Georgia in World War II
Selected Bibliography of Georgia Room Holdings

Soldiers from Camp Stewart in Hinesville, Georgia, April 1941

 

ONLINE RESOURCES

The Georgia Room’s computer workstations provide access to the internet and these websites. Also search GALILEO databases such as JSTOR and America: History and Life for more information on Georgia and WWII. Password required for off campus access.

 

New Georgia Encyclopedia
http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org
Relevant articles include: Bell Bomber, Foreign Prisoners of War, Fort Benning, Fort Gordon, Fort Stewart, Naval Air Station Atlanta, World War II in Georgia.

Digital Library of Georgia
"Ships for Victory: J.A. Jones Construction Company and Liberty Ships in Brunswick, Georgia."
http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/liberty_ships/?Welcome

VERTICAL FILES

General Information
U.S.S. Atlanta, World War II, Fort Benning (10 folders), Fort Gordon (7), Fort Stewart (3), Military Installations

Biography
Gov. Ellis Gibbs Arnall, Franklin D. Roosevelt (2 folders), John H. Towers

University of Georgia
World War II

Cities and Counties
Athens- Wars

CONTEMPORARY SOURCES

Adler, Major Sam G. All This for Georgia Veterans. Atlanta: The State of Georgia for the Benefit of 300,000 Georgia Servicemen and Women, 1945.
UB358 .G4 A6 1945

Ball, Lamar Q. Georgia in World War II; A Study of the Military and Civilian Effort. Atlanta, 1946.
D769.85 .G4 A5 1946

Civilian Volunteers. Atlanta: Georgia Office of War Volunteer Services and Civilian Defense. 1944-1945.
D810 .C7 C5

The Skycracker. Athens: U.S. Navy Pre-Flight School.
UG633 .S629 v. 1-3

State Summary of War Casualties. Washington: United States Navy Dept. Office of Information, U.S. Navy, 1946.
D797 .U6 A45 v. 10

United We Stand. Atlanta: Citizen's Defense Committee, 1941.
D769.85 .G4 U54 1941

What the Schools Can Do to Help Win the War: Report of the Wartime Education Commission for Georgia. Atlanta: State Dept. of Education, 1942.
LA210 .W35 1942

POST-WAR ANALYSES

Allen, Mary Moore. Origin of Names of Army and Air Corps Posts, Camps and Stations in World War II in Georgia. Goldsboro, N.C., [n.d.]
UA26 .G4 A6

Crater, Paul. World War II in Atlanta. Charleston: Arcadia, 2003.
F294 .A843 C3 2003

Grindstaff, Charles W. War Baby of the South, 1940-1945. Robins Air Force Base: Office of History, Warner Robins Air Logistics Center, Air Force Logistics Command, 1991.
D790 .G75 1991

Grove, Dorothy Haverty. Historical Record of the Atlanta Chapter, American Red Cross in World War II: September 1, 1939 - July 1, 1945. Atlanta: American Red Cross, Atlanta Chapter, 1948.
D807 .U62 G4 1948

Haydel, Douglas J. Answering the Call: World War II Men and Women of Thomas County. Thomasville, Ga.: Thomas University Press, 2000.
D811 .A2 A57 2000

Head, William P. A Chronological History of the Warner Robins Air Logistics Center and Robins Air Force Base, 1936-1986. Robins Air Force Base, 1987.
U168 .C49 H4 1987

Head, William P. Prepare for Combat: Flying Training of RAF Pilots in the United States, Cochran Field, Georgia, During World War II. Robins Air Force Base: Office of History, Warner Robins Air Logistics Center, 1994.
D786 .H43 1994

Head, William P. Through the Camera's Eye: A Photographic Survey of the Origins of Robins Field, 1941-1945. Robins Air Force Base: Office of History, Warner Robins Air Logistics Center, 1988.
UG634.5 .R57 H4 1988

Higgins, Michael. Action in the South Atlantic: The Saga of Esso Baton Rouge and SS Oklahoma Off the Georgia Coast on the Morning of 8 April 1942. Brunswick, Ga.: Propeller Club, 1999.
D782 .O54 A28 1999

The History of Fort Benning: Diamond Jubilee, 1918-1993. Columbus, Ga.: Advertiser Company, 1994.
UA26 .B48 H47 1994 Folio

Inglis, Pete. Restored to Honor: Georgia's B-29 "Sweet Eloise." Marietta, Ga.: GRAFCO Productions, 2001.
TL671.95 .I54 2001

Kimsey, Thora Olsen and Sonja Olsen Kinard. Memories from the Marshes of Glynn: World War II. Decatur, Ga.: Looking Glass Books, 1999.
F292 .G5 K4 1999

Marshall, George O. My World War II: The Home Letters of George O. Marshall, Jr., U.S. Army, 1943-45. Athens: Agee Publications, 1983.
D811 .M3454 1983

A Pictorial History of Robins Air Force Base, Georgia. Macon: University Press of the South, 1982.
UG634.5 .R57 P5 1982

Plummer, Gayther L. Moody Field and its Aviation Cadets: Near Valdosta, Georgia, United States Army Air Force. Athens: G.L. Plummer, 2001.
UG634.5 .M66 M66 2001

Winn, Eugene T. Liberator Bomber: The Correspondence of Lieutenant Eugene T. Winn of the 446th Bomb Group, 1942-1945. Macon: Mercer University Press, 2004.
D790 .W4985 2004

UGA THESES AND DISSERTATIONS

UGA theses and dissertations are available in the Georgia Room, but require prior notice of interest in order to retrieve from the repository, and, like all Georgia Room materials, cannot be checked out.

