Download or read book Evansville The World War II Years written by Darrel E. Bigham and published by Arcadia Library Editions. This book was released on 2005-08 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World War II changed the face of Evansville, Indiana. In December 1941, the city was still recovering from the Great Depression, yet within three months, a series of blockbuster announcements transformed the region. Several corporations received major defense contracts to manufacture parts and ammunitions, while two new installations were launched: a shipyard to construct Landing Ship Tanks and a factory to manufacture P-47 airplanes. Industrial employment rose dramatically, producing social, economic, and racial tensions as thousands of newcomers poured into a city that lacked adequate housing and public facilities. The citizens of Evansville persevered, and most workers stayed following the end of the war. One federal official commented that the city--not just its many defense plants--deserved the coveted Army-Navy "E" (for excellence) award.
Download or read book Evansville written by Darrel Bigham and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 1998-10-19 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From our contemporary vantage point, we should take the time to look back to how people in American communities lived at the beginning of the 20th century. The focus of this work is Evansville - in the early 1900s, the only emerging metropolis between Louisville and St. Louis, and then the radial center of a hinterland stretching in all directions for at least 100 miles. Evansville illustrates how the city landscape changed because of the early industrial era, how people made a living and related to each other, and how they spent their leisure time. About one-fifth of the images in this collection focus on the residents of the Evansville region: the Tri-State of southwestern Indiana, western Kentucky, and southern Illinois, which has been Evansville's service area since the 1850s.
Download or read book Evansville in World War II written by James Lachlan MacLeod and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-02 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During World War II, the city of Evansville manufactured vast amounts of armaments that were vital to the Allied victory. The Evansville Ordnance Plant made 96 percent of all .45-caliber ammunition used in the war, while the Republic Aviation Plant produced more than 6,500 P-47 Thunderbolts--almost half of all P-47s built during the war. At its peak, the local shipyard employed upward of eighteen thousand men and women who forged 167 of the iconic Landing Ship Tank vessels. In this captivating and fast-paced account, University of Evansville historian James Lachlan MacLeod reveals the enormous influence these wartime industries had on the social, economic and cultural life of the city.
Download or read book Home Front Warriors written by Harold B. Morgan and published by . This book was released on 2016-08 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Details"Home Front Warriors" is the third book in a series of Evansville and Tri-state history books by Harold Morgan. Previous books in this series are "Home Front Heroes" and "Home Town History". Evansvilleʼs most renowned WWII products were the P-47 Thunderbolt fighter and the Landing Ship Tank; the LST. This book endeavors to illustrate how the devoted employees built the components and assembled the P-47 and the LST. The authorʼs goal is to provide as many war-time production employee photos as space allowed.Harold Morgan lived the war years and a total of 15 years of his young life immediately west of the airport and Republic Aviation. The many test flights and machine-gun test firing sounds became common enough to the author as a child as to be generally unnoticed.After collecting 40,000 historical photos and images of various subjects, the author wants to use as many of his photo collection as possible. The author selected 500 of these photos to illustrate how these war winning products were built and used.
Download or read book Home Front Heroes written by Harold B. Morgan and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Evansville Indiana World War II Prisoners of War Prisoners of War Liberated Soldiers Missing in Action Information Compiled from Articles from the Evansville Courier and Press written by and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book World War II in Evansville written by Marian T. Seibert and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Home Front Soldiers written by Harold B. Morgan and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tri-State was impacted during the war yars. You will see how the needed infrastructure was created, how local businesses were impacted and how the community came together.
Download or read book World War II Killed in Action Evansville Vanderburgh County Indiana written by and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book World War II Wounded Evansville Vanderburgh County Indiana written by Evansville Courier and Press and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Evansville Indiana written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the Local history database of Evansville, Indiana. The database contains newspaper clippings of local value from the Evansville Press, which made a joint donation of its archives to the Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library and to Willard Library after the newspaper ceased publication with the December 31, 1998, issue. The database includes the work of Charles Browning, whose two biographical works, People of Evansville in World War II, about 40,000 cards, and his People Study, about 537,000 cards, are now online for the first time.
