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050 00 $aD769.85.A71$bF53 2003
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100 1 $aWesterlund, John S.$q(John Stephen),$d1945-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2003039416
245 10 $aArizona's war town :$bFlagstaff, Navajo Ordnance Depot, and World War II /$cJohn S. Westerlund.
260 $aTucson :$bUniversity of Arizona Press,$c[2003], ©2003.
300 $axxi, 304 pages :$billustrations, maps ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [277]-289) and index.
505 00 $tIntroduction: An Armed Camp -- $g1.$tSummer 1941: Flagstaff and Bellemont -- $g2.$tWild Times: Building Navajo Ordnance Depot -- $g3.$tBoxcars Coming: Trains, Bombs, Ammunition, and Igloos -- $g4.$tWarriors All: Navajo and Hopi Ordnance Workers -- $g5.$t"Don't Do Anything Stupid!": Austrian Prisoners of War -- $g6.$tThe Fleet's In! Aboard the USS Flagstaff -- $g7.$tArman Peterson: The Fighting Arizona Colonel -- $g8.$tA Town on the Move: Flagstaff at War -- $g9.$tConclusion: Crossroads for Change -- $g10.$tEpilogue: An Old Army Post That Didn't Fade Away.
520 1 $a"A clearing in the ponderosa pine forest called Volunteer Prairie met the military's criteria for a munitions depot - open terrain, a cool climate, plentiful water, and proximity to a railroad - and it was also sufficiently inland to be safe from the threat of coastal invasion. Constructing a depot of 800 ammunition bunkers, each the size of a 2,000-square-foot home, called for a force of 8,000 laborers, and Flagstaff became a boomtown overnight as construction workers and their families poured in from nearby Indian reservations and as far away as the Midwest and South. More than 2,000 were retained as permanent employees - a larger workforce than Flagstaff's total pre-war employment roster." "As Westerlund's portrait of wartime Flagstaff shows, prosperity brought unanticipated consequences: racism simmered beneath the surface of the town as ethnic groups were thrown together for the first time; merchants called a city-wide strike to protest emerging union activity; juvenile delinquency rose dramatically; Flagstaff women entered the workforce in unprecedented numbers, altering local mores along with their own plans for the future; meanwhile, hundreds of sailors and marines arrived at Arizona State Teachers College to participate in the Navy's "V-12" program. Whether recounting the difficulty of 3,500 Navajo and Hopi employees adjusting to life off the reservation or the complaints of townspeople that Austrian POWs - transferred to the depot to ease the labor shortage - were treated too well, Westerlund shows that the construction and maintenance of the facility were far more than military matters." "Navajo Ordnance Depot remained operational to support wars in Korea, Vietnam, and the Persian Gulf, and today Camp Navajo provides storage for thousands of deactivated ICBM motors. But in recounting its early days, Westerlund has blended social and military history to portray not only a city's transitional years but also the impact of military expansion on economic and community development in the American West."--BOOK JACKET.
651 0 $aNavajo Ordnance Depot (Ariz.)$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$zArizona$zFlagstaff.
651 0 $aFlagstaff (Ariz.)$xHistory$y20th century.
852 00 $boff,glx$hD769.85.A71$iF53 2003