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President Franklin D. Roosevelt occasionally stopped in Columbia on his train trips between Washington, D.C., and his home in Warm Springs, Georgia. But in January 1940, as the war expanded in Europe...
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Senate investigations of the profits that some American corporations had made selling war materials to Britain and France prior to World War I made many Americans suspicious of entanglements with...
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The buildup of troops at Fort Jackson, even before the attack on Pearl Harbor, was the beginning of the many changes that World War II brought to Columbia, and indeed to all of South Carolina. The...
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The military buildup of World War II greatly expanded the facilities at the former Camp Jackson of the First World War. Renamed Fort Jackson in 1940, the Columbia facility became one of the main...
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Winston Churchill toured Fort Jackson during his visit to the United States in 1942. Courtesy of the South Carolina Department of Education.
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The Parris Island facilities for training Marines also expanded enormously during WWII. Here, new recruits march on the main parade grounds during a 1943 rainstorm. Courtesy of the United States...
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These Marines had just completed their training in April of 1943, and were on the train from the Yemassee Station en route to their wartime tour of duty. Courtesy of the United States Marine Corps...
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Columbia Army Air Base, aerial view, in 1943. Courtesy of the South Carolina State Museum.
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Red Cross volunteers march in a parade in Rock Hill in early 1942, urging other citizens to share in "the dirty work" of helping win the war. Courtesy of the Winthrop University Archives.
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The enlistment of men into the armed forces caused a labor shortage in industry and agriculture, which were both rapidly expanding production to meet wartime needs. For the first time, many women...