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They called it the war effort : oral histories from World War II Orange, Texas / by Louis Fairchild ; afterword by Thomas Charlton.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fairchild, Louis.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- World War, 1939-1945--Texas--Orange--Anecdotes.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- World War, 1939-1945--Social aspects--Texas--Orange--Anecdotes.
- Oral history--Texas--Orange.
- Oral history.
- Interviews--Texas--Orange.
- Interviews.
- Orange (Tex.)--Biography.
- Orange (Tex.).
- Orange (Tex.)--History--20th century--Anecdotes.
- Orange (Tex.)--Social life and customs--20th century--Anecdotes.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (559 p.)
- Edition:
- 2nd ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Denton : Texas State Historical Association, 2012
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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, Louis Fairchild details the explosive transformation of his native city in the words of the people who lived through it. Some residents who lived in the town before the war speak of nostalgia for the time when Orange was a small, close-knit community and regret for the loss of social cohesivene
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-97214-X
- 0-87611-259-9
- OCLC:
- 820123137
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