Newtown Author Announces New Book for WWII History Buffs

When WWII began, President Roosevelt said, “We must be the great arsenal of democracy,” and Connecticut industries immediately accepted the challenge. Within months, companies in all counties converted from consumer to war goods and put all efforts toward an Allied victory.

Now you can travel back in time and read the companies' personal 1946 reports to the State Department of War Records on how they faced difficult materials and labor shortages and developed the latest technical innovations. Small firms to large corporations produced everything from armaments, boots, springs, and blankets to machine tools, submarines, engines, and fighter planes to support the war. Connecticut was one of the leading states in production and innovation and received a notable number of Army-Navy "E" (Excellence) Awards for their outstanding work.

Each chapter provides a narrative on a different industry's war experiences from pre-war to post-war conversion. How did factories replace previous materials with synthetics? How did they find new ways to build the dwindling labor force? How did they make such needed war materials as g-force suits for pilot protection, radar, statistical quality control, and high-end optics as well as bazookas, torpedoes, barrage balloons, and time fuzes? See reports from a host of companies such as Electrical Boat, Chance Vought, Associated Spring, Cheney Parachutes, Pratt & Whitney, and Bullard Machine Tool Company.

Sidebars include visuals and detailed descriptions on the items made and their important use to the troops and battles on both fronts. General nonfiction readers and history buffs are giving the book kudos. See more information and order your book on www.highpointpub.com. Or send an email to highpointpub@earthlink.net for larger orders and presentations.