When Mobile, Alabama, Turned Into an American War Town
WWII turned Mobile, Alabama, into a boomtown as 150,000 newcomers arrived for defense jobs.
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When Mobile, Alabama, Turned Into an American War Town
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WWII turned Mobile, Alabama, into a boomtown as 150,000 newcomers arrived for defense jobs.
By 1943, six million women had joined the American workforce, nearly half in defense plants. In Mobile, Alabama, thousands worked at the shipyards and Brookley Field, where Emma Belle Petcher, a self-taught fixer from tiny Millry, rose to aircraft inspector. The wartime boom brought jobs, overcrowding and friction between longtime residents and newcomers.
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When Mobile, Alabama, Turned Into an American War Town
Clip: Episode 2 | 12m 43sVideo has Closed Captions
By 1943, six million women had joined the American workforce, nearly half in defense plants. In Mobile, Alabama, thousands worked at the shipyards and Brookley Field, where Emma Belle Petcher, a self-taught fixer from tiny Millry, rose to aircraft inspector. The wartime boom brought jobs, overcrowding and friction between longtime residents and newcomers.
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