World War, 1939-1945
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Bristol History Collection of Oral History Projects
Collection
Identifier: GA.BH.12
Abstract
From 2007-2012, the Bristol Oral History Initiative Committee organized
three oral history projects with residents of Bristol Borough in Bucks
County, Pennsylvania. The first project was conducted by Borough
students in the 7th and 8th grades. The interviewees were family members
and community leaders, each discussing their life growing up in Bristol.
The second series of interviews was conducted by 10th and 11th graders,
and focused on Bristol veterans and residents on the home front...
Dates:
2008 - 2012
Kaiser-Fleetwings Collection
Collection
Identifier: GA.BH.5
Abstract
Established in 1926, Fleetwings, Inc. was an aircraft components factory that moved from Long Island, New York to Bristol, Bucks County, Pennsylvania in 1934. Due to the company's success during World War II, Henry J. Kaiser's Kaiser Industries invested in the company and renamed it Kaiser-Fleetwings Corp.; the company closed in 1962. James M. (Jim) Shimer, Jr. (1914-2007) worked there as a technical illustrator. Henry A. Liese worked there as an engineer.
Dates:
1911-1998
Found in:
Grundy Archive
/
Kaiser-Fleetwings Collection
Paul McIlvaine Donation, 1939-1945
Item — Box 9.7, Folder: 3
Identifier: 9.7.3
Scope and Contents
World War ration book that belonged to Anna C. McIlvaine.
Dates:
1939-1945
Found in:
Grundy Archive
/
GA.BH.9, Small Collections