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EP280: America Builds Up: The Bremerton Naval Yards and 100 Women Creating Transformation In Their Own Backyard

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April 27, 2022 3:00 am

EP280: America Builds Up: The Bremerton Naval Yards and 100 Women Creating Transformation In Their Own Backyard

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April 27, 2022 3:00 am

On this episode of Our American Stories, teacher, organist, choir director, and World War II history buff Anne Clare, tells the story of how World War II impacted a small Navy town on the West Coast. Wendy Steele shares how she could have never imagined that an idea for her community of Cincinnati... would have snowballed into 65 chapters across the world and over $80 million donated.

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00:00 - America Builds Up: The Bremerton Naval Yards

26:00 - 100 Women Creating Transformation In Their Own Backyard

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Ideally also the battleships of the last specific fleets were getting overhauled and repaired during this time, which kept about 6000 employees very busy the first real look at war that Bremerton got first first-hand luck as it were was actually through a foreign visitor. The yard hosted the HMS war site the summer of 1941. This British chap had been pretty Kathy beaten up in the Mediterranean and had limped its way across the Pacific to Bremerton which was exciting for the most these British sailors and a lot of them, invited them into their homes and try to show them hospitality and were naturally also very curious about the ship though course I kept up pretty strong security even stronger than shipyard itself that had passed days because times are changing but still, even though the more I look at people experience that war still felt fairly far away until December.

December 17 Bremerton is according to memories of people who were there, stay for December in the Pacific Northwest. People were palaces coming home from church out and about with friends, going to their jobs when word came through that Pearl Harbor and like some different parts of the country that were further away from Hawaii Harbor was not entirely know your name on Bremerton and it was a bit of a shock as well. Hawaii mileage -wise is still a good distance way just geographically felt uncomfortably like I guess it's a like a neighbor had been hit and they wonder the people in the area wondered if they might be next in line Bremerton.

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They started parking barges in front of the different dry docks to try and put up some sort of barrier to protect ships that were being repaired barrels of water in boxes of sand and rakes are put up around the shipyard tape crisscrosses were put on Windows just in case blasts my will out the glass and people start looking for ways to create area shelters as well. Their basements of some buildings that would serve but also just in case people can get them in time. Ship boiler is brought out and cut in half to make certain dome-shaped shelters that according to the signs and them could get 30 people inside and to give them some sort of protection in case the bombs started falling. It was just lots and lots of planning a short time trying to figure out what we do. If the Japanese came.

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She Explained That for Years When She Would Go to Her Dental Association Meeting in the Continuing Education Credits and so Forth, She Would Explain That She Needed Volunteers. She Needed More Help to Explain How These Dennis They Would Smile and They Would Not and They Would Tell Her Yes but They Never Came. Now They Were Coming. The Difference, She Said. Wendy Cares That the Chairs That She Had Been Using Them for about 20 Years Old and the Useful Life of Dental Equipment Is about 20 Years and so What Was Happening Is That Dennis Worked in a Calm Because They Were Doing Very Complex Treatment and They Couldn't Rely on the Drill or the Light Couldn't Rely on the Equipment, but Now with This Equipment.

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