Dave Crimmen 1:20
Amigos Band 2:05
Alvon & His Allstars Band 3:05
Pan-Estacy Caribbean Band 4:05
Caravan of Allstars 5:05
Sunday, September 30, 2007
Muir Station Jazz Band 12:00
Rhonda Benin Band 1:05
GTS Band 2:05
Little Wolf & the Hellcats 3:05
Mystique 4:05
Richmond
Community Redevelopment Agency
Office of
Economic Development
(510)
307-8140
Richmondca4business.com
The
“floating white house,” USS Potomac, will be available for tours at
Marina Bay on Sunday, September 30th.
ROSIE THE
RIVETER WWII HOME FRONT NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK
Park To Be “Launched” At Home Front Festival
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Launched
in 1944, the SS Red Oak Victory is the only vessel built by
Richmond’s famed Kaiser Shipyards that has been restored to its original
condition.
The
National Park Service will “launch” Rosie the Riveter/World War II Home
Front National Historical Park this coming Saturday at the historic
Kaiser Shipyard No. 3 in Richmond, California. The ceremony will
recreate a World War II ship launch against the backdrop of the huge Art
Deco Kaiser General Warehouse, the S.S. Red Oak Victory, and
stunning views of San Francisco Bay. Nationally recognized vocalist
Linda Tillery will sing the national anthem.
Established in 2000 in collaboration with the city of Richmond and other
partners, the park celebrates the role of countless Americans in
Richmond and across the nation who made contributions and sacrifices to
achieve victory on the home front.
The
launch is one of several National Park activities that are part of the
Richmond Home Front Festival by-the-Bay, which will take place over this
coming weekend. Other activities on Saturday at Shipyard No. 3 include
tours of the historic shipyard buildings, the ten-story tall Whirley
crane, and vintage military vehicles. The Red Oak Victory will
host a pancake breakfast aboard ship, and during the day will give tours
and show films in the museum.
On
Sunday, the National Park Service’s big event will be the Home Front
Reunion at the Ford Assembly Building, the future home of the park’s
visitor center. Old and young alike will have the opportunity to learn
history from the people who lived it, listen to speakers and music, sing
along to songs from the old days, and participate in hands-on
activities. Home front workers may contribute their stories and
memorabilia to the National Park Service collection.
At the
Ford Building on Saturday and Sunday, visitors can see the “Think Big”
exhibit, showing how Henry J. Kaiser transformed the country's
shipbuilding industry and see an incredible collection of World War II
vintage books on shipbuilding, shipping, and naval actions from the San
Francisco Maritime National Historical Park.
On
Saturday night, the Richmond Chamber of Commerce is hosting a USO Dance
at the Ford Building.
Marina
Bay Park
visitors can explore a variety of festival exhibits and activities on
Saturday and Sunday. Marina Bay is a beautifully redeveloped residential
area that occupies former Shipyard No. 2 – in fascinating contrast to
Shipyard No. 3, which continues some of its historic functions as a
contemporary working port. Visitors can visit the National Park Service
and Rosie the Riveter Trust tent and find out more about the park and
participate with a park ranger on a stroll along the Bay Trail to read
wayside exhibits and explore the Rosie the Riveter Memorial, a park site
dedicated to women who worked on the home front – all while enjoying
spectacular views across San Francisco Bay. Next to the memorial, the
art pavilion will exhibit art by children cared for in ground-breaking
child care centers established for working families during World War II.
On
Saturday, the Alma, a schooner from San Francisco Maritime
National Historical Park, will arrive at the Richmond Marina at Marina
Bay with Bay Area girl scouts. During the day, the Rotary club will be
signing up festival-goers for free water tours to see the sites between
Marina Bay and Shipyard No. 3.
For more
information about National Park and Home Front Festival-by-the-Bay
activities and events, visit
www.homefrontfestival.com or contact the National Park Service at
510-232-5050.
