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$9.61 1943 magazine article on SAN FRANCISCO California in Hubbards, Nova Scotia for sale

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Selling is a 1943 magazine article about: San Francisco Title: San Francisco: Gibraltar of the West Coast Author: La Verne Bradley The article is about the California city of San Francisco. It is mainly about the changes due to the war and the present-day (1943) military and civilian personnel and their daily lives. Quoting the 1st page “The impact of San Francisco at war comes like the kick of a big gun to anyone who hasn't seen it since Pearl Harbor. Fighting men have taken over the city as did the Vigilantes of old. They have geared its life, colored its streets, inspired its people. Troops, guns, bayonets, motor units, ships, supplies-on the move. Soldiers, marines, mines, nets, bayonets, barrages, barbed wire-on guard. "It is absolutely forbidden to cross this line." "No cameras or field glasses, please." "Men in uniform-welcome!" If for a moment you lose yourself in old smells, sounds, memories, fighter planes come screaming down the skyline and, lifting you right up on your toes, almost clip off the top of the old Ferry Building to remind you that this is 1943-and a city at war! Helmeted, bullet-belted patrols guard every bridgehead, river mouth, slip landing, seemingly harmless road entrances, tunnels, railroad crossings, barren hills. I picked up my camera to catch a barrage balloon rolling drunkenly down a slope, and, at a click, looked up into the nose of a gun pointed down from a ridge that 2 seconds before had been plain brown scrub. You feel the electric thrill of, an area charged with action. You hear the rivet guns and hammer presses of shipyards; the screech of braked wheels grating on steel rails as oil moves in thousands of tank cars from refineries; the roar of blast furnaces; the thunder of Army trucks speeding by under guard-l0, 20, 30-filled with soldiers. You see hills being leveled as giant shovels slap at their sides like fly swatters. You see new towns rising from reclaimed swamps and dust holes. You look across fields of barrage balloons suspended awkwardly in midair like tail-heavy sausages. Finally, you look across to the Golden Gate where, against a low sun, a line of blue, heavily burdened ships is slowly steaming out. San Francisco is the administrative headquarters for the Army's Western Defense Command and fourth Army, and the Navy's Western Sea Frontier and 12th Naval District. From here command extends to the whole Western Theater of War. The city's magnificent, wave-washed Golden Gate is the most strongly fortified spot in America. The Navy has here the Mare Island Navy Yard, the new Alameda Naval Air Station, a blimp base, supply depots, drydocks, and training centers. All other activities are subordinated to the moving of troops and supplies, defending the harbor, maintaining port facilities, and supporting new war industries. During the early months of the war San Francisco cleared more military supplies than all other United States ports combined. In peacetime 25,000 replacement troops cleared this port every year to relieve men garrisoned overseas. Today, figures withheld, 1 can only watch and wonder at their numbers as soldiers in full kit swing onto rows of dark blue ships. Laughing, sweating, swearing, shoving, they pour over gangways and packing boxes. The fog brushes by like wisps of steam. The low basses of the fog horns repeat their monotones on the Bay. The smell of fish and sea rises from the water front. Some of these soldiers have had a few days…” 7” x 10”, 14 double-sided pages, 28 B&W images. These are pages from an actual 1943 magazine. No reprints or copies.Exceptional condition. 43C1 Please note the flat-rate shipping for my magazine articles. Please see my other auctions and store items for more old articles, advertising pages and non-fiction books. Click Here To Visit My eBay Store: busybeas books and adsHundreds of items!Anything I find that looks interesting! Please see my other auctions for more goodies, books and magazines. I’ll combine wins to save on postage. No postage charge for the ads or articles if you buy a book that I can mail the ads/articles inside. Thanks For Looking! Matthew 7: 7-8 Powered by eBay Turbo Lister


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