Download or read book Baltimore in World War II written by William M. Armstrong and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The World War II years were a time of growth and productivity for the Baltimore area, and the city contributed significantly to the Allied war effort. Baltimore launched the first of the famed Liberty ships, the SS Patrick Henry, which was constructed at the Bethlehem-Fairfield yard. The Baltimore area also produced many advanced military aircraft such as the B-26 Marauder, built at the Glenn L. Martin plant in Middle River. At Camp Holabird, the army first tested the world-famous jeep and trained the soldiers who kept the jeeps and other army vehicles running. Coast Guard sailors trained at Fort McHenry and Curtis Bay before heading to combat or stateside duties. Baltimore sent plenty of its own men and women abroad to take the fight directly to the enemy in every theatre of war. Through wartime photographs, this volume tells the story of Baltimoreans engaged in the war effort--men and women, the young and old, lifelong residents and newcomers--from a variety of racial and religious backgrounds, all working together toward victory.

Download or read book Maryland in World War II Industry and agriculture written by Maryland Historical Society. War Records Division and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Answering Their Country s Call written by Michael H. Rogers and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael H. Rogers present the stories of 31 Marylanders, told in their own words, each shedding light on the large role played by a small state in the great struggle against tyranny.

Download or read book Maryland in Black and White written by Constance B. Schulz and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These photographs reveal places we know but scarcely recognize and give us another look at the people of the greatest generation.

Download or read book Maryland in World War II written by Maryland Historical Society. War Records Division and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The War at Home written by James Stubbs and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2012-08-06 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America was transformed in World War II. To those who came after, the events and situations in the wartime Washington of World War II will seem strange. Among those covered in the book was the mobilization of junior and senior high schools in a Maryland suburb in which all students were broken down into military-style units (squads, platoons, and companies!). Coach cars on crack "all-nighter" inter-city trains leaving Washington were the scene of a very unusual practice which never failed to occur. Civilians (men and women) insisted upon giving up their seats to men in uniform. Tales of driving in and around the blacked-out Bethesda Naval Hospital grounds at night, and vivid accounts of extremely low-flying U.S. combat aircraft over residential neighborhoods are in the book. All of this (and more) holds a promise of interesting reading, perhaps with a touch of skepticism. A brief review of the historical background will help put the book into context. That World War II was global there's no denying, but it could be broken down into two major theaters, Europe and the Pacific, each in its own hemisphere. Conflict in each theater began with abrupt, rapid-fire, and overwhelming early victories by the aggressors, Germany and Japan. Though located in two widely separated parts of the world the tactics were the same, German blitzkrieg in Europe and Japanese island-hopping in the Pacific. Though there were no battles fought in the United States, the war years covered in the book were far from passive. The nation's Capital and its surrounds were focal points of the war in America. Washington was invaded by civilian forces from afar which took the hundreds of thousands of new jobs needed to prosecute the war. These workers nearly equalled the populace. A wartime footing, which developed rapidly, was distinctly different from that which preceded it, and for those who lived it, there was plenty of activity. The war years at home were characterized by much doing without and making-do (rationing), long hours, long lines, cold and dark winters, continuous war or scrap drives of almost everything imaginable, a flood of military personnel and vehicles on the streets, and U.S. combat aircraft overhead (sometimes not very far overhead). All sectors of society were affected by the war, including schools (early chapters pay particular attention to the schools). "The War at Home" is an account of the happenings along the banks of the Potomac as told from an autobiographical perspective.

Download or read book Air Force Combat Units of World War II written by Maurer Maurer and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1961 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Ritchie Boy Secrets written by Beverley Driver Eddy and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In June 1942, the U.S. Army began recruiting immigrants, the children of immigrants, refugees, and others with language skills and knowledge of enemy lands and cultures for a special military intelligence group being trained in the mountains of northern Maryland and sent into Europe and the Pacific. Ultimately, 15,000 men and some women received this specialized training and went on to make vital contributions to victory in World War II. This is their story, which Beverley Driver Eddy tells thoroughly and colorfully, drawing heavily on interviews with surviving Ritchie Boys. The army recruited not just those fluent in German, French, Italian, and Polish (approximately a fifth were Jewish refugees from Europe), but also Arabic, Japanese, Dutch, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Turkish, and other languages—as well as some 200 Native Americans and 200 WACs. They were trained in photo interpretation, terrain analysis, POW interrogation, counterintelligence, espionage, signal intelligence (including pigeons), mapmaking, intelligence gathering, and close combat. Many landed in France on D-Day. Many more fanned out across Europe and around the world completing their missions, often in cooperation with the OSS and Counterintelligence Corps, sometimes on the front lines, often behind the lines. The Ritchie Boys’ intelligence proved vital during the liberation of Paris and the Battle of the Bulge. They helped craft the print and radio propaganda that wore down German homefront morale. If caught, they could have been executed as spies. After the war they translated and interrogated at the Nuremberg trials. One participated in using war criminal Klaus Barbie as an anti-communist agent. Meanwhile, Ritchie Boys in the Pacific Theater of Operations collected intelligence in Burma and China, directed bombing raids in New Guinea and the Philippines, and fought on Okinawa and Iwo Jima. This is a different kind of World War II story, and Eddy tells it with conviction, supported by years of research and interviews.