Contact
Information
Name: Martha Lee, Park Superintendent
When
Rosie was in bloom: 'Home Front' festival re-creates WWII era
By Chris
Treadway
STAFF
WRITER
The story
of Richmond during World War II has been told many times, in many ways.
None of it, of course, could match the experience of being there.
This
weekend, however, offers perhaps the next best thing. T
Contra Costa Times
Article
Launched:09/27/2007 03:04:56 AM PDTThe story of Richmond during World
War II has been told many times, in many ways. None of it, of course,
could match the experience of being there.
This
weekend, however, offers perhaps the next best thing. The Home Front
Festival by-the-bay is a chance to see where history was made, meet
people who made it and gain an appreciation for what happened here more
than 60 years ago at sites in the Rosie the Riveter/World War II Home
Front National Historical Park.
"It will
be very participatory," said Carla Koop, outreach coordinator for the
National Park Service, from the chance to try on bandannas and welding
gear to listening to and singing the songs of the era to hearing from
those who experienced the home front.
Think of
the festival as an interactive Ken Burns segment, with entertainment,
food, children's attractions, a fun run and all the other accouterments
expected of a grand celebration.
The city,
the National Park Service, the Richmond Chamber of Commerce, the
Richmond Museum of History and a host of other organizations are
throwing the festival to "launch the park," much like the record 747
Liberty and Victory ships were launched in Richmond's Kaiser shipyards
during the war.
The event
also will mark the public opening of the craneway at the Ford Assembly
Building, which will ultimately become the visitors center for the park.
Organizers say the timing couldn't be better, with Burns' extensive
television documentary "The War" airing this week on PBS.
"The Ken
Burns series has created quite an interest in our park," said Judy
Morgan, president of the Richmond Chamber of Commerce. "People don't
realize that of all the cities in the country, Richmond was chosen to
represent the home front during this time. It's just dawning on people
now."
Koop said
the park and festival offer terrific learning opportunities.
"We hope
a lot of people watching the Ken Burns World War II program will be
piqued by all the grass-roots, personal stories of what people
experienced," she said. "They can learn a lot about that here.
"We're
going to be featuring people with stories to tell at the launching,"
Koop said, and attendees who were there will be invited to share their
own memories. "It is a big way of gathering attention on this incredible
community treasure that represents a little-explored aspect of national
history."
The
festival will be at Marina Bay Park (formerly Kaiser Shipyard No. 2),
home of the Rosie the Riveter Memorial. This is the place for festival
exhibits, live entertainment and activities, a display of vintage cars
and an expanded Kids Zone.
An arts
pavilion next to the Rosie memorial will display children's art from the
historic World War II child care centers in Richmond and host talks and
panel discussions. Area artists will display and offer their works.
The
schooner Alma will offer free water tours Saturday of sites between
Marina Bay and Shipyard No. 3.
There are
attractions at two other locations as well, and Morgan suggests doing a
little advance planning so as not to get overwhelmed.
Visitors
are advised to wear comfortable walking shoes; shuttle buses will be
available Saturday between Marina Bay and Shipyard No. 3, as well as to
take visitors to and from the Richmond and El Cerrito Del Norte BART
stations.
Sunday
will be highlighted by the Home Front Reunion in the Ford Assembly
Building, featuring live music of the era, talks by historians, actors
performing home front memories on stage, a reunion photo and a chance to
share your own memories.
"We're
calling it a reunion, but it's really a time for connections between
people of that era and for younger people to come and listen to their
stories, watch the performances, learn about their history," Koop said.
"It's not history just by old people, for old people, it's for making
connections between generations."
Reach
Chris Treadway at 510-262-2784 or
ctreadway@ bayareanewsgroup.com.
