Florida: The War Years, 1938-1945
By Joseph Freitus.
Description
This book is a remarkable account chronicling the preparatory events in Florida before and during World War II. Florida had 6 military bases in 1941, but had 227 by 1944, with most related to serving the training and testing needs of the air branches of the military. Over one million servicemen came to Florida. The book describes the beginnings of all the giant bases (Blanding, Eglin, Pensacola, MacDill and others) with details of many smaller, but nonetheless important, bases. The sheer scope of the development in Florida of airfields for the Army, Navy, Coast Guard and Air Force, and prov...
ISBN(s)
1891118307, 9781891118302
