She Built Ships During WW II - Jeane Slone - Bog

With meticulous research about the forties era, the novel is about three diverse women on the home front during WWII. A woman welder on a liberty ship bringing her children to the first daycare center in Richmond, A Negro woman welder whose brother is in the Port Chicago explosion and husband is a Tuskegee Airman. The third woman is a Japanese American storekeeper who is interned in a horse stable in San Bruno.