Author : Alan Clive
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Michigan
ISBN : 0472100017
State of War
Alan Clive
Michigan In World War Ii
Michigan In World War Ii Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle version is available to download in english. Read online anytime anywhere directly from your device. Click on the download button below to get a free pdf file of Michigan In World War Ii book. This book definitely worth reading, it is an incredibly well-written.
Michigan in World War II
Daniel W. Mason
Author : Daniel W. Mason
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : History
ISBN : 9781467147330
Michigan in World War II by Daniel W. Mason Pdf
"Detroit's role as the Arsenal of Democracy during World War II is well known, but the war effort in Michigan extended to all corners of the state. Schoolchildren showed their patriotism by raising money for war bonds to buy planes, tanks and jeeps. The locks in Sault Ste. Marie were considered a potential target of a German attack and were guarded accordingly. A spy ring in Detroit mobilized an unsuccessful attempt to help an escaped German POW flee the continent. A top-secret navy project, undisclosed until the 1990s, set aircraft carriers afloat on the Great Lakes. Compiling more than 180 images, including many never before seen, author Dan Mason unfolds the stories of Michigander grit and courage overseas and at home."--Back cover.
Detroit in World War II
Gregory D. Sumner
Author : Gregory D. Sumner
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9781467119474
Detroit in World War II by Gregory D. Sumner Pdf
When President Roosevelt called for the country to be the great "Arsenal of Democracy," Detroit helped turn the tide against fascism with its industrial might. Locals were committed to the cause, putting careers and personal ambitions on hold. Factories were retooled from the ground up. Industrialist Henry Ford, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, aviator Charles Lindbergh, legendary boxer Joe Louis, future baseball Hall of Famer Hank Greenberg and the real-life Rosie the Riveters all helped drive the city that was "forging thunderbolts" for the front lines. With a panoramic narrative, author Gregory D. Sumner chronicles the wartime sacrifices, contributions and everyday life of the Motor City.
Michigan POW Camps in World War II
Gregory D. Sumner
Author : Gregory D. Sumner
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 1 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 9781625858375
Michigan POW Camps in World War II by Gregory D. Sumner Pdf
During World War II, Michigan became a temporary home to six thousand German and Italian POWs. At a time of homefront labor shortages, they picked fruit in Berrien County, harvested sugar beets in the Thumb, cut pulpwood in the Upper Peninsula and maintained parks and other public spaces in Detroit. The work programs were not flawless and not all of the prisoners were cooperative, but many of the men established enduring friendships with their captors. Author Gregory Sumner tells the story of these detainees and the ordinary Americans who embodied our highest ideals, even amid a global war.
Michigan on the March
Brian A. Williams
Author : Brian A. Williams
Publisher : UM Libraries
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : UOM:39015050814352
Michigan on the March by Brian A. Williams Pdf
World War II Front Line Nurse
Mildred A. MacGregor
Author : Mildred A. MacGregor
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2008-11-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780472033317
World War II Front Line Nurse by Mildred A. MacGregor Pdf
The riveting personal account of a Michigan nurse's experiences in France, Germany, and Africa during the Second World War
No Time for Fear
Diane Burke Fessler
Author : Diane Burke Fessler
Publisher : MSU Press
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1997-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781628952544
No Time for Fear by Diane Burke Fessler Pdf
No Time for Fear summons the voices of more than 100 women who served as nurses overseas during World War II, letting them tell their story as no one else can. Fessler has meticulously compiled and transcribed more than 200 interviews with American military nurses of the Army, Army Air Force, and Navy who were present in all theaters of WWII. Their stories bring to life horrific tales of illness and hardship, blinding blizzards, and near starvation—all faced with courage, tenacity, and even good humor. This unique oral-history collection makes available to readers an important counterpoint to the seemingly endless discussions of strategy, planning, and troop movement that often characterize discussions of the Second World War.
World War II Front Line Nurse
Mildred A. MacGregor
Author : Mildred A. MacGregor
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2008-11-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780472033317
World War II Front Line Nurse by Mildred A. MacGregor Pdf
The riveting personal account of a Michigan nurse's experiences in France, Germany, and Africa during the Second World War
Double V
Lawrence P. Scott,William M. Womack
Author : Lawrence P. Scott,William M. Womack
Publisher : MSU Press
Page : 533 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1998-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780870139536
Double V by Lawrence P. Scott,William M. Womack Pdf
On April 12, 1945, the United States Army Air Force arrested 101 of its African American officers. They were charged with disobeying a direct order from a superior officer—a charge that could carry the death penalty upon conviction. They were accused of refusing to sign an order that would have placed them in segregated housing and recreational facilities. Their plight was virtually ignored by the press at the time, and books written about the subject did not detail the struggle these aviators underwent to win recognition of their civil rights. The central theme of Double V is the promise held out to African American military personnel that service in World War II would deliver to them a double victory—a "double V"—over tyranny abroad and racial prejudice at home. The book's authors, Lawrence P. Scott and William M. Womack Sr., chronicle for the first time, in detail, one of America's most dramatic failures to deliver on that promise. In the course of their narrative, the authors demonstrate how the Tuskegee airmen suffered as second-class citizens while risking their lives to serve their country. Among the contributions made by this work is a detailed examination of how 101 Tuskegee airmen, by refusing to live in segregated quarters, triggered one of the most significant judicial proceedings in U.S. military history. Double V uses oral accounts and heretofore unused government documents to portray this little-known struggle by one of America's most celebrated flying units. In addition to providing background material about African American aviators before World War II. the authors also demonstrate how the Tuskegee airmen's struggle foretold dilemmas faced by the civil rights movement in the second half of the 20th century. Double V is destined to become an important contribution in the rapidly growing body of civil rights literature.
