¹ "Army Air Forces Aircraft: A Definitive Moment," Air Force Historical Studies Office, Department of the Air Force, http://www.airforcehistory.hq.af.mil/PopTopics/AAFaircraft.htm, accessed 6 January 2009.

² Frederic Lane, Blanche D. Coll, Gerald J. Fischer, and David B. Tyler, Ships for Victory: A History of Shipbuilding under the U.S. Maritime Commission in World War II (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1951), 8.

³ "Employment status of the civilian noninstitutional population, 1942 to date," Bureau of Labor Statistics, Current Population Survey, http://www.bls.gov/cps/cpsaat1.pdf, accessed 6 January 2009.

⁴ John Morton Blum, V Was for Victory: Politics and American Culture during World War II (New York: Harcourt Brace, 1976), 140.

⁵ Gerald D. Nash, The American West Transformed: The Impact of the Second World War (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1985), 222.

⁶ David M. Kennedy, Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999), 768.

⁷ Historical Statistics of the United States: Millennial Edition, ed. Susan Carter, Scott Sigmund Gartner, Michael Haines, Alan Olmsted, Richard Sutch and Gavin Wright (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006), http://hsus.cambridge.org/, accessed 5 January 2009.

⁸ "On Our National Economic Policy: Radio Address of the President on the Subject of Total War and Total Effort," delivered 28 April 1942, Washington DC, Fireside Chats of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum, http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/042842.html, accessed 6 January 2009.

⁹ "On Our National Economic Policy: Radio Address of the President on the Subject of Total War and Total Effort," delivered 28 April 1942, Washington DC, Fireside Chats of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum, http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/042842.html, accessed 6 January 2009.

¹⁰ For detailed accounts of Japanese-American internment during World War II, see Lawson Inada, ed., Only What We Could Carry: The Japanese American Internment Experience (Berkeley: Heyday Books, 2000).

¹¹ Tarea Hall Pittman quoted in James J. Rawls and Walton Bean, eds., California: An Interpretive History (McGraw-Hill, 1998), 348.

¹² For detailed analysis of the wartime Mexican-American experience, see George J. Sanchez, Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture, and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 1900-1945 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993).

¹³ Franklin D. Roosevelt quoted in Martin Folly, The United and World War II: The Awakening Giant (Edinburgh, 2002), 11.

¹⁴ For more on California industry during World War II, see James J. Rawls and Walton Bean, eds., California: An Interpretive History (McGraw-Hill, 1998).

¹⁵ Peggy Terry quoted in Studs Terkel, The Good War: An Oral History of World War II (New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1984), 112.

¹⁶ "Rosie" lyrics quoted in Alice Kessler-Harris, Out to Work: A History of Wage-earning Women in the United States (Oxford University Press, 1982).

¹⁷ "Women Power," Fortune, April 1942.

¹⁸ Loucille Ramsey Long, "Loucille Ramsey Long, accession 227. Sheet Metal Mechanic, U.S. Air Force, Mather Field, Sacramento, CA and Riveter, Boeing Air Plant Factory, San Diego, CA," memoir, archived by Aja Sorenson, Rosie the Riveter: Women Working During World War II, The National Park Service, http://www.nps.gov/pwro/collection/website/loucille.htm, accessed 6 January 2009.

¹⁹ Mourine Merrow, "Mourine Merrow, accession 321. Riveter, Murray Body, Detroit, MI," memoir, archived by Aja Sorenson, Rosie the Riveter: Women Working During World War II, The National Park Service, http://www.nps.gov/pwro/collection/website/mourine.htm, accessed 6 January 2009.

²⁰ Dellie Hahne quoted in Studs Terkel, The Good War: An Oral History of World War II (New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1984), 119.

²¹ Frieda Loretta Calvano, "Frieda Loretta Calvano, accession 267. Production, DuPont, NJ and Draftsman, Sperry Gyroscope, Brooklyn, NY," memoir, archived by Aja Sorenson, Rosie the Riveter: Women Working During World War II, The National Park Service, http://www.nps.gov/pwro/collection/website/frieda.htm, accessed 6 January 2009.

²² The Mercury Theatre of the Air, The War of the Worlds, dir. Orson Wells, narrated Orson Wells, originally broadcast 30 October 1938, adapted from H.G. Wells The War of the Worlds, archived by Kim Scarborough, "The Mercury Theatre of the Air," 28 February 2008, http://www.mercurytheatre.info/, accessed 6 January 2009.

²³ John L. Dewitt quoted in Christopher Andrew, For the President's Eyes Only: Secret Intelligence and the American Presidency (HarperCollins Publishers, 1995), 128.

²⁴ John L. Dewitt quoted in Christopher Andrew, For the President's Eyes Only: Secret Intelligence and the American Presidency (HarperCollins Publishers, 1995), 128.