Download or read book Our Town Index to Evansville Radio News 1 Nov 1941 31 Dec 1945 Written and Reported by Clifton Brooks written by Clifton Brooks and published by . This book was released on 2003* with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "After 20 years as a newspaper reporter and editor in Evansville, Indiana, Clifton Brooks began his career as a radio reporter at WEOA on November 1, 1941. His "news of our town" was broadcast early each evening on WEOA and later on WGBF until his death at a news conference on August 24, 1968. The scripts for his newscasts were saved and are now held by the Willard Library. This index of the persons named in his stories will be useful for genealogists and historians who are conducting research about events in Evansville during World War II. Since the stories were written to be read aloud, many names were spelled phonetically. Some have been corrected here and some have not."
Download or read book The Cartoons of Evansville s Karl Kae Knecht Half a Century of Artistic Activism written by James Lachlan MacLeod and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2017-02-27 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Karl Kae Knecht's name is synonymous with the city of Evansville. As editorial cartoonist for the Evansville Courier, he amused readers and spurred them to a higher social good. He mocked the Axis powers and kept local morale high during World War II and commented daily on issues from the Great Depression to the Space Race. He also worked tirelessly as a civic booster. Knecht helped establish Evansville College and was almost single-handedly responsible for the establishment of Mesker Park Zoo. In this absorbing account, illustrated with over seventy cartoons, University of Evansville historian James Lachlan MacLeod tells the fascinating story of Knecht's life and analyzes his cartooning genius.
Download or read book Home Town History written by Harold Morgan and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DetailsM.T. Publishing Company, Inc. proudly offers the fifth book in a series of Evansville and Tri-State photo history books by Harold Morgan, Home Town History: Planes, Trains, Automobiles and Weather Disasters. Discover our local past through a timeline of events and photos illustrating the history of transportation and weather in Evansville and the Tri-State area.Fourteen years of steady and constant reading of the Evansville Courier newsprint microfilms at Willard Library and frequent trips to area libraries and history sources by Mr. Morgan provided the raw material for this upcoming comprehensive local history. The author spent his young life living near the Evansville airport and personally experienced several of the historic events during the 1940s and 1950s decades on and near the airport. This book has been on Morgan's mind for a long time and he is now somewhat saddened to cross it off the bucket list.This pictorial history will be a 9 x 12-inch, coffee-table-style book with a deluxe hard bound cover featuring 176 glossy, double-coated pages allowing for superior photo reproduction.
Download or read book Evansville written by Joseph Engler and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evansville, a river town in the truest sense, established itself as the commercial center of the area, but not without a bit of luck. After Hugh McGary bought land along the Ohio River 200 years ago, fortune smiled on the city when it became the county seat of the newly formed Vanderburgh County in 1818 and again when it was chosen as the terminus of the Wabash and Erie Canal. Evansville, which also played a vital role in World War II manufacturing, continued to grow yet kept its small-town charm. While the scenes in Postcard History Series: Evansville may have come and gone, it is the people that truly make this city the heart of the tri-state area.
Download or read book Lost Evansville written by Dr. James Lachlan MacLeod and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2023-10-09 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Wabash and Erie Canal to the Faultless Caster Factory, Evansville has seen much of its history disappear. In the early twentieth century, vestiges of old Evansville like the B'nai Israel temple and Coal Mine Hill gave way to a modern city. Numerous changes in the thirty years following World War II altered the physical appearance of the city, including the removal of the old Central High School, Assumption Cathedral, Gear Town, and more. Less physical but nevertheless vital history like the struggle over Civil Rights in Evansville has been overlooked and, until now, lost. Weaving together a captivating fast-paced account illustrated with over eighty images, award-winning Evansville historian Dr James MacLeod tells the fascinating story of what was lost, what came in its place, and what was preserved against the odds.
Download or read book Where the River Grins written by Angie Karcher and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Evansville history book dedicated to the children of Evansville for the use of learning local history from Evansville's beginning though the mid 1940's.