The U. P. Goes to War
Larry Chabot
Author : Larry Chabot
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Upper Peninsula (Mich.)
ISBN : UOM:39015071194008
The U. P. Goes to War by Larry Chabot Pdf
Iron Fleet
George J. Joachim
Author : George J. Joachim
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0814324797
Iron Fleet by George J. Joachim Pdf
Iron Fleet focuses on the vital role played by the Great Lakes shipping industry during World War II. George J. Joachim examines how the industry met the unprecedented demand for the shipment of raw materials to meet production quotas during the war, when failure to do so would have had disastrous consequences for the nation's defense effort. Steel production was crucial to the American war effort, and the bulk shippers of the lakes supplied virtually all of the iron ore necessary to produce the steel. In describing the evolution of the Great Lakes shipping industry during World War II, Joachim also explores the use of Great Lakes shipyards for the production of salt water civilian and military vessels, the role of the Great Lakes passenger ships in providing vacation opportunities for war workers, and the extensive measures taken to to safeguard the Soo Locks and other potential targets from sabotage.
Michigan POW Camps in World War II
Gregory D Sumner
Author : Gregory D Sumner
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2009-05-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781439665725
Michigan POW Camps in World War II by Gregory D Sumner Pdf
During World War II, Michigan became a temporary home to six thousand German and Italian POWs. At a time of homefront labor shortages, they picked fruit in Berrien County, harvested sugar beets in the Thumb, cut pulpwood in the Upper Peninsula and maintained parks and other public spaces in Detroit. The work programs were not flawless and not all of the prisoners were cooperative, but many of the men established enduring friendships with their captors. Author Gregory Sumner tells the story of these detainees and the ordinary Americans who embodied our highest ideals, even amid a global war.
World War II Conscientious Objectors
Jane Kopecky
Author : Jane Kopecky
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0990514013
World War II Conscientious Objectors by Jane Kopecky Pdf
Civilian Public Service Camp 135 at Germfask, Michigan was a bubbling cauldron whose story is finally exposed. Here Jane Kopecky reveals the nearly-forgotten story of Camp Germask, where some of the most ardent war-resisters among World War II conscientious objectors were held for 13 months in 1944 and 1945. Opponents of the war and conscription on a variety of religious, pacifist, or political grounds, these recalcitrant dissenters dared imprisonment as they refused to cooperate with rules of the Selective Service. Instead of jail, they ended up in what some of them called the Alcatraz of CO camps and their sympathizers elsewhere in the country called "America's Siberia." In interview transcripts, memoirs, and documents collected by Jane Kopecky, their lives and their relations with their Germfask and other Upper Peninsula neighbors come alive. This book is a great read and a great service to historical understanding."
Detroit's Wartime Industry
Michael W. R. Davis
Author : Michael W. R. Davis
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 0738551643
Detroit's Wartime Industry by Michael W. R. Davis Pdf
Just as Detroit symbolizes the U.S. automobile industry, during World War II it also came to stand for all American industry's conversion from civilian goods to war material. The label "Arsenal of Democracy" was coined by Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt in a fireside chat radio broadcast on December 29, 1940, nearly a year before the United States formally entered the war. Here is the pictorial story of one Detroiter's unique leadership in the miraculous speed Detroit's mass-production capacity was shifted to output of tanks, trucks, guns, and airplanes to support America's victory and of the struggles of civilians on the home front.
A World of Turmoil
Stephen J. Hartnett
Author : Stephen J. Hartnett
Publisher : MSU Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781611863925
A World of Turmoil by Stephen J. Hartnett Pdf
The United States, the People’s Republic of China, and Taiwan have danced on the knife’s edge of war for more than seventy years. A work of sweeping historical vision, A World of Turmoil offers case studies of five critical moments: the end of World War II and the start of the Long Cold War; the almost-nuclear war over the Quemoy Islands in 1954–1955; the détente, deceptions, and denials surrounding the 1972 Shanghai Communiqué; the Taiwan Strait Crisis of 1995–1996; and the rise of postcolonial nationalism in contemporary Taiwan. Diagnosing the communication dispositions that structured these events reveals that leaders in all three nations have fallen back on crippling stereotypes and self-serving denials in their diplomacy. The first communication-based study of its kind, this book merges history, rhetorical criticism, and advocacy in a tour de force of international scholarship. By mapping the history of miscommunication between the United States, China, and Taiwan, this provocative study shows where and how our entwined relationships have gone wrong, clearing the way for renewed dialogue, enhanced trust, and new understandings.
