The Bell Bomber Plant (Images of America: Georgia)
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| Rating | : | 4.53 (580 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0738567450 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 128 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2018-02-05 |
| Language | : | English |
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About the Author Author Joe Kirby is an award-winning editorial page editor and columnist for the Marietta Daily Journal and has covered stories on life in Marietta and Cobb County for almost 25 years. He serves on the boards of the Marietta Museum of History and the Kennesaw Mountain Historical Association.
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.
Author Joe Kirby is an award-winning editorial page editor and columnist for the Marietta Daily Journal and has covered stories on life in Marietta and Cobb County for almost 25 years. . He serves on the boards of the Marietta Museum of History and the Kennesaw Mountain Historical Association
Fabulous Piece Of History! thyme I was searching for information on the Bell Bomber Plant as my Mother was a Rosie The Riveter during the war. She worked there at the plant and has many fond memories. I just got this for her and she read it through the first night and has had it in her hands for the past weekall I can say is THANK-YOU for this fabulous piece of history!! The pictures are wonderful and the information is priceless. What a great tribute to the workers and the famous B 29's.. Five Stars Good book on Georgia B-29 plant Thanks!!. A clear sense of time and place! 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 e