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(More customer reviews)This book could serve as a history textbook about California cities' roles during World War II. As someone who lived in San Francisco at the time I can verify that the author tells it like it was, at least as far as the San Francisco Bay Area is concerned. The book brought back memories of things I'd forgotten about, such as vegetable Victory Gardens in Golden Gate Park and beachfront horse patrols by members of the Polo Club searching for enemy infiltrators. I also read several new facts I was unaware of. For instance, most of the tanks shipped to the Pacific Theater were built at Richmond's Ford plant, near where Rosie the Riveter National Historical Park is now, and I learned the significance of the Double V. Find out what that means and more of the history of this wartime era by reading The Bad City in the Good War.
Robert R. Talley
Author and Publisher,
Child on the Home Front
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