Victory Gardens & Barrage Balloons: A Collective Memoir

A history of Bremerton and Kitsap County during World War II. World War II changed life for everyone. For a kid growing up in Kitsap County. It meant living at the focal point of the war. It was to Puget Sound Navy Yard that the ghosts of Pearl Harbor returned for repair and renovation. It was a time of astonishing unity and common purpose. For Frank Wetzel and his contemporaries these years were formative. Look back with them as they recall... Their attitude was so contagious that during the past several years while writing this book, Wetzel says he was sometimes swept back in time, until the 40s seemed more real that the 90s. Those were special times, and Bremerton was a special place, and the story seemed too important to let pass by unremarked.