²⁵ Franklin D. Roosevelt, Executive Order No. 9066: Authorizing the Secretary of War to Prescribe Military Areas, 19 Feburary 1942, quoted in Lawson Inada, ed., Only What We Could Carry: The Japanese American Internment Experience (Berkeley: Heyday Books, 2000), 400.

²⁶ William Hohri quoted in Lawson Inada, ed., Only What We Could Carry: The Japanese American Internment Experience (Berkeley: Heyday Books, 2000), 393.

²⁷ "Facts Force America To Stop Pussyfooting," San Francisco Chronicle, 21 February 1942.

²⁸ "Army Is Given Free Hand To Curb Aliens, Citizens," Sacramento Bee, 23 February 1942.

²⁹ Tooru Kanazawa quoted in Lawson Inada, ed., Only What We Could Carry: The Japanese American Internment Experience (Berkeley: Heyday Books, 2000), 59.

³⁰ Yuri Tateishi quoted in Lawson Inada, ed., Only What We Could Carry: The Japanese American Internment Experience (Berkeley: Heyday Books, 2000), 62.

³¹ For detailed analysis of the wartime Mexican-American experience, see George J. Sanchez, Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture, and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 1900-1945 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993).

³² Chester Himes, "Zoot Riots are Race Riots," The Crisis, July 1943, in Himes, Black on Black: Baby Sister and Selected Writings (London 1975).

³³ Gerald D. Nash, The American West Transformed: The Impact of the Second World War (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1985), 222.

³⁴ Historical Statistics of the United States: Millennial Edition, ed. Susan Carter, Scott Sigmund Gartner, Michael Haines, Alan Olmsted, Richard Sutch and Gavin Wright (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006), http://hsus.cambridge.org/, accessed 5 January 2009.

³⁵ Historical Statistics of the United States: Millennial Edition, ed. Susan Carter, Scott Sigmund Gartner, Michael Haines, Alan Olmsted, Richard Sutch and Gavin Wright (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006), http://hsus.cambridge.org/, accessed 5 January 2009.

³⁶ Historical Statistics of the United States: Millennial Edition, ed. Susan Carter, Scott Sigmund Gartner, Michael Haines, Alan Olmsted, Richard Sutch and Gavin Wright (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006), http://hsus.cambridge.org/, accessed 5 January 2009.

³⁷ Historical Statistics of the United States: Millennial Edition, ed. Susan Carter, Scott Sigmund Gartner, Michael Haines, Alan Olmsted, Richard Sutch and Gavin Wright (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006), http://hsus.cambridge.org/, accessed 5 January 2009.

³⁸ Historical Statistics of the United States: Millennial Edition, ed. Susan Carter, Scott Sigmund Gartner, Michael Haines, Alan Olmsted, Richard Sutch and Gavin Wright (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006), http://hsus.cambridge.org/, accessed 5 January 2009.

³⁹ Historical Statistics of the United States: Millennial Edition, ed. Susan Carter, Scott Sigmund Gartner, Michael Haines, Alan Olmsted, Richard Sutch and Gavin Wright (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006), http://hsus.cambridge.org/, accessed 5 January 2009.

⁴⁰ The Mercury Theatre of the Air, The War of the Worlds, dir. Orson Welles, narrated Orson Welles, originally broadcast 30 October 1938, adapted from H.G. Wells The War of the Worlds, archived by Kim Scarborough, "The Mercury Theatre of the Air," 28 February 2008, http://www.mercurytheatre.info/, accessed 6 January 2009.

⁴¹ "Radio Fake Scares Nation," Herald & Examiner, 31 October 1938.

⁴² "On Our National Economic Policy: Radio Address of the President on the Subject of Total War and Total Effort," delivered 28 April 1942, Washington DC, Fireside Chats of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum, http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/042842.html, accessed 6 January 2009.

⁴³ Dellie Hahne quoted in Studs Terkel, The Good War: An Oral History of World War II (New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1984), 122.

⁴⁴ Peggy Terry quoted in Studs Terkel, The Good War: An Oral History of World War II (New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1984), 112.

⁴⁵ Tarea Hall Pittman quoted in James J. Rawls and Walton Bean, eds., California: An Interpretive History (McGraw-Hill, 1998), 348.

⁴⁶ Don McFadden quoted in Studs Terkel, The Good War: An Oral History of World War II (New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1984), 148.

⁴⁷ Lawson Inada, ed., Only What We Could Carry: The Japanese American Internment Experience (Berkeley: Heyday Books, 2000), 9.

⁴⁸ Peter Ota quoted in Studs Terkel, The Good War: An Oral History of World War II (New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1984), 31.