Butler, Todd L. The Vicious Circle of Training and Employment: Black Employment in Defense Industries in Georgia, 1941-1945. M.A. thesis, University of Georgia, 1985.
LXC15 1985 .B987

Gelfand, H. Michael. "Tomorrow We Fly": A History of the United States Navy Pre-Flight School on the Campus of the University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia. M.A. thesis, University of Georgia, 1994.
LXC15 1994 .G316

Mayer, Robert Riley. Business as Usual: American Consumer Culture and the Second World War. Ph.D. diss., University of Georgia, 1994.
LXC16 1994 .M468

Moffett, Enoch Albert, III. Hometown Radio and World War II. M.A. thesis, University of Georgia, 1984.
LXC15 1984 .M695

Onkst, David Hugh. Black World Two Veterans and the G.I. Bill of Rights in Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi, 1944-1947. M.A. thesis, University of Georgia, 1990.
LXC15 1990 .O58

Percy, William Alexander. Jim Crow, Uncle Sam, and the Tuskegee Flying Units: Race Relations in the United States Army Air Forces in Europe During World War II. M.A. thesis, University of Georgia, 1994.
LXC15 1994 .P4329

Sharp, Charles E. Some Southern Perceptions of the United Nations as an Instrument for Achieving Peace and Security, 1945-1947. Ph.D. diss., University of Georgia, 1982.
LXC16 1982 .S531

JOURNALS AND ARTICLES

Selected journals available in the Georgia Room:

Atlanta History: A Journal of Georgia and the South F294 .A8 A881

Georgia Historical Quarterly F281 .G352

Journal of the Georgia Association of Historians. D1 .G63a

Journal of South Georgia History F286 .J8

Journal of Southwestern Georgia History F286 .J8

Selected articles from the Georgia Historical Quarterly: F281 .G352

Boney, F.N. "G.I. Georgia: The Army in the State during World War II." Georgia Historical Quarterly 71 (1987): 297-308.

Boney, F.N. and Gary L. Doster. "A University Goes to War: The Navy at the University of Georgia during World War II." Georgia Historical Quarterly 76 (1992): 115-127.

Coker, Kathy Roe. "World War II Prisoners of War in Georgia: German Memories of Camp Gordon, 1943-1945." Georgia Historical Quarterly 76 (1992): 837-61.

Egerton, John. "Days of Hope and Horror: Atlanta After World War II." Georgia Historical Quarterly 78 (1994): 281-305.

Ennis, Lisa A. "The Waves and the GSCW: 'Good for Each Other.'" Georgia Historical Quarterly 85 (2001): 461-472.

Hudson, Paul Stephen and Troy H. Campbell. "'The Best Years of Their Lives': The Naval Air Station Atlanta and Lawson General Hospital Site During World War II." Georgia Historical Quarterly 81 (1997): 988-1005.

Lotchin, Roger W. and David R. Long. "World War II and the Transformation of Southern Urban Society: A Reconsideration." Georgia Historical Quarterly 83 (1999): 29-57.

Selected articles available in hard copy in the Georgia Room

Cashin, Edward J. "Sketches of Augusta during World War II." Richmond County History 30 (1999): 3-8.
F292 .R5 R54

Fraire, Jennifer L. "The Fair Employment Practices Committee in Atlanta: Southern White Reaction to Antidiscrimination Legislation during World War II." Journal of the Georgia Association of Historians 16 (1995): 175-188.
D1 .G63a

Guinn, Gilbert S. "British Aircrew Training in the United States, 1941-1945." Journal of South Georgia History 7 (1989-1992): 59-80.
F286 .J8

Kuhn, Clifford M. "Atlantans Remember World War II." Atlanta History: A Journal of Georgia & the South 47 (2005): 6-37.
F294 .A8 A881

Pascoe, Craig S. "Women Airforce Service Pilots in World War II Georgia." Atlanta History: A Journal of Georgia & the South 47 (2005): 40-55.
F294 .A8 A881

Selected articles available online through GALILEO

Brooks, Jennifer E. "Winning the Peace: Georgia Veterans and the Struggle to Define the Political Legacy of World War II." The Journal of Southern History 66 (2000): 563-604.

Daniel, Pete. "Going among Strangers: Southern Reactions to World War II." Journal of American History 77 (1990): 886-911.

Fickle, James E. and Donald W. Ellis. "POWs in the Piney Woods: German Prisoners of War in the Southern Lumber Industry, 1943-1945." Journal of Southern History 56 (1990): 695-724.

Sklaroff, Lauren Rebecca. "Constructing G.I. Joe Louis: Cultural Solutions to the 'Negro Problem' during World War II." The Journal of American History 89 (2002): 958-983.

FICTION AND LITERATURE

Ballard, Mignon Franklin. The War in Sallie's Station. Unity, Me.: Five Star, 2001.
PS3552 .A466 W37 2001

Cunningham, John Mark. The Home Place. Woodstock, GA: Grass Roots Publications, 2001.
PZ4 .C867 Ho 2001

Hays, Robert. Pacific Parodies. Atlanta, 1947.
PS3515 .A9563 P3 1947

Long, Margaret. Louisville Saturday. New York: Bantam Books, 1951.
PS3523 .O47 L68 1951

Trobaugh, Augusta. Sophie and the Rising Sun.New York: Dutton, 2001.
PS3570 .R585 S6 2001

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Created by Kathryn Tucker.