Download or read book Troopships of World War II written by Roland Wilbur Charles and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book contains authentic photographs and salient facts covering 358 troopships used in World War II. In addition, other vessels of miscellaneous character, including Victory and Liberty type temporary conversions for returning troops, are listed in the appendices ..."--Pref.

Download or read book Maryland in World War II Home front volunteer services written by Maryland Historical Society. War Records Division and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book World War Two from Above written by Jeremy Harwood and published by Exisle Pub. This book was released on 2014 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'World War Two From Above' retells the fascinating and hitherto little-known story of the battle waged by Allied and Axis spies in the skies to obtain accurate aerial intelligence during the Second World War.Featuring dozens of eye-catching aerial reconnaissance photographs drawn from the archives compiled by all the major fighting powers, the accompanying text sheds light on the daring pilots who risked death to shoot these photographs, and the photographic interpreters who pioneered a totally new science to reveal the secrets they contained.Inspiring and informative chapters focus on particularly crucial World War Two operations. Examples include the aerial reconnaissance that led to the airborne assault on the Italian fleet at Taranto; the hunt for the supposedly unsinkable German battleship Bismarck; and the Dam Busters' raid on the Ruhr dams. The final section focuses on the end of the war with the D-Day landings, V-Weapons, the firestorm raids on Tokyo and the dropping of the first atomic bombs on Japan.

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Download or read book Building the Navy s Bases in World War II written by United States. Bureau of Yards and Docks and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book World War II at Sea written by Craig L. Symonds and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-02 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author of Lincoln and His Admirals (winner of the Lincoln Prize), The Battle of Midway (Best Book of the Year, Military History Quarterly), and Operation Neptune, (winner of the Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Naval Literature), Craig L. Symonds has established himself as one of the finest naval historians at work today. World War II at Sea represents his crowning achievement: a complete narrative of the naval war and all of its belligerents, on all of the world's oceans and seas, between 1939 and 1945. Opening with the 1930 London Conference, Symonds shows how any limitations on naval warfare would become irrelevant before the decade was up, as Europe erupted into conflict once more and its navies were brought to bear against each other. World War II at Sea offers a global perspective, focusing on the major engagements and personalities and revealing both their scale and their interconnection: the U-boat attack on Scapa Flow and the Battle of the Atlantic; the "miracle" evacuation from Dunkirk and the pitched battles for control of Norway fjords; Mussolini's Regia Marina-at the start of the war the fourth-largest navy in the world-and the dominance of the Kidö Butai and Japanese naval power in the Pacific; Pearl Harbor then Midway; the struggles of the Russian Navy and the scuttling of the French Fleet in Toulon in 1942; the landings in North Africa and then Normandy. Here as well are the notable naval leaders-FDR and Churchill, both self-proclaimed "Navy men," Karl Dönitz, François Darlan, Ernest King, Isoroku Yamamoto, Erich Raeder, Inigo Campioni, Louis Mountbatten, William Halsey, as well as the hundreds of thousands of seamen and officers of all nationalities whose live were imperiled and lost during the greatest naval conflicts in history, from small-scale assaults and amphibious operations to the largest armadas ever assembled. Many have argued that World War II was dominated by naval operations; few have shown and how and why this was the case. Symonds combines precision with story-telling verve, expertly illuminating not only the mechanics of large-scale warfare on (and below) the sea but offering wisdom into the nature of the war itself.

Download or read book Maryland written by and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1986-11 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introductory high school textbook surveying the history of Maryland, with emphasis on the blacks, women, immigrants, and other special groups contributing to the variety of its population.

Download or read book A Boy s eye View of World War II and Other Reminiscences of Maryland s Eastern Shore written by Frank Hutches Pierce and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A warm but extremely accurate account of "home front" life in a small town on Maryland's Eastern Shore during the War. Written as a first-person account through the eyes of a boy with an exceptional memory and a curiosity for detail, this account is inval