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By May 1941, defense jobs had 1,500 people moving into San Diego every day -- seven months before Pearl Harbor.
December 1940. "Carpenter's wife unpacking a trunk at tent camp for defense workers in Mission Valley, California, which is about three miles from San Diego." Medium format acetate negative by Russell Lee documenting life in Southern California during the "Blitz Boom" of 1940. View full size.
My dad was career Army so we had four or five footlockers just like that stenciled with his name and rank. I inherited them and used one while in the Air Force. Then my kids used them for Boy Scout summer camps and for going off to college. We still have two that serve as coffee tables in our basement game room.
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