The Bell Bomber Plant

by Joe Kirby

Book Overview

Few would have believed in the late 1930s that Depression-wracked Marietta and Cobb County, where cotton was still king, would later be the site of the largest industrial complex south of the Mason-Dixon line, or that it would be churning out hundreds of the largest and most technically advanced airplanes ever built to that point. Images of America: The Bell Bomber Plant uses more than 200 photographs to recount how opportunistic local leaders persuaded...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0738567450
• ISBN13: 9780738567457
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC)
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.4" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Book: Bell Bomber Plant by Joe Kirby

Joe Kirby, Thanks for writing this book. My parents worked at the plant back during World War II, and helped produce the planes that were a major factor in the victory over the Axis forces. I was hoping to find a picture of one or both of my parents; no luck, but I did find pictures of the departments they worked in, along with a description of the processes they worked with. I really enjoyed the story of the history of how the plant was established and grew. It helped the community of Marietta and Cobb County grow tremendously. I highly recommend this book to any history buffs of WW-II. I throughly enjoyed it. Ronald L. Boring

Fabulous Piece Of History!

I was searching for information on the Bell Bomber Plant as my Mother was a Rosie The Riveter during the war. She worked there at the plant and has many fond memories. I just got this for her and she read it through the first night and has had it in her hands for the past week...all I can say is THANK-YOU for this fabulous piece of history!! The pictures are wonderful and the information is priceless. What a great tribute to the workers and the famous B 29's....

We know the lady doing the wiring. Still alive and kicking

Very interesting, especially to us older citizens. I was in the USAF and working in the south end of the big building when Lockheed visited in late 1950 or early 1951. I remember that it was said that it cost them $5000 just to turn on the lights.

A clear sense of time and place!

Thank you Joe Kirby for this marvelous accounting in text and photos of a part of our/my history. With this book I can go back in time and better understand how it was for my parents, for the many workers who built the B29's, and for our country at war. I was a small child when my family, and other Yankees, moved down to Marietta from Buffalo, NY, where I believe my father was first employed as an engineer at Bell. The Bell team rose to a huge challenge there in Georgia, and their response was awesome. When the war ended we moved back north, so this book is my best connection to how it was for those few years. Great reading!