World War II Shipyards by the Bay (CA) (Images of America)

A very nice book in the Arcadia series by Nick Veronico. My Grand-Father was a welder at Mare Island during WWII and I've long been curious as to the shipbuilding industry in the Bay Area. This book provides an excellent look at the many yards in the area and the work they did and, perhaps more importantly, the men and woman that built the ships that helped win that war. Picture quality is good and the captions are well written and informative. The only think lacking is a map showing yard locations. Highly recommended.

Interesting history of the bay area's shop yards at work. Especially some coverage of the Mare island ship yard near my home.I did not know there was so many locations contributing for the war effort and the ongoing defense needs.

Great read! Awesome trip through WWII ship building on the west coast.

I grew up in the bay area and I had friends and neighbors who worked in these ship yards.Its sad to see how much has changed. Highly recommended.

This is a great book of excellant Photos of the Shipyards built on San Francisco Bay during WW II and the Merchant Marine ships built there. My yachting excursions on the Bay in the 1980's were homeported in Marina Bay, Richmond, the old Kaiser shipyard. The book had photos of the C1-M- AV1 class of ship, one of which I worked on in late 1981.

This was shipped as promised, and offers a great insight to the shipyards of the SF Bay Area.

Came on time and I enjoyed the book, could not ask for more.

It was a good book