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(More customer reviews)Thank you Joe Kirby for this marvelous accounting in text and photos of a part of our/my history.With this book I can go back in time and better understand how it was for my parents, for the many workers who built the B29's, and for our country at war. I was a small child when my family, and other Yankees, moved down to Marietta from Buffalo, NY, where I believe my father was first employed as an engineer at Bell. The Bell team rose to a huge challenge there in Georgia, and their response was awesome. When the war ended we moved back north, so this book is my best connection to how it was for those few years. Great reading!
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Few would have believed in the late 1930s that Depression-wracked Marietta and Cobb County, where cotton was still king, would later be the site of the largest industrial complex south of the Mason-Dixon line, or that it would be churning out hundreds of the largest and most technically advanced airplanes ever built to that point. Images of America: The Bell Bomber Plant uses more than 200 photographs to recount how opportunistic local leaders persuaded the federal government to build an airfield in Marietta and then parlayed it into the plant. It tells the story of how a workforce of undereducated farmers and thousands of Rosie the Riveters proved surprisingly adept at mastering the technical challenges of building bombers, and of how the plant jump-started the transformation of Cobb County from a semi-rural backwater to a suburban Southern powerhouse.
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