Liberator village

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The Liberator village was the government housing area for employees of the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation aircraft manufacturing plant which was constructed after 18 April 1942.[1] It begun production less then a year later while much of its workforce was accommodated in the 1500 prefabricated dwelling units[2] located around the south gate of the bomber plant which housed men and women that built the B-24 bomber near Fort Worth, Texas during World War II.[3] The employees worked in difficult living conditions with the housing described as "ricky-ticky houses and open sewers".[4] In May 1949 the Village was inundated by a flood,[5] but largely escaped damage with a small area north of the Village washed out by Farmers Creek. A few trailer houses were damaged, and one boy was killed.The village was incorporated into Fort Worth in 1954.

[edit] References

  1. ^ p.338, Skaarup
  2. ^ p.177, Talbert
  3. ^ p.142, Yenne and Yenne
  4. ^ p.263, Flemmons
  5. ^ p.228, Knight, Lale

The housing area called Liberator Village was not rick-tick and did not have open sewers. It was a nice place to live. You can read about the village and it's aircraft workers, during WW II up until they closed the village in 1955 in "Memories of Liberator Village" a book by Maurice G. Lambert by Memorabiliacs Press 2006. Other information on the village can be found in the White Settlement Historical Museum.

[edit] Sources

  • Maurice G. Lambert, Memories of Liberator Village, Memorabiliacs Press, 2006
  • Robert Harris Talbert, Cowtown-metropolis: Case Study of a City's Growth and Structure, Fort Worth (Tex.), Leo Potishman Foundation, Texas Christian University, 1956
  • Bill Yenne, William Yenne, The American Aircraft Factory in World War II, Zenith Imprint, 2006 ISBN 0760323003
  • Jerry Flemmons, Amon: The Texan who Played Cowboy for America, Texas Tech University Press, 1998
  • Oliver Knight, Cissy Stewart Lale, Fort Worth: Outpost on the Trinity, TCU Press, 1990 ISBN 0875650775
  • Harold A. Skaarup, Texas Warbird Survivors 2003: A Handbook on Where to Find Them, iUniverse, 2002 ISBN 0595261906