In the wake of Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt called for the largest arms buildup in our nation's history.
A shortage of steel, however, quickly slowed the program's momentum, and arms production fell dangerously behind schedule.
The country needed scrap metal.
Henry Doorly, publisher of the Omaha World-Herald , had the solution.
Prairie Forge tells the story of the great Nebraska scrap drive of 1942--a campaign that swept the nation and yielded five million tons of scr.
Bison Books Prairie forge: the extraordinary story of the nebraska scrap metal drive of world war ii/james j. kimble
