Drawing on 200 vintage photographs from military archives and the University of Louisville, historian Bruce M. Tyler documents how the city mobilized after Pearl Harbor, with local industries like Mengel, Reynolds Aluminum, and Ford turning out war materiel and nearly 100,000 jeeps.
The book also spotlights Bowman Field’s role as a U.S. Army Air Corps training squadron and the contributions of Black Louisvillians on the home front, part of the Images of America series.
Published 2005
128 pages
$18.29