Home Front
Getting us ready for war
A time for …
• Discrimination
• Japanese-Americans are put in internment camps
• Nisei-American born of Japanese descent
• Isei-Japanese born
• Scattered all over the interior West
• isolated desert areas of Arizona, California, Utah, Idaho,
Colorado, and Wyoming
Crystal City, Texas
Leave everything!
Oyama v. California
• Supreme Court said that the internment camps were a violation
of their 14th amendment rights.
• Evacuation Claims Act
• Authorized payment to Japanese-Americans who suffered
economic loss during imprisonment.
• With proof-10cents on the dollar
'Go For Broke'
• 442d Regimental Combat Team
• Japanese- American soldiers
• Only allowed in Europe
442nd Regimental Combat Team
• The most decorated unit in US history
• 4667 medals
• Italy in 1943-1944
• After rescuing a surrounded Texas Guard Unit, the Division
commander asked them to assemble. He angrily asked the 442nd
commander where the rest of his unit was.
• General, This is the unit.
• All the rest were dead or wounded.
A time for…
• Conversion and Cooperation
• Last civilian car-Feb. 1942
• Chrysler was the first to convert
• the Jeep (Army slang for general purpose vehicle or G. P.)
A time for…
• Solving Problems
• Workers-Women
• 1940 to 1945, the number of female workers rose by 50
percent
• the ranks of factory workers
• Typing
• Taxi drivers
• Police
• Served in the armed forces
• The Waves
We're the Janes that
make the planes!
• 1/3 of the work force in the airplane industry was women
Rosie the Riveter
A time for…
Problems
• War Production Board
• Donald Nelson
• 3 priorities
• Supplying raw materials
• Providing the plants and equipment in the factories
• Staffing the plants with enough people
A time for…
Priorities
• International Silver-Silverware
• “Browning automatic rifles, 20-mm shells, cartridge and shell
brass for many calibers of weapons, machine-gun clips and
cartridge belts, magnesium bombs, gasoline bombs (3,000,000 of
them monthly at peak production), adapter casings, combination
tools, large and small rotors, contact rings, spring assemblies,
forgings, connecting rods, trigger pins, lock bolts for all pins,
flange and tube assemblies, front-sight forgings for guns”
• Halted any civilian auto production
• Stopped sewing machine production
• “anti-aircraft fire director equipment; airplane navigation equipment and
gyro compasses; hydraulic and electric motor control units for airplane
control; gun turret castings; aircraft engine piston rings and other internal
engine parts such as rocker arms for the Merlin engines; surgical
instruments; bomber gun sights; pistol, carbine, and machine gun parts;
ammunition boxes; fuse assemblies; propellers, and other items. Singer
also worked with many other factories to convert them to the large scale
manufacture of sewn articles needed for the war effort. “