If you go
The Home
Front Festival-by-the-bay launching the Rosie the Riveter/World War II
Home Front National Historical Park takes place from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Saturday and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday at Marina Bay Park. Admission is
$5; $3 for seniors and children ages 6 to 12. Attractions also will be
open at the Ford Assembly Building and the former Shipyard No. 3, now in
the Port of Richmond. For directions, tickets and a complete list of
events and attractions, visit
http://www.homefrontfestival.com or call 510-234-3512. Here are some
of the highlights:
SATURDAY
Shipyard
No. 3
9 to 11
a.m. -- Red Oak Victory Pancake Breakfast
10 a.m.
to 3 p.m. -- Red Oak Victory events/tours
10 a.m.
to 3 p.m. -- Vintage Military Vehicle Show
11 a.m.
-- "Launch of the National Park" featuring Linda Tillery
Marina
Bay/RosIe the Riveter Memorial
11 a.m.
to 6 p.m. -- Arts and crafts, food, music and entertainment
11 a.m.
to 6 p.m. -- Sea Scouts/SSS Northland Demonstrations
1 p.m.
-- Festival Grand Opening Ceremony
Ford
Building
Craneway
7 to 11
p.m. -- USO Dance, hosted by the Richmond Chamber of Commerce, $20
advance admission, $25 at the door, $15 seniors
SUNDAY
Shipyard
No. 3
10 a.m.
to 3 p.m. -- Red Oak Victory events/tours/museum White Elephant Sale
Marina
Bay/Rosie the Riveter Memorial
11 a.m.
to 5 p.m. -- Arts and crafts, food, music and entertainment
11 a.m.
to 5 p.m. -- Sea Scouts/SSS Northland Demonstrations
11 a.m.
to 5 p.m. -- Vintage Car Show
Ford
Building
Craneway
10 a.m.
(8:30 a.m. registration) -- YMCA Home Front Run (at Lucretia Edwards
Park outside the Ford Assembly Building
11 a.m.
to 3 p.m. -- Rosie Reunions: Home Front Workers
11 a.m.
to 3 p.m. -- "Think Big" -- Story of Henry J. Kaiser
Festival in Richmond to celebrate home front
By Chris
Treadway
STAFF
WRITER
Contra Costa Times
Article
Launched:09/26/2007 03:04:03 AM PDTRICHMOND -- The sights, sites, sounds
and people that made history in the city during World War II will be
celebrated this weekend at the Home Front Festival by-the-Bay, from 11
a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday at Marina Bay Park.
Admission
is $5 to the festival, which will feature exhibits, live entertainment
and activities, a display of vintage cars and an expanded Kids Zone both
days.
Other
events and attractions are being held in conjunction with the festival,
including a ceremony launching the Rosie the Riveter/World War II Home
Front National Historical Park at 11 a.m. Saturday next to the S.S. Red
Oak Victory at the former Kaiser Shipyard No. 3. Tours will be given of
the Red Oak Victory and historic buildings at the shipyard.
Also open
will be the craneway in the historic Ford Assembly Building on Harbour
Way South, which will have "Think Big," an acclaimed Oakland Museum
exhibit on Henry J. Kaiser, on display. Admission to the craneway, the
future site of the national park visitors center, is free.
The
craneway will be the site of a USO Dance and Show from 6 to 10 p.m.
Saturday. Tickets to the dance are $20 in advance, $25 at the door, $15
for seniors and free to anyone with a past or current military ID.
On
Sunday, a Home Front Reunion will be held from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the
Ford Assembly Building, featuring live music of the era, talks by
historians, actors performing home front memories on stage, a reunion
photo and a chance to share your own memories.
Reach
Chris Treadway at 510-262-2784 or
ctreadway@bayareanewsgroup.com.
IF YOU GO
For
directions, tickets and a complete list of events and attractions, visit
http://www.homefrontfestival.com or call 510-234-3512.
‘An Inadvertent Revolution’ Women on the World War II Home Front
By Geneviève Duboscq, Special to the Planet (09-25-07)
After her mother’s death in 1999, journalist Emily Yellin came across
the wartime diary and hundreds of letters her mother had written home
from the Pacific while working with the Red Cross. Within days, Yellin
could see that “My mother’s story served as a window through which to
see the story of all the women in World War II.”
