The Bell Bomber Plant (Images of America: Georgia)
by Joe Kirby
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Author: Joe KirbyEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2008-10-22
ISBN: 0738567450
Number of pages: 128
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
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Book Review: A great bit of Georgia history
Summary: 5 Stars
For anyone interested in Lockheed-Georgia's Marietta plant history, this is a great pre-history resource since many of the pictures, civic discussions, war-time details, and business decisions directly impacted Lockheed's eventual take-over of the Bell Bomber plant after it was closed at the end of WWII. Many of buildings, the air base, and local issues (schools, roads, etc.) are still relevant today. For example, the B-1 building prominently discussed in the book is still in operation today as a major part of Lockheed-Martin's local assembly facilities. This book is full of dozens and dozens of plant and people photos that make it a real historian's dream. Oh...it's not a book to be "read" (there isn't really a story), but it's a good resource for referencing or reminiscing.
Summary of The Bell Bomber Plant (Images of America: Georgia)
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.Industries & Professions Books
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