My Cooter's History Blog has become about 80% World War II anyway, so I figured to start a blog specific to it, especially since we're commemorating its 70th anniversary and we are quickly losing this "Greatest Generation." The quote is taken from Pearl Harbor survivor Frank Curre, who was on the USS Tennessee that day. He died Dec. 7, 2011, seventy years to the day. His photo is below at right.
Tuesday, July 10, 2018
Jamaicans Arrive to Help in the Fields and Factory of the Sycamore Preserve Works
From the July 4, 2018, MidWeek "Looking Back."
1943, 75 Years Ago.
"An appeal for help to the United States employment agencies by J.W. Thuma, of the Sycamore Preserve Works was answered when a group of about 60 Jamaicans arrived for work in the fields and factory of the canning factory."
Those Manpower Shortages. --GreGen
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Sycamore Illinois
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