Yellin, who wrote for the New York Times for 10 years, tells that
broader story in her book Our Mothers’ War: American Women at Home and
at the Front During World War II. She will speak at a gala event on
Friday, Sept. 28, at Richmond’s Marina Bay to kick off the Home Front
Festival by the Bay. The festival celebrates both the city’s role during
World War II and the Rosie the Riveter/World War II Home Front National
Historical Park.
Reached by phone at her home in Memphis, Yellin spoke about the women
who moved into the workforce to take the place of the 16 million
men—farm laborers, mailmen, milkmen, movie ushers, salesmen, and many
more—who volunteered or were drafted into the service after the Dec. 7,
1941, attack on Pearl Harbor.
To counteract the sudden shortage of manpower, the federal government
went into action to convince reluctant Americans that the nation needed
women of all classes to enter the workforce.
According to Yellin, “We went from the Depression to World War II, and
during the Depression, women did not work. The women who did work were
usually in the financially lower rungs of the working world.
“For those women, World War II raised up the opportunity, so someone who
had been working as a housecleaner was able to work in a factory and
make a lot more money. In fact, there’s a quote in the book by an
African American woman who said, ‘It was Hitler who got us out of the
white man’s kitchen.’”
Before 1940, 11.5 million women already worked for pay. And 6.5 million
women joined them in the war years. More than 2.5 million women took war
production jobs, working with ships, airplanes, tanks, Jeeps, or
munitions.
Yellin interviewed Bessie Stokes of Pennsylvania, a white woman who had
gone from earning $2 a week cleaning houses before the war to well over
$30 a week inspecting bombshells in a factory beginning in 1941. She
worked there until 1946, when her husband, Spike, returned from the
service.
“I kept every one of my pay stubs from all my work. So when Spike came
back from the war, the first day he was home, I put them in front of
him. And I said, ‘Don’t you ever tell me I have to depend on you for a
living.’” Spike’s response was to look at his wife proudly and say, “Oh
girl, you proved it.”
“I think it was a revolution for women’s role in our society,” said
Yellin, “but it was inadvertent. It wasn’t like 20 to 30 years later,
with the women’s liberation movement; that was very deliberate. This was
very much an inadvertent revolution, so these women stepped in and did
what was asked of them and what they were allowed to do.”
The revolution took place all over the United States, according to
Yellin, as women moved into work previously reserved for men. But most
in society assumed that this was only a temporary arrangement.
“Every region of the country was affected by the war,” said Yellin.
Shipbuilding took place along the east and west coasts and the Gulf of
Mexico. Auto plants in the Midwest and elsewhere stopped building cars
in 1942, converting their shops to build engines and parts for military
vehicles. Richmond’s Ford assembly plant outfitted Jeep and tank bodies.
The South and the east were home to munitions plants. And the west coast
was the home of airplane manufacturing.
Even before the U.S. entered the war, industrialist Henry J. Kaiser
landed a government contract to build ships for Great Britain. Despite
having no experience in shipbuilding, he opened his Richmond business in
late 1940.
Richmond’s population boomed from about 23,000 at the start of the war
to over 100,000 people by the war’s end.
According to Donna Graves of the National Park Service, author of a 2004
report titled “Mapping Richmond’s World War II Home Front,” “Recruitment
of workers for the four Kaiser shipyards … changed the city’s ethnic
composition, increasing the African American community by a factor of
ten,” and bringing in more Latinos and Chinese Americans.
The shipyards ran day and night. Kaiser shipbuilders crafted Liberty and
Victory ships, once completing a Liberty ship in just under 5 days. The
Red Oak Victory ship, now under restoration, will be open for viewing
during the Home Front Festival.
According to Donald Bastin, director of the Richmond Museum of History
and author of the book Richmond, “Kaiser wanted to eliminate all
barriers to production” for his 90,000 workers, 27 percent of whom were
women, “and that included transport, health care, and child care.”
