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WW2 Impact on SC8.6-5—Compare the ramifications of World War II on South
Carolina and the United States as a whole, including the training of the Doolittle Raiders and the Tuskegee Airmen, the building of additional military bases, the rationing and
bond drives, and the return of economic prosperity.
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Building Up Our Forces• Even before Pearl Harbor, the US Draft was
enacted• WW1 military camps where reopened to train
draftees • The Charleston Navy yards increased
production of destroyers • Senator Byrnes helped to guide the Lend &
Lease plan through Congress that offered support to the allies
• War production helped the US climb out of the depression
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Doolittle Raiders • Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor brought US out of isolationism & into the war in Europe & the Pacific
• US was anxious to retaliate against the Japanese
• Doolittle Raider’s attack on Tokyo helped to lift the morale of Americans
• **Walterboro Air Base Training facility
James Doolittle lead a group of bomber pilots to train for combat in Columbia
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Tuskegee Airmen
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Tuskegee Airmen
• African American pilots trained at the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama
• Commanded by white officers • Supported the allied invasion of Italy• Assigned to escort heavy bombers on raids • Air campaign directed at weakening Germany
prior the D-Day invasion
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• Several Tuskegee airmen earned the Distinguished Flying Cross
• Proved that black pilots could shoot down enemy aircraft as well if not better that white air crews
• Opened the doorway for other African Americans to serve in the military & for desegregation of the military in the postwar period
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SC in WWII• Many joined the military• 1/3 of young white men & ½ of black
men were either illiterate or in such poor health that they could not join
• Indication of how poverty stricken SC was
• War mobilization meant more jobs at home
• Wartime population in SC cities grew impacting local business
• Farms were shorthanded causing women & children to work in the fields
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SC in WWII• Collected scrap metal &
rubber for the war effort• Used ration books to get
their share of the short supply of food & fuel
• Bought war bonds to fund the war effort
• After the war, they had savings which they used for:– Automobile purchases– Goods not available during
wartimeHow to use your ration coupons (5:41)