Housing was scarce, and services could not keep up with the influx of
workers arriving from all over the United States, some without a network
of family who could care for their children.
Federal funds from the 1942 Lanham Act made possible the opening of five
child care centers in Richmond in 1943.
Said Yellin, “Day care was a new concept essentially because people
weren’t used to leaving their children with someone else. That was
women’s responsibility, the children, the home, and women didn’t go
outside of the home.”
By the end of the war, Richmond had 14 child care centers and had taken
care of about 1,400 children, said Joseph Fischer, curator of an exhibit
of art by children at the centers that is now showing at the Richmond
Museum of History. A selection will be on display at the Home Front
Festival.
Kaiser’s other innovation, and the reason most people now know his name,
was providing group health care for his workers. The Richmond Field
Hospital treated sick and injured workers near the job site, and the
Permanente Hospital in Oakland provided additional service.
Yellin added, “I think we forget how [war] permeated every aspect of
people’s lives. So when we say ‘the home front,’ it sounds like a cozy
place, but it really wasn’t, just as the battle front was not a cozy
place.” Everyone lived with the thought that beloved family members on
the front might be wounded or die at any time.
“The effect of this war was so prevalent that wherever you looked, you
couldn’t really get away from it, that is what living on the home front
was.”
The Home Front Festival will host the “Think Big” exhibit, with
information about Kaiser’s life and work. Additional events include a
Rosie Reunion for former shipyard workers, a USO dance and show, music
performances, arts and crafts, historic tours of the bay, and visits of
the tall ship Alma and FDR’s yacht the Potomac.
For tickets, call 235-1315. Emily Yellin will also sign copies of her
book on Sunday at the Ford building beginning at 11:30 a.m.
Home Front Festival By the Bay
The festival kicks off on Friday, Sept. 28 with a 9 a.m.-2 p.m. rally at
the park headquarters at the Ford Building Craneway on the Richmond
Waterfront, followed by a Rosie the Riveter Trust Fund dinner from 6 to
10 p.m.
Saturday will see activities at four separate locations, representing
the spread-out nature of the Rosie the Riveter Park.
Music and other entertainment, food and arts and crafts booths, and a
children’s zone will be presented from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the Rosie
the Riveter Memorial at Marina Bay. Entrance fee to the Marina Bay event
is $5 for adults, $3 for seniors and children 6-12.
At Shipyard No. 3, a pancake breakfast will be held at the Red Oak
Victory World War II era restored cargo ship, with ceremonies at 11 a.m.
launching the national park featuring nationally known performance
artist Linda Tillery. A Vintage Military Vehicle Show will be held at
the shipyard from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., and interpretive tours from noon to
3 p.m.
At the Harbor Master's Dock, historic tours of the bay will be held on
the historic schooner “Alma” from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
And at the Ford Building Craneway, a USO Dance and Show will be held
from 7-10 p.m.
On Sunday the festival events at the Rosie the Riveter Memorial at
Marina Bay will be repeated. At the Ford Building Craneway, a
presentation on the story of Henry K. Kaiser and reunions for former
World War II home front workers will be held from 11 a.m.-3 p.m. At the
Harbor Master’s Dock, historic bay tours will be held 11 a.m.-3 p.m. on
the trawler Delphinus, as well as tours of the moored presidential yacht
Potomac that was once used by Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
A full schedule of homefront festival events are available on the Rosie
the Riveter Park website at
http://www.homefrontfestival.com/what.htm.
Rosie the Riveter/World War II Home Front National Historical Park:
www.nps.gov/rori
To submit a story for the oral history project, call (800) 497-6743.
Emily Yellin’s book, Our Mothers’ War:
www.ourmotherswar.com
Donna Graves, “Mapping Richmond’s World War II Home Front,” NPS, July
2004:
www.tombutt.com/forum/2007/070820.htm
Bay Area World War II sites:
www.nps.gov/history/nr/travel/wwIIbayarea/